[It's not always about you, Steve. In this case, it's about choosing desolate, utterly abandoned places - ones where their presence won't have an effect on the timeline, where they can't be detected by the TVA for causing a deviation. (Sure, you can accomplish the same thing by hiding in apocalyptic events, but that's just overly dramatic.)]
Another planet. I don't know what it's called, or if it even has a name. What it does have is a breathable atmosphere and no native sentient population.
[Peggy stays where she is, sitting on the ground - though it's strange having to crane her neck so far to look up at Steve. She can't say she's surprised by the way he looks, being familiar with the changes the serum work on a body, but...it's different. Certainly not in a bad way, judging by the way he fills out those slacks.]
I can take you back to your own timeline, if you'd like. They shouldn't chase after you if you go back to where you're meant to be. Or when you're meant to be, rather.
No. [ Steve responds immediately, and rather forcefully. He isn't ready to give up on what he set out to do, and he certainly isn't about to let Peggy Carter drop him off back where he started. Even if it isn't the same Peggy that Steve was trying to get back to, it is Peggy. He can't just let her slip away again. ]
I left that timeline for a reason. [ Peggy should be able to infer that reason even if he doesn't elaborate. He has to hope that they mean enough to each other in any universe that she'll understand. He's not ready to say goodbye so fast. ]
[Peggy pinches the bridge of her nose. She understands his desperation, she truly does. She isn't entirely certain she wouldn't attempt the same, given the opportunity. But she's also not going to stand idly by and let any Steve be a complete idiot.]
First of all, because I'm sure you were thinking 'oh, I can overpower whatever team they send for me', let me just inform you that in the process of eliminating variants, the TVA has handled innumerable copies of every villain you've faced, with wildly differing powersets. I don't know how they accomplish this, but they do.
Second, once you're in the timeline, you begin to contaminate it. Short-term contamination can be reversed fairly easily. Once you, say, spend any length of time around other people, they inevitably become variants as well, and they're doomed to the same fate as you.
[Hopefully he cares enough to not want his Peggy to be erased from the timeline through his own selfish actions. If not, she's got nothin'.]
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Another planet. I don't know what it's called, or if it even has a name. What it does have is a breathable atmosphere and no native sentient population.
[Peggy stays where she is, sitting on the ground - though it's strange having to crane her neck so far to look up at Steve. She can't say she's surprised by the way he looks, being familiar with the changes the serum work on a body, but...it's different. Certainly not in a bad way, judging by the way he fills out those slacks.]
I can take you back to your own timeline, if you'd like. They shouldn't chase after you if you go back to where you're meant to be. Or when you're meant to be, rather.
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I left that timeline for a reason. [ Peggy should be able to infer that reason even if he doesn't elaborate. He has to hope that they mean enough to each other in any universe that she'll understand. He's not ready to say goodbye so fast. ]
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First of all, because I'm sure you were thinking 'oh, I can overpower whatever team they send for me', let me just inform you that in the process of eliminating variants, the TVA has handled innumerable copies of every villain you've faced, with wildly differing powersets. I don't know how they accomplish this, but they do.
Second, once you're in the timeline, you begin to contaminate it. Short-term contamination can be reversed fairly easily. Once you, say, spend any length of time around other people, they inevitably become variants as well, and they're doomed to the same fate as you.
[Hopefully he cares enough to not want his Peggy to be erased from the timeline through his own selfish actions. If not, she's got nothin'.]