[If it isn't just the call he'd been waiting for. Expecting? Dreading? Probably not dreading, but Beckett is a little surprised that Steve is being so helpful here. How nice of Peggy not to set him off, though... she did seem a woman to fight her own battles.
Neutral all-business it is.]
Honestly, a lot of it is convenience. I had an easier in for talking to her than most, and her being quick on the uptake doesn't hurt - and you must admit, your situation is rather unique, once one becomes aware of the time gap. Doubly so when one is aware - ah. [His voice drops a little when the realization clicks. So that was who Steve saw in the morgue that day. Well. That easy in just got very very complicated.]
It isn't personal, if that is your worry. I hardly have some vested interest in keeping you all to myself. [He half-jokes without thinking; his thoughts are all elsewhere.]
I don't know that it's all that unique. Tifa's friend Cloud... I can't claim to know him well, but I don't think the one that was here before and died is the same one that is here now. At the very least he seems to be from a different point in their timeline, a future point. He doesn't remember being here any more than Peggy back home did. ...I'd be cautious asking Tifa about it, she didn't seem comfortable confronting the idea when I brought it up.
...When one is aware...?
No, I... don't think I thought it was. Like I said, just trying to figure out what about our situation you found especially interesting. And I guess also wondering what's got you interested in the subject in general. ...Speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time pondering the subject in general and specifically related to myself, even before Peggy showed up and added another piece to the puzzle.
Is he? I hadn't realized. I will have to ask them, regardless of comfort. [His voice falters a little. This is what he gets for being reluctant to speak to people unless necessary. It wasn't like this before...]
But I do understand your reaction in the morgue, now. I wonder if the other Cloud's body is still stored somewhere, if he and Tifa are in the same situation? I suppose it does all add up to a conclusion, just not a very comfortable one. Ah, well. Another day, another piece of bad news.
[He would end it there, trailing off, except he knows Steve well enough to be reasonably sure he wouldn't just let him off the hook, nor be content with the Kindred brand of cryptic. His voice is still carefully neutral.] Any abnormality might be a clue, but existential curiosity aside, I'm sure you wouldn't be terribly surprised to hear that one acquires enemies in three hundred years of active unlife. If I might wake up tomorrow find an elder with a dim view of my research on the network, I'd like to be as pre-warned as possible.
[This is a blatant lie, but it comes out smooth. It isn't wrong, after all, just totally unrelated to his real motivation.]
You might first take a look at their conversation on the Admin's intro post when Cloud arrived. Literally everything I know about the situation I gleaned from that. I'm pretty confident in my conclusions but you might check for yourself.
[Steve clenches his jaw a little, remembering.] Yeah, I'd. Forgotten she was there. Unpleasant shock. ...If I'm right about Cloud, there should be another Cloud in one of the morgues. Like there is with Rhys. And. Peggy too, at a guess. I don't actually know that she's still there. [He is probably unsuccessful at not sounding super uncomfortable to be contemplating this.]
What, parallel worlds, body doubles? Is it much worse or more uncomfortable than anything else? ...I dunno, maybe I've just been sitting with it for a while. Knowing Loki and Clint are here was weird enough, but once I saw how young Peggy was there were only so many places I could go with that.
Hmmm. Well, consider yourself pre-warned, I guess. The chances of people knowing other people here are incredibly high considering the number of worlds that must be out there, and the billions of people in each world.
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Neutral all-business it is.]
Honestly, a lot of it is convenience. I had an easier in for talking to her than most, and her being quick on the uptake doesn't hurt - and you must admit, your situation is rather unique, once one becomes aware of the time gap. Doubly so when one is aware - ah. [His voice drops a little when the realization clicks. So that was who Steve saw in the morgue that day. Well. That easy in just got very very complicated.]
It isn't personal, if that is your worry. I hardly have some vested interest in keeping you all to myself. [He half-jokes without thinking; his thoughts are all elsewhere.]
permavoice
...When one is aware...?
No, I... don't think I thought it was. Like I said, just trying to figure out what about our situation you found especially interesting. And I guess also wondering what's got you interested in the subject in general. ...Speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time pondering the subject in general and specifically related to myself, even before Peggy showed up and added another piece to the puzzle.
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But I do understand your reaction in the morgue, now. I wonder if the other Cloud's body is still stored somewhere, if he and Tifa are in the same situation? I suppose it does all add up to a conclusion, just not a very comfortable one. Ah, well. Another day, another piece of bad news.
[He would end it there, trailing off, except he knows Steve well enough to be reasonably sure he wouldn't just let him off the hook, nor be content with the Kindred brand of cryptic. His voice is still carefully neutral.] Any abnormality might be a clue, but existential curiosity aside, I'm sure you wouldn't be terribly surprised to hear that one acquires enemies in three hundred years of active unlife. If I might wake up tomorrow find an elder with a dim view of my research on the network, I'd like to be as pre-warned as possible.
[This is a blatant lie, but it comes out smooth. It isn't wrong, after all, just totally unrelated to his real motivation.]
no subject
[Steve clenches his jaw a little, remembering.] Yeah, I'd. Forgotten she was there. Unpleasant shock. ...If I'm right about Cloud, there should be another Cloud in one of the morgues. Like there is with Rhys. And. Peggy too, at a guess. I don't actually know that she's still there. [He is probably unsuccessful at not sounding super uncomfortable to be contemplating this.]
What, parallel worlds, body doubles? Is it much worse or more uncomfortable than anything else? ...I dunno, maybe I've just been sitting with it for a while. Knowing Loki and Clint are here was weird enough, but once I saw how young Peggy was there were only so many places I could go with that.
Hmmm. Well, consider yourself pre-warned, I guess. The chances of people knowing other people here are incredibly high considering the number of worlds that must be out there, and the billions of people in each world.