Muse on a rampage

[right_partner]

Ma'am, I have to say this isn't the best idea you've ever had. I know I don't speak for just myself, but all those in this... what do you call it? head...space? Hm. Very well then, headspace it is.

But do you really think it's for the good of everyone that you simply decide on a time during their lives (very rarely at a very pleasant time, might I add!) and send them to who knows where? Take me for a prime example. Not only is it not fair to myself for you to take me from right after Steve... the Captain, I mean... crashes so foolishly - no, no, I meant heroically, he saved us all! But you don't even plan to tell me anything? Anything at all?

You should treat others far better than you have been. We might cooperate more. Or blow your head off, whichever works most succinctly.

Yours (for the moment),
Peggy Carter

Comments

[dragonofnataku]

Your captain sounds as stubbornly heroic as Yuy. He's pulled stunts like that in the past too.

[right_partner]

Mr... Yuy? I'm afraid I've not heard of him. But that's beside the point. If he's at all like Captain America, I hope he has a good team. Sounds like he needs it just to keep going.

[dragonofnataku]

[A touch of amusement.]

We try to keep him in one piece.

Though I wouldn't mind knowing who came up with that name for the poor man.

[right_partner]

Oh, you're... part of his team. I see. Good.

[A small sound of amusement, then a delicate, proper cough.]

The name signifies his importance to the people and the war. He's...well. I'm rather surprised you haven't heard about him, but perhaps you've been rather distracted yourself.

[dragonofnataku]

[Raises an eyebrow at that. Hello Chinese man, not American. Silly woman.]

I wouldn't say we ever precisely had a team in our war.

Which, from the sounds of it, is a very different one than yours.

[right_partner]

[And yet the Nazis knew Captain America, so what's the problem? Silly boy.]

Hm... I'm starting to get that impression as well. Who was your opponent?

[dragonofnataku]

The Alliance, OZ, the Romefeller Foundation, White Fang... It's been a list.

[right_partner]

O-oh... Yes. Very different war. We fight against the Nazis and Hydra, though I have the feeling neither will be familiar to you.

[dragonofnataku]

The Nazis, I've heard of. Thankfully only in my study of history.

But that is the time you're from?

[right_partner]

[Just watch her stare for a bit, Wufei~ Abruptly collects herself with a slight shake of her head.]

Yes. AD 1943. I... Dare I ask when you are from?

[dragonofnataku]

AC 200, standing for after colony. We're a good ways apart.

The world is very different in my time, miss...

[right_partner]

Whose colony and where, if I may ask? Is China colonizing once more?

I see. Would you care to fill me in a little more, Mr...? I'm Agent Peggy Carter.

[dragonofnataku]

Earth's colonies, Carter, and in orbit. There are Chinese populations on many of the L5 colonies, but it's not the territory's property.

Agent Wufei Chang, as you would say it.

[right_partner]

Orbit, Agent Chang? I find that a little hard to believe. It's little more...than...science.

[Watch the wheels in her head turn.]

I see. Please disregard what I just said. It is possible, in the future that is, that technology advances enough. Following that logic, may I presume these colonies have been orbiting around Earth for two hundred years?

[dragonofnataku]

The first was launched about then, yes. It lasted until a few years ago.

[And say hi to the stoic face with that point.]

There are five clusters situated on the Lagrange points. They were first theorized in the seventeens, so you may have heard of them if you've have much study into astronomy.

[right_partner]

[There's a story there, she knows it, but also decides not to ask.]

I've studied enough to have a fair idea what you mean, yes.

[dragonofnataku]

There's a large human population on the colonies by my time, several thousand at least on each cluster. We're still trying to get an accurate count with the war over.

[right_partner]

For that to be possible... I'm afraid it's a little startling. How many colonies are in each cluster?

Yes... the body count couldn't have been all that low, considering how many opponents you listed earlier.

[dragonofnataku]

Roughly a hundred, by my best estimate?

It was a long war as well. The assassination that set the spark, so to say, was before my birth.

[like_a_gerbil]

I wasn't hoping you'd think it was heroic. [Steve couldn't think of it as heroic when he'd been terrified the entire time and Peggy's voice had been one of the only things keeping him calm through it all.] But I was hoping you wouldn't think I was foolish. I did the best I could, Pegg - Agent Carter.

[right_partner]

That's quite impressive.

I... see. I am relieved to hear your war is over.

[right_partner]

[Watch her freeze, then stalk up to him and aim a slap at his cheek.]

You never try to be heroic, it just happens. So I'm just Agent Carter now? Really.

[And now she's trying not to cry.]

[like_a_gerbil]

[Steve doesn't try to block that slap or move away. He deserves whatever she wants to do to him for putting her through that. Murmuring a soft 'I'm sorry' he pulls her close to hug her.] You never told me I could call you Peggy.

[vintage_avenger]

What do you want to know, Peggy? [Steve steps up right behind this woman. A woman he had simply wanted to be his partner once upon a time. Before the ice took him away from her and the world and he woke up missing an entire lifetime worth of memories and love.] Is that rain-check still good?

[right_partner]

[She grabs hold of his shirt to make sure he doesn't try to move away, biting a lip as she fights back a sob.]

You should be sorry. You stood me up. [But that's not why she's upset, she's just trying to distract herself.]

I... Yes. Of course. How stupid of me. Call me Peggy... Please?