[ -- it was meant to be easier this way. not painless, she's not so naive as to mistake it for painless, but it damn well should have been easier. what she didn't account for was sentiment, she supposes. or the notion that she might fail to appear on a given wednesday and rip hunter would skip over 'she doesn't want to see you' straight into 'something's gone amok.' and all in a matter of mere hours.
he calls her, once, and that's her first indication that her resolution won't be peacefully received. peggy ignores him. but she doesn't ignore tony about an hour later.
that goes about poorly as she might have expected. christ almighty. peggy spoils for a cuppa and proceeds to drink three before after she's hung up on. time passes, and she chooses to make her peace with stark before she so much as considers tracking down hunter. because that's what must happen; it's no accident that she'd never volunteered her room number.
she descends upon his door with indignation searing through her. it's well past midnight, she suspects even on an ordinary day he wouldn't be asleep, and so her knocking isn't shy. not one bit. ]
» november 23rd, 2:37AM.
he calls her, once, and that's her first indication that her resolution won't be peacefully received. peggy ignores him. but she doesn't ignore tony about an hour later.
that goes about poorly as she might have expected. christ almighty. peggy spoils for a cuppa and proceeds to drink three before after she's hung up on. time passes, and she chooses to make her peace with stark before she so much as considers tracking down hunter. because that's what must happen; it's no accident that she'd never volunteered her room number.
she descends upon his door with indignation searing through her. it's well past midnight, she suspects even on an ordinary day he wouldn't be asleep, and so her knocking isn't shy. not one bit. ]