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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

[kill_switch]

Oh? Wish you would have done things differently?

[She has to admit; she's curious. As long as Peggy is alright with the conversation, Furiosa will see where it goes. She couldn't imagine romance being a priority in the Wastelands.]

[mucked]

[ she isn't quick to tell the story. but she will check: ]

What do you know about Steve Rogers and what happened to him?

[ because some of this requires context. and not all of it is easily given. ]

[kill_switch]

[Furiosa thinks for a moment, then shakes her head.]

Not much. I've met him in passing, know he's with you and Max on the Starstruck. Don't know much from his time before the Fleet.




Should I head over for further details? [Giving Peggy an out of she doesn't want to just lay out the whole thing over network.]

[mucked]

No, no, because the truth is I don't much care to explain them regardless. [ but it would have been easier if she'd already known. ] The important part to mention is only that something happened -- Steve was lost, I suppose, before anything could come of it.

[ a beat. ]

Here's our only shot.