(AU)
You Are Me! I Am You!
Peggy had an exhausting day at work. She couldn't wait to go to her cozy bed. She entered The Grifith and got to the third floor, the floor her apartment was. She unlocked the door and got inside.
She made herself ready for bed, undress, getting rid of her make-up and everything else that had to be done.
After it she did lay in bed and fell asleep short after.
Howard had worked on more inventions today in his lab. An exterminator had exploded, almost burned the room down, but luckily they could put the fire out fast, thanks to an invention that at least worked.
Jarvis, his butler waited for him outside of the building in the car. "Good afternoon Mr. Stark. Where would you like to go?" Jarvis asked him. "To the mansion, a pretty lady is waiting for me there." And he smiled. A goofy smile present on his face.
That night he slept with his girlfriend or a better name for it, a one night stand. He fell asleep after the exercise he just had with the young woman next to her.
Peggy woke up and opened her eyes. She looked at the ceiling. Wait, this is not the ceiling of my bedroom. She thought to herself. She got out of a bed she didn't recognized. She wanted to know why she was here and walked towards the bedroom door.
That's when she passed a mirror and gave herself a slight change to look at her reflection in the mirror. "O BLOODY HELL!" The reflection that looked back at her was that of Howard.
She was him. She was in his body. How was this possible to happen. Where is Howard if I am in… him. She thought shocked. O that sounded more wrong than I intended at first.
She had to get dressed, she opened all the drawers, cabinets and doors until she found his clothes. She looked through them. She took a white blouse and brown chic trousers. She put her shoes on when she notices it.
A bump in her trousers. "O for God's sake!" she half yelled out of frustration and also a bit shocked. She just looked at it, thinking it to please go away.
After minutes of sitting on the bed, like a statue, unmoving did the erection disappear again. She walked down the hall and there came a young woman with blond hair and brown eyes out of the bathroom.
"Howard, my sweet Howard!" and she hugged Peggy, or Howard, depends on what you would name the person that was now in Stark's body.
Peggy didn't move. "Okay, okay. I have.. uhm… business to do." And Peggy got away from the young woman and walked down the hall, towards the stairs.
"Mr. Stark, you are up early. The coffee will be up shortly." Mr. Jarvis said as he watched Peggy, for him his boss walking down the stairs.
"I prefer tea." She said. "Mr. Stark, you detest tea." Jarvis said confused, but submissively. "Today I want tea Mr. Jarvis." She said a bit frustrated but also with kindness still present in her voice. In Howard's voice.
She sees now how Jarvis takes care of Howard and it is kinda sweet. "Very good. Tea will be ready in a moment Mr. Stark." He said as he walked off towards where the kitchen was positioned in the mansion.
She ate breakfast and drank her tea before she just sat there. She didn't know what Howard, she, was supposed to do today. What was scheduled.
"Mr. Jarvis do we have to do something today?" She asked Mr. Jarvis. She is stuck in his body, she has to make the best of it now for how long it will last. It better will be over soon. She thought as she waited for her now butler.
We have to be there..." He looked at his wristwatch. "In one hour and thirty minutes."Jarvis said as he took the plate away form the table.
Bloody hell Howard. It can get worse can it. She thought. This will get wrong, so wrong. After breakfast they left the house, on the way to her job, towards the SSR. "Delightful." She said under her breath.
Jarvis looked confused at her. "Are you alright Mr. Stark?" He wanted to know. "Very well Jarvis." She responded, but Jarvis still knew something was up.
Howard woke up, he wanted to rub his nose when he felt no mustache. He jumped up and released he was somewhere else. Peggy's room in The Griffith. "Peggy this isn't funny. How did you get me here." He said, waiting for a replay from the bathroom.
Nothing, he got no response. He walked to the bathroom and tried the door, unlocked. "Peg. Come on." He said again, but still didn't get a response, so he stepped inside.
She wasn't in there. He was confused, he turned around and yelled out of shock. Peggy was looking at her. "This was not what I meant!" he yelled in the bathroom to no one.
That's when there was a knock on the door. "English are you okay? What is going one?" Howard rolled his eyes, Peggy eyes and said loud enough. "I am fine. I just…. Uhm… hit my toe." She said as a response to the question from the girl that is on the other side of the apartment door.
"Breakfast is also almost ready, do I see you there?" the voice asked again. "Yes!" he said loudly again.
He walked out of the door into the hallway and walked down the stairs until he reached the first floor where breakfast would be served.
When he entered the space everyone looked at him. For them at Peggy. One young woman choked on a slice of bread, another one stopped eating and everyone was staring at her.
Howard took place at the table, still confused why they looked at him like that. "Uhm English. Why are you still in your nightgown?" "Angie!" another woman said.
Howard looked down, and saw a few he liked to see. A décolleté, Peggy's décolleté. "Was this not meant to eat in your pajama's?" He asked while looking at all the women at the table.
"I think she hit her head." A woman with black hair said. "Is she okay?" another one asked the woman next to him.
"What is going on in here?" Everyone stopped and sat down again. "Miss Carter?" Howard didn't respond, he forgot he was Peggy. "Miss Margaret Carter!" a woman voice entered his ears loudly.
He turned around and the boss of the house was standing a few feet away from the table. "What do you think you're doing?" She asked him. He had to come up with an excuse. "Uhm… I think I have drank enough beer last night." He tried to laugh it off.
"For this time, only once ladies, I do take it lightly, only once. Don't let this happen again Miss Carter." Miss Fry said sternly.
"Yes Miss Fry." He said. "You have to get ready English, you have to get to the phone company in an hour." Angie said, looking worried at her friend. "Then I should go." And he gave her a wink.
Peggy entered the SSR with Jarvis. "Mister Stark how nice to see you again. Let's talk about the security system now shall we." Said her boss to her. "Do I have anything to say in this matter?" She said.
Chief Dooley looked confused at him, but guided her through the SSR as he obviously knows. They go around the corner and Peggy, her, enters the SSR.
They look at each other, confused and shocked. "Agent Carter go to your desk and make some files ready. I'll be out in a moment.
Peggy, who ever was in her body smirked his smile. Howard. No change it would be someone else. "Boss? Can I talk to Mr Stark for a moment?" Peggy at herself coming towards them. "Ten minutes." Chief Dooley said and entered his office.
Peggy and Howard walked towards a free interrogation room, got in, and locked the door. Peggy turned around. "Why are you in my body?" she said frustrated. "What the hell does that mean? What are you doing in mine?" Howard said, he was frustrated as well, but also thought it was a bit funny.
"I don't want this. Fix this. Make an invention or something!" She raised her voice. "I kinda like it. Seeing woman parts, hanging out with young..." Peggy punched him in the face. "I hit me, o no. I hit him." She thought to herself.
"Where was that for?!" he yelled in pain while he grabbed his jaw, or well, Peggy's jaw. He was in her body after all.
"You're disgusting." She said angrily. "I can't I help myself." He said. "Is everything alright in there?" Thompson asked from the hallway, on the other side of the door.
"Everything's fine!" They both said at the same time. "I don't want to wake up with this upright." She said as she pointed at his genitals that now where hers. "When it happens it goes away eventually anyway." Howard said.
"I am so good looking." Howard said as he pointed at his own body, Peggy was in. "O Good Lord, man! Can you stop for a moment and be serious!" Peggy said frustrated. She wanted to return in her own body as fast as possible.
"I try to be serious Peg." He said. "What are the both of you doing in there?" Thompson said, banging on the door. "Wait a moment Agent. We're trying to have a serious conversation." Peggy said loudly. But of course Thompson heard Mr Stark replaying to his question.
They talked about this problem they both where having, but they didn't come up with a solution right away.
Once they entered the hallway everyone was looking at them. Agent Thompson, Agent Sousa, Chief Dooley and two others. They just walked past them like nothing had happened inside the interrogation room.
They acted normal, or at least tried to act normal, because of course this was not a normal thing that would happen on a daily basis.
Howard looked at Peggy, well at himself obviously and had a questionable look on his face. She pointed with her head to the table at the back, positioned on the right. He got that was her desk and got to it.
He positioned on the chair and looked at everyone working on cases. "Do the files Marge." Thompson said as he put the files before him. "they don't treat her as the person that saved the world from disaster." He thought.
"Yes sir." He said and opened a file, pretending to be working on them.
Peggy was in the office of her boss now. She waited for Chief Dooley to start talking. "Mr. Stark we want to ask you if you can make the security system of the SSR more secure. May you able to do that?" he asked her.
She had to come up with an answer that Howard would come up with in a conversation like this. That's when she came up with something. "I can see what I can do. I can't promise anything, but if I make it I'm sure it will work." She said. She still had to get used that she had Howard's voice whenever she spoke.
They talked about the things that maybe could need a change. She made sure Jarvis would write everything down. "Howard you will figure this out. You can come up with something if you see this plan. I, so you made." She thought to herself, pretending to say it to Howard.
After the work day they waited for each other outside of the Telephone company. "How did it go?" she asked him. "It went well. I think. I am not really into the file kinda thing, but I think I did a good job. Also they really treat you like a secretary." He said to her.
"You have no idea." Peggy said sarcastically. They walked to the car together and they stepped inside. They drove to Howard's place. Jarvis driving the car to its destination.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Howard said. "Don't look at. You know at what you are not allowed to look." She said to him as he walked towards the bathroom to do his need.
"Get it Peg." She heard him yell from a distance, her voice sounded so weird now she hears it from someone's else ears.
There was a knock on the door and Jarvis opened it. "Hello with Jarvis, Mr. Stark's butler, with what can I help you?" he asked the person who was at the front door.
"Howard! Howard! You son of a bitch!" a woman came running inside, past Jarvis who couldn't catch her right away. "Who are you?" Peggy asked surprised. "How much woman does he hook up with for Christ sake?" she thought to herself quickly.
"You said you loved me, I followed you, you where with that other girl the other day! You are a disgusting man." And she tried to hit her, but she ducked away and Jarvis had her in her arms now.
"Show her the door." She said to Jarvis. And that was what he did. Once he had closed the door a sound of clapping hands was heard. "I didn't know she was that much in love with me to come here and knock on the front door. Very well Edwin." He said.
Peggy looked at him. "Miss Carter why do you sound like Mr. Stark?" Jarvis looked from the both of them confused, but also with an expression on his face that said – I want to know what's going on.
"We changed bodies. We have no idea Mr Jarvis." Peggy said. Jarvis looked at her, for him his boss. "Miss Carter, you are in Mr Stark's body. O no, this is not comfortable." "Yes it's me. It is not comfortable indeed." She said.
Howard walked in to the conversation. "I kinda liked it, sleeping in a house full of young women, a dream of every men." Peggy putted her hand in front of her eyes. "He possibly can't be serious."
"Well… what should we do now?" Jarvis said to the both of them. "Try to fix this. Let's get started." Howard said to him.
They worked the day to figure out how it happened and what could change the change back to normal.
Once it was late Peggy stayed there. She was Howard now after all and Howard returned back to The Griffith and they both tried to fall asleep. Hoping tomorrow they would be in their own bodies, their own lives again.
Howard woke up and opened his eyes. "Ooh my own bed." He said as he saw the familiar furniture and his blue prints he had brought home so he could look over at them later. He smiled.
He got up and, got dressed, got down towards the kitchen and his breakfast was already present on the table.
He took place on it, and took a toast with jelly and took the cup in his hand and took a sip.
"Mr. Jarvis. What is this stuff?" He wanted to know and examined the fluid in the cup. "That's your thee sir." Jarvis responded. Howard looked confused.
"Since when do I drink tea?" Jarvis came towards him and took the cup from his boss. "Since yesterday sir. You wanted tea. So we made tea today as well sir." Jarvis said.
"Ooh. I want coffee from now on again." Howard said to his butler. "Very well. Coffee will be up in a moment sir." Jarvis said as he walked out of the dining room. He returned with a fresh cup of coffee and drank it with pleasure.
"This is what I'm talking about." He said delighted. "Let's go to work folks!" Howard said when he had finished his coffee.
Peggy woke up the next morning, she opened her eyes and she saw her familiar furniture. She jumped up from the bed and took place before the mirror. She was herself again. "Thank you." She said quietly to herself.
She was so happy to be herself again. She touched her own face, her hair. It was all real, it was all now really her body again. She was so relieved.
Once Peggy was dressed she went downstairs to eat breakfast. When she came downstairs everyone was looking at her.
"What is it?" She looked at herself to see if she had all her buttoning done. That was the case. She looked over at Angie who had an embarrassed mixed with a concerned expression on her face.
"Angie what is it. Has there been news?" Peggy asked her friend. "English we are glad you got your clothes on this time instead of your nightgown." Angie said.
Another young woman who lived there as well talked next. "You are so lucky Miss Fry made not a big deal out of it." "I am glad for that too." Peggy said shocked, but relieved.
"Damn you Howard." She thought. She took place, ate breakfast and liked to be her whole self again.
I wrote this prompt, because I got a reguest to write it on my tumblr: shadowisabelle , so I did wrote it! I hope you guys liked it, so let me know with a review? Thank you if you do! :)