Personal Canon Meme....Again

[sunclouds33]

Looking to do my favorite meme again and ask for personal canon prompts. I will give you my headcanon for whatever characters or situation you assign. Choose a number and a character/pairing & I'll take it from there. If something kickstarts my muse, there may even be fic in it. Feel free to pick more than one. My fandoms are in my tags

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Willing to write

[sunclouds33]

OOOH, this is short but deeply felt. Pete and Peggy both tried getting in the habits of power-napping in their offices. First, the natural instinct is to fall asleep after drinking so much in the office. With a foggy, stressed out head, the first instinct is search the restorative trick to make the all important dinner/cocktail period for account man Pete and the creative nightgowl hours for creative Peggy as productive as possible. And subliminally, they tried to imitate Don's trick of napping, believing that perhaps its an elixir to his power. However for both of them, it failed. They were both too helped up to fall asleep most of the time. Or if they actually did fall asleep, they'd wake up cranky (which for both of them, IS VERY VERY CRANKY) with a crick in their neck and with the fogginess of drinking turned into an official hangover. Worst of all, they'd emerge stressed out about the lost time and thus, less productive. They both gave up the ghost of power-napping as a career elixir, but of course, they had moments where they'd lay down in their couches with the importance of employees who are important enough to HAVE A DOOR AND COUCH. However, when that self-soothing display of power worse off in a few minutes, they'd jump up ready to go back to work.

For another, Betty was quite annoyed when Don fell soundly asleep on the floor of her girlhood bedroom at her father's house with only a throw blanket and pillow in five minutes. Meanwhile she was tossing and turning and unable to sleep in the actual bed for hours. That's when you know that your punishments for adultery aren't effective. However, that annoyance faded into horniness so she woke up him for sex (and Gene's conception.)

RE: Willing to write

[lycomingst]

I totally believe in the crankiness of Peggy and Pete. And that Don's ability to nap is just one more reason for Pete to resent him. 8 ]