penny parker and peggy carter - rooftop
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windfield[ new york, 1947.
the facts were these: there was a vigilante in new york, prowling and stalking through the streets of manhattan. citizen’s arrests weren’t uncommon exactly, and more than one yahoo had tried to “pick up cap’s shield,” especially after the new movie with tyrone power and ingrid bergman. but they tended to try and hog the spotlight, hype themselves up legitimate heroes. the new vigilante hadn’t been seen by public eyes, content to tie up robbers and muggers in front of the police station in some strange organic rope.
the rumors were different. the criminals caught were babbling about a demon with giant, gleaming eyes, who dodged their blows and bullets as if made out of smoke. people made reports about some humanoid creature scuttling up the sides of buildings, or flying through the air. jameson, who ran the daily bugle, claimed to have been visited by “the spider-man,” who’d given him a brief about the housing commissioner’s ties to the maggia. a week after jameson’s article, the commissioner resigned in a wave of scandal.
though the spider-man wasn’t alone. people talked in hushed whispers, everybody had a friend of a cousin who’d seen something. this man could burn people with electricity, that one had skin like a reptile. things were changing.
and one night, penny parker knocks on the window to the SSR’s offices. she’s suspended upside-down, hanging on her webbing. whoever glances out will certainly be able to see a few details: an enormous pair of red-tinted goggles, a cap, a dark scarf covering the rest of her face, a red motorcycle jacket. she gestures (gloved hands, of course) towards the roof, holds up five fingers, and zips off.
a few minutes later, penny hops over the edge of the roof and waits. ]
the facts were these: there was a vigilante in new york, prowling and stalking through the streets of manhattan. citizen’s arrests weren’t uncommon exactly, and more than one yahoo had tried to “pick up cap’s shield,” especially after the new movie with tyrone power and ingrid bergman. but they tended to try and hog the spotlight, hype themselves up legitimate heroes. the new vigilante hadn’t been seen by public eyes, content to tie up robbers and muggers in front of the police station in some strange organic rope.
the rumors were different. the criminals caught were babbling about a demon with giant, gleaming eyes, who dodged their blows and bullets as if made out of smoke. people made reports about some humanoid creature scuttling up the sides of buildings, or flying through the air. jameson, who ran the daily bugle, claimed to have been visited by “the spider-man,” who’d given him a brief about the housing commissioner’s ties to the maggia. a week after jameson’s article, the commissioner resigned in a wave of scandal.
though the spider-man wasn’t alone. people talked in hushed whispers, everybody had a friend of a cousin who’d seen something. this man could burn people with electricity, that one had skin like a reptile. things were changing.
and one night, penny parker knocks on the window to the SSR’s offices. she’s suspended upside-down, hanging on her webbing. whoever glances out will certainly be able to see a few details: an enormous pair of red-tinted goggles, a cap, a dark scarf covering the rest of her face, a red motorcycle jacket. she gestures (gloved hands, of course) towards the roof, holds up five fingers, and zips off.
a few minutes later, penny hops over the edge of the roof and waits. ]
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Date: 2020-11-10 06:25 am (UTC)Instead she shrugs.]
Agent Carter.
[And then, because she can't help but be a little sarcastic:] Do I call you the Spider-Man to your face?
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Date: 2020-11-18 06:15 am (UTC)[ it's an immediate answer. she doesn't stick around to talk to people that much, and eyewitness accounts of the spider-man tend to vary. nobody can agree just how fast he is, or if he can really vanish into the air, or run up walls. agent carter's the first person that penny's spoken with in the costume for more than a few minutes.
and probably the first she'll be working with. ]
Look, La - Agent Carter. I'm here to help the SSR catch criminals. Really, I am. And I can't do it by myself, and you can't do it without knowing what I know.
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Date: 2020-11-24 07:45 am (UTC)She can't shake the feeling that all is not as it seems, though. Certainly this Spider-Man is playing at being older, and there's something else just a little false that Peggy can't put a finger on. She has no reason not to trust the Spider-Man's intentions, though.]
There will have to be a certain level of transparency if my colleagues are going to go along with this. Not your identity -- [She's quick to make that amendment, because while she hopes the information will be shared with time, she also understands that it might be a dealbreaker this early on.] -- but where you come from, what you do.
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Date: 2020-11-27 06:16 am (UTC)when agent carter finishes, clarifying that she won’t have to give that up, penny nods. she pushes herself up and off the water tower without warning, leaping into the air gracefully, spinning into a flip, and landing perfectly on her feet. it’s showing off a little, sure, but it’s just convenient.
spider-man tilts her head up to look carter in the eye. ] Tell me what you need.
jesus christ I don't know how I missed this I'm so sorry
Date: 2021-03-13 02:13 am (UTC)For starters, it'd help to have names. Not just Manfredi's. The people you've followed, the people you've seen.
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Date: 2021-03-16 05:13 am (UTC)I've got nicknames. But some of them are just what I've been calling them, so it ain't gonna be useful.
[ she pauses for a moment, considering - ]
Can you get me some film?
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Date: 2021-03-23 06:35 am (UTC)We'll look into any that are more than just your own. It's still information we might be able to use.
[Then she raises an eyebrow and nods.]
Do you need a camera as well?
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Date: 2021-03-25 05:32 am (UTC)she shakes her head. ]
I can get one. [ she's already got one, actually. ] Film just adds up fast.
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Date: 2021-03-27 06:56 am (UTC)I can imagine it does, yes. It's not something I know much about, photography. You must be fairly comfortable with it to take a camera out on the streets.
[It's not a leading remark, exactly. She's genuinely trying to make conversation.]
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Date: 2021-03-30 04:52 am (UTC)she shrugs. ]
Well, it was either photography or window washing. And window washers don't get costumes.
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Date: 2021-04-02 06:48 am (UTC)Photography does sound like the more interesting choice of the two. Easier to create your own schedule, too, I bet.
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Date: 2021-04-03 06:21 pm (UTC)[ which is all that penny's going to give her hints for. at least until she opens her yap without meaning to again. ]
Any other questions, Agent?
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Date: 2021-04-13 12:10 am (UTC)How do I contact you?
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Date: 2021-04-14 07:03 pm (UTC)[ she's not about to give her name to the fuzz, or instructions on how to find her. besides, there's such a thing as plausible deniability, and what penny does - well, it's not exactly legal. ]
Leave the film canisters on your windowsill tonight. I'll bring you what I've got next week.
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Date: 2021-04-23 11:20 pm (UTC)Alright. We'll need to figure out a system at some point, for making sure we'll be in the same place, but we don't need to do that straightaway.
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Date: 2021-05-16 03:25 am (UTC)Put an ad in the paper.
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Date: 2021-05-26 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-27 03:34 pm (UTC)You're the spy, lady. You tell me.
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Date: 2021-06-07 11:10 pm (UTC)[She matches the shrug. This kid is funny, but she knows she shouldn't say that lest she seem rude.]