agent carter (strategist) wrote in timerift_log, @ 2022-04-14 20:20:00 |
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If waking up in a strange new place and time had been alarming for Peggy, it was nothing next to discovering that Steve was alive and well. And here. Not to mention Sgt Barnes. She knew how devastated Steve had been when his best friend since childhood fell to his apparent demise on that fateful mission to capture Zola. Fortunately, they achieved their objective that day, but at the cost of Bucky Barnes. Sacrifice and war go hand-in-hand, but Peggy would have done almost anything to spare Steve the pain and grief of that loss if she could have. She had a mere twenty minutes to get ready to reunite with the love of her life. Suddenly, no amount of time in the world seemed adequate for this moment. Years had passed since Peggy finally said her goodbyes to Steve Rogers and tried to move on with her life. And she did. Peggy worked closely with Howard and Jarvis and accomplished things in the manner of a woman before her time. She helped form and became Director of SHIELD. She was proud of herself and all of those things, of course, but in her heart of hearts, there had been a certain degree of loneliness. Daniel Sousa had been a wonderful reprieve. Souza had been a nice man, a sweet man, but in the end he was not the one for her. It seemed strange that she could spend so much time with him and so little with Steve—comparatively, in terms of intimacy, in the grand scheme of things—and feel so deeply for the latter. Like everything else unbelievable about this place, she had appeared in her new room wearing only the clothes on her back. And seeing as the last thing she remembered before arriving here was going to bed, she showed up only in a nightgown. She could hardly go downstairs to meet Steve wearing nothing but that. A part of her missed a certain red dress that had been hers. The one she wore with confidence as she strolled into the bar that she knew captured the attention of Steve (and James 'Bucky' Barnes, and possibly others, though she only had eyes for one man). The dress she would have worn to the Stork Club to go dancing if they had been able to keep that date. In the end, her options were limited. Peggy managed to find an overcoat lying around and hurried off out of the building in search of Steve. Standing on the stoop outside, she waited for him to arrive. |