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Who: steve rogers + you.
Broadcast: yep
Action: on the starstruck if you're so inclined
When: current

[ there's no need to address the last few weeks. others have done it, offering drinks and comforting words or just a down to business attitude. steve would have normally gone for the latter but today is an exception.

there are boxes scattered around the starstruck's cargo bay and it seems he is slowly unwrapping them all and unpacking a collection of decorations. they're not strictly christmas decorations but one must make do with what one is given.

and speaking of which - ]

I know the last few weeks have been difficult but I also know we're approaching the holidays. Those can be a little rough around here.

[ but look at him gesturing to those boxes ]

I thought we might start making it a little easier. I got these at the Kayanni system a couple of months ago. If you want to take a box for your ship, you're more than welcome to.

[ lord knows they have too much tinsel. ]

and if there's anything else you need help with - you know where I live.

[ oh look, it's a smile. apparently those do happen, still. ]

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Peggy Carter. Captain of the Starstruck.

[ -- she's not certain it's a pleasure, exactly, although she never misses an opportunity to get a better look at any of these 21st century heroes. ]

From what I've heard about your work, the fleet is damned lucky you arrived when you did. [ after all, they'd been down a few of their stronger fists. ] And as odd as the circumstances are, I know Steve is glad to see you.

You mean the battle on the planet. [It's hard to think of what else it could be. Still, he's upbeat about it.] It was certainly a rough beginning, but we prevailed against the Vieziri in the end.

It's good to see him as well - it has been awhile. You are friends with him?

Friends? [ she almost -- almost -- laughs. ] Something like that.

[ with a sinking feeling, peggy knows steve would prefer it if she could just admit to the relationship as boldly and brassily as he can. it's not that she's at all ashamed -- far far from it -- but it's not easy talking about her personal life, about any part of it, with mostly-strangers.

no matter how fondly the others from the 21st century discuss this one. ]

He and I have always made a good team. That's no different here, in space, it seems.

[ wait just a second. ]

you know, Thor's not from around here, it may come off as vague. I think, for his sake, maybe you should elaborate on what a something like that means.

[ what a brat. ]

in Asgard it might mean something else.

[ oh for chrissakes steve! ]

Good. Consider it a teachable moment. He'll figure it out -- I shouldn't have to spoon feed the circumstances to everyone.

Well, not everyone. But this one is a prince, I think and a demi-god.

[ look thor is special, okay. ]

he better hear it from you than from me.

[ just saying. ]

I'll not be cowed by titles. [ -- it sounds gruff, but in all honesty she's almost laughing. ]

Why? What's so bad about you telling him?

[ she thinks she knows... ]

Well, you know. You're the practical one. I tend to go on and on about these things. You don't know, it's the holidays, I could get sentimental and then, we never know what I'll end up saying.

[ ahem. ]

...Steve. Is that a threat I hear?

[ more specifically: are you threatening her with exuberance and enthusiasm? ]

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[ okay so maybe he looks a little startled but. But!! ]

I'm just saying. You're the one who said I could occasionally be - I think the words were 'dramatic' and 'over-sentimental'. What if while talking to him I'll end up being dramatic and sentimental and you're not there to do anything about it?

It's a risk I'm willing to let you take.

[ and she'll sort out her revenge in the aftermath. ]

You're sure about that?

[ why is he challenging this woman there's no way he can win. ]

Positive as pie.

Well, I'm telling him and you don't get to call me names afterwards.

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[His eyebrows go up a bit. There are any number of things that could mean. The mention of teams puts Thor more in mind to consider that they fought together. Still, if the two have worked together before that's good enough for Thor to consider it friendship.]

So you knew each other before this place. It appears a lot of those brought here have connections already.

In point of fact, I met him during the war. Before he -- went on ice, so to speak. [ she's from that chapter of steve's life. ] Which means that by some vague definition you and I are among those with a prior connection. A same universe, at least, if not a same...realm -- is that the term?

[ she may have had this conversation before with loki. best not to dig too deep into it. ]

Really? That's quite some time ago. [At least as far as Steve and the others are concerned. Human lives are usually lived to their end in such a span. ...he'll have to ask Steve about it later.] Would you be from the same time as Jarvis, then?

That's right. Earth is one of the Nine Realms, as is Asgard. And it would be the same Earth, not one of the various others I've started to hear about.

Mister Jarvis and I are from the same time nearly to a day. [ so! well guessed, mister odinson. ] He and I work together from time to time -- he's a good man to have already met within the Fleet.

One of the finest.

[ high praise, coming from her. ]

[It helped that Jarvis gave him the reference point of knowing Tony's father.]

He was one of the first I met after the situation on the planet calmed down, and the first to tell me that other Avengers were here. I am grateful for what he could tell me.

Two of them are aboard my vessel. Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson both. Although, in the past, I've had the good fortune to serve alongside a number of others who have passed through the Starstruck's roster.

[ a beat. ]

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask. I've been in the fleet for quite a few years, now. [ ... ] And any one of you Avengers is as good as vouched for in my eyes.

The Starstruck, all right. I'm on the Blue Fish myself.

I'm glad to hear it. But has it really been years? I know one person on my ship has been here for three.

It's been more than two for me. [ but not quite three -- not yet. ] The Blue Fish is a strong ship. You'll do well there.

[ a beat. ]

But it goes without saying that you're welcome to visit us aboard ours whenever you like.

[ at least, that's the invitation she suspects steve would like her to make. ]

I do hope so. Of course, it would be better to find a way out of this abduction, especially as it has gone on so long for some.

[And it would also be better to take the Atroma to task for their actions. Their continued non-presence however makes that a pipedream at best.]

That would be good! I have only been to my own ship and the Iskaulit so far.

...Then we simply must have you over. [ it's a good thing thor doesn't know peggy, or he might realize how altogether too friendly she's being. she's scheming something. surely. ] Unfortunately, we lost our last cook a few months past. But Wilson and Rogers have both stepped up to the plate -- [ ha ] -- so to speak.

Yes, that would be wonderful. In fact I can come over right now - I should say hello to you both in person.

[It's not that he missed the implication of dinner. It's that he really would like to bound over right this second.]

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