A/N: Did I finally cave and watch Captain America The First Avenger? Yes. Did I then watch the Marvel One-Shot about Peggy and feed even more into my love for her? Yes. Did I then stop my Marvel marathon to write a fic where she gets over Steve and never forgets him and always has some love for him and marries a nice man and has the career of her dreams? Yes. And then did I Google to see if there was a canon man that she married to just use him and find out it was Steve and get spoiled for his arch? Yes. Do I care that it is canon? Fuck no. Am I still going with the idea? Look at what you are reading darling.
Peggy (or better known as agent Carter) finally has the job of her dreams directing S.H.I.E.L.D. She finally feels as though people now see her for what she can bring to the table and not the fact that she is a woman. Even when she was in the military during the war, she felt as though no matter how much they gave in the undertone of everything they said to her she was still a woman therefore not as good as the rest of them.
She knew she was more capable than most of the men there but everyone else seemed to ignore that fact other than Howard. . .sometimes. That is what she loved about Steve the most, he saw what she could do and who she was and not the pretty face that everyone else saw, or that she was a woman.
After the war, she was reduced to nothing but some girl all the men felt they could push around. And she let them. Because part of her thought maybe, just maybe they would see her worth. Then one day she had enough and decide to fuck it and went and did the mission and then finally someone else saw her worth, and that was all she had to do all along.
Right now she is looking through files for some new recruits. They have some in mind but at the beginning, they mostly worked on getting the programs all set up before they started dragging people into it.
Now she gets the absolute privilege to look through what feels like millions of files. She was reading one that seemed to her the perfect candidate that they needed for the job when Howard just threw the door open.
"Peggy! I found the perfect doctor that can help us!"
"Who?" Peggy asked in a monotone voice if it was most likely the one she picked earlier that week and sent it to Howard to see if he also liked them and finally stopped messing around with weapons and finally read the damn thing.
"His name is Dr. West. . " Howard then went into detail about how perfect he is for the job and Peggy just tuned him out. It was the doctor she chose.
"And West- are you even listening to me?"
"Howard, I know who he is. I chose him. Didn't you read who sent the file to you?"
"Oh."
"Though I am extremely glad that you seem to really like him, also since you are here and talking about him I want to meet him in person just to make sure he is good since those files though very detailed can't say if the person can mesh with everyone. So could you do that?"
"Sure thing doll," Howard says walking back out the door, Peggy shakes her head. This is an example of the sometimes with Howard.
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Peggy was now, a day after that interaction with Howard, waiting in a conference room. She was wearing a new dress she bought for the action, not wanting to wear her other fancy red dress, the one she wore with Steve in the bar and wanting to dance with him in. It brings too many bittersweet memories and there is no time for that in a professional setting like this. The dress she is wearing is black with sleeves and a beautiful v-neck that is fitted perfectly to her figure. It goes past her knees, her shoes are heels that are red. She was sitting at the head of the long table which is the only thing in the conference room organizing some things she needs to work on later.
Dr. West then came into the room, his black hair slicked back; he was in a normal black suit. He had an average build not big but not small. Once he closed the door, he had a polite and kind smile on his face.
"You must be agent Carter would you prefer me to call you that or Ms. Carter?"
"Ms. Carter is fine thank you, please sit," Peggy gestures to the other head of the table, the one closest to the door.
The meeting went on without a hitch, Dr. West made no comments on her being a woman and after all the business things were covered, it got more personal. Once the meeting was over Peggy had a feeling she hadn't had in a long time. This feeling of excitement from a person. Maybe she could love someone again. And maybe, that is okay.
