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[uprightness]

Who: peggy carter, steve rogers and all of you guys

Broadcast:  amazingly, yes

Action: on the starstruck, if you're so inclined
When: current.

[ New Year’s Eve has come and gone without anything exploding or going awfully wrong and so today is just safe enough for something else. Steve Rogers doesn’t address the network for no reason, after all. Only today he keeps looking back and eventually, calls: ]

Are you really going to stay there throughout the whole thing?

[ There’s a flicker to Steve’s left: dark curls and a flash of a silk blouse as Peggy leans into view. ] Perhaps. After all, of the two of us, you’re the one with experience in addressing the public.

[ But! Fine! Here she is, framed beside him onscreen, and refraining from making any more jokes about the old USO show. ]

Very funny.

[ but he is smiling, small but amused. For all of his experience, he seems as if he’s been practicing his lines for this one broadcast. ]

I know some of you will say this is long overdue, but after months of asking, mostly on her part, I’ve said yes and we’ve decided to get married.

[ -- and that’s when Peggy slaps the back of her hand against Steve’s shoulder, hissing something (something for him alone) about twisting the truth and tarnishing her well-earned cred. ]

I mean, after a careful observation of mutual interests, we’ve decided to get married. What this is really about is a simple matter of proving me right. I’d like you all to tell her three weeks is a perfectly reasonable duration for a honeymoon.

[ She reaches for the device, tugging its focus onto herself. ] -- For God’s sake, don’t encourage him. We’ve only just got engaged; it’s far far too early to start discussing the rest. [ Aside, to Steve: ] I warned you when I agreed to this ridiculous message. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

[ But she’s laughing. ]

It's not getting too ahead of ourselves. Call it careful consideration of facts.

[ he'll reach out and close the device for the sake of this banter. ]

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[passingthrough]

Of course it is. [She manages a smile at him. And if she could read those brackets she would assume he missed her drunken display on Winn's birthday a couple of days ago and be grateful for it. She'd be shocked and even more emotional if he saw it and still thought of her as having grace in the situation.]

Congratulations, Steve. Keep making each other happy.

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[uprightness]

That's my number one duty, as it happens.

[ keep people safe, keep peggy happy. it's a fine calling, if there ever was one. ]

but three weeks aren't a lot, right? all in all.

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[passingthrough]

[You're one of the truly good ones, Steve Rogers. She really hopes this works out for you.]

Practically tiny. I hope you started negotiations at six so you could end at three.

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[uprightness]

I should have done it, right? she's trying to convince me to settle for a week. So far, it's not working for any of us.

[ they will probably settle over two. ]

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[passingthrough]

You really should have. Always start high. Although why anyone wouldn't want more honeymoon I don't know. Oh, make sure you negotiate in that if the Atroma decide to turn one of you into a duck or crash us all on an island of viking zombies that you can reclaim those days.

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[uprightness]

--- that's a good point.

[ with the way his luck works, that's exactly when a glitch will kick in and turn him into a -- well, maybe not a duck but still. ]

They might just find it funny.

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[passingthrough]

Don't sound so surprised I had a good point, sir. [Teasing.]

Of course they'd find it funny. And you'd have great ratings and a terrible honeymoon.

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[uprightness]

I'm just surprised I haven't thought of it myself. with everything that's been happening, it only makes sense.

[ gdi atroma. ]

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[passingthrough]

Maybe you were too busy being in love. It can be time consuming. [So can being heartbroken.]

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[uprightness]

In the best of ways.

[ he can agree with that. ]

I'm starting to understand what everyone meant back home when they said I had too much free time. I don't get that a lot here.

[ there's conversations to be had and dances to dance and sometimes, just hours sitting and watching peggy do her crosswords. ]

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[passingthrough]

Sounds like you had some people who wanted to see you happier. We get to see it now.

[She knows just how that goes. So much of her time with Winn was active—talking, playing games, watching something, but some of the best times were just being held and holding on.]