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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

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[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'.]

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[mucked]

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

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[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.]

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[mucked]

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

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[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?

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[mucked]

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

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