#working at a job that is miserable to you is soooo draining lol

[princesscallyie]

I wonder what Scorch and Calypso’s would look like.

Did you mean to put kid? Cause I still have the concept art of their son Callixtus. Still need to work on these characters, but I honestly drawing/creating content takes a lot of my energy nowadays.

[indiefic]

Sam, Steve and Peggy stand there, looking at each other.     “This party’s boring,” Peggy says flatly.  She reaches over and takes Steve’s beer, draining it in three long swallows.  Sam arches an eyebrow, but doesn’t say anything as Steve winces.  Peggy hands the empty bottle back to him.  “I’m going to find someone to play with.”     Steve forces himself not to watch as she walks away.  Sam looks at him and shakes his head.  “You are so fucked, man.”

This is from Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men. (side note: I need to finish this story soooo badly.)

Oh this story.  LOL.  This is the dirty one.  Heeeeeeee.  

I’m going to recap for anybody who isn’t familiar with this story: this is an AU where Peggy went missing while looking for Steve after the Valkyrie disappeared.  She was captured by Hydra and put in the same program as Bucky.  Her powers are very similar to Wanda’s, but she has 70 years experience on Wanda.  One of the very big side effects of her powers is that her personality tends to absorb bits and pieces of other people.  She has a very hard time differentiating herself from outside influences, so she’s this amalgam of not particularly nice traits.  She tends to be very vicious and self-serving, unpredictable.  Also, in this story, Steve, after the Avengers, started a relationship with the waitress.  They ended up pregnant, then married.  He’s trying to make it work, at first.  Not doing a great job, tbh.  But he’s Steve.  He’s a good guy.  He’s a dedicated father.  But then Peggy and Bucky show up out of the blue.  And Peggy wants Steve.  She absolutely ignores any boundaries.  She understands that Steve is drawn to her in a way that he isn’t drawn to anyone else, and she uses it.  She starts this completely torrid affair with him.  She’s constantly pushing him past what he’s comfortable with.  He knows it’s wrong.  He hates himself for doing it.  But he can’t stay away - and really there’s more than a little concern about what Peggy might do if he pisses her off.

Okay, we all caught up?

So this scene.  Steve and his wife, Ashley, are invited to a party at Avengers Tower, ala AoU.  The whole team is there.  Everybody knows about the Winter Soldier, but they don’t know about Peggy.  At least not enough to recognize her on sight.

So, of course, Peggy shows up at the party (uninvited, not that it matters to her).  She talks to Steve’s wife - they’re friends (more actually).  But when Ashley wanders off, Peggy takes Steve’s beer and drinks it in front of Sam.  For her, it’s pretty innocuous.  But it’s also an undeniably intimate and possessive act.  And Sam knows, without a doubt, that Steve and Peggy are having sex.  And Sam knows that Steve is in waaaaaay over his head.  Because of course he is.

And Peggy is just enjoying the chaos she’s creating.

The whole idea with this story is pretty much the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  Steve, in his desperation for human connection after the Avengers, starts a relationship with a woman he likes.  But he doesn’t love her.  It’s not a deep connection.  And not because she’s a bad person, or he’s a bad person.  They just don’t click for a thousand different reasons.  But then she gets pregnant.  And so he does The Right Thing ™.  And they’re both miserable.  They’re doing everything by the book, living the American dream, and they’re both dying inside.  But they’re both too stubborn to step away.  So they’d live in the stifling politeness forever.

But then Peggy shows up and forces him to the other extreme, where it’s hedonism.  It’s pursuit of pleasure at the cost of all else.  And he has no idea how to get himself out of that either.

Enter Wanda-ex-machina and Peggy gets her own personality back and is horrified by all the damage she’s caused.  And now everybody has to deal with their guilt and emotions.  Why haven’t I updated this?

Thanks for asking!

from the DVD commentary track meme