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Re: @AngieMartismelly: #Cartinelli is real
@APeggyCarter: It sure is
@HowardStark: Gross
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Re: @APeggyCarter: Who wants a girlfriend tag vid
@AngieMartismelly: I doooo
@Dottiness: Omg omg omg omg yesss
@Adelaide234: I think im dead
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Re: @APeggyCarter: Flying back home :(
@AngieMartismelly: This sucks
@Cartinellishipper69: noooooo
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Re: @HowardStark: The scans show a boy!
@MariaCarbonell: Were calling him Anthony
@HowardStark: What? Okay, I think it’s a nice name
@MariaCarbonell: Good
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@APeggyCarter: I may as well sell half my organs with the amount of money I’m spending on plane tickets.
@AngieMartismelly: It’s worth it though right <3
@APeggyCarter: Definitely
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Re: @MariaCarbonell: @HowardStark thinks the most romantic time to propose is when I’m still covered in placenta #relationshipgoals
@HowardStark: I was going to do it later but I got caught in the moment
@APeggyCarter: Whoa, congratulations you two. Don’t you think it’s a little soon?
@HowardStark: It’s what’s best for little Tony. Also I love @MariaCarbonell with everything
@MariaCarbonell: I love you too, even though you don’t know how to be romantic. I love little Tony more though.
@AngieMartismelly: Petition to be the vodka aunts @APeggyCarter
@APeggyCarter: Yessss
@HowardStark: We’re having an engagement party with my parents in America, I’m inviting Anna and Jarvis, Peggy and Daniel. @AngieMartismelly, you in?
@APeggyCarter: I already know Howard, that’s why you left remember
@HowardStark: Oh duh silly me I’m such an idiot no, I WAS JUST INVITING YOU
@APeggyCarter: Whatever we’ll be there
@AngieMartismelly: Like Peggy would let you not invite me.
@HowardStark: True.
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“Stop it.” Peggy chuckles, trying to bat Angie away as she plants kisses over every inch of her face.
“What.” Angie pulls back, eyes wide and innocent. “I’m not allowed to welcome my girlfriend at the airport.”
“No.” Smiles Peggy. “You’re not allowed to leave lipstick marks all over your girlfriend’s face that I have to then spend hours wiping off.”
“Oh I doubt it will take hours.” Angie exaggerates the last word. Moving forwards and resting her forehead against Peggy, she whispers. “I’ll tell you what I could do for hours.”
“Ahem.” Daniel walks up behind them and clears his throat loudly. “Whatever it is can you not do it at the airport?”
“Daniel!” Running at him, Angie throws her arms around him in greeting. “It’s so nice to see you, and I was only talking about cooking.”
Raising an eyebrow, Daniel smiles. “Sure you were.”
“I was.” Angie insists. “Wasn’t I, Peggy?”
“Sure.” Peggy agrees, moving to wrap her arm around Angie. Turning back to Daniel, Peggy adds. “Whatever Angie says is right.”
“Not fair.” Daniel scrunches his nose when Angie sticks her tongue out at him. “You’re biased.”
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“So are we getting a taxi to Howard’s?” Daniel asks, even though he’s pretty sure Angie’s going to drive them, he’s just making conversation.
“Sort of.” Angie smirks, letting go of Peggy’s hand and drifting excitedly towards the car park.
“I know that look.” Peggy smiles. “What does ‘sort of’ mean?”
“It means I know someone who wanted to see you again, and she’s driving.” Just as the words come out of Angie’s mouth, Sarah spots them from across the parking lot and squeals in a way only Sarah can squeal.
“Peggy!” Sarah grins, running towards the group and embracing Peggy. “How’s England? How are you? When are you officially moving over?” Sarah’s eyes drift from Peggy. “Okay I have a lot of questions, but first of all, who is this handsome young man?”
Daniel smiles awkwardly, taking his hand out of his crutch and leaning on it so he can shake Sarah’s hand. “Daniel.”
Sarah does an exaggerated sigh. “And he’s British as well, God where do these people come from?”
“Uh, Britain?” Peggy supplies, confusion showing in her face.
“Hush hush.” Sarah shushes Peggy with a finger to her mouth. “Let’s go.” And with that she takes Daniel by the arm and leads him to the car.
“Sarah hasn’t changed a bit I see.” Peggy chuckles, as she links her fingers with Angies.
Wistfully, Angie smiles, placing a kiss on Peggy’s lips before pulling her to the car. “Not a bit.”
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“Peggy, Angie, Daniel, woman I’ve never met before!” Anna greets them at the door of Howard’s house, doing an over exaggerated bow. “Come on in.”
“Oh I’m just the chauffeur.” Sarah waves, as the rest of the group enter the house. “Bye. Oh wait!” She seems to remember something. Pulling a piece of paper out of her pocket, she saunters over to Daniel and places it into his hand. “I’ll be seeing you later.” She whispers, before strutting out of the house in a whiff of cheeriness and perfume.
Helplessly, Daniel turns to Angie, who strides forwards and looks at the paper. “Oh, her phone number.” Sympathetically, she pats Daniel on the shoulder. “You’ll never escape her. Sorry.”
Just as Daniel is standing dumbstruck in the corridor, a booming voice echoes through the walls. “Greetings friends. Come into the dining room.”
“Howard shut up you giant nerd.”
“No you shut up.”
“You shut up or you’ll wake the baby.”
“Oh sorry.” This is followed by the ever loudening sound of footsteps before Howard appears around the corner and whispers. “This way everyone.”
Following Howard into the dining room, the group is met with the smiling face of Jarvis, who Anna goes straight over to, Maria, holding baby Tony, who’s making little whimpering noises, and both of Howard’s parents.
“Peggy we’ve met.” Howard’s father booms. “But who is this beautiful young lady and this strapping young gentleman.”
Angie smiles. “Angie sir, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“Nice to finally meet you too Angie. Please call me Howie. And this gentleman is.”
“Daniel. Nice to meet you.”
Howie shakes his hand. “Nice to meet you, I’m Howie and this is my lovely wife Jane.”
“Nice to meet you.” Jane smiles.
“Nice to meet you.” Angie and Daniel chorus.
“Please.” Maria cuts in. “Take a seat.”
“Not before I say hello to my godson.” Peggy declines, walking over. “How is little Tony these days.”
“Oh he was sleeping soundly before Howard decided to shout across the household.” Maria glares at her fiancé.
Howard smiles sheepishly. “It’s fine, Angie’s amazing at getting Tony to sleep.”
“You’re damn right I am.” Angie marches over. “Aww look at little baby Tony. Peggy can we just adopt him please.” She jokes
Sarcastically, Maria laughs. “Ha ha ha, no mine.”
Pouting, Angie holds out her hands. “Can I at least hold him?”
“Yeah sure.” Maria hands over the baby. “Just be careful, he’s just woken so he’s a bit tempestuous.”
“Ooh nice word usage.” Peggy compliments.
“Thanks, I forced Howard to watch Ten things I Hate About You with me last night.”
“I wish I was there to see that.” Comments Peggy, not really paying attention because she is so distracted by the baby falling asleep in Angie’s arms.
Sighing, Angie leans down to kiss the top of Tony’s head as he falls asleep. “Aww Peg he smells so much like a baby.”
“That’s because he is a baby Ange.”
“No but you know the tops of babies heads always smell so much like baby.” Angie insists.
“Yeah yeah I know.” Peggy smiles, watching Tony drift off to sleep. “I think it’s time to put him to bed now.”
“Yeah, dinner will be better if he’s not screaming.” Maria cuts in, taking the baby from Angie and placing him in his cot. “Trust me his crying keeps me up all night, if I have to hear it during dinner as well I don’t know what I’ll do.”
“Come on Angie.” Peggy takes her girlfriend’s hand and leads her to the table.
“Oh Peggy!” Angie jumps suddenly. “I just remembered,” she pulls a small keyring out of her pocket and holds it up to her face. “I got this at the airport, it reminded me of you.”
Chuckling, Peggy reads the words on it. “Keep calm and kick ass. Angie you know how cheesy that is right? You got me a keep calm thing. A keep calm thing.”
Angie hops up and down excitedly. “But do you like it?”
Leaning forwards, Peggy wraps her arms around Angies wait and pulls her in for a kiss. “I love it.”
“Awesome.”
“Food!” Howard shouts and the two woman turn around and sit down in their seats.
“What are we having?” Daniel asks, politely.
“Well there’s a leek and potato soup for starters, followed by roast beef, with a nice lemon soufflé for pudding.” Jarvis answers.
Looking confused from her spot next to Howard, Maria questions. “How on earth do you know that?”
Jarvis smiles politely at Maria. “I listen.”
“Leek and potato soup? Is that nice?” Angie whispers, leaning in close so that only Peggy can hear her.
Tight lipped, Peggy replies. “I tolerate it.”
“So no then.” Angie looks smug.
“I never said that.”
“Uh huh English.” Angie nods, teasing Peggy. “Whatever you say.”
“I am going to eat it!” Peggy shouts, louder than she planned.
“Jeez Peg,” Angie looks up, wide eyed, as all of the attention is diverted to them. “Don’t talk about our sex life at the table.”
Blushing now, Peggy stammers. “Uh Mr and Mrs Stark, I can assure you that was not what I-”
Howard’s father lifts his hand, silencing Peggy. “It’s perfectly fine Peggy, Jane and I were young once too.”
Shutting up, Peggy is still slightly flustered, as she sends a side glance to Angie only to see her pulling a face that basically conveys ‘I can’t laugh but I can’t hold it in.’ Her mouth is curved slightly at the edges, cheeks compressed and red and she shakes ever so slightly, curls moving with each vibration of silent laughter that passes through her body. Peggy wants to reprimand her for being crass, but when she gazes at her girlfriend she is just reminded why she fell in love in the first place so instead she laces their hands under the table, thinking that what Angie said was actually quite funny, despite its crudeness.
“Right.” Howard clears his throat. “So before we start eating, I’d like to make an announcement.”
“Oh my God!” Anna gasps sarcastically. “Are you getting engaged?!”
Shooting Anna an incredibly unimpressed look, Howard continues. “Yes, as you all already know, I am engaged to this beautiful woman.” He gestures to Maria, who blushes. “Anyway, I wanted to make a speech about how much I love Maria and-”
A loud clanging interrupts his speech as Angie goes to take a spoonful of her soup, but drops the spoon as the starter burns her tongue, causing soup to splash across the table. “Oops.” She at least has the audacity to look sheepish.
“Angie, I said before we eat!” Howard face palms.
“I was hungry.” Defends Angie. “Sorry.”
“Next time please try not to dirty my house.”
That was probably the wrong choice of words for Howard to use because the next thing that comes out of Angies mouth is, “Well I guess you don’t want to hear what me and Peggy were planning on doing tonight.”
“Angie!” Peggy exclaims. “Not in front of the baby.” She gestures over to Tony’s cot.
“Pshh.” Angie waves away the concern. “He’s asleep, and anyway, it’s not like he knows what we’re saying.”
“Actually I was reading a lot of baby books and babies pick up a lot of things.” Howard speaks up, before clearing his throat and continuing. “Anyway, as I was saying.” He turns to Maria. “Maria Collins Carbonell, our relationship started off in the most unconventional way.”
This statement earns chuckles from around the room, and bemused smiles from Howard’s parents, who, Peggy can imagine, must have been hard to talk to about the whole unplanned pregnancy thing.
Howard carries on. “Yes it was unconventional, but I’m glad it happened. We all know I’m bad at speeches so all I’m going to say is this: I am so so glad you stormed into that pub and knocked some sense into me. You ground me, you’re the person who stops me doing stupid things and drinking too much and I love you so much. The only person who I love more than you is Tony, and that’s because he is a fusion of the two most awesome people I know.” This earns more laughter from around the table.
“Maria.” Howard speaks softly. “I am so happy that I am getting the chance to marry you, and I promise I will do everything to be a loving husband and father. And I just wanted to say, that around this table, with the woman of my dreams, my beautiful son, my amazing parents and all four of Tony’s godparents, I have never been happier. Jarvis, I want you to be my best man.”
“It would be an honour Howard.” Jarvis nods.
“Anna, thank you for always being amazing. Peggy and Angie, I’m so glad you two are together now because oh my god it was hard to watch you running in circles. I just want to say that I am proud to call all of you my family.”
Maria stands up, placing a gentle kiss on Howard’s cheek. “Let’s drink to that.”
“Amen.” Anna agrees, raising her glass, Jarvis and Howard’s parents following her lead.
Peggy stands and so does Angie. “To happy endings.” Peggy smiles.
Repeating the words, everyone else sips their drinks.
Quickly, Angie steals a kiss off of Peggy’s lips and it tastes like promises and summer and she smiles before pulling back and whispering. “To happy endings.”
Peggy nods and kisses Angie again, savouring the way their bodies melt together like champagne bubbles.
“Oh shit.” Angie pulls back.
“What?” Murmurs Peggy, hazy from the amount of love in the room. (Or perhaps the champagne.)
Angie chuckles, running a hand through her hair. “I forgot to feed peanut.”
“And to think Howard trusts you with his child.” Peggy teases.
“Hmm.” Angie smiles. “I guess he just sees me as responsible.”
Peggy snorts and sits down. “You’re so funny.”
Laughing, Angie sits next to her, placing a kiss on her cheek. “Oh just shut up and eat your soup.”