If Nicholas hadn’t run the background checks and given her the data himself, if she hadn’t recognized the nostalgia in Maria’s voice whenever she talked about her hometown that she hoped to see again someday, Peggy would’ve been suspicious.Īs it was, though, the more time went by, the more she was glad Maria Stark was an ally.
īut…if it were anyone other than the woman who had clearly and repeatedly shown just how much she cared for Howard, Peggy would have been perturbed by what she was seeing unfold. But even then she was still able to find the time, every so often, to stop by for tea, to get to know her. Sure, they didn't talk much as she would’ve liked: Peggy's growing workload at SHIELD was only one of her reasons for drifting apart from Howard, and Maria seemed to be busy enough with the charities she'd kick-started. Not when Maria was working on an operation that was on a scale on par with anyone from SHIELD, not when Peggy glimpsed her serenely debugging the living room with a smile after having ‘guests’ who’d been looking for Howard, and not missing a single one. Stark was obviously the power behind the throne, when it came to part of Stark Industries. Īs time went by, as Howard's changing from a man she could respect, to someone whose obsession with finding Steve was hurting his relationships with others, was eating him alive and painful to watch, Peggy also noticed that she hadn't needed to worry about Maria after all. īut Maria had seemed competent as well as friendly, and the steady look in her eyes when they'd talked had Peggy relaxing from her initial trepidation. Sure, she'd been able to take on a mugger, and Jarvis seemed to think she was the one, but Howard dealt with espionage and weapons and a life like that was not kind to the uninitiated.
When Howard had introduced Maria to her, Peggy had still been wary, if only for Maria's sake. Peggy had been the one to run the background checks to make sure she wasn’t a plant, and as time went on she grew curious as to just who it was that'd managed to catch Howard's eye when he'd had countless flings in the past. So, when Howard first started talking about Maria Carbonell, with a painfully familiar look in his eyes, she'd had her reservations about it all. Howard's involvement meant he might endanger his family if anyone were to look for leverage, after all, and considering the rumors that were going around with the Russians…well. Margaret ‘Peggy’ Carter was worried about a civilian being the wife of one of the founders of SHIELD, at first.
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