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No one is dying today.

[leftstanding]

Now that Daniel's gotten his office back, he's gotten used to being able to close the door and get things done with a bit of peace and quiet. Peace and quiet, though, doesn't stick around long when Peggy Carter is involved. Maybe, just maybe, he likes it that way. One can have too much peace and quiet after all.

He's not surprised when she bursts into his office, and less surprised when she stops the file on his desk. He opens his mouth to answer, only to close it in order to lean over and open the file to check that it was actually what he thought it was. He glances up at her, full of doubt that anger is really the right reaction here.

"I'm not playing at anything. We need someone like you here in the LA branch, and there's no guarantee that Jack's going to put you back on the ground if you go back to New York." He pauses for a moment, for gravitas. "If you don't want the transfer request to go through, Peg, you don't have to sign a thing."

[bloodygood]

If looks could kill, Peggy would likely have a warrant out for her arrest. She isn't comforted by Daniel's words, just keeps staring at him, eyes ablaze and hands firmly in their place.

"Oh and you didn't think to ask me first?" she protests. "Really, Daniel, I'd have thought better of you than for you to think you can move me around like some piece of meat!"

Well no, he isn't treating her like that at all, but she's irate, and sometimes a little hyperbole never hurt anyone.

[leftstanding]

If anything at all can be said for Daniel Sousa, its that he's very good at learning from his mistakes where his status as a white man in a white man's world is concerned. For a moment hurt flashes across his features. It sits in his lips, and his head tilts in a plea for some understanding, with a hint of apologetics.

Hyperbole hurts plenty, but they're resilient.

"Did you, in the march from your desk to my office, stop to think that maybe this was me asking? It's not like anything goes forward without your signature."