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shieldmonkey) wrote2015-07-21 02:08 pm
shieldmonkey) wrote2015-07-21 02:08 pm
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oh no i've said too much, i haven't said enough
It's strange that he hasn't seen Simmons in a while.
The Simmons he's been speaking with since after the real one left back at S.H.I.E.L.D., of course, not Jemma... who the Director told him arrived in Darrow several days ago. Fitz has been aware of her arrival since almost immediately after she turned up, and since then...
Well... Fitz went by to see she was alright early on, to be certain that nothing about the dimension they're all in now would alter whether or not she made it through decompression okay. Logic said she'd make it through, of course, but he'd never been on this side of it before. He'd still been in a coma when all that happened, when she'd decided to leave.
He's still not certain why she did.
And he still couldn't bring himself to stick around the hospital very long.
He hears about when she's released, but manages to keep himself scarce. There's work with the equipment he's engineering for Agent Barton, and a few other things he wants to begin work on, so it's not as if he has to put too much effort into avoiding her.
Besides, she avoided him first.
Fitz can't get his hand to work properly tonight-- there's some intricate wiring on an arrowhead that he isn't quite steady enough for just now-- so he decides to take a bit of a break, gathering up laundry that's accumulated in his flat over the past week and a half and heading down to the building's shared laundry room.
If nothing else, it'll be a chance to clear his head.
The Simmons he's been speaking with since after the real one left back at S.H.I.E.L.D., of course, not Jemma... who the Director told him arrived in Darrow several days ago. Fitz has been aware of her arrival since almost immediately after she turned up, and since then...
Well... Fitz went by to see she was alright early on, to be certain that nothing about the dimension they're all in now would alter whether or not she made it through decompression okay. Logic said she'd make it through, of course, but he'd never been on this side of it before. He'd still been in a coma when all that happened, when she'd decided to leave.
He's still not certain why she did.
And he still couldn't bring himself to stick around the hospital very long.
He hears about when she's released, but manages to keep himself scarce. There's work with the equipment he's engineering for Agent Barton, and a few other things he wants to begin work on, so it's not as if he has to put too much effort into avoiding her.
Besides, she avoided him first.
Fitz can't get his hand to work properly tonight-- there's some intricate wiring on an arrowhead that he isn't quite steady enough for just now-- so he decides to take a bit of a break, gathering up laundry that's accumulated in his flat over the past week and a half and heading down to the building's shared laundry room.
If nothing else, it'll be a chance to clear his head.
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"I really should be going." There's no hesitation, and she looks back at him over her shoulder. "I'm really happy that you're here, Fitz. Genuinely." She does mean that, even if she's making up the excuse to leave.
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Alternate dimensions complicate things much more than he'd like.
And as much as there's a part of him that wants to call her back, he resists the urge to do it, realizing that Simmons has definitely made up an excuse to go.
"I'll see you around, I suppose."