[ -- already ingrained in him, hm? well. peggy doesn't make too much of a show of mulling over those words, perhaps it once again boils down to culture, but they certainly don't go unheard. ]
Yes.
[ a huff of breath. they'd talked about that, hadn't they? the way your vulnerability after a near-fatal (should be fatal) injury knocks you down and makes you question your place. indeed, it'd been that path that had brought them hard against the topic that had unwound everything: the portal.
she wars with herself. how easy it might be to tell jemma to tell fitz that she's got no interest in pursuing that path -- not really, not any longer. only peggy can't be certain saying so would be truthful. ]
Yes, he would have had a lot of ground to recover. Living it again, thanks to the event, might have exacerbated those feelings. [ feelings, those pesky little things are always the problem. ] He did acquit himself marvelously during the -- interrogation itself, I'll say. I hope our little disagreement doesn't convince him otherwise.
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Yes.
[ a huff of breath. they'd talked about that, hadn't they? the way your vulnerability after a near-fatal (should be fatal) injury knocks you down and makes you question your place. indeed, it'd been that path that had brought them hard against the topic that had unwound everything: the portal.
she wars with herself. how easy it might be to tell jemma to tell fitz that she's got no interest in pursuing that path -- not really, not any longer. only peggy can't be certain saying so would be truthful. ]
Yes, he would have had a lot of ground to recover. Living it again, thanks to the event, might have exacerbated those feelings. [ feelings, those pesky little things are always the problem. ] He did acquit himself marvelously during the -- interrogation itself, I'll say. I hope our little disagreement doesn't convince him otherwise.