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[ sent after she noticed bucky posting on the network, but probably way too late to actually head anything off at the pass. shoulda paid better attention to your surveillance skills, wanda! ]
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
:D
Not really, it was just a philosophical question. It was either that or send you all the pictures of bees and flowers I've been taking on my phone.
DO you eat an entire pizza at a time? That seems like a lot.
Not really, it was just a philosophical question. It was either that or send you all the pictures of bees and flowers I've been taking on my phone.
DO you eat an entire pizza at a time? That seems like a lot.
Maybe. I think sometimes it helps to narrow your focus to observing all the little details of one small thing. I took an art class at the university before. This is sort of like that.
[ ...with the previous steve, is how she was dragged to school before. but the details are unimportant. ]
Poor Steve :( Are you the reason they have time limits on all you can eat buffets?
[ ...with the previous steve, is how she was dragged to school before. but the details are unimportant. ]
Poor Steve :( Are you the reason they have time limits on all you can eat buffets?
[ This single text has taken her hours to send. ]
You're back.
You're back.
[ Steve, on the other hand, doesn't get hours to craft a message, and he's too excited to take his time. (It's a horrible, gut-wrenching kind of excitement, his heart and mind racing with possibilities, wondering if this is a trick, afraid to hope that isn't. ]
Pefgy?
[ Followed hardly a second later by: ]
PEGGY?
[ And soon after: ]
You've been here this whole time?
[ Maybe it's for the best that he's finding out like this. It's harder for the hundreds of questions he has to spill out over text. ]
Pefgy?
[ Followed hardly a second later by: ]
PEGGY?
[ And soon after: ]
You've been here this whole time?
[ Maybe it's for the best that he's finding out like this. It's harder for the hundreds of questions he has to spill out over text. ]
[ And that is enough to let her know it's not the same Steve. She doesn't respond for a few moments, tears welling up and wanting to toss her phone over to the far side of the couch. It's so unfair.
It just keeps happening. ]
Yes.
It just keeps happening. ]
Yes.
Edited 2016-09-05 07:29 (UTC)
That's smart, I can see how it'd help. And they say art isn't useful.
[ He's already considered taking a class himself but he keeps putting it off, like he's afraid he can't connect with that part of himself anymore. It's been a long time since he was just Steve, without Captain America casting a shadow over every other aspect of his life. ]
I wouldn't know. I've only been to one and never gone back.
They asked me to leave.
[ He's already considered taking a class himself but he keeps putting it off, like he's afraid he can't connect with that part of himself anymore. It's been a long time since he was just Steve, without Captain America casting a shadow over every other aspect of his life. ]
I wouldn't know. I've only been to one and never gone back.
They asked me to leave.
[ He's never spoken to Peggy like this, through plain text, but he's spent enough time in the 21st century to tell when someone is upset. Short messages and one word answers are common indicators, and she's said all of three words so far. Once again, Steve struggling to find his footing where previous versions of him left off. ]
I didn't know. I would have found you.
I didn't know. I would have found you.
[ Never has she been more grateful for texting than she is now. She hates crying. What she hates more than that is even looking like she's about to cry in front of someone else.
Her Vulpix, Rose, hops onto the couch next to her. Her nuzzling helps some. Sweet thing she is. ]
I know. It's alright. You didn't know.
[ Which is what hurts the most but, again. It can't be helped. ]
Her Vulpix, Rose, hops onto the couch next to her. Her nuzzling helps some. Sweet thing she is. ]
I know. It's alright. You didn't know.
[ Which is what hurts the most but, again. It can't be helped. ]
Edited (ugh typos stop) 2016-09-05 07:47 (UTC)
[ Steve hasn't been counting the days since he came to Eudio, but he's tempted in some morbid, masochistic way to tally them now. How many nights has he crawled out of bed for a run, pushing himself to exhaustion so he won't have to see Peggy's coffin when he closes his eyes? And all along she was right here, out of sight but just a text message away.
Now that he knows, it takes more self-control than he ever knew he had to keep from rushing out to find her, wherever she is. ]
Can we meet?
Now that he knows, it takes more self-control than he ever knew he had to keep from rushing out to find her, wherever she is. ]
Can we meet?
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