#fitz is such a protective mom friend

[queefsencen]

i get so pissed off when people hate on keefe for “running away all the time” because first of all it was two times. second of all, they say he’s not learning his lesson when the situations are so so different?? when he joined the neverseen he had just found out his mom was the leader and then that she might be dead and THEN that his role model is also part of the neverseen. he was 14, traumatized, and desperate for answers/a way to help. he joined as a DOUBLE AGENT to HELP his friends. it was insanely stupid and hes an idiot, but it doesnt make him an awful person. the second time he ran away was because he had creepy and super dangerous powers and no control over them. he left to protect people because he knew he was dangerous and his mom wasn’t going to stop as long as he was there. it was also stupid, but i dont think people should hate him for it. i just saw somebody say the only way sokeefe could end is sophie being a single mother because keefe would run away…. HUH??? theyre like 15/16 right now, nobody is having a baby any time soon? they might not even have one at all? why are you sitting there like “oh theyre dating now? yeah hes gonna run away when she gets pregnant”…. thats weird. also he has no reason to run away??? he’s never run away simply because he was scared. he ran away to help and protect people. he’s an idiot, not an asshole. it also feels like a lot of the keefe hate is just retaliation to the fitz hate (im not saying all of it is, and there are valid reasons ive seen for people to be mad at keefe and i respect peoples opinions no matter what) and its like…. dont act like fitz is perfect? i love fitz and i even see myself in him a lot, but he’s made as many mistakes as keefe. he blamed sophie for his dad’s mind break, didnt support her in the right way when she was unmatchable, and yelled at her when she couldnt tell him who her mother was. he’s also been there for her for 9 books and been one of her best friends and biggest supporters and SO HAS KEEFE. people act like you have to choose one or the other when EVERY character is flawed and EVERY character has good qualities. i dont know where im going with this and its a lot longer than i planned but its just something i wanted to say

[thesfromhms]

Fitz Vacker is overhated

I'm new on tumblr, but I can smell the possible haters a mile away. But uhhhh, other than that, I shall voice mt opinions! GET READY HATERS. HAHAHHAHAHA

No stellarlune spoilers. I haven't read that book yet. But spoilers for the other books I guess?

First point: Exile.

I wanted to tackle one of the earliest point people had. What happened in book 2. Watch everyone say "He had no right to be mad at Sophie!" While yes, Sophie ended up being the saving grace in the end, they still went through huge amounts of grief. Everyone handles grief differently. Fitz handled it with anger directed to the person his dad was with while he was in Exile. He thought she was to blame. Mind you, the Vackers held a PLANTING for Alden. They thought he would die. Imagine how devastating that would be for anyone? Needing to hold a funeral for YOUR OWN FATHER because he's in such a state where they don't think he'll survive. Fitz was experiencing the first stage of grief. He was grieving.

Point 2: The Anger Issues

While yes, Fitz may have a short temper, it isn't a good reason to hate on him. While yes, he handled some situations poorly, he's still 1) A child and 2) An elf. And lets be honest, he's only gotten mad a few times throughout the entire series.

Point 3: Sokeefe

Some of you people just hate on him for the sake of Keephie ☹️ DAWG IT'S A SHIP. AND IT'S ALREADY CANON APPARENTLY. GO AND REJOICE. LEAVE THE FITZ LOVERS TO CONSOLE FITZ ☹️😭

Point 4: The matchmaking thing

honestly? I do not know what to say here. I guess I just think the matchmaking in general is not for me. I guess people are mad at Fitz for wanting Sophie to reveal her bio mom so they can match? Idk bro. Why do yall hate him for this. I'm going out on a limb here, this is the result of Shannon wanting us to root for Keefe (FITZ DEFENDER 4 LIFE. YOU CAN NEVER CONVERT ME). I MEAN CMON. HE WAS OK WITH RUNNING AWAY AND JOINING EXILLUM AND ALMOST DYING TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS. IN ONE BOOK. AND NOW HE'S SUDDENLY CHANGED?? (i saw this reason on Tumblr. Thank you to whoever made it. You made my post better)

Point 5: I honestly dk

Why do yall hate Fitz

Of course, in the end, these are just my opinions as someone who's been supporting Fitz this entire time. We're all entitled to what we want to believe, this is just mine :3

Any way. Rant over

[epic-kotlc-crossover]

Monster

Hey, look, the correct title. Also the final song of the Underworld Saga.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Next week should be Thunder Saga, but since we actually started with that, we will either not post, or a couple songs will have some edits, so it'll be like Thunder 2.0 (we'll just make a new post with said edits and tag u guys)

Enjoy this very long monologue of poor Fitz and his tragic fate :)

How has everything been turned against us? How did our suffering become so endless? How am I going to get back home to my wife? 

Do I need to change?

I’m surrounded by the souls of my friends. All I can hear are their screams… 

I’m the only one whose line I haven’t crossed. 

What if the greatest threat we’ll find across the sea… is me?

What if I’m the real monster we’ve been fighting all along? What if I’ve been in the wrong this whole time?

What if I destroyed our chances of reuniting every time I caved to my own guilt? What if I’ve been too kind to our enemies and a monster to my crew?

Is Polyphemus struck with guilt when he kills? Does he lie awake at night? Or does he kill my men to avenge his friends and sleep knowing he did it for a good reason?

Does my sister turn men into pigs to protect her nymphs? Is she going insane from the guilt? Or did she learn to be merciless when she got older?

When Poseidon came and made my fleet drown, was he scared that he was doing something wrong? Or does he do that to keep us respectful of his power so no one dares defy him?

Does a soldier use a wooden horse to murder sleeping Trojans because he is evil? Or does he throw away his remorse and save more lives with his wit– the same wit that has killed his best friend and chased away Athena? 

If I became the monster and threw my guilt away, would that make us stronger?

If I became the monster to everyone but us would we get home? Is that what I've been doing wrong? If we made it back would anyone care how we got there?

Dex said kindness will get us far.

But Poseidon said that ruthlessness is mercy, and who am I to ignore wisdom from a god?

If it's protecting my crew is it really monstrous?

But so much has changed. I'm not sure that I'm still the same person I was in Ithaca.

I lost my best friends.

I lost my mentor.

I lost my mom.

500 men. Gone. This cannot go on.

I need to see Sophie and Marella again.

And if to do that I need to lead my crew through dangerous oceans and beaches and anywhere where Poseidon can't reach; or if I need to drop another infant from a wall so we all don't die?

Then I'll become a monster. So what if I do?

Everyone I faced has become one, one way or another and they're surviving.

I need to become a monster.

Dex, I'm sorry.

[dimespin]

Apologies if this has been asked before, as I've just discovered your work (and love all of it!!) but I was wondering how finding a mate and child-rearing worked for singleton hydras? Do they/conjoined hydras generally find their single-ness offputting, or is that an individual thing? Do they just end up with other singletons as mates then? Is it confusing for conjoined babies of a singleton mother to have to figure out why mom isn't like them? What about conj. mom but sing. dad?

The things hydras primarily find attractive are largely unrelated to conjoinment so the main thing is just other hydras not being overly weirded out. Most of them don't find it super offputting anyway, it's just like ... oh something's missing here.

Child rearing is where it gets tricky. For the first year the egg laying parent(s) avoid even their friends to care for their hatchlings alone and feel hyper-protective and aggressive during this time. They rarely eat or drink and sleep very little during this time, and when they do sleep, they do it in shifts so someone is always awake. A singleton would have no one to take a shift while they sleep, which would be a problem.

How this problem is dealt with is going to be up to the individual. I imagine grown up Kitty would overcome all instinct and just come back to Fitz and Fen with the hatchlings because this isn't working you're the ones that fix it when things aren't working (but of course she wouldn't be able to phrase it that way)

Father wouldn't matter since he'd be long gone at that point, male hydras take care of their friend group's babies, not their own. How good they are at babysitting would be individual but if they are bad at it they'd just put him to work doing something else, regardless of being a singleton or not.

Hatchling hydras tend to be almost comically incurious, only really reacting to what their mother(s) react to, otherwise they take things for granted as normal. So if mom's a singleton I guess that's normal, and if the other moms aren't I guess that's also normal. This is also why Fitz and Fen's hatchlings aren't scared of humans - mom and mama weren't scared so I guess this is normal!

[auricfog]

A 🙏🏽💕

excellent letter..... 😈

akilah 'aki' umelo - dbd - ok she's still simmering like i Literally just put her in the pot but she'll be a 5-star meal when i'm done w her. the gist of it is she's a horticulturist specializing in hydroponics and was working alongside her husband, fitz (@risingsh0t :3), when they discovered something............ very strange in the communications lab of their 22nd century research outpost 😳 this does NOT lead them to their realm-shaped doom trust me. TRUST ME!!!!!

arnold 'arnie' johnston - l.a. noire - the redheaded prick that started my love affair with redeeming the worst men in my oc roster (and take that as a WARNING bc somehow bruce has become my hyperfixation oc) the story has been told so many times before but i'll tell it again... arnie was just a simple man who married his childhood sweetheart, lola (at the time Just Lucy), after the both of them were pressured into it by their oh-so-loving parents. fast forward five years of resentment and constant arguing and then..... oops divorce. it's fine? they kind of end up reconciling as friends after recognizing it was their parents (specifically his dad and her mom. carla grant i s2g ur the worst) that were the problem. and story-wise, he ends up being jack's Inside Guy at elysian fields even tho the two of them would VERY MUCH RATHER strangle each other. enemy of my enemy is my friend or whatever!

asher 'ash' smith - dbd / tcm - my loser man my baby boy my short jester. dbd-wise, he was one of jen's foster siblings for about a year and a half until she was placed in a different home... the surname smith was just a random one i used EARLY like i mean insanely early in her development when i was figuring out her backstory so i just went back to it like ok! this is canon now! without going into too much insane detail, he ends up a thirty-something loser working as a welder at a machine shop with no real goals beyond that... until the entity snatches him up and making a better life for himself starts to look nice. he ends up finding some genuine companionship in gloria (@risingsh0t again :3) so that definitely contributes to it! also he tends to get mistaken for myers in a trial because he was taken in his work coveralls and from a good enough distance u can pretend he's tall enough to be the big guy tcm-wise............ well! i will try to be brief bc ngl i've got a whole ass timeline in my brain for him that is highkey insane. basically he is just a VERY protective older brother and ended up on a search for his step-sister, jenny grace, after getting a gut feeling something bad had happened to her. and ... he was right! he ends up going through hell to save her and also gets entangled with the one and only seb (who ofc belongs to you 🤭) in the process. that's his mfing wife!!!!

[gldenhrs]

                               (—) ★ spotted !!  MIA CASSIDY  on the cover of this week’s most recent tabloid ! many say that the 25 year old looks like  SYDNEY SWEENEY , but i don’t really see it. while the  ACTRESS  is known for being  INDEPENDENT  my inside sources say that they have a tendency to be  PICKY  i swear, every time i think of them, i hear the song  SHE’S ALL I WANNA BE BY TATE MCRAE .

*   ◞  ╰   general   .

full name :  mia christina cassidy .  nicknames :  america’s sweetheart . birthdate / zodiac sign : somewhere in september during taurus season . birthplace :   spokane , washington . sexual orientation :  heterosexual . family :  catherine cassidy ( 53 )  &  simon cassidy  ( 60 ) siblings :  samuel cassidy ( 28 ) , beatrice cassidy ( 32 )   pets :  adopted dog named fitz  occupation :  actress .  (  HERE  u can find her career path  )  career claim :  the olsen twins / kate hudson  life goal :  to win an oscar for best actress in a movie . love language : physical touch / words .  + traits  :  independent , trustworthy , hardworking , generous  &   reliable. - traits  :   picky , stubborn , opinionated , selfish , possessive  &  gluttonous  .

*   ◞  ╰   quick history   .

mia comes from a middle class family in washington .  a mother who always thought she deserved a better life  &  hated the fact she couldn’t have it   &  a father who is a sweetheart , but a dummie  &  a coward since he’s unable to stand up to his wife or make a difference .

from the minute … well , maybe a  SECOND  minute mia was born , her mother already had a plan for her life . baby commercials , tv shows , beauty pageants , singing/dancing/acting lessons , modeling …. school was very much neglected because her mother saw the “ potential “  aka she saw beauty not brains .

at just 6 months old , she became a regular face on a sitcom called  FULL HOUSE  that aired until she was 6 years old , so the whole america  ( and the world )  basically saw her grow up which explains why she had gotten the nickname of   AMERICA’S SWEETHEART  .  everybody just  LOVED  her .  

later on , obvi her entire family got rich due to mia’s success  &  her mother made sure their / her fame didn’t phase out , so she established a company in her name that would produce her subsequent movies and videos  ( career claim: the olsen twins movies hehe )  which mia didn’t mind bc she loved acting  &  the fans just  ATE UP  . 

once she turned 18 , bigger movie deals started coming along  &  soon enough she landed her big break by starring in a movie called  ALMOST FAMOUS  where she even got an oscar nomination for best supporting actress !!  it was a  HUGE  deal !! 

by the time she was 22 , with 20+ movies under her belt , many awards won , magazine covers , music video appearances  …. her career has been so long she might as well retire at 30 lmao . 

fast forward to this day , she’s in the process of filming  FOOL’S GOLD  which is rumored to be yet another comedy hit  (  present career claim: kate hudson )  &  has fired her mom as a manager bc the shit got too toxic . 

*   ◞  ╰   personality & dating life   .

tbh this girl really is a giant sweetheart !!  just v lovely  &  kind  &  empathetic , has a warmth to her that makes it feel like it’s summertime all the time :)) 

but ... here’s the thing ... u break her or u do her dirty she can cut u out of her life in a blink of an eye . she doesn’t give a lot of chances bc she’s been burned a lot .  TOO MUCH even . gotta protect her heart yanno ?? 

in other  news ....  his girl legit   LOVES  everything she does , loves herself  (  a SHOCKER for someone in the industry ) , loves her career , her friends , everything . sure her mother’s a crazy bitch  &   her father’s a coward  &  her siblings are shitheads that she no longer talks to but like who careeeees lol .

due to her upbringing  &  the fact she was worth 10million before her 8th birthday , YES  she loves nice things ( read :  materialistic )  &  is lowkey selfish …. in some aspects but overall she’s generous af . will give u her life in need be if u treat her right  .

also the reason why she no longer talks with her family  &  has v little friends  –    A LOT  of people used her just for her money , especially them  &  the fact she generously gave it away without asking for nothing in return  (  she never received even a kind word in return * cue sad violin *   )  ... uh oh .  her family basically got rich through her   &   once she cut off their supply of money ,  they cut her out of the family . sure they still bad mouth her to the press for money but tbh it doesn’t rly work bc the world just loves mia so much they can’t take anything bad as the truth . 

also due to her upbringing  &   a career at such a young age , many people still see her as this “ innocent young “ girl that she portrayed .  either that , or they see her as a sex symbol  (  BIG BOOGS ENERGY  )  either way , it’s all about the looks which okay she doesn’t mind but also kinda does ???   BC SHE AIN’T DUMB LIKE HER DADDY . 

so generally speaking , to those who know the real her :  they know how funny she is , how upset she still is over the fact her family is doing what they’re doing  , how adventurous she is ( aka will call u up at 3 am to go hiking or some shit bc she can’t sleep ) , how generous she is  (  she often travels to africa with unicef  )   or how much she’s actually  SMART  bc the girl reads classical novels  &   goes to museums …..

romantically speaking ….   this will also come as a shock to u but girl  KNOWS HER WORTH . yes u heard it right . she won’t go for the playboys , for the bad boys ,  ESPECIALLY  not for the actors … the last boyfriend she had was a business man okay . which means , she doesn’t fall for stupid boys at the hillz hehe :)))  

*   ◞  ╰   wanted connections  .

FAMILY:   her three best amigos , someone she considers her family even tho they’re not blood-related .  like a small squad like in the gg series ??  YES PLS. 

CRY ME A RIVER:  someone she met growing up as a child star , the justin timberlake to her britney spears . america’s favorite teen couple until they weren’t ( we can discuss the reason why they broke up ) 

RUIN MY LIFE:  mia doesn’t date actors like i said but this is the co-star on her new movie fools gold aka the matthew to her kate !!  their chem is insane on the screen but they hate each other’s guts once the cameras stop rolling but it’s p much clear to everyone but them that there’s insane sexual tension brewing between them . will they cross that line ?  or remain enemies ?  hehehe just ur typical enemies to lovers trope :)) 

TV BOYFRIENDS:  ok so these are the boys she hired for her many ,  many movies growing up . remember all the cute boys the olsen twins had in their movies ??  THAT’S THEM  . some she dated , some she hadn’t , some had crushes , some turned enemies , either way gimme gimme !! 

WANT TO WANT ME:  they have been friends for a while but somewhere along the line things crossed the line and they began hooking up . it’s obvious that they feel something intense for each other but something is always in the way --- plus , neither are really sure if the friendship could withstand a romantic relationship crashing and burning . so here they are , stuck in limbo . they hook up , hang out , awkwardly third wheel when other is dating someone ..... 

CRASH AND BURN:  remember how mia doesn’t date actors ??  this plot is why .  they’re exes that ended on bad terms with lingering feelings . this was just a crazy hot and cold relationship that the whole world was obsessed over tbh . when it was hot , it was fucking hot . when it was cold ?  damn . hell itself could freeze over .  they probably have done  &  said a lot of nasty , nasty shit to each other  (  and maybe to the press too ?  ) . at the same time , they could’ve been literally planning their wedding at some point because they both were incredibly serious about each other . 

THE ROMANTIC BAD INFLUENCE:  this plot is another messy piece of trash . from the beginning , when they first met , mia always thought your muse was too good to be true . she felt this sense of peace with him . she fell in love quickly but at the same time , felt like there was something looming over their relationship . like it wasn’t permanent . like it’s all just a dream .  i see your muse bringing out edgier sides of mia’s personality . they party a lot , they influence mia to do crazy things with them and she does and she feels so alive . that is , until , it all crumbles . the facade is destroyed and whatever it was that your muse wasn’t being upfront about shatters the way she feels for your muse entirely . she feels betrayed . 

BFFS NO MORE:  this is my last long plot idea i promise sdjncdfv . basically this is a ton shit of angst too bc these two used to be inseparable . that was until things went south . fast . we can discuss what it was that happened between them but it was something huge and preferably something where they both could stubbornly blame each other , which explains why your muse went on to bad mouth and spill all the secrets out in the press , all while mia bit her tongue and tried to take the high road ( but its hard , oh so hard ... ) 

CHILDHOOD FRIEND:  it would be cute if there was another child star so they could bond over their weird ass lives so they could just be normal together . and i’d love if they were still close to this day :’-) 

GOOD INFLUENCE:  someone that encourages all her good habits and makes sure that she stays on track to succeed in life . they’d be greatly appreciated and mia would probably shower them in love bc they help her out so much

UNLIKELY FRIEND: from just their personalities alone , you’d think that these two would get on like water and oil . seemingly there’s nothing that they have in common . but oddly enough , their differences are what make their friendship that much stronger ! they balance each other out in a nice way

CRUSH:  unrequited on mia’s side or mutual but neither of them know it bc they’re both giant idiots and don’t think the other would ever think of them in that way .

TAKING ADVANTAGE:   someone using her for her kindness / money / fame .  either mia doesn’t know and just keeps letting it happen or she totally knows but doesn’t say anything to them . maybe bc she wants to believe that they can be genuine friends

RIVALS:  would love to have someone that doesn’t like her hehehe so basically they’re just constantly trying to one up each other in the acting department . or maybe they’re both rivals in their personal brands , just “anything you can do i can do better” vibes

[cogaytes]

also it seems u have not gotten any asks abt it so i shall ask u myself any headcanons on the song twins? on fitz vacker perhaps?

 lsong twins my beloved:

linh is older

she manifested first but tam hid it for her from their parents as long as he could

they had a way of getting to each other’s rooms from the roof when they were little

dancer!tam <3

he likes ballet and lyrical styles

he’s also scarily flexible

like can put his foot behind his head and has all his splits

very graceful catlike motions

linh steals tam’s clothes and hoodies a lot

she sews and makes jewelry 

designs clothes that are very cool!

and also this pretty delicate little jewelry

except some of it has like. ways to weaponize it

like pretty hairpins that can be stabby

these are her usual midterms gifts to friends

she and marella bond over fashion first

and then. ahahah marellinh

fitz:

has scolosis n wears a brace

hates the color of his eyes, especially as he learns more about the vacker legacy

loves but will never admit to reading romance novels 

very interested in linguistics!

he’s trying to learn dwarven on his own and struggling

he’s low key a little jealous of sophie manifesting as a polyglot, because she just gets to Know languages he’s worked at for centuries

when he was little his dream job was to be a mentor

struggles a lot with the pressure of being as strong of a telepath as his father

deeply insecure (he and keefe are similar in that but express it very differently)

wasn’t naturally super athletic as a kid so he made alvar and alden practice bramble with him for hours until he could beat his whole class

likes to sing

doesn’t know how to express it but absolutely loves biana and is so so proud of her

she’s the person he’s most protective over than. more than sophie, more than his dad, more than keefe, etc

plant mom <3

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

Ace 

Quinn: the greatest.  We know their vibe and we love their vibe and Ace is very into cucking Harry in the process (another ship that Ace would happily let Queenie, and Helena this time, borrow)

Ismene: listen listen Ace would help so much with her guilt, he absolutely loves cnc and guilt and would fuck the religious guilt right out of her.  He would also love to let Queenie use her sometimes because she and Helena both like to be very dominant in bed but neither likes to be submissive

Aleks: They meant to hate each other but it didn’t work

Cedrick: yes yes definitely friends with benefits vibes

Elise 

Aleks – Yes absolutely yes!

Cedrick – it’s true and you should say it

Cian

Ismene: yes absolutely!  It’s none of his business, he won’t say anything, she won’t say anything when he’s definitely poisoning people, they won’t acknowledge their friendship but they’re comfortable together

Quinn: Cian cares so much about very specific things but also the rest of the time he absolutely doesn’t care and will try to help Quinn unwind

Winter: yes yes absolutely they are the rebel trio and we love that for them

Cedrick: yes yes yes Cedrick gets caught up in chaos with his squad but with Cian they’re just chilling vibing 0 fuss given

Scarlett: yes so true they do

Evander 

Ismene – it’s hard to believe that his help has no strings attached but she gets there and his wing of his mom’s castle is always a safe place for her

Quinn – the best little sister around and Evander loves when she’s a total brat, he’ll help with all of her problems whether that means a hug, some stitches, or murder

Cedrick – honestly he’s right, it’s the classic best friend’s big brother trope

Scarlett – yes yes absolutely so true he would help out no questions asked

Finley & Fitz 

Quinn & her gang – yes yes!  The gang adopts Finley on the isle (does she run with them instead of Jay?  Maybe so) and then there’s a mutual adoption with Fitz

Scarlett – yes I see the vision!!!

Hannah 

Ismene – they bond over having shitty, righteous dads who hate magic

Aleks – we love a protective cousin, he hears any story about the isle and is so ready to kill Hans

Scarlet – no I see the vision I love it they are the kind of devoted relationship that completely blues any lines between romantic and platonic because what’s a label compared to how much they love each other

Cosette & Quinn – they would never leave the bedroom but it’s exactly what they deserve, also potions girlies and Quinn hating Gaston more than usual

Cosette & Aleks – kinky kinky kinky fuckers I love them

Ada & Winter – yes absolutely at first she’s Winter’s access to the royal family but then he starts to actually care about her and then realizes that she *also* hates her father and has a very strong evil streak

Honey & Lawson & Cedrick – yes everyone expects Lawson and Cedrick to have beef but actually they’re besties, then Honey tries to bring both Cedrick and Lawson to Auradon but Cedrick isn’t leaving his girls maybe, but then he gets there and like he thinks this girl might be a little bit crazy but she grows on him

Beatrice & Aleks – she’s a good, repressed, traumatized magic user and Aleks is going to protect her no matter what, and he can’t exactly say that it’s because of her very secret magic but she *is* the daughter of the king so he uses that excuse

Myra & Aleks – yes yes he doesn’t understand Chad but wants to murder Frollo, most of his family is probably in agreement with Adam’s verdict that Frollo isn’t a villain and that makes Aleks so angry

Myra & Ismene – we’ve talked about them I love them so much they’re so good

Eliane & Aleks – yes yes besties since before she got sent to the isle 

Enola & Gal – no that’s very fair Enola is the daughter of Yen Sid & the Enchantress who can hop across the barrier at will because her parents’ magic was used to create it so she just goes to Auradon sometimes to fuck around and mess with Ben

Pan ocs – yes yes logistics tbd but yes

Isabelle & Aleks – yes!  He’s her sworn protector, best friend, and most trusted confidante absolutely

Isabelle & Winter – long live the rightful queen and if they get married then Winter still gets to be king 

Keto & Quinn – Keto says Quinn is also hot as fuck thank you 

Lovetta & Scarlett – yes yes wolf girlies forever

Lucette & Gal – no we truly love to see it also Lucette absolutely grew up with Gaston’s kids and sees them as part of her family so Gal is her sister

Maisie & Ismene – yes yes for sure Esmerelda doesn’t know if Frollo is going to come for her or her daughter first but she knows he’s coming, Ismene continues to fuck it up and try to protect Maisie as best as she can

Natalia & Tristan & Sugar – yes absolutely!!

Trina & Quinn – yes!! Trina already likes them but Quinn taking care of Dizzy also means a lot to her

Noelle & Aleks – yes!  Noelle knows what the Westergaards are like and their hatred of magic, is very suspicious of Aleks at first but he’s just too sweet and genuine and wants to be her friend

Chessy & Aleks – yes!!  He volunteers to be a part of their big journey around Auradon both for protection (Chessy is engaged to the king, after all) and just because it sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity

Rini & Quinn – crew crew crew Rini loves causing chaos with them and she and Quinn team up to ruin harry’s day 

Saoirse – Quinn tries really hard not to talk shit about Harry to her but Saoirse also thinks it’s hilarious every time Quinn steals his hat, whenever Harry gets annoyed at Quinn, Saoirse just puppy dog eyes him and Harry deflates, Quinn laughs at him while Harry accuses her of brainwashing Saoirse against him (but also she’s Quinn’s little sister as much as Harry’s)

Savina & Quinn – Savina *is* hot as fuck and she thinks that Quinn is also hot as fuck and would pretty please like to eat her out

any thoughts on new crossovers or on the crossover list I did the other day? 👀🥺

Okay!!

So many thoughts This is going to be long

Ace Quinn Quinn Quinn Quinn Quinn - Okay we know how this is going. It's a whole vibe and I love them so fucking much Ismene (the whole Long Live The Queen squad & Ismene pls) - Okay so we've discussed the whole her trusting him eventually thing but also like- Him helping her with her guilt around sex. because of it I feel like cnc and pain would be good for her sooooo Aleks - Yes. Absolutely. I feel like it's a touch begrudging at first, but they grow to be really good friends Cedrick - Yes, I think they'd work either as friends or as hook ups, the boi is bi

Elise Aleks - I feel like these two would get along really well in a friend way. Aleks thinks her brother is an idiot and is amazed he's made it to the age he did Cedrick - They'd be hot together, send tweet

Cian Ismene - I feel like he caught her doing a job for her father once, they stared at each other, understood that neither of them would ever mention it again and as a result they just kind of started hanging out. If one of them came to Ursula's restaurant and saw the other, they'd sit together. No one ever really mentioned starting up a friendship it just happened Quinn - She admires his ability to not care because she feels like she cares too much. Winter - Yes! Okay yes. So Winter definitely ends up working with Cian and Violet because he's team anyone who wants to murder Adam Cedrick - These two create the most chill friendship on the Isle. They don't go out starting problems, Cedrick helps Galston and Quinn with their antics, but these two? Just- chill as fuck Scarlett - They totally vibe as fellow outsiders

Evander Ismene - We kind of talked about it, It takes a while for her to not question his motives but accepts his help when she needs it Quinn - Little. Sister. Energy. Quinn loves to bother her big brother. She's a pain in his ass very proudly. Also when she has problems, she doesn't go to their mother, she goes straight to Evander. Also if anyone spoke ill of Evander, she'd rip out their spleen Cedrick - He definitely had a crush on Evander. That fucking smile Scarlett - Okay okay okay, hear me out- during the full moon she'd hurt herself trying to avoid getting caught out in the woods (plus the general aches and pains that come with the full moon) and he notices and helps her- because she doesn't want to go to the nurse who might start to notice and question why this happens right around the full moon every month

Finley & Fitz Quinn (& her gang) - The gang will happily adopt them into their trouble making ranks. Scarlett - Yes, absolutely, I just see them all working really well together

Hannah Ismene - They can totally bond over having shitty dads Aleks - We talked about this one a bit too. Cousins as fuck. He accepts her far faster than the rest of the family because he's Aleks and that's what Aleks does. He also lies for her when magical shit starts happening because the Westergaards suck. Scarlett - Scarlett will protect Hannah with her life. I can't put my finger on why, but I think these two just would work so fucking well together. They're lab partners, friends, more than friends, idk they are everything

Cosette & Quinn - Bestie they'd never leave the bedroom. Which isn't a complaint, just a fact. Cosette & Aleks - we have talked about this and yes, just yes Ada & Winter - Talked about this a little too and absolutely. Winter would happily sidle up to her for, first her influence then just becuase *her* Honey & Lawson & Cedrick - People definitely think that Lawson and Cedrick should have beef and they totally don't. Then when Honey joins the mix, Cedrick would be a little hesitant but she'd totally grow on him Beatrice & Aleks - More of him protecting good magic users at all cost. Aleks would definitely be a friend to Beatrice and anyone who tried to mess with her (Even Adam) would have to go through him Myra & Aleks - Yessss again, he doesn't understand her brother, but he protects Myra and definitely wants to throttle Frollo Myra & Ismene (no I don’t know how this would work) - I'm thinking like- Frollo does what he does to Cinderella, and that gets him sent to the Isle where he knocks up Ismene's mother. Myra, meanwhile is taken between the Isle and Auradon? Mayhaps? Eliane & Aleks - Besties for lyfe Enola & Gal - I'm so sorry, I look at the Enola tag and there is nothing there- but I'm sure she and Gal would work All the Pan ocs with Winnie, Isadora, Nerissa, and Niamh - Yes. Just yes. One big Neverland crew. Darling is a little... difficult because she actually lives in the regular world and kind of... falls into Auradon but yes Isabelle & Aleks - Okay so Aleks and the Westergaards being like- the kings (and queens) guard and He's the one who guards her? Like? Yes? Isabelle & Winter - Long live the rightful queen Keto & Quinn (and the crew) - Quinn says Keto is hot as fuck thank you Lovetta & Scarlett - Wolf girls Unite! Lucette & Gal - No, okay, yes this- yes. One of Gal's lines in her remix of the Gaston song is to give Lefou shit for never learning to spell Gaston even though it's been years and I feel like these two would just fucking vibe Maisie & Ismene - Esmeralda is absolutely sure that any day now, Frollo is going to come for her. Of this I am sure. And Ismene just 'accidentally' fucks it up every time she or Maisie is on the list because she knows in her heart they are innocent. Natalia & Tristan & Sugar - Yessssss they grew up together. She is closer to them than to anyone. Anyone who hurts them, she hexes them. Trina Tremaine & Quinn (and the crew) Quinn definitely promises to keep an eye on Dizzy when Trina goes to Auradon and nearly takes off Harry's hand when he tries to take all of Dizzy's money. I feel like Quinn (and by extension Galston and Cedrick) just kind of like and respect Trina a lot Noelle & Aleks - Yessss Okay so I feel like the Arandelle relationship with the Westergaards is strained, so the first day of school, Little Aleks walks straight up to Noelle like 'hi! My name is Aleks!' Chessy & Aleks - He totally helps her with trying to find out who her parents are Rini & Quinn (and the crew) - She's the fourth member of the crew, no question Saoirse & Gal’s crew - Quinn has to learn to hold her tongue about Harry when Saoirse is around but she is the one subject the two of them agree on. And Saoirse is perfect and should be protected at all cost Savina & Quinn (and the crew) - Quinn definitely thinks Savina is hot as fuck (Because I do)

Wow- that was a lot. But I stand by all of them dammit

[theunmappedstar]

I don't know if it's just me, or does Fitz seem a little OOC for the last couple of books? I mean, since it's been the last couple of book, it might be his new character, but it just doesn't feel as continuous with the old Fitz who bought the gang gelato during Neverseen. IDK, just some thoughts.

this kinda turned into a mini fitz analyzation so oops

i agree, for the most part. it seems OOC from what we see of fitz during earlier books - from easier times. his change seemed to start a bit in Nightfall (but is mostly prominent in Flashback) and from that point onward, fitz appears to continuously lose chunks of his (positive) traits/personality piece by piece....i don’t mean it like shannon is making him a dry character, i just mean fitz (from how i see things) has lost the ability to really function in positive ways - which makes sense. fitz has undergone a lot. 

we see the first hints of his anger seep out during the period when his dad’s mind breaks. that was the first time that something really burdened fitz to a point that was unbearable. fitz can handle certain calamities, but it’s kind of like he bottles that stuff up until another major disaster strikes. fitz doesn’t know how to deal with those sort of situations, so to shield himself from guilt, he reverts to anger and blaming others as opposed to himself. 

anyway, moving forward, after his father is healed, fitz deals with more guilt because he comes to the realization that while his coping mechanism was semi-effective for himself, it is destructive towards others. he understands that he hurt sophie badly and that there’s nothing he can really do to erase it, no matter how many times he apologizes. it’s always going to be a memory between the two of them. but what is he supposed to do? his only coping mechanism is anger - and how can he direct his anger towards someone after he hurt sophie like that? after he came to understand that it hurt her? it was his fault - but he can’t feel focus on the guilt he feels either, so where does that leave him?

as we all know, it didn’t stop there. alvar’s betrayal hurt fitz enough to leave him in a haze of rage - and in the midst of it, another tragedy occured. keefe betrayed them. and that left fitz unable to function, period. (we see this as sophie recounts to keefe that fitz remained silent, didn’t get angry, and eventually broke down and cried with everyone else).

on top of that, such tragic experiences of that level are fairly new territory to him. he’d never really been exposed to hardships of that level until sophie arrived, so once the castle began to weather, it crumbled fast; one might say too fast for him to process (positively). we can see with a character like sophie that she’s accustomed to mishaps from an early age, and while fitz doesn’t have the perfect life, he doesn’t endure something of that volume until he’s older. the weight is new to him. so, he does the first thing that snaps into his head: he reacts. he yells. he blames. he acts impulsively.

with all that in mind, we can return back to the main point of the ask: fitz is acting OOC, in a way. he’s acting different from the boy we saw at the start of this series - he’d yet to be traumatized in certain aspects, so he didn’t hold the same temper he does now. 

it... sucks, in my eyes, to see him act irrationally and be unable to exit his haze, but i’ve got to hope that shannon won’t do him dirty and make him irredeemable. i have to hope that this isn’t a plot device meant to make the love triangle simpler and that this change was meant to happen.

but we’ll see, in time.

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[crymeariveronceagain]

KOTLC MOM FRIENDS

“Alright,” you say, mildly bored, “Who does this girl think the mom friends are? Let’s see.”

Aight, short answer, Tam and Stina.

None of the rest of them have any sense of self-preservation WHATSOEVER. They will work themselves into the ground, tear each other into peieces, so it’s up to Tam and Stina to tell Sophie that she cannot live off coffee, and to give Keefe hugs when he cries. It’s Tam’s job to hunt down Biana after she’s vanished for the fifty-eighth time this morning, and it’s Stina’s job to patch up Dex after his device explodes and he’s covered in scrapes. 

They scold and berate and they tell Fitz that he can’t “Use that tone of voice with me, young man!” They open medicine bottles when people get fevers, and they listen to Maruca’s whining about her migraines. They make hot cups of tea when Glimmer wakes up screaming in the middle of the night, and tell stories to people when they can’t sleep. Whenever someone dates someone else, they always take way too many pictures, and they always are willing to talk about embarrassing stories. Keefe, especially, gets a lot of embarrassing attention from the nearest mom-friend when he starts dating, mostly because in some part of the Stina’s mind, she knows that Keefe has never really had anyone care about where he goes or who he goes with. 

Tam gives hugs, Stina sits and listens, and the two of them mother the entire friend group with the firm, but yet loving amiability of someone who will make you cocoa in the middle of the day, when you’re pouring over the text books and they thought you looked cold. 

The two of them do not team up, they just silently acknowledge that when Stina takes a break, or one of them hasn’t told Wylie that he needs to take a break from work and come eat something, Tam will step in and guide the children back to where they need to go. They know silently that when Tam is asleep, or quietly listening to his music, Stina will take care of that new burn that appeared on Dex’s lower arm after he burst out of a smoke-filled laboratory, while telling him he needs to be more careful.

There was always a mom silently on duty, quietly watching, and yet, no one really noticed that there were even mom friends to begin with until Stina was scolding Biana for not keeping her room clean,(”Honestly, Biana! It smells like rotten Gullon in here! Keefe’s room is cleaner than this! Are you doing okay? Do we need to talk to Forkle about getting you counseling and anti-depressants? Or are you going to clean your room--”), and Biana kind of burst out, frustrated, “Who do you think you are, my mom?”

And without missing a beat, Stina snapped back, “Yes, I’m your mother. Clean your damn room.”

It was common knowledge from then on that Stina was the mom of the group. 

One day, Tam was convincing Sophie to ingest something other than her third red-bull of the morning, and when she finally got food, she sat down across from him with a huff, and said, exhaustedly, “Whatever, Mom.” 

And Tam responded, simply, “If you don’t eat your food then you’ll pass out and the entire elvin world will be lost.”

Sophie had rolled her eyes.

But Tam was the second mom friend of the group.

None of these chaotic idiots can function without the two. The group only gets more chaotically idiotic without them.

Once, Tam and Stina went on a Mission(Fitz was there too, but that part’s unnecessary), and when they got back Marella had accidentally burned down a building and a half, and everyone was slightly singed.

The two of them weren’t even surprised, just raised their eyebrows nearly simultaneously, and got to work making sure everyone was okay.

[finnofamerica]

Waking Up Slow - Eddie Munson X Reader || Fluff / Angst

Summary: After ending up in detention, you end up making friends with an unlikely person

Word Count: 1,228

Date Posted: 08.25.2022

TW: Mentions of abandonment, loneliness, cheating, parentification of a child.

Note: N/A

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You were never the type to get detention. You were a cheerleader for christ sakes. You may not have been quite as perfect or popular as Chrissy, but you were just as well part of the group, adored by the basket ball team. You just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that awful English Lit teacher had it out for you and refused to hear anything different. 

You had a singular detention buddy as you were stuck in the library, redoing the protective coverings on the entire paranormal fiction section. Trust me, the one and only Eddie Munson was just as shocked to see you as you were to be in detention in the first place. His offense? Tardiness. For the third time that week. You knew that because you were in his first period biology class, which he missed. 

“Y/l/n, Right?” Eddie asked as he plopped down on the floor next to you, in a home made Corroded Coffin shirt. You’d never heard of the band, you figured it must’ve been something you weren’t into. 

“Yeah.” 

“How come you’re in detention? Aren’t you in the group that never does anything wrong?” He asked. It came across dick-ish, but part of you knew that it was pure curiosity. 

“Because Mr. Fitz hates me,” You grumbled. “Fucking asshole. He probably off fucking Mrs. Lynde right now, not that her husband knows of the affair.” 

“Such a mouth on you, Princess. Not what I expected from the almighty cheerleading squad.” 

You rolled your eyes at his teasing, carefully pealing and resticking the cover you’d messed up. 

“You’d be surprised, Munson, not all of us are perfect like Chrissy.” You loved Chrissy, everyone did, but she was a tough act to follow. She was your best friend, but somehow you felt you always amounted to second best. “Aren’t you supposed to hate cheerleaders?” 

“I can always hate you tomorrow,” He shrugged, making you giggle, “There is nobody here to judge either of us. What happens in the library can stay in the library. Besides I wouldn’t want to damage your reputation.” 

That was the moment you decided you liked Eddie Munson, very much. He was not what you expected in the slightest. Everyone always told you that he was a freak, violent, scary. He was sweet, funny, caring. 

After an hour of small talk, the custodians came and left, all except the emergency lights went out, shocking you out of the book you were half reading. 

“What the hell?” Eddie wondered out loud, getting up and stretching his long legs. He rattled the library door, unable to get it open. “I think they locked us in here.” 

Your face went deadly serious, “You really think that Fitz left us here?” 

“If he was fucking Mrs. Lynde like you say he was, then there is a good chance he forgot all about us.” 

“I don’t have a phone.” You admitted. 

“The school phones block out bound calls without an admin code.” 

“I don’t wanna know why you know that.” 

“We’re stuck, may as well get comfortable, Princess.” 

You slumped back against the bookshelf, resigning yourself to the situation. Eddie took his spot across from you. 

“Are your parents going to worry?” He asked. 

“It’s just me and my mom. And No, she works overnights at the hospital, so, she’s usually gone before I get home from cheer practice, and back after I’ve left for school.” 

“That’s shitty.” 

You chuckled bitterly, “Yeah. It’s not really her fault though. She’s doing what she can to support us.” 

You realized how truly lonely you were. Even though you were “hot” and popular, most people never really cared enough to get to know you. Most of the popular crowd only cared about image and gossip, and tedded to bully others, intentionally or not. Others assumed that because you were a cheerleader you were dumb and wrote you off without ever having a conversation with you. Hell you didn’t even spend time with your mom most of the time. You made yourself dinner, did your homework without help, found your own way to school. 

“Eddie,” You found yourself asking, fiddling with your chipping nail polish, “Do you think, had we not been stuck together, you would’ve taken a chance on me?” 

“How do you mean?” 

“Getting to know me. Talking to me beyond the latest gossip.” 

He thought about it for a long moment. 

“Would you have taken a chance on me?” He returned your question. 

It was troubling. Would you have risked getting judged by those who were supposed to be your friends all for someone they told you was a freak? Would you have sought Eddie out, not knowing what you do now? 

Finally you nodded. “I would. If I saw you alone, away from the Hellfire club, I would.” 

“I’d be willing to take a chance on someone willing to chance it on me.” 

You smiled softly, blinking back tears of yours. 

“Tell me about DnD.” You requested, wanting to know more about the club and the game that so ostracized Eddie from everyone else. He smiled at you, explaining the general rules of the game, before launching into the campaign that he was running. You asked questions where appropriate. 

He asked you about cheerleading, wondering what drew you to the sport. 

“Not to get sad on you,” You chuckled, “But ever since my dad left I’ve felt so lonely with my mom having to pick up extra shifts, and Chrissy and I were always friends, she asked if I wanted to try out with her. So I did. At first, I loved the idea of belonging somewhere, being part of a group, but soon I realized that most people just care about their ‘popular’ image. I realized that they didn’t really care about me, I just made them look good, y’know? But now that’s where I belong. Y/n the cheerleader.” 

“If you want, you can always join us at Hellfire.” Eddie offered, “The guys might be hesitant at first, but we take care of our own.” 

“I think I’ll take you up on that.” 

“Wake up,” a voice prompted you, shaking both you and Eddie slightly. “Hey, were you here all night?” 

You felt a weight around your waist and warmth pressed against your back. It took your tired brain a minute to realize that you and Eddie were spooning. 

“Ms. Yates?” You asked quietly, rubbing your eyes. “What time is it?” 

You knew the young librarian was always here earlier than any of the rest of the staff. 

“7am, dear,” The librarian helped you into a sitting position, a kind smile on her face, “Lets get you both some coffee.” 

You startled Eddie awake, narrowly missing his flailing appendages. 

You both sat in Ms. Yates office, as she called your parents, sipping on freshly brewed coffee. 

“I am going to be taking this up with the principle, believe you me,” She said to your mother on the other line, “Absolutely unacceptable behavior from Mr. Fitz, leaving two students locked in the library.” 

You were barely listening to the conversation, half asleep on Eddie’s shoulder. 

After another thorough questioning from the principal, you and Eddie were excused for the day. Leaving the school with something you never thought possible. A new perspective. 

Tags: @munsonthemisfit @eddiemunsons-girl

[gay-otlc]

Unlocked Recap

Everything I'm saying is accurate you can trust me bro

Sophie's registry file misgenders them :(

Being mad about the series' portrayal of trichotillomania, part 420

The council is either deliberately misunderstanding the Moonlark Project so as to not acknowledge they suck, or Shannon forgot her own character's motives. Hoping for the former.

Bronte listens to Foxfire gossip. Does he walk up to students and demand they spill the tea? What happens here? Shannon what?

Let Elwin punch Bronte 2k22

Elwin Does Not have time for alloromantic bullshit.

Transmasc Fitz rights

Biana has an ✨exceptional accent✨ hoot hoot

"when it comes to emulating Biana's style, the most important element is staying true to who you are" queer coded Biana confirmed?

Queer coded Dizznees have been confirmed from the beginning but always nice to see more of it.

Tiergan and Prentice got majorly sappho and her friend-ed by the Council.

Marella registered for the match, what's up with that?

Horses are only for girls now. But the Lost Cities don't have gender roles.

RUMOR HAS IT THAT MARELLA AND LINH DO ADDITIONAL TRAINING TOGETHER

Little Miss Perfect Della propaganda- unlikely the Matchmakers are good enough for the number one match to work out perfectly, she chose Alden for the image.

Marella has a stuffed kelpie named Sir Splashyhugs pass it on.

Exillium is a neurodivergent metaphor.

Elwin's nonbinary, it's canon now.

Sophie knows about the stallion. She just tries very hard not to think about it, which is fair.

Sophie's accusation that Tiergan lied to her is unfair. He shared way more than he was probably supposed to and when he did lie by omission he did so very badly.

Moral ambiguity!! :D

Oralie is arospec, it's also canon.

The FANCY VACKER ACCENT HOOT HOOT

Keefe hates the idea of making the matchmakers happy, sounds perfectly straight to me.

Fitz has unresolved feelings for Keefe and Keefe is like "hmm I'm wondering who all that romantic tension is meant for." Figure it out dumbass

We will never have enough of Sophie calling Edaline "Mom"

Similarly, we will never have enough of Dadwin.

Ro's still a bitch, but now she's a queer coded bitch.

Keefe got to flip Ro off! Slay.

Biana runs laps every morning hmmgngggjdlkf I am gay

Solreef family angst potential regarding Glimmer + Wylie kidnapped by Neverseen ???

Glimmer and Biana were definitely flirting with one another.

Tiergan has officially joined Grady in the protective anxious father squad <3

I think Keefe and Grady should bond over having a power that allows them to manipulate others and makes them fear themselves. As a treat.

[bookwyrminspiration]

so while i’m not on team Alden is an abusive father (in cannon)

i think he neglected Alvar, favors Fitz, and put too much pressure on all of them. he manipulates his kids, and uses the counsels logic of well it’s for their own good and i’m trying to protect them from scorn. i think he had emotional/verbally abusive parents and is trying to do better than them, and really loves his kids, he just has a lot of issues.

but i found out yesterday that Biana apparently goes pale when it’s mentioned that she was forced to be friends with Sophie by her dad…which is concerning to say the least

do you know of any other things that Alden has done that could be considered abusive?

(besides the Keefe convo and the sedative incident that’s the only reasoning i ever see)

oh the "he really loves his kids, he just has a lot of issues" perspective is interesting--we did see throughout Exile that he wasn't healthily coping with his guilt and that's what led to him breaking. he let it fester and didn't reach out for help, so that mindset could have infiltrated his parenting and despite his best efforts and wishes he's struggling. He loves his family dearly, but sometimes you need more than that and he doesn't know what to do

as for Biana going pale, I've never seen that as relating to Alden doing anything concerning. I always read that as "Sophie just found out I originally started getting close to her because my Dad asked me to, she's going to be pissed she's going to be so mad," and worrying about their friendship. Because while their friendship started from Alden's nudging, it did become a genuine friendship and I think Biana might be at least slightly embarrassed/ashamed of Alden's involvement--not because he's being abusive or doing anything wrong, but just in the natural way kids are embarrassed to be doing something their parents tell them too. We've all known or been the kid like "yeah my mom is making me do this," and that's what Biana was originally like and she didn't want Sophie to know! Yet she found out, and I think that's why she went pale, not anything to do with Alden. She was terrified of what would happen next between her and Sophie

For things that could be considered abusive or contribute to his less-than-stellar reputation, a lot of the arguments I see are: allowing both his sons to go to the Lost Cities alone--completely alone, not even him nearby for protection or something--as young as five years old, possibly ignoring Biana (she talked about feeling left out because Alden was always working with Fitz), taking Sophie to Exile without an explanation alone and not telling her what was going on until they were already deeply into it (which ended in him injured and her with no clue what to do). There's also just his general attitude of "no reason to worry" being seen as dismissive and like he's not trusting/taking the kotlcrew seriously. Then of course there's the sedative and Keefe incidents, but those are the other arguments I remember off the top of my head.

That's not to say I see all of this as evidence that Alden is abusive, these are just what I've seen cited as evidence. So hopefully that helps!

[bi-bard]

The Weirdest Sitcom - Jack Kline Imagine (Supernatural)

Title: The Weirdest Sitcom

Pairing: Jack Kline X Reader

Requested: by @fitzs-trained-monkey

Word Count: 2,085 words

Warning(s): mention of blood and violence

Summary: Jack had hurt too many people. They felt like they were a danger to everyone around them. This led to them running away from the bunker and stumbling upon (Y/n). (Y/n) accepted them and was actually pretty happy to have someone else around... even if it was only for a little while.

Author's Note: I kinda love the vibe this gives off.

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Imagine this.

I was walking down an alley, my bag was closed and secured over my shoulder. I had made friends with the owner of a local restaurant. She would give me food, though her wife wasn't comfortable with me hanging around. I was happy.

The scraps and extras kept my normal hunger at bay for a little while longer.

I was a vampire.

I was disowned by my nest when I refused to hunt people. Since then, I was homeless. I was now 18 and trying my best. I kept myself covered at all times and made sure to keep an eye out for any and all hunters.

Anyway, back to the real story.

I had food and water and a few books from the library tucked in my bag as I made my way through the alley to the abandoned trainyard that I had begun to call home. After putting all of my things in their rightful and safe spots in my train car, I climbed up to the top with a book.

I was happily reading, ignoring the world and all of the problems I faced when I heard something. It was like someone was trying to open a door.

I sat up, closing my book. As soon as I moved, I was met with the sweetest smell I had ever experienced. It almost overwhelmed me.

I had to take a moment to adjust before I climbed down the ladder. I plopped onto the ground to see some person trying to get into my train car. It was then that I noticed how dark it was outside.

"Hey," I yelled. "What the hell are you doing?!"

The person stepped back, clearly scared, and held their hands up. They didn't look like they had been living on the street for a long time. They didn't know better. They had pale, smooth skin with blonde hair and blue eyes. Thier clothes were clean.

"Who are you," I asked.

"I'm Jack," they replied. "I'm sorry. I just need a place to stay."

"Well, this train car is mine," I crossed my arms.

Jack looked down. I bit the inside of my cheek. They looked like a puppy that had been kicked out in the cold. They went to walk away.

"Wait," I called. "Fine, you can stay. But... stay on your side."

They smiled at me before nodding. I yanked the door open and climbed in, holding out a hand to help them in. They looked around like they were impressed by the space.

"So... why are you on the street, Jack," I asked, walking over to the corner I had claimed. They walked to the adjacent corner and sat down.

"I hurt some people," they explained. "It was an accident but I wanted to protect my family. So I left until I can control... myself."

"Really," I asked. They nodded. I was still trying my best to ignore the sweet smell that they were basically radiating. "What are you?"

"What?"

"Sorry, you can call it instincts but... I can tell you're not human, not completely," I explained.

"My mom was," they replied. "My dad... my dad is an angel."

"Nephilim," I asked. They nodded. "Damn. That's awesome."

"Awesome?"

"Yeah," I replied. "I've read about them. Damn near unlimited power, wings, all the jazz. It's really cool."

"Oh," they looked down for a moment with a small grin on their face.

Yeah, it's the weirdest sitcom concept you've ever heard, isn't it? The Nephilim and the Vampire. We could make good money off of the idea.

"What were their names," I asked. They looked back at me. "Your parents?"

"My mom's name was Kelly," they said. "My dad was... Lucifer, but I'm trying really hard to not be like him! I don't even think of him as 'dad'. My dad is Castiel, another angel."

"You have quite the family tree," I noted. They nodded. "So, you said 'was', is your mom... dead?"

"She died giving birth to me," they looked down.

"Shit, I'm sorry," I sat up straighter. "I shouldn't have brought that up."

They just shook their head. I sat silently for a minute.

"I could help you," I said. "I mean, control your powers. I know a lot about Nephilim and it may help to have someone else there."

Jack smiled at me before nodding.

"Okay, umm, tomorrow," I said before going to lay down. "Goodnight, Jack."

"Goodnight," they laid flat on their back.

--Time Skip--

We spent the next few days doing a strange version of training.

I had grabbed trash can lids and told Jack to stand a ways away.

"Alright," I called. "I'm gonna throw these up and you're going to use your power to throw them against the train car back there."

They held a thumbs up.

I threw the trash can lid in the air, stepping back slightly. Jack held their hand out and the lid went flying. We did that three more times with no trouble.

"That was amazing," I cheered. Jack smiled, proud of themself.

I went to walk over and pick them up. Then, one of them came flying off the ground. I yelled and ducked just as it flew past me and into Jack's hands. I stared at them as they held it.

"Holy crap," I muttered, starting to hope I hadn't gotten in over my head.

We also tried to work on the potential of teleporting. I would hide while Jack had their eyes closed and they had to teleport to me.

We'd test how long they could hold something still without dropping it.

Honestly, the training became a lot of fun.

Outside of training, Jack had stopped staying in their corner of the train car. At night, we would both sit together and eat. Then, we would get as comfortable as possible before I would read some of that night's book to them until we were both tired.

It was about two weeks into this pattern when Jack first told me about Mary. They wanted to help the people that had been protecting them and they wanted to see if she was alive in an alternate reality. Apparently, the people blamed them for their mom being taken away.

So, we spent as long as possible reading and researching.

Eventually, we found out that dreamwalkers would be the only way to achieve what Jack wanted.

"Thank you," Jack said quietly one night as we were getting ready to fall asleep. "For helping me so much. I wouldn't be able to do any of this without you."

"You're welcome, Jack," I mumbled.

As awkwardly as you'd expect it to be, Jack leaned over and kissed me softly. I sat in shock for a moment, eyes wide open as they pulled away.

"Was that too much," they asked.

"No," I shook my head. "It just shocked me."

"Oh," they replied.

"It was really nice."

--Time Skip--

Jack was out visiting a dreamwalker and I finally indulged my hunger. I had been late at night just so Jack didn't see it.

I never fed on humans. Like some homeless Cullen sibling, I would snag small animals just to make sure I didn't starve.

I was feeding on a squirrel I had snagged when I saw Jack pop back in from the corner of my eye. I knew I didn't have time to hide what I had been doing. I slowly looked up at them.

"What are you doing," they asked, eyebrows furrowed. But they didn't seem disgusted.

"I... god... I'm a vampire," I explained. "I didn't want to feed on people so my nest sent me away. That's why I live here. I don't feed on people. I snag small animals to hold me over."

"Oh," Jack nodded. I stood up and threw the squirrel's corpse out of the train car and toward the forest. I walked to the bucket the I filled with water. We didn't drink out of it, it's just to clean my hands and mouth. "I can cure you."

"What," I asked.

"I have all of this power," they explained. "I'm sure if I can open gates to other worlds, I can cure you."

I thought about the idea. If I did this and it failed, I would die or just go on as I was. If I did this and it worked, I could have a normal life. I could move forward. I nodded.

We walked over to the sleeping corner and I laid on my back. Jack knelt next to me. They were about to touch my temple when I grabbed their hand.

"No matter what happens, thank you," I said. "Thank you."

They smiled and nodded. I let go of their hand.

They touched my temple.

I immediately felt pain. It was a fire flowing through my veins. As it got more and more intense, I reached out to Jack, grabbing their free hand for comfort.

Then, after some lightning struck outside, it was over. I was breathing deeply. I looked at Jack, who was still grinning at me.

Their usual sweet smell faded. I wasn't smelling their blood anymore. I started crying, knowing that it had worked.

"What's wrong," Jack asked. I sat up and hugged them tightly.

"I'm just happy," I whispered into their ear. "So, so happy."

Jack hugged me back.

--Next Day--

The next day, Jack and I woke up to two people yelling. We were still holding hands, curled up under our blankets. I jumped up, walking toward the door. Jack followed.

They seemed happy.

"Sam, Dean," Jack opened the door with no hesitation but I jumped away. Sam and Dean... as in Winchester?

The three of them were talking. They knew the brothers. They hugged Jack. I slowly looked out from around the corner.

"You brought the Winchesters here," I asked. Jack looked at me, clearly confused. "Vampires tell stories when two hunters manage to stop the apocalypse more than once."

"Vampire," the one with short hair said.

"Not anymore," Jack explained. "I cured (Y/n)."

"Cured," the other Winchester asked.

Jack nodded. They held a hand out to me. They helped me down and into the sunshine. It didn't hurt. I was normal.

"(Y/n) is the reason I knew about dreamwalkers and I can control my powers so much better," Jack continued, still holding my hand. "Their nest disowned them when they didn't want to feed on people. I wanted to take them to the bunker."

"Where are you living," the long-haired one asked.

I pointed at the train car.

The brothers looked at each other, a silent argument and agreement.

"Grab whatever personal items and clothes you have," the man continued. "Umm... I'm Sam, that one's Dean."

I nodded. I grabbed my bag and walked back to them.

"Are you guys really going to let me stay?"

"Jack trusts you," Dean shrugged. "You seem genuinely cured."

"And you'll be the first to kill me if I step out of line?"

"Possibly."

I nodded. I followed them to their car quietly. Jack held on tightly to my hand.

"Can we stop somewhere," I asked. "I have a friend that offered me some old clothes. It could save a lot of time."

The brothers nodded. Jack and I sat in the back seat, holding hands across the seat. Sam had gotten out of the car to get the bags from the kind woman I had come to know. She had talked to me through a rolled-down window, wishing me well. After that, I rolled up the window and waited.

"So, you two are...," Dean looked at us.

"Together," Jack confirmed with no hesitation. "Trust me, we've even kissed."

"Just checking," Dean gave us a thumbs up, turning back to the front.

--Time Skip--

I took in a deep breath as I sat in my new room. I had showered and dressed in fresh clothes. I had brushed my teeth, which I had never given up because of the very kind woman that took care of me as much as she could.

I was relaxing on the new sheets, ready to go to bed when the door crept open. Jack was standing there. They were clean and happy too.

"I didn't realize that I had gotten used to laying next to you," they mumbled. I scooted over, waving them over.

Jack shut the door and joined me on the bed. I wrapped my arms around them and curled into them. They mimicked me.

Home. We were home.

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Some people have asked me before why i don’t ship FitzSimmons, and while I’ve explained before that I did not in the least like the way they got together, or who their characters became once they became canon, that never really explains why i didn’t ship them at the very beginning in season 1.

So here’s my explanation:

I honestly thought they were twins. 

I’m sorry, but they literally fit like 5 different tropes related to twins. At first glance they seemed like twins. I actually had to search this shit up:

Finishing Each other’s sentences

Being referred to as one 

Speaking to each other while no one else understands

Not needing to speak to communicate

Their teasing/arguing was so sibling-like??????

the ‘ugh fitz’ frustration when it comes to his monkeys

‘technically only one is the oldest’ (that is fucking twin/sibling banter don’t @ me)

‘you guys are so tight it’s like you’re psychically linked’ That’s usually said about twins, just sayin

in general  a lot of the stuff they said and their scenes felt like things actual siblings would say. 

“Simmons loves studying more than life” (paraphrasing) that is definitely twin/younger brother trying to make fun of his ‘try-hard’ sister because she focuses more on studies (LITERALLY ME AND MY TWIN BROTHER)

Jemma acting a bit like an older sister/mom to fitz at times because she feels protective of him. 

the sandwich thing, the “there’s no time for childhood nonsense like this” “pranking was your idea” !!!!! SIBLINGS

The which one is sherlock and which one is watson argument

“do you think all scientists wear a lab coat all the time” “are we wearing them now” they literally sass others while in tune like two people who grew up with each other. 

they dressed so similarly in season 1 COME ON

idk, I genuinely believed they were supposed to be really good friends (obviously I quickly realized they weren’t actual twins or siblings)

And it didn’t help that Fitz clearly had a crush on Skye for at LEAST up to episode 13, and Simmons was clearly attracted to W*rd, Mike, and Trip throughout the first season, so that ‘confession’ seemed out of place. 

If you ship it cool ofc, but their dynamic resembled siblings to me so I could never bring myself to ship them 

(they also have zero sexual chemistry. They had a whole kiss/removing each other’s clothing scene and it felt like watching two siblings......YIKES)

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Previously on The Temple:

The elder Coulson reaches up, brushing a piece of hair behind Skye's ear in a fatherly fashion.

"I'm so sorry. I'm gonna make it right. I'm gonna find the Obelisk."

"No," Coulson murmurs hoarsely.

"I'm gonna stop the drill. I'm gonna make it right," Skye continues, bolting from the room before (Y/n) can even think.

"Skye, no," Coulson calls. "Don't go down there."

"Dad, I have -" (Y/n) begins.

"Go! Go after her!" the elder Coulson says and (Y/n) jumps to her feet, glancing between the doorway Skye had gone through, and her father lying on the ground. "Go!" he yells again, and (Y/n) wipes away her tears, sprinting after Skye.

. . .

There's a metallic grinding nose, and Skye, Trip, (Y/n), and Raina focus on the Obelisk on the pedestal. It opens, revealing crystals and (Y/n) tenses.

"How do we stop it?" Trip asks.

"I don't think we can," (Y/n) says. She turns to Skye, tears welling in her eyes.

Skye grabs the front of (Y/n)'s shirt, pulling (Y/n) closer and kissing her.

"I love you," both young women whisper at the same time; the two focus back on the Obelisk.

Skye exhales heavily as the chamber trembles.

. . .

"And Skye and (Y/n) barely made it out alive! (Y/n) hasn't even woken up yet!" Mack shouts.

"Thanks to Trip! He sacrificed his life, Mack!" May counters.

"No, he traded his life for theirs!" Mack yells. "And then he was shattered into a thousand pieces!"

"That's enough!" the Elder Coulson yells. "If Trip was here, he wouldn't be arguing. He would't be bitching. He would be gearing up to do what needs to be done." Skye looks horrified at the can that had been trembling, and looking around, she sees her girlfriend curled up in the floor in a corner, her hands pressed over her ears. Skye crosses the containment module and sits down next to where is sitting on the other side of the glass. "Yes, we're dealing with forces we don't understand, but HYDRA I do understand. I want everyone ready when the sun comes up - end of discussion."

Everyone else leaves the room and Skye murmurs, loud enough for (Y/n) to hear. "(Y/n), what's happening to us?"

. . .

"The Avengers wouldn't have been necessary if we hadn't unleashed alien horrors," Simmons cuts Skye off again.

(Y/n)'s eyes had gone cold. "Go," she says bitterly, turning away from the scientist.

"But -" Simmons tries but (Y/n) turns back to her.

"There's always danger, Simmons," (Y/n) snaps, the stirring feeling rising up in her again. "Not everything is something that has to be destroyed or -" (Y/n) stops, turning her head away. "Go."

. . .

There are metallic crashes as pots and pan fall onto the ground and into the sink.

"Skye, (Y/n)? You want to talk to us?" May asks, and the two lover exchange horrified glances.

"Skye, what's doing this?" Coulson asks, his eyes widening.

"I am," Skye admits shakily.

Lady Sif goes to grab Skye's arm, and Skye flinches away, "No." Skye pulls (Y/n) along slightly, removing her hand from (Y/n)'s as she claps them to her forehead.

Skye's fist clenches and the glass behind (Y/n) and Skye explodes.

And, as if in slow motion, (Y/n)'s frame grows larger, towering over Skye.

The grizzly bear wraps it's arms around Skye, protecting the brunette from the shattered glass.

"Hand them over," Lady Sif orders and the elder Coulson and May pull out their hand guns, moving in front of the two younger women. "It will be safer for all of you."

. . .

A sword tip is stabbed through the wall.

"Agent May, release the girls!" Lady Sif orders.

"May, she'll get through," Skye whispers.

"Ignore it. Remember - focus," May says.

"I can't," Skye breathes as Lady Sif breaks the barrier.

May steps back and Skye grabs the agent's ICER, shooting herself with the gun. The rumbling stops and (Y/n) turns to her unconscious girlfriend.

"Skye," (Y/n) whispers, fear spiking through her. "Skye!"

"She harmed herself," Lady Sif says, staring at (Y/n) and Skye, her eyes wide.

(Y/n) pulls her unconscious girlfriend closer to her, her eyes wide.

. . .

"A right to know," Fitz echoes. "What - is that the same way that Sif and the Kree had a right to know?"

"I think this situation's a little bit different, mate," Hunter responds.

"No, you would have done to them exactly what Sif and the Kree wanted to," Fitz argues.

"You don't know that," Simmons says.

"Yes, I do know that!" Fitz yells. "They would - You would - You'd 'handle them'! Mack just said it! Like, uh - Skye and (Y/n) are something to be locked away in a cage somewhere. We should be protecting them."

"No, Fitz," Mack interupts. "We're the ones that need protection from them." Then Mack goes silent, looking over Simmons's shoulder.

Fitz and Simmons turns around, and five SHIELD agents catch sight of (Y/n) and Skye - (Y/n) supporting Skye's weight.

Skye looks into the room, looks away, and then she and (Y/n) start back down the hallway, a disgusted look on (Y/n)'s face, and a large dufflebag thrown over (Y/n)'s other shoulder.

Fitz looks between the other for SHIELD agents, and then follows (Y/n) and Skye.

"Skye. (Y/n)," Fitz calls down the hall, but the two women keep making their way down the hallway.

The two make their way into the BUS, entering the containment module.

"You don't have to stay," Skye tells (Y/n).

"You know I'm not going anywhere, love," (Y/n) murmurs, sitting down beside Skye on the small bed. "Please, rest," (Y/n) says softly lying down on her side and lifting an arm so Skye can cuddle up to her. "We'll figure out something," (Y/n) murmurs. I hope . . .

3rd Person POV

Skye leans over a bowl, dipping a piece of her grilled cheese into her tomato soup.

"I got to say, Director, no doubt, this is the best grilled cheese I've ever had," Skye says, humming in contentment.

"Other times, I'd be offended, but I agree," (Y/n) says, looking appreciatively at her father as she stuffs another mouthful of grilled cheese in her mouth. "Isth really gud," (Y/n) says, her mouth full and Skye looks slightly disgusted.

"Secret ingredient," the Elder Coulson asks.

"Ooh, what is it?" (Y/n) asks, having swallowed her mouthful.

"I will not disclose," (Y/n)'s dad replies, his eyes sparkling with amusement.

Skye laughs and her spoon lets out a little chime against her bowl, setting it aside before nestling herself into (Y/n)'s side.

(Y/n) hums contentedly, shoving more grilled cheese in her mouth.

"How are you doing with all the monitoring?" Coulson asks gently.

"I barely notice it," Skye lies.

"We wouldn't subject you to it if it wasn't absolutely necessary," Coulson tells her.

"I assume you're putting us on the gifted index," (Y/n) guesses.

"We are," Coulson the Elder nods.

Skye sighs, looking slightly regretful. "I've been doing some monitoring of my own," she says. "Check this out," she shows the older Coulson her bio-meter watch which shows her heart rate at sixty-five beats per minute. "My entire life, I've been searching for my parents and my search ended with answers that are so much worse than I could've imagined," Skye admits and (Y/n)'s gaze softens and she sets down her grilled cheese, wrapping her arms around her girlfriend. "Sad, twitchy, not-all-there Dad, a dead Mom, alien mist that turned me into a walking natural disaster, a friend dead -"

(Y/n)'s eyes cloud with pain. The Avenger had always been close to Trip, and his death made that so, so much worse.

"Hey," the Elder Coulson says softly, coming over to sit beside (Y/n) and Skye on the small bed. "Trip was not your fault."

"My point is, I'm steady. Nothing is shaking," Skye tells Coulson, looking slightly proud of herself. "I'm stopping them before they start."

"That's good," Coulson replies, looking happier than he just had.

"If I keep working on this, I can be back in the field in no time," Skye says excitedly.

(Y/n) squeezes Skye, happy for her girlfriend's excitement.

. . .

"She's acting like everything will go back to normal," Coulson tells May a little later, pulling Skye's and (Y/n)'s files to add them to the SHIELD Gifted Index.

"That's what Skye does," May says. "Do they know they're being put on the Index?" May asks.

"They do," Coulson replies. "They both do seem to be getting control of their powers."

"That's good," May admits. "But we barely understand them - other than they're strong."

"Catastrophically so," Coulson agrees, referring to Skye's powers.

"Protocol is, anyone on the Index undergoes a full psych eval and a treat assessment," May reminds Coulson.

"We'd need to bring in someone from outside," Coulson remarks.

"Someone we can trust," May agrees.

. . .

"I think it's so cool," Skye remarks, looking at (Y/n) the Husky admiringly, "that you can turn into animals."

"Are you kidding me?" (Y/n) asks, shifting back into herself, her eyes gleaming lovingly. "What about your powers?"

Skye smiles at her girlfriend, cuddling into her side, listening to the radio. (Y/n) wraps her arms around Skye's waist.

"Hey, look what a hello from a stranger turned into / Caught up in a moment like it's just us in this room / All the right words at the right time and you know 'em 'cause you know me / Better than anyone else, we don't need anyone else / There's a couple billion people in the word / And a million other places we could be, but you're here with me / Take a moment just to take it in / 'Cause every high and every low led to this / I'm just so glad you exist / Don't you ever go, don't you ever go, don't you ever go changin' / Never let me go, never let me go, never let me go, baby / Don't you ever to, don't you ever go, don't you ever go changin' / Never let me go, never leg me go, never let me go, baby," (Y/n) sings softly along to the song, swaying her and Skye slightly. "I'm just so glad you exist," (Y/n) murmurs in Skye's ear.

Skye looks up into (Y/n)'s gentle (E/c) eyes.

"I love you," Skye murmurs, pressing her cheek against (Y/n)'s.

"I love you too," (Y/n) replies, her eyes closing in contentment.

"You remember our first mission together?" Skye asks and (Y/n) fixes her gaze on Skye's chocolate brown eyes.

"I do," (Y/n) answers, her eye sparkling

"Yep, you were kicking ass and looking hot while doing it." Skye asks and (Y/n) throws back her head with a laugh. "You were so sweet, too."

Skye is sitting in her bunk on the bus, typing on her laptop.

"Mission brief in five," Coulson says, knocking on the door.

"Okay," Skye mumbles.

"Katherine Shane?" Coulson asks, reading the file off of Skye's laptop.

"Do you know her?" Skye asks, looking interested.

"We ran a few OPs together in the '90s," Coulson tells Skye. "Smart, resourceful. Had a soft spot for Truffaut movies."

"Easy there, charm school," Skye says, her eyes sparkling with amusement. "According to these files, Agent Shane could be my mom," Skye suddenly looks excited.

"Even if Shane was the Agent who dropped you off at the orphanage, it doesn't mean she's your mother."

"I started looking into all the female agents active when I was born," Skye says and Coulson hums. "Needle, haystack, I know. But then I factored in age and marital status, and then I built a program to narrow down the field."

"You're still looking at a long road," Coulson tells Skye gently.

"Well, it would be a lot shorter if I could access more files," Skye tells the agent. "Maybe you could remove my internet nanny?" she then asks. "I'm talking about my tracking bracelet," she clarifies, shaking her wrist.

"I got that," Coulson says, looking down at the brunette.

"So you'll take it off?" Skye asks.

"No, but I asked May to look into SHIELD's more restricted files," Coulson replies.

"Uh, I was kind of hoping to keep this private," Skye murmurs.

"Agent May specializes in private," Coulson tells her gently. "Let's go," Coulson says, walking out of the little room.

. . .

"At 0800 hours, three men infiltrated the Havenworth Federal Penitentiary," Coulson tells the others - Fitz, Simmons, Ward, May, and Skye.

"Infultrated? More like cannon-balled," Skye says softly.

"They were in and out in less than two minutes," Coulson goes on. "Left no prints at the scene, but we do have one lead."

Coulson swipes up, and the computer beeps, and there is an image projected on the screen.

"Centipede," Ward says, a hint of surprise in his voice.

"Seems they salvaged some of their research from Hong Kong," Coulson tells the group.

"So we were right," Simmons says, and Fitz turns to look at his friend. "Chan's platelets solved their combustion problem. Now they can create super soldiers with no fear of explosion."

"Maybe don't get so excited about it," Fitz murmurs to Simmons.

"Two of Centipede's labs have been destroyed, but they keep popping back up," Coulson says. "Now they have at least three of these guys, maybe more."

"Who did they break out?" May asks, her brow furrowing.

"Edison Po, former Marine," Coulson replies. "Expert in tactics and rapid response. He fell off the grid in '08, reappeared eighteen months ago at a diner in Boston."

"Where he stabbed a friend's eyes out," Ward grumbles.

"With a steak knife, then finished his meal," Coulson finishes, glancing at Ward.

"That's funny. Po doesn't look crazy," Skye remarks and everyone looks at her.

"I'm kidding," Skye says, looking exasperated. "The guy is a walking mug shot."

"Which means he shouldn't be too hard to track down," Coulson agrees. "Finding Po and these Centipede soldiers is a top priority for SHIELD. We'll be running point, but we won't be working alone," Coulson tells the others.

"What team did HQ send for backup?" Ward asks, looking suspicious.

"Not a team -" Coulson says, his lips twitching. "Two people. One who is skilled in combat - trained by SHIELD's finest. And one who can help us fight fire with fire -" Coulson begins.

"Somebody we worked with before?" Skye asks.

"Not exactly," Coulson says.

. . .

Mike Peterson exits the SHIELD vehicle, another figure who looks like she's being harassed by a blond archer and a redhead nearby.

"Don't make me flatten you, Clinty," the younger of the three says, pointing at the man and the archer backs off, looking slightly horrified.

"Bye, you," the redhead grumbles, pulling her former apprentice into a hug.

"Nat!" the younger woman complains. "You're squishing my head!"

"This was a bad idea," May comments, looking between the two figures - the young woman and Mike Peterson.

Natasha Romanoff hands the younger woman a backpack and the women softens, hugging her former mentor one more time before hurrying off to join Mike.

The young woman turns, grinning at Mike, and the older man just shakes his head, amusement evident in his gaze.

"Agent Coulson, Agent May," Mike says, nodding respectfully to the older agents, but the woman just grins.

"Agent Coulson, at your service," the younger Agent Coulson says, faking a serious tone and her father shakes his head.

May just walks away and the elder Coulson turns to Mike.

"Last time you saw here, you threw her into a brick wall," Coulson reminds the super-soldier.

"Right," Mike says, looking uncomfortable. "First time around, I wasn't who I wanted to be," Mike tells the elder Coulson, "but now I get it. Having all this - it's a privilege. And training to be an agent, working with SHIELD, it's me trying to do better, trying to be better," he pauses. "I just need you to give me a shot."

"Everyone deserves a second chance," Coulson says, stepping forward. "But let me be clear - there will not be a third."

Mike dips his head, "Understood, sir."

"Good," Coulson says, glancing at the younger Coulson and turning around; Agent Coulson gets the feeling like she should follow.

. . .

"It's not good. At all," Ward says grimly to the three younger people in the room - Simmons, Fitz, and Skye. "The guy was literally a ticking time bomb - literally."

"HQ wouldn't have sent him if he was still combustible," Fitz reasons. "They must've found a way to stabilize him somehow."

"What about this other person they're sending in. Coulson said he was trained by SHIELD's finest, and yet none of us know who it is?" he questions. "Just saying, this could easily go sideways. Seriously, the last time we saw Peterson, he was a raging homicidal maniac -" Ward pauses, the other three looking behind him. "He's standing right behind me, isn't he?" Ward asks.

"Mr. Peterson, this is Agent Grant Ward," Coulson says, and the others wonder why Coulson hadn't introduced the pretty young woman standing behind him. "He's the man who shot you at Union Station." Ward looks uncomfortable and an amused expression flashes across the new woman's face. "Fitz-Simmons," the two scientists wave at the super-soldier, "designed the weapon he used, and I think you remember -" Coulson gestures to Skye.

"Kidnap victim," Skye says, looking happy and the unknown woman is slightly confused.

Mike chuckles. "You joined SHIELD?" he asks.

"Yeah. Turns out, guys in suits - not so bad," Skye says with a grin.

"Look, I know Union Station could have gone another way," Mike says, looking uncomfortable again. "Another team might not have let me out of there alive. I owe you - all of you."

"That's bygones and water under a distant bridge far away," Skye says and unknown woman fixes her gaze on the brunette, studying her, and Skye looks back, her lips twitching in a smile. "How's your son?" Skye asks, turning back to Mike.

"Still with my sister. He thinks I'm working construction, but he's good, happy," Mike answers, smiling.

"So, what do we have?" Coulson asks.

"An unintroduced agent," the new woman says and there is a laugh from everyone in the room.

"Right," Coulson says, glaring at the younger woman. "This is (Y/n) Coulson, my daughter."

The other agents cast their gazes onto the tall young woman and (Y/n) looks unenthuiastically at her father.

"So, what do we have?" Coulson asks again.

"Not much on Po," Sky replies, tearing her eyes off (Y/n). "I checked his previously known addresses and old military contacts - came up empty."

"We've been looking for where Po might be on the outside," Coulson tells them, (Y/n) leaning against the doorway. "Let's look at his life on the inside - at the prison. See if that gets us any leads. Anything on the Centipede soldiers?"

"We found a facial recog match on one of them," Simmons says and (Y/n) fixes her gaze on the British woman.

"Name's Brian Hayward," Ward says, pressing a button on the debriefing table. "Stationed in Afghanistan for three years, then fell off the radar when he got back."

"Only living relative - sister, Laura -" Skye begins and (Y/n) pipes up.

"I know a Laura," (Y/n) says and Coulson glares at his daughter as the others laugh.

Skye shakes her head, looking amused, before continuing, "Sophomore at the University of Ohio."

"She's our best shot at finding Hayward," the Elder Coulson says, glancing at the board. "You and I will go talk to her," he nods to Ward. "Have May set a course for Cleveland."

Coulson points at (Y/n) and Mike. "Follow," he says.

"Bye friends," (Y/n) says with a wave, her gaze resting on Skye.

. . .

"Hey," Skye says, scrolling through her laptop, Agent May walking up to the brunette, her normal scowl on her face. "Coulson told me you were helping to, you know, find my long-lost folks, so thanks," Skye says, and (Y/n) remains in the shadows, not wanting to intrude. "I'm glad you're in on this with me. It means a lot."

May scowls even more and Skye swallows thickly.

(Y/n) winces as May says some harsh things to Skye. May leaves Skye alone and (Y/n) steps out of the shadows.

"Hey," (Y/n) says gently and Skye looks up. "Don't take what May said to heart, okay?"

Skye meets (Y/n)'s eyes, and then nods.

"So what did you find?" (Y/n) asks.

. . .

Skye leads (Y/n) and May into the debriefing room.

"Po only had one visitor during his prison stint - her," Skye says and (Y/n) narrows her eyes at the screen.

"Recognize the outfit?" Skye asks. "Miles said a girl in a flowered dress asked him to hack SHIELD. This could be the same girl."

"Can we hear the conversation?" (Y/n) asks Skye.

"That's the bummer," Skye replies. "There was no audio, but it's not a total loss. I was able to use SHIELD's lip-reading program, because we have one of those," Skye chuckles.

"It's so cool, right?" (Y/n) asks.

Skye catches May's scowl and continues, "It didn't work on the girl because she never looks up at the camera, but Po did - once - and it caught this."

Skye presses a button and, "The Clairvoyant doesn't not like to be touched," comes from the screen.

"I wrote that down, so we don't have to hear that again - ever," Skye says and (Y/n) looks disgusted.

"The Clairvoyant," May says thoughtfully.

"Yeah," Skye says, furrowing her brow. "Does that mean anything to you?"

(Y/n) shakes her head, "But it means something to them - to Po and whoever that woman is."

"Her name's Raina," says a voice and Mike Peterson walks into the room.

"You know her?" Skye asks Mike.

"Yeah, she recruited me for Centipede, came up to me at the hospital where I did my back therapy out of the blue," Mike pauses. "Told me she could change my life."

. . .

An hour or so later, Skye finds (Y/n) by the loading doors of the BUS, the young woman attacking a punching bag.

"Time to suit up," Skye says and (Y/n) looks up, wiping the sweat off her forehead.

"Cool," (Y/n) says, jogging up the stairs. She passes Skye, shooting the brunette a grin, and Skye's cheeks flush.

. . .

(Y/n) suits up in her SHIELD uniform before meeting the others in the loading dock. Her SHIELD uniform was a Royal blue, but was almost exactly like her old mentor - Natasha's - SHIELD uniform, with light blue highlights running down the arms and legs.

"I think it's rather smart," Simmons remarks, looking at Mike's combat suit.

"How does it feel?" Fitz asks.

"Feels good. Comfortable," Mike replies.

"Having powers is cheating, but the suit's pretty cool," Ward remarks.

(Y/n) steps off the last stair, her combat boots making a thunking sound as she steps onto the floor, and Skye turns to look at her.

"Right, now that everyone's here," Coulson glares bemusedly at his daughter. "Hayward's cellphone has been traced to an abandoned factory about eight miles from here."

"We'll go in quiet. Do minimal damage to the facility and the people inside," May tells the others as (Y/n) pulls out her electric batons from her backpack, sliding them up the sleeves of her suit into the little sheaths against her wrists.

Ward, May, you'll go in through the west entrance. Mr. Peterson and I will enter through the loading dock," Coulson tells the group.

"So I guess you're my partner?" (Y/n) says, looking at Skye.

Coulson nods. "You and Skye will go through the main entrance."

(Y/n) dips her head.

"We're doing this just us?" Skye asks. "We've been playing whack-a-mole with these guys since Ward first picked me out of my van. Shouldn't big SHIELD be sending in backup?" she asks.

"Trust me, they already did," Coulson says, looking pointedly at his Avenger daughter. "They sent a super-soldier and an Avenger."

"An Avenger who has to pop an Ibuprofen after every fight," (Y/n) grumbles.

"Let's move," May says, leading Ward from the BUS.

"Take this," Coulson tosses (Y/n) a gun.

"Is the famous Fitz-Simmons ICER?" (Y/n) asks, studying the craftsmanship of the gun. "I'm impressed. It's just the right weight." (Y/n) glances appreciatively at the two scientists. "It's been a while since I've seen a gun this nice. I might be stealing it."

Fitz-Simmons glance at each other then grin at the Avenger.

"Enough fangirling," Coulson says and (Y/n) rolls her eyes.

"All right. All right," (Y/n) replies. "Come on, Skye."

. . .

"Are we alone here?" Coulson asks the group.

"It seems so," (Y/n) answers. "Fitz, dial Hayward's number."

There is a moment's pause, then the sound of a phone dialing.

(Y/n) freezes in front of one of the storage containers.

(Y/n) hears a cellphone ringing and she holds a finger to her mouth so Skye would be quiet.

Flicking her wrists, the batons slide out of their sheaths.

(Y/n) takes the two separate pieces, locking them together.

(Y/n) readies her batons, as the doors to the storage container fly off the hinges.

"Uh, (Y/n), Skye, you've got company," Fitz tells the two women.

"I'd noticed," (Y/n) replies, advancing on Hayward.

The soldier places his hands on the storage container and flings it towards (Y/n) and Skye.

Skye flinches but (Y/n) tackles Skye, pushing her out of the way. (Y/n) rolls, landing on her feet, and Skye, on the ground, levels her own ICER, firing at the soldier.

The soldier falls to the ground and (Y/n) pulls Skye to her feet. Looking down at the soldier, the two women see the dendrotoxin veins leaving his face. Hayward blinks, his eyes refocusing.

"That usually packs a bigger punch," Skye comments, her and (Y/n) stepping back as Hayward rises to his feet.

(Y/n) runs towards the soldier, smacking him across the forehead, and then in the stomach with the other end of the now staff, flooring the soldier with her mentor's favorite move.

"We're heading your way," Coulson tells his daughter.

"Who's doing this?" (Y/n) asks the fallen soldier.

"I don't tell anyone. I promise," the soldier says through gritted teeth.

There is a tiny spark, and the light behind the soldier's eyes goes out.

. . .

"I'm so glad you're here," Simmons greets Dr. Garner. "Especially since it's been well documented that powers can lead to psychological volatility. Not that Skye or (Y/n) are showing any signs. Their vitals currently are steady."

"May I?" Garner asks, looking at the iMac on the desk.

"So, it might be wise to do pharmacological evaluations," Simmons advises. "Dulling Skye's emotions could lessen the destructiveness of her powers - a-a stopgap measure."

"I should probably meet both of them before writing a prescription," Garner says sternly, looking at Simmons with a frown.

"I'll take you to them," May tells her ex-husband

"I appreciate the extensive and thorough debrief, Agent Simmons," Garner says, turning away from Simmons.

. . .

"Are you kidding me? A shrink?" Skye asks, (Y/n) sitting next to her on the cot as usual, a frown evident on the Avenger's face.

"It's not personal," May tells the brunette.

"Hell, it's not personal. It's a shrink," Skye argues and (Y/n) places a gentle hand on Skye's knee.

"It's standard procedure for anyo -" May begins.

Skye cuts her off, "No, I know, but we're not just on the Index. We're also SHIELD agents."

"Exactly. So you know it's non-negotiable," May argues right back.

Skye scoffs, shaking her head.

"Andrew is good, and he's done this before," May says, her tone softening.

"So have I. I grew up in the system," Skye replies. "I've been through enough of these to know that I hate them."

"You'll like this one," May tells Skye.

"Yeah, how do you know that?" Skye replies, focusing her gaze on (Y/n)'s hand resting on her knee.

"Because I was married to him," May answers and Skye looks up, her eyes wide with shock.

"I'm going to make us something to eat," (Y/n) tells Skye once May leaves. "I'm starving," (Y/n) leans over, pressing a soft kiss to Skye's cheek before standing up and walking over to the door. Opening the door, she steps aside to let Andrew into the house.

"Hello, (Y/n)," Andrew greet the young woman.

"Hey," (Y/n) replies with a short wave before leaving the room and making her way into the kitchen inside the Playground.

. . .

(Y/n) looks up from her pan as she notices the pots and pans rattling on the wall.

Skye! she thinks, throwing the hot pan into the sink and unknowingly shifting into a panther, and darting out of the room.

(Y/n)'s powerful shoulder muscles bunch and stretch as she speeds up, a black blur as she streaks past the labs.

(Y/n) charges up the loading doors and up to Skye's room, shifting back into herself.

"Skye! You need to wake up!" (Y/n) exclaims, gently shaking Skye's shoulder.

Skye starts, fixing her gaze on (Y/n)'s (E/c) eyes but then she looks at the door as Dr. Garner, May, Fitz, and Simmons burst into the room.

"Hey. Look at me," (Y/n) reaches out a hand, gently moving Skye's face to look her in the eye. "You need to stop this," (Y/n) kneels down and to her relief, Skye keeps her eyes on (Y/n)'s.

"If she needs a sedative . . ." Simmons begins, but May glares at the scientist.

"You can do it Skye. Just focus," (Y/n) whispers, gazing into Skye's brown eyes.

Skye exhales slowly and the shaking stops.

"No, no. It's good. It's good. It's stopping," Fitz tells Simmons.

Dr. Garner and May exchange a look before fixing their gazes on (Y/n), whose hand is resting on Skye's knee now.

"I'm going to stay," Garner says.

"Come on. Everybody out," May nods.

'Love you,' (Y/n) mouths as she leaves the room, looking back at Skye, and the brunette relaxes, smiling softly.

"May," comes a voice and May looks at her watch, a projection of Coulson appears in her hand. "We need backup."

. . .

Skye breathes deeply, looking at her bio-meter watch. "Under seventy," Skye says, taking another breath.

"How are you doing that?" Garner asks.

"May taught me," Skye replies. "You focus on a single point, let everything else become noise disappearing in the background."

"Except it doesn't disappear you're pushing it aside," Garner says, putting his hands on his hips. Which is why, when you were dreaming, the tremors started." Skye swallows thickly. "What were you dreaming about?" Garner asks.

"I don't remember," Skye replies, her cheeks darkening.

"You're seeming defensive," Garner says, frowning.

"Because you keep pushing," Skye argues.

"Because whatever you were feeling was strong enough to shake this entire plane," Garner replies, his brows furrowing.

"Well, I don't know, so let's move on," Skye says, her eyes watery. "How about you show me an inkblot, and I tell you about me and my girlfriend's first time?" Skye asks, leaning forward. The moment she says it though, she regrets it. Their first time had been magical, and Skye had never felt so loved that night.

Garner chuckles. "Humor. So that's your thing. Well, that's an effective way to avoid thinking about how monumentally painful your life is right now."

"Good pep talk," Skye says through gritted teeth. "Thanks," Skye frowns, her brows furrowing.

"Sarcasm. Same purpose - avoidance strategy," Garner says.

"What am I avoiding, exactly?" Skye asks, leaning forward and crossing her legs criss-cross-applesauce on her and (Y/n)'s shared bed.

"The truth," Garner says. "That - not just you, but your girlfriend too - are different now, that you have abilities, your abilities triggered by pain, and either you face that or you don't sleep again."

Skye swallows thickly, her gaze falling on the door, wishing that (Y/n) would walk through the door; wishing that (Y/n) would set her hand on her knee like she always did when Skye was feeling scared or nervous; wishing that (Y/n) would walk through with a carefully picked tub of salted caramel ice cream and two spoons.

Skye turns back to Dr. Garner. "I dreamed I was on a mission, looking through the scope of my rifle. The next thing I knew, I was on the other side. The rifle was trained on me.

"Pretty on point - going form being an agent to a -" Garner begins

"Yeah, to being on the Index," Skye interupts. "And I know SHIELD's policy for people on the Index."

There's a rumbling.

"I have executed that policy," Skye continues.

"Okay. Skye, I need you to stop," Garner says, looking around at the shaking walls. "Just calm down. Take a breath."

"Wait. The room is shaking," Skye realizes.

"Right," Garner replies, leaning forward in his chair. "Which is why I need you to breathe."

"No, this isn't me. I'm not doing this," Skye says, pursing her lips.

Garner looks around before moving out of the room.

(Y/n) enters the room a moment later holding two spoons and a tub of salted caramel ice cream.

Skye gazes softly at (Y/n) as (Y/n) comes over to sit beside her on their shared bed.

"Dad needed backup," (Y/n) tells Skye as she hands her girlfriend a spoon, then cracking open the tub of ice cream.

Skye leans affectionately against (Y/n), digging her spoon into the carton and making airplane noises like she would to a baby, poking (Y/n)'s lips with the spoon.

(Y/n)'s shoulder shake with silent laughter, and she opens her mouth, eating the spoonful off Skye's spoon.

(Y/n) takes her own spoon, scooping out another bite. She moves it towards Skye's lips. When Skye opens her mouth, (Y/n) steals the bite.

Skye giggles this time, her head falling on (Y/n)'s shoulder.

. . .

"That not-talking thing you do - not okay when we were married, but definitely not okay," Dr. Garner scolds his ex-wife.

"Not okay is Skye's lunatic father leading Coulson into a trap. Civilians could be hurt. I acted quickly," May says, her tone hardening.

"And me and Skye? We do what?" Garner asks, furrowing his brow.

May scoffs. "Same as if we were were on base," May says. "Stay in the cage. Continue your evaluation."

"That's so not going to happen," Skye says, and the two exs turn to fix their gazes on the two young women.

May's eyes flick down to Skye and (Y/n)'s interlocked pinkies and Skye's slightly relaxed expression.

"This is not a negotiation, Skye," May fixes her gaze back on Skye's eyes, which had narrowed, her relaxed expression leaving her face. "You're staying on the BUS."

Skye walks over to the debriefing table, leaving (Y/n) standing in the doorway.

"If Coulson needs backup -" Skye begins.

May cuts her off. "He'll have it. We don't need you."

"Yes, you do. My father's involved," Skye argues, her eyes narrowing. "And for better or worse, I matter to him, and we can use that."

"May, we can help," (Y/n) says, moving over to stand beside Skye.

"Having contact with your father is a bad idea," Garner says, furrowing his eyebrows. "If you can't control your feelings -"

"I'll ice myself," Skye interupts.

Garner frowns.

"Look. You put me on the Index. You're doing my intake assessment. How about we let my Dad know?" Skye asks.

"Okay," May says after a moment, but then she fixes her gaze on (Y/n).

. . .

"We want everyone to know what you do to people like us," Cal says, his voice echoing through the silent stadium. "And we want you to stop before you do it to her."

"Talking about her?" (Y/n) says through gritted teeth, pushing Skye forward, her unloaded handgun pressed to the side of Skye's neck.

"You monster," Cal turns to (Y/n), his brow furrowing.

(Y/n)," Coulson breathes, looking at his daughter in disbelief.

"Daisy," Cal says, gazing at his daughter. "What have they done to you?"

"We put her on the Index," May says, coming up and pressing her unloaded handgun into the small of Skye's back. "Now we decide - contain her or put her down." May shoves the gun into Skye's back again. "Your call."

"Tell me they didn't hurt you," Cal says, stepping forward to gaze into his daughter's watery eyes.

"Talk to me, not her," (Y/n) presses the gun into Skye's neck, hating herself for being so harsh, but she knows she has to keep up the facade.

"Now, you let these people go, or your daughter dies," May says, shoving the gun into Skye's back for the third time.

"Oh, no, no, no, no. I can't lose you again," Cal whispers. "Don't you see what they do? You've been changed. And it scares the hell out of them. I think it's wonderful." Skye swallows thickly. "I can help. So, tell me. What's your thing?" he asks. "I mean, I was hoping it was wings."

"Talk to me, not her," May growls.

"You chose them," Cal glares at (Y/n), then Coulson, his eyes full of disdain. "You threatened to kill me, your own father. You didn't know any better. They raised you. They brainwashed you. You won't kill her," Cal says, turning away. "Though, the truth is, you're capable of such things. That's what I'm trying to teach this whole damn town. I don't even know if they're listening. Maybe they'll listen to you," Cal hands the microphone to a man beside him.

The man with the microphone exhales deeply, but a blue energy field surrounds Cal and takes him away.

"Skye," Garner says, running over to the brunette. "Come on. Come on."

"(Y/n), go with them," May gives (Y/n) a slight nudge. "You're the only one who can keep her calm."

(Y/n) takes Skye's hand in her own, pulling her along.

Skye's breathing stutters as she watches Coulson and May fight Cal's companions.

Skye breathes deeply and the stadium begins to rumble.

Everyone looks at her and (Y/n) drops Skye's hand, clutching her left wrist.

The rumbling stops and (Y/n) looks over at Skye's hands and lower arms which were darkening with bruises.

Skye's vision goes blurry and (Y/n) moves behind Skye to catch her as she fell.

(Y/n) hits the ground, her wrist searing with pain, but Skye lands safely in her lap.

. . .

"You're awake," Simmons says, sighing with relief.

Skye looks around, looking startled and slightly scared as she tries to sit up.

"You're probably feeling a little drowsy," Simmons says, her voice soft. "We gave you something to help you sleep." Skye sits up, looking at her bruised hands.

"Why do I have these bruises?" Skye asks, her gaze finding (Y/n) sitting in a chair, her left wrist resting on the table, Fitz gently running his fingers down (Y/n)'s wrist before he leaves the room.

"I ran some tests," Simmons says. "The bruising was caused by capillary ruptures in your arms. X-rays showed more than seventy-five hairline fractures from your clavicle to your fingers."

"I . . . I don't understand," Skye stutters, Fitz returning to the room with a black velcro cast. He tightly wraps (Y/n)'s wrist with the cast, (Y/n) gritting her teeth.

"You weren't stopping your powers, Skye," Garner tells her. "You were . . . directing them inward."

Skye lets out a shaky breath, blinking back her tears.

(Y/n) runs her own fingers down her fractured wrist.

A guilty looking Skye meets (Y/n)'s gaze and Skye can see (Y/n)'s love and worry reflected there, along with pain.

"What am I supposed to do?" Skye asks.

"I made the casts from compression microfibers to help contain the shaking, minimize the damage," Simmons leans forward and (Y/n) narrows her eyes angrily.

"That's not what she means, Simmons," May says before she focuses her gaze gently on Skye. "We'll figure this out, Skye."

. . .

(Y/n) lies down on Skye's stomach, letting out soft kitten purrs that sooth Skye back to sleep, her bruised fingers gently brushing (Y/n)'s orange fur.

(Y/n) had realized that when using her powers, it was more helpful if she knew a lot about the animal she was going to change into.

. . .

"Well, the bruising has started to fade," Simmons says, looking at Skye's arm. (Y/n) is sitting close to Skye, (Y/n)'s fractured wrist resting on Skye's lower thigh, rubbing it with a thumb. "though I'm afraid these stress fractures will take a bit more time to heal."

"Great. Tried to go Zen to keep my powers in check only to find myself -" Skye lets out a soft yelp as he tries to pull her 'casts' back onto her arms "- back on the D.L."

"The down low?" both (Y/n) and Fitz ask in unison.

"The disabled list," Skye says, nudging (Y/n) with a knee.

"Oh, yeah," (Y/n) says, looking a little embarrassed.

"That makes more sense," Fitz agrees

"Yeah, and now I'm all . . . " Skye studies her bruised hands.

"You know, it could just be growing pains - from the new powers," Fitz says, trying to reassure Skye.

"It's okay, Fitz," Skye says, gently closing her fists. "You don't have to put a positive spin on this."

"I'm not doing that. I would never patronize the -" the three women look up at him. "Well, the - Things change, that's what I'm saying. So, maybe if you can learn to control this, then . . . You could have Avengers-level powers," Fitz says, looking at Skye. "Something like Captain America, even."

"I'd say more Thor-ish powers," (Y/n) corrects. "Thor's the God of Thunder. Tremors got, well, tremors. Both elemental based powers."

"I think it best we keep in mind the destructive capabilities of Skye's powers," Simmons says. "If there is an Avengers equivalent, right now, I'm afraid it's the Hulk."

(Y/n) turns her gaze on Simmons, an eyebrow raised.

"Well, Hulk saved the world, last I checked," Fitz says.

"You're absolutely right," Simmons agrees. "But given the choice, I believe Bruce Banner would not hesitate to cure himself once and for all."

"Actually," (Y/n) says, meeting Simmons's gaze. "Bruce is  trying to find out a way to make himself and the Hulk the same being. Just because something is powerful, doesn't mean it's dangerous. Steve Rogers, for example, is a super-solder, but he's as gentle as a mouse. People have the capacity to choose who or what they want to be, Simmons."

"Well then, maybe we should be glad that Bruce hasn't tried to cure himself then," Fitz says.

"Oh, Fitz -" Simmons goes to say.

"Don't 'oh, Fitz,' me," Fitz retorts and the BUS begins to shake.

(Y/n) lets her uninjured hand's fingers brush soothingly up and down Skye's arm.

The rumbling stops as Skye fixes her gaze on (Y/n)'s gentle, loving gaze.

"Sorry, Skye. It isn't really about you," Simmons says apologetically.

"I'm pretty sure it is," Skye says, frowning. "We'll go back to our cage," Skye says, sliding out of the the booth, (Y/n) following closely.

Fitz and Simmons watch (Y/n) and Skye closely. They watch as (Y/n)'s uninjured hand brushes one of Skye's bruised hand with a gentleness neither of the two had seen before.

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