[ she deflects. not because she isn't grateful or flattered -- she is deeply both -- but because it's true. peggy's marksmanship has always been admirable, but she's had the pleasure of serving laterally with a shot like sergeant barnes. and perhaps in the way she says it there can be detected a whiff of...ambition. as if peggy carter isn't comfortable settling with the middle ground. she will fight tooth and nail for every scrap of advancement she can find. it isn't ambition for ambition's sake, but because she craves competency. she has high standards, and she aims to live up to each and ever one of them.
slowly, she lets the paintball marker's barrel drop. ] But I trained well and I trained early. Even so, I'm not a sniper. Not by trade.
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[ she deflects. not because she isn't grateful or flattered -- she is deeply both -- but because it's true. peggy's marksmanship has always been admirable, but she's had the pleasure of serving laterally with a shot like sergeant barnes. and perhaps in the way she says it there can be detected a whiff of...ambition. as if peggy carter isn't comfortable settling with the middle ground. she will fight tooth and nail for every scrap of advancement she can find. it isn't ambition for ambition's sake, but because she craves competency. she has high standards, and she aims to live up to each and ever one of them.
slowly, she lets the paintball marker's barrel drop. ] But I trained well and I trained early. Even so, I'm not a sniper. Not by trade.
[ she's something else entirely. ]