mucked: (☂ in the bottle of a drunken man)
Peggy Carter ([personal profile] mucked) wrote in [community profile] entranceway 2018-07-06 10:31 am (UTC)

[ it is an impressive little bit of tech. and, for a moment, peggy can be seen manipulating the display with anachronistic ease. with light, practiced gestures she "zooms in" on the dot's location -- the basement, apparently -- and each touch shows that she's learned and practiced what she's been given. she mightn't understand the work and engineering behind it, but she's adapted wonderfully to the actual user experience.

thus focused on the first checkpoint, she trusts the compact and its map to rip's care. grabbing his wrist, she raises his hand and leaves the compact sitting open in his palm. but it's true that her touch lingers, fingers drawing back against his skin with more time taken than necessary. he is her partner in this (in a lot of things) and even if she can't articulate it half as heartily as he can, it shows in moments like this one. ]


I already did most of the work for us. [ she counters, abruptly, and uses her newly freed hands to rummage for something else in her purse. two somethings else, actually, because she pulls out a flip notebook and a tube of lipstick. the former because it has written in it important intel for the hunt; the latter because he's gone and smudged the red on her mouth with his kiss and she's keen to correct it before they leave.

peggy tucks the notebook into the waist-hem of her skirt and (without a mirror) applies a fresh coat of lipstick. after a soft pop of her lips, she explains: ]
It'll be a rat. A white lab rat, to be precise. And it'll have coordinates marked on it. I've caught two before tonight. This little bastard is the last one.

[ a rat chase! how romantic. her brusque delivery suggests they've hardly just been engaged in exchanging vows or confessions of any sort. ]

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