[ her discomfort can't be helped. maybe, maybe if rip was explaining these things under his own steam -- volunteering the information -- then she could figure out how best to approach these revelations. but for the most part, peggy is left confronting just how unlikely it is that any of these words would be given freely had he a choice in the matter.
and there's that word again -- sacred and sentimental both whenever peggy thinks about it. not simply under these current circumstances, but because of how they'd been used in the past. how she'd hear it in her room, just now, if she dared to return. there's no dignity in destiny. but, oh, in choice...
peggy looses some of the tension from her shoulders. she leans her head back against the wall. ]
You call it a victory. [ 'we wouldn't have won that day without him,' rip says. and peggy's attention claws its way tight into those words -- and what they mean by mere virtue of the event around them. ] I'm glad to hear it.
[ a victory, despite its price. she suspects that comes down to choice as well -- choosing to focus on the triumph, as thin as it might feel to the man who lost so much in the process. ]
no subject
and there's that word again -- sacred and sentimental both whenever peggy thinks about it. not simply under these current circumstances, but because of how they'd been used in the past. how she'd hear it in her room, just now, if she dared to return. there's no dignity in destiny. but, oh, in choice...
peggy looses some of the tension from her shoulders. she leans her head back against the wall. ]
You call it a victory. [ 'we wouldn't have won that day without him,' rip says. and peggy's attention claws its way tight into those words -- and what they mean by mere virtue of the event around them. ] I'm glad to hear it.
[ a victory, despite its price. she suspects that comes down to choice as well -- choosing to focus on the triumph, as thin as it might feel to the man who lost so much in the process. ]