doctor's orders - sousa

[womanofvalue]

Peggy suspects that jumping right to dinner with Daniel might be a little too much for them, but there's nothing against lunch. Certainly, not when Peggy is also trying to avoid certain appointments so that she's not told something that she already knows -- she's healing slowly because she's pushing too fast and it will never fully feel the way it used to. Still, with her phone on the table, she gives Daniel a brief smile as she excuses herself from the table to freshen up, once she's finished eating. "Order me a tea, please," she says. "Tell them it's for me, they'll prepare it right."

She slides away, but leaves her purse and phone with the knowledge that Daniel will keep them safe. There are still the case files she'd brought for them to discuss and she has high faith that he won't simply leave.

However, what she hadn't anticipated was a very irate nurse sending Peggy a text to the number on file with a very curt message: Ms. Carter, you have missed two appointments. Please be at our offices for 2PM today for your follow up. The tone is angry enough, but the two follow up messages reminding her are no less firm, the last giving a long (as long as possible) explanation of the complications that might arise.

Peggy returns, blissfully unaware, and settles back in her spot. "Did they come by to take the order?" she asks hopefully.

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[womanofvalue]

"No, her reign of power is over, we managed to take the abilities away from her and seal them up," she says, hoping that no one will ever find reason to unearth them again, seeing as it had nearly taken multiple lives just to do it the first time, and she knows that not everyone will live on without consequences. To Peggy's chagrin, Ana Jarvis would now be counted in that list.

"We never did get to eat," she notes. "I'm rather hungry, if I do say so myself."

[ssrsousa]

Seal them up was an interesting phrase and he might ask more about that later. Not now, though. Now he'd asked enough questions and Peggy had answered enough. This wasn't an interrogation and they had time for him to ask the questions he still had. He wasn't going anywhere, and neither was she, probably.

"Well, tea fixes everything, right? Let's see if we can find any around here."

[womanofvalue]

"Sandwiches, too," she insists, because she is hungry and her growling stomach is hardly a ladylike thing, but she's only human and that's what she wants right now, more than anything. "Somewhere we can sit," is what she says, after a beat, grimacing only mildly, "I always feel a bit raw after being poked and prodded like that, you know," she says off-hand, given that Daniel would know the experience more than anyone else that she knows, here.

[ssrsousa]

"Somewhere that we can sit," he agreed. "Where neither of us are gonna be poked and prodded for anything but the check."

He paused, because it was important that he said this before the conversation moved past it.

"I, uh, I appreciate you trusting me to be in there. It's not easy to show the messy parts of yourself to someone."

[womanofvalue]

"I trust you absolutely," Peggy says with the firmness of a statement that can never be swayed. She looks at him for a long moment and wonders if she ought to tell him why that trust is so absolute, whether she should tell him that she was going to stay in Los Angeles for him, that she wanted to see where they could go, but Daniel was missing that time and she wanted to make sure she did this properly.

"I don't think there's any place I'd go that I wouldn't drag you along with me, for support," she admits.

[ssrsousa]

That meant a lot to him, and he looked down for a moment before he looked up to make eye contact again.

"I trust you too," he told her, because he did. She knew way more than he did about his own future, and he trusted her to tell him what he needed to know and what he didn't. She could lie to him about it, if she was a different person, but she wouldn't.

"Just make sure you drag slow enough that I can keep up," he joked. "And for now, I'm gonna let you drag me to the cafe I see over there."

[womanofvalue]

"You keep up with me just fine, there's times I need to outrun you, even," she says, which is the truth given that he seems to know Peggy's instincts and where she'll turn next. She hooks her arm under his and gives him a fond smile, nodding her head. "To lunch, then," she promises, revelling in the warmth of his body against hers, thinking that she'll tell him the rest in due time.