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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

video.

[mucked]

...What an odd way to say congratulations.

[ maybe maybe maybe this reaction, of his, was worth the whole rigmarole. worth the public announcement, just to hear jarvis sigh. ]

video.

[edwinjarvis]

I — I mean, congratulations, of course! Of course I meant that. I'm — this is wonderful news. Engaged! I had been waiting with bated breath for the... goodness, when do you plan to marry? Should I be making meal plans? It's not as splendid as having a wedding on an actual earth, but I'm more than happy to offer any services...

[stop him he's going a mile a minute]

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[mucked]

...I can't believe I have to tell you the same thing I told Steve. [ ... ] Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

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[edwinjarvis]

I think the point of planning something like this is getting at least a little ahead.

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[mucked]

And yet I imagine our definitions of 'a little' will no doubt be very different when it comes to this particular kind of planning.

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[edwinjarvis]

Come now, you can't be too strict when you're going to get free food and planning.

Which you know is the case; everyone's going to pamper your engagement rotten.

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[mucked]

Which is, as you can imagine, precisely why I didn't want to announce it. [ oh, to be a miser in a meadow of decent lovely people. it's tiresome. ] Mister Jarvis, I don't want a spectacle.

[ -- which sounds a little bit like the opening salvo of a negotiation, if you ask me. ]

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[edwinjarvis]

Not fond of a spotlight as always. But you know, it's okay to unsinch your belts and breathe a little, Miss Carter. If anyone deserves a bit of positive notoriety and congratulations among us, I can think of no two better people.

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[mucked]

If we don't elope, you do realize it'll practically only be for your sake. I doubt your poor soul could survive it.

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[edwinjarvis]

Oh, after all this fanfare and hoopla, I would be absolutely devastated.

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[mucked]

And wouldn't that just be the end of the world as we knew it, hm? You not getting what you wanted for my ruddy wedding.

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[edwinjarvis]

When you put it like that, I sound downright terrible.

[YOU ARE HURTING MY FEELIN'S... MILDLY.]

private video.

[mucked]

Simply the worst.

[ --but she locks this conversation down rather quickly, because: ]

I've already got a dress.

private video.

[edwinjarvis]

[He practically GASPS! OUT! LOUD! Or does, really.]

All by yourself? Why, my services would have been at their most useful!

[Actually he just wanted to hang out and bear witness to the most lovely sight of Agent Peggy Carter putting on a beautiful wedding dress, we all know it.]

private video.

[mucked]

I had nothing to do with it, actually. The Atroma managed to have decent taste for once. [ it was her 'christmas gift,' bizarre as that might sound. ]

Truth be told, I haven't tried it on yet. There's still plenty of opportunity for your services to get involved.

[ someone will have to pull the zip for her. ]

private video.

[edwinjarvis]

[Oh, he looks SO SOUR.]

The Atroma sent you a dress.

Of course they did, why wouldn't they.

[Those needy buffoons, always wanting something happening for their 'ratings'.]

private video.

[mucked]

-- It's a rather nice dress, all told.

private video.

[edwinjarvis]

Those fiends!! I certainly hope they don't send us a tea set next! A nice one, with lovely engravings! And a new tea pot. I hate tea, as you know.

[Jarvis you know for a fact reverse-psychology is not going to work.]

private video.

[mucked]

Careful, Mister Jarvis. We wouldn't want to sound desperate.

private video.

[edwinjarvis]

There are some things worth sounding desperate over. Like a good tea pot.

Is there anything else you'd like to add to my desperate plea?

private video.

[mucked]

A tea cozy, perhaps, to round out the set.

[ she's pulling your leg, my dear. ]