City Never Sleeps

[womanofvalue]

It's been some time since the actual engagement, but Peggy's needed it to sink in.

Perhaps it's because it's not her first time being engaged that she's so hesitant to begin plans. The first time with Fred had been such a flood of planning and a hurricane of activity she'd hardly wanted to take place in (she'd wanted to work on the codebreaking), but this time, with Daniel, she knows it's going to be different. It's why she eventually remembers that while she doesn't have to go to the same lengths to plan, she still needs to take some steps.

The first and most important is making sure that she has the critical people at her side when she's standing there saying her vows, witnessed by the people she cares for. It's why she's sent out a few texts and is sitting at her favourite coffeeshop with a magazine filled with dresses, sipping her tea as she makes notes in the margins. While she's not expecting trouble, she still wants to be sure that if there is, she's well-equipped for it, which means any dress she buys is going to be one that at least allows for a thigh holster.

After all, you can't be underprepared for one of the most important days of your life, now can you?

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[primary_asset]

"Don't you remember what I just said about not being an expert?" he asks with a smile, then leans forward a little. If he's going to be part of this, then he ought to give it a real try.

"I think it depends on what's more important, the date or the venue," he decides after a moment. "I might not know much, but I've seen enough television to know venues often book up months in advance."

Especially in New York. Darrow isn't quite the same, but he has to wonder if it's still not similar.

[womanofvalue]

She gives him a look because while he might not be an expert, she certainly isn't either and if she's going to fail at something, then she's going to fail with company. "I'm not hell-bent on a specific date," she does feel inclined to admit. "And I think Daniel is simply happy so long as we don't go too big."

"I'm going to push for a courthouse wedding," she says. "Though I think I might need to concede on that, since I think Daniel might want it in a church."

[primary_asset]

"Then if that's the case, maybe you pick the date first," he says. A church can't be that difficult to book and the courthouse, if Peggy gets her way, will be available whenever she wants it, so long as it's within the regular business hours. If that's the way she wants to plan things, he doesn't expect she's going to run into much trouble at all.

"Do you really think a pink dress will be properly appreciated in the courthouse?" he asks, unable to help himself.

[womanofvalue]

She can't help her proud and delighted smile at that. "I certainly think that it wouldn't have quite the same effect," she admits, because there are all sorts of ridiculous people who are at the courthouse on any given day, to the point that a pink dress on John might not even register.

"Also, if I haven't made it clear, I expect you to bring Karen as well," she says. "I'm not sure how long the invitation list will be, but she's certainly on it."

[primary_asset]

"I figured she would be invited," he says with a smile. He knows Peggy and Karen like each other, that they'd call themselves friends, and if he's to be part of the wedding, he can't imagine Peggy would decline to have Karen there.

"She'll be very happy for you two," he says. Karen always is. She's tough and smart, but there's a romantic in her, too. It exists in the same way his does, he thinks, which is probably why they've fallen into this relationship so well.

[womanofvalue]

"I'm hoping that there's no one here that bodes us truly ill will apart from the organization that we've vowed to fight against," Peggy notes, seeing as she can't imagine any Hydra agent would be pleased for them, so maybe they won't go taking out full page ads anywhere.

"It will be hardest, I think, when it comes to defining myself as something else, as a married woman," she says, and even the words sound strange. "Though, perhaps that's the least strange difference in my life, since arriving here in the future."