[ relationship. she doesn't flinch, not exactly, she's prompted to sit straighter. the word should be multivalent -- but after a kiss like that one? oh, it leaves only one solitary interpretation.
and worse yet, this whole altercation underlines for peggy just how unusual it is for her to reach an incipient moment like this in any (any) of her would-be relationships since she'd been the one to break her engagement at nineteen. by this point, in any other relationship, the other someone would be gone already. dead, fled across whole bloody country, or turned intangible. or shacking up with his best friend. but she's got no comfortable way to tell him so.
the same can be said for their unsteady status as colleagues, as they'd taken to calling each other only recently. because look how poorly that's turned out back at the ssr! the destruction comes full circle, it seems, when her mere presence torpedoes another engagement.
(christ, daniel is the last person she wants to think about just now.)
she's poison, and not only with the men for whom she might carry a torch. but platonic, romantic, fledgling -- she mucks it all up. what few exceptions there are only prove the rule, and perhaps it's howard stark's place on that short short list that makes her so cripplingly afraid to lose tony's esteem in turn. peggy had steeled herself to never come back to this room, on a wednesday or otherwise, but one squabble with tony and her plan lost its legs. ]
I'm not, actually. [ better than that. ] But evidently I have done a bang up job of convincing you otherwise.
[ her fingers bite into the chair-arm, anchoring her as she resists the urge to stand up only so she can exist on the same plane as him. if finds her feet, if she removes so much as one of the hurdles between them by doing so? then peggy can't make herself any promises on staying put. the jury's still out as to whether she'd close the distance to hit him or hold him. ]
And even if it that wasn't the case? Good God, man, this truly isn't the place for it.
[ for relationships. no matter how fondly she still remembers the rousing wedding speech he'd given standing before ray and sarah both. ]
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and worse yet, this whole altercation underlines for peggy just how unusual it is for her to reach an incipient moment like this in any (any) of her would-be relationships since she'd been the one to break her engagement at nineteen. by this point, in any other relationship, the other someone would be gone already. dead, fled across whole bloody country, or turned intangible. or shacking up with his best friend. but she's got no comfortable way to tell him so.
the same can be said for their unsteady status as colleagues, as they'd taken to calling each other only recently. because look how poorly that's turned out back at the ssr! the destruction comes full circle, it seems, when her mere presence torpedoes another engagement.
(christ, daniel is the last person she wants to think about just now.)
she's poison, and not only with the men for whom she might carry a torch. but platonic, romantic, fledgling -- she mucks it all up. what few exceptions there are only prove the rule, and perhaps it's howard stark's place on that short short list that makes her so cripplingly afraid to lose tony's esteem in turn. peggy had steeled herself to never come back to this room, on a wednesday or otherwise, but one squabble with tony and her plan lost its legs. ]
I'm not, actually. [ better than that. ] But evidently I have done a bang up job of convincing you otherwise.
[ her fingers bite into the chair-arm, anchoring her as she resists the urge to stand up only so she can exist on the same plane as him. if finds her feet, if she removes so much as one of the hurdles between them by doing so? then peggy can't make herself any promises on staying put. the jury's still out as to whether she'd close the distance to hit him or hold him. ]
And even if it that wasn't the case? Good God, man, this truly isn't the place for it.
[ for relationships. no matter how fondly she still remembers the rousing wedding speech he'd given standing before ray and sarah both. ]