[ it's understandable, peggy thinks, that jane should feel so fixated upon the dreadful possibilities lurking back home. peggy fixates upon them, too, when she lets herself think too long and too hard about the knotted tangle of problems waiting for her. but another harsh truth is that there isn't much ground gained in fretting about home -- not without tangible pieces of it existing here, arriving here, complicating here.

and that's what she hopes to remind jane off with her next cautious offer. ]

-- Should he ever turn up here, do consider giving us a shout. [ peggy thinks for a moment about barnes. about the revelation of what hydra had done to him. of the danger he posed. ] No matter how certain you are now that you won't hesitate then.

[ peggy is prepared to throw her hat into that ring. ]