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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. ]

Comments

[mucked]

-- You know what they say about wanting something done right...

[ she's playing, surely. ]

[reconstitution]

...Get a professional?

[ She'd want to at least enjoy her wedding, anyway. ]

[mucked]

Officiated many weddings, have you?

[reconstitution]

Not even one. How hard can it be?

[mucked]

-- So much for calling in a professional, then.

[reconstitution]

Sounds like you're shit out of luck, Pegs.

[mucked]

Oh, I imagine we'll mend and make do. As ever.

[ so nice! so warm! ]

[reconstitution]

Isn't that the story of our lives.

[ It really is nice to see her this happy. It's been a long time coming. ]

[mucked]

At least it has the pleasant side-effect of helping us all appreciate it when times are uncommonly good. [ she suspects natasha and bucky are experiencing a lot of that of late. ]

[reconstitution]

Now more than ever. [ Things with Nat are good, they're taking it at whatever pace it comes. ]

[mucked]

You know -- I believe Steve still wants us all to go out for supper sometime. The four of us.

[reconstitution]

Yeah? Might be nice. Once we're on a planet that's not trying to kill us.

[mucked]

Ideally, yes. [ ... ] Honestly, I might just manage to stomach it with you lot.

[reconstitution]

'Might'. Sounds like we just need to find the right place. Somewhere quiet, ideally.

[mucked]

Yes. I suspect that would be preferable all 'round. [ ... ] And somewhere other than the Bistro. It's so...conspicuous.

[ not that she's hiding, obviously, but still... ]