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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

[uprightness]

-- no alien strippers, Sam.

[ :| ]

[wingedman]

First of all, you wouldn't even like strippers, and second, Peggy would kill me slowly and painfully if she ever found out I did something like that.

[He has a healthy fear of Peggy, okay?]

[uprightness]

You really should get over that fear of her, you know.

[ look who's talking. ]

[wingedman]

[Sam just stares for a long moment, because really, Steve?]

I'm not scared of her, I respect what she'll do to me if I do something she doesn't like. Especially if it involves you and strippers.

[uprightness]

That's good. Because you know, she's really sweet.

[ and okay maybe a bit scary too. ]

I still can't believe she asked.

[ look, he honestly didn't see that one coming. ]

[wingedman]

Uh-huh. Sweet as sugar.

[There may just be a touch of sarcasm in his voice. But, hey, maybe she's different with Steve. In private.]

You know, I'm not sure I believe she spent months asking you to get married and you said no.

[This sounds incredibly suspicious to him. He knows which one of them is romantic, and it's not Peggy. (Sorry, Peggy.)]

[uprightness]

that's how it was. wouldn't take a no for an answer.

[ well, it's holds for that one proposal okay so it's not a complete lie. only a rather big one, if to judge by his little grin. he's being a punk about it, so what. ]

[wingedman]

[Sam just raises an eyebrow. "Being a little punk" is Steve's default personality, though, so he's used to it.]

And you just played hard to get for all that time.

[uprightness]

I was waiting for the right timing. Christmas eve seemed right.

[ bless her, she asked on christmas eve, he loves her to the end of the galaxy and back for it. ]

[wingedman]

Now that sounds uncharacteristically romantic for Peggy.

[uprightness]

I guess it shows what we know.

[ it caught him by surprise, too. ]