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The ground was saturated with so much rain that Peggy thought she might be washed away, but just because the plains were soaked didn't mean that the drills stopped. The soldiers didn't know it yet, but the landings were going to arrive sooner than anyone wanted and that meant no one can be untrained, lest they end up paying with their lives on those beaches. Today, when the fog rolled in, her superiors informed her that she would be running orienteering with her men, eliciting a sharp 'sir, yes, sir' from Peggy before she took the maps to her own private tent in order to brief the Lieutenants.

Leaning over to study the map, her stubborn engagement ring catches her eye. It had managed to escape from where she had tucked it away, just like all her thoughts about Fred. Their engagement was a terse and stressful thing. When she had announced that she was going into the field with the SSR, he had threatened to leave her. It had been her mother that had convinced Fred to wait Peggy out, insisting that once the war was over, things would change.

As much as Peggy was fond of Fred, she was beginning to see the splinters in their engagement turn to wider cracks, chasms so wide that you could lose sight of the love you once shared and guided you towards that engagement. Carefully, she pushed the ring back, securing it with one of her brassiere straps. Snapping her compass shut, she gave the objective and the orders. "I'll be out in the field to keep an eye on each platoon. The first to reach the objective will not run additional miles," she promised.

"The others will be doing laps around the base, respective to their finishing position." Folding up the map, she handed one to each of her four Lieutenants. "Let them look at it for a few hours, then to the navigator." With a few more orders, she allowed them to prepare as she herself got ready. She tugged on knee-high rain boots, an overcoat, and despite the misty fog in the air, she double-checked that her hair and makeup was in good shape.

Several hours later found Peggy in the thick of drills, listening to the shouts of men in the distance as they worked their way towards her and the objective. Standing there with a brolly, she glanced at her pocketwatch and decided mentally that she would see the first platoon in no more than forty-five minutes. Clasping the watch shut, the echo of it was drowned by another sound -- one that didn't belong. The sound of twigs and branches crunching made Peggy reach for her pistol, simply to be ready.

"Phillips?" she called out, thinking perhaps something had happened and she needed to recall her men. She saw the silhouette of what appeared to be a man in the fog and she found herself inexplicably drawn towards him, mainly because it simply didn't make any sense. "Who's there?" she asked, when it was clear that the man she was seeing didn't bear resemblance to anyone on base. This close, she could see that his hair had a strange look to it, not to mention his clothes. "Has there been an accident?" What could have happened to render the man in such a state?

(Peggy also did not need to allow her conscious thoughts to become aware of how handsome the man was, despite the fact she feared she was already a lost cause, given the way she was filled with a renewed warmth and how her gaze lingered)

They were inside a ring of large stones, which she vaguely recalled the locals warning her about. She had paid little mind, marking them perfunctorily on the map before moving on, but now she had to wonder if the talk of strange rituals wasn't at least a little true. Forty-five minutes. She had forty-five minutes until the men arrived, surely she could deal with this surprise in that time.

Date: 2017-10-26 01:37 am (UTC)
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Steve doesn't expect to literally run into them but when he does, relief floods him. He hadn't wanted see Peggy hurt or the mission to fail and seeing that she's recovered Dr. Erskine and she, herself, seems to be unharmed, this is the best possible outcome.

Dr. Erskine. His serum's been flowing through Steve's veins for years now but he's someone long dead to him. Now, due to this strange set of events, he's face to face with the man who changed his life with his discovery. Huh. It's bigger than any of them now.

"I don't mind driving," Steve assures her. "If you want me to be the get-away driver, I'm your guy."

Date: 2017-10-29 09:12 pm (UTC)
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"Yes ma'am," Steve says. He doesn't mind taking orders, especially since it appears that the mission's gone well and he drives back to the docks. This is the best possible outcome for a mission like this - no casualties and a successful extraction.

"Doctor, did they hurt you? Or did they just want information?"

Date: 2017-11-02 03:54 am (UTC)
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"Don't worry, I'm with the Allieds," Steve assures him. Now that he's face to face with Erskine, he wants to tell him that he's the result of his serum and it's still getting used sixty some odd years later. Maybe that's a conversation for another time, though, and Steve manages to sit on that bit of information and keep things cryptic for now.

"I appreciate you and your work, Doctor, and I was happy to come along and help. Hopefully they won't be able to reproduce your work."

Date: 2017-11-05 01:59 am (UTC)
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"You'll always have the backup," Steve promises her. He's only just met her but he doesn't know if he's ever going to get to go back home. For right now, he's going to be stuck here in 1940s England and if that's the case? He's going to be right behind Peggy Carter making sure she has what she needs.

"You don't have to worry about that."

Date: 2017-11-08 07:11 pm (UTC)
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"There's no place I'd rather be than the Front, ma'am," Steve says, giving Peggy a worried look. He's not sure what's going on but he has no idea how he can get back home and if he can't, he wants to be where the fighting is. That's going to do more good in the 1940s than him hanging back hoping he doesn't break anything.

"Do you need to transfer me to another unit?"

Date: 2017-11-14 03:19 am (UTC)
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Steve pauses for a moment and watches her, not certain what's just happened. Peggy seems a little distracted by the contents of the letter and he wants to close the distance between them and cup her shoulder, ask what's wrong. He settles for canting his head a bit and watching her carefully.

"I want to be where I'm most useful. Do you think you'd have a use for me if I stayed here with you? Missions, off the record extractions, that kind of thing?"

Date: 2017-11-16 09:32 pm (UTC)
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"Willing and able to serve," Steve says, giving her a half smile. "I don't follow the science part much but part of being in the Army is being able to follow orders you don't necessarily understand and trusting the outcome."

It's served him well, for the most part, and he wants to trust that Peggy and Erskine are doing work for the good guys. He thinks so. "You just let me know where to be and when and I'll be there. I trust you, Peggy. With my life."

Date: 2017-11-21 08:40 am (UTC)
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"Glower? Do I look that intimidating?" Steve has never felt intimidating. Deep down, he still feels like a skinny kid from Brooklyn but he knows his body belies that now. He has the serum to thank for it, even if Erskine had been dead by the time Steve had ever joined the Army or even been born. It's crazy, meeting him now.

Crazier still is how attached he feels to Peggy. He doesn't want to leave her to go to the Mess but he does, getting something to eat. He does it quickly, methodically, and gets back to her so he can help her in any way he can.

"All right, where do I need to go and glower?"

Date: 2017-11-23 01:40 am (UTC)
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"What proposal is that, exactly? Not that I won't help you," Steve points out, "But I'd kind of like to know what I'm using my large body to endorse before I go and endorse it."

He definitely wants to know what he's getting himself into before he's got his feet in the fire.

Date: 2017-11-28 12:17 am (UTC)
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"Do...you think it will help or hurt if I tell you that I've had that serum used on me? I came out just fine," Steve assures her. "And I'm happy to tell Erskine my circumstances, all of them, if you think it will help him make up his mind. It could make a difference in the war, just like you said."

Steve doesn't know if he should be affecting the past but maybe this is why he's here: he's here to get Erskine to do his experiment on Peggy Carter.

Date: 2017-12-05 06:29 pm (UTC)
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"You being a woman shouldn't matter anyway," Steve says quietly. "You want to serve your country. You're volunteering for something that would scare the hell out of most people. He ought to just let you do it on merit."

He pauses for a moment. "What do you mean, there's no one? No one else to volunteer?"

Date: 2017-12-08 11:39 pm (UTC)
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"I think plenty of people would miss you if you were gone, Peggy," Steve says. He doesn't bother with calling her Agent Carter or Ms. Carter - not when it's something this personal. He knows it has to sting to feel like she's all alone in the world but she's not. There's plenty of people around here that look up to her. He's only been here just a few days and he can tell that; the people who've been here longer than that have to have taken more of a shine to her than even he has.

And oh, there's a shine. He's constantly thinking about Peggy Carter.

"I'd miss you, for one. That's not a reason not to volunteer yourself, of course, but...I'd miss you."

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