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Star-Crossed Agents

Grant Ward x Reader

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Written for my personal fic writing challenge for 2024, Sophie's Year of Fic! Featuring a new fic being posted every Friday, all year long :)

Fandom: Marvel

Summary: Grant's SO is part of SciTech, which means they have to sneak around a little bit to hang out, and with the end of their Academy careers approaching it's harder than ever to find time for each other

Word Count: 1,485

Category: Fluff

Putting work into an AI program without permission is illegal. You do not have my permission. Do not do it.

I took a deep breath in and then let it out, slow and heavy in a massive sigh. I'd been staring at my laptop for what felt like an eternity, and I was about to truly and completely lose it.

I snapped out of my thousand yard stare at the screen two feet in front of me at the sound of my dorm window sliding open. I shot up from my desk and whirled around only to find my boyfriend, Grant Ward, hanging out of my window.

"You gave me a heart attack," I said by way of hello as I rushed to the window to help him the rest of the way through. He had takeout containers in one hand, which I immediately took to make sure he wouldn't drop them. I turned to set them on my desk, and by the time I returned to Grant, he'd made it all the way through my window and stood in the middle of my room with his hands on his hips.

"Really? You went for the food before me?"

I just shrugged and grinned at him. "You're a Specialist in the top of your class. I figured you'd be able to handle it, especially since you've done it a thousand times before."

He sighed, but didn't waste another second before crossing the room to kiss me either. His arms wound their way around my waist as he pulled me to him, and I brushed one hand against his cheek before gently pulling back.

"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I don't think I'm gonna be a very good date tonight. Between trying to finish out the SciTech-Ops prank war and my final thesis project being due in just a few months, I'm probably going to have to mostly do work tonight."

"I don't mind helping you with SciTech pranks, if that's what you're working on," said Grant as we walked to my desk together, sitting shoulder to shoulder. "Why don't you open up your notes on that, and let me see all the things you have planned."

I scoffed. "I thought Specialists were supposed to be better at getting information out of people than that."

Grant fixed me with a look and put his hands on the arms of my chair, slowly leaning in until his face was inches from mine, effectively pinning me to the spot.

"I bet I could get you to give up some secrets if I tried."

I leaned in, closing the distance between us until our lips were barely a hair's breadth apart. Then I smiled.

"Nice try, but I'm already betraying my entire school by dating you. No way I'm giving the Ops kids an edge in the prank war. And no way I'm letting you distract me, either, I have work to do."

Grant sighed, but when he leaned in for a kiss it was just a quick peck before he sat back in his own chair.

"Fine. We don't really need your help to win, anyway. We've got this in the bag."

"Mhmm. And you just keep telling yourself that, Superspy."

Grant and I shared a grin as he dished up our food and I reluctantly turned back to my laptop. Leaning against Grant and having him here, especially with some of my favorite food, made trying to work less frustrating. But it didn't magically spark any inspiration or ideas like I'd hoped it would.

After we finished dinner, Grant crossed the room to kick back on my bed and cracked open a book while I kept trying to make my brain work. I stared at the computer screen, just trying to get some kind of brainstorm to start. I felt a headache coming on with every passing moment, and my brain started to feel literally heavy, like thick fog was just sitting up there, weighing me down. My eyes squinted against the glare of the screen, and still I didn't move, scanning over my notes like they might magically add some insight that they hadn't before.

I jumped when a hand landed on my shoulder, then turned with bleary eyes to find Grant had returned to sit next to me, a worried expression on his face.

"Are you alright? You were starting to look like a zombie over here."

"Yeah, yeah, just... waiting for inspiration to strike."

"...And how's that going?"

"Uh. Not well."

Grant huffed a laugh, the corner of his mouth quirking up in a smile as he pulled me a little closer to his side.

"Then I think it's time we take a break together."

I sighed and leaned my head against his shoulder. Truly all I wanted to do was spend time with him, without anything SHIELD-related hanging over our heads, but final tests were coming soon and I really didn't have a moment to spare.

"I don't think I can, Grant. Everything I've been working for since the day I got here all comes down to this project. I have to make sure it's perfect."

"Right now you're not going to be able to make anything perfect."

I pulled back, mouth dropping open as I glared at him, but he just stared right back with the frank appraisal of a Specialist that I both loved and hated.

"Your brain is clearly fried from working on this for too long. Anything you put down now is just going to be something you have to go back and fix later. I've seen it before, from new Ops recruits and from you. You need a break. If you take one, odds are you're going to have a much easier time brainstorming and working things through after you spend some time not thinking about this project. It'll be faster and better than anything you might manage to force out now."

I narrowed my eyes at him. "That... actually kind of makes sense..."

"I know it does. It's because I'm right." I scoffed, but Grant ignored it, instead leaning forward and resting a hand on my thigh. "Besides, the next month or so is going to be hell for both of us. Between your final projects and all of my practical exams before we graduate... I'm barely going to have time to see you. So we should enjoy the time we have now, while we still can."

I sighed, leaning forward and raising one hand to rest at the nape of Grant's neck, gently touching my forehead to his.

"I don't like to think about that," I admitted. "Or about how much harder it's going to be to stay together when you're out in the field and I'm in the Hub or the Triskelion doing work."

"I know. I hate thinking about that too."

We fell into silence for a few moments, the uncertainty of both of our futures hanging over us. Grant's grip on me tightened slightly, and I sighed. He was right. I needed a break, and I needed to enjoy every moment I could get while it was just the two of us like this.

"You know what? I think we'll be fine," I said, straightening up enough to meet Grant's eyes. "If we can make it work as two people from rival SHIELD schools dating each other? Like a more intense version of Romeo and Juliet? Then I think we're gonna be just fine, no matter what the rest of the world tries to throw at us."

"...You know Romeo and Juliet ended pretty badly for both of them-"

"I know! I was just trying to make a point, we're from aggressively rival groups and we're finding love anyway. Just... ignore the ending."

Grant chuckled. "Alright. So does this mean you're going to take a break with me?"

"Yes, it does. Come on, let's watch some terrible tv and eat the chocolate I keep in the bottom drawer of my desk for emergencies and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist."

Grant smiled, catching my chin before I could move away and pulling me back to him for a long, deep kiss. When we finally broke apart, I was breathing hard and grinning like an idiot at the man before me. I really, really loved him, even though when he finally spoke he said:

"Anything but Love Island."

"What! Grant, come on. We were almost done with the last season! We have to get caught up before the new one starts."

"No way. I'll watch anything but that."

"...Anything?"

He sighed. "This is gonna be a long night, isn't it?"

I just grinned at him. It was fun to give him a hard time, but at the end of the day, I was happy doing anything as long as I got to do it with him. And I knew he felt exactly the same way. We'd make it work, from picking a tv show tonight to whatever our futures might have in store for us after this.

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[alyafae-a]

𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗: 𝚆𝙴𝙻𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝙾 𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙴𝙻𝙳 𝙰𝙲𝙰𝙳𝙴𝙼𝚈

Academy of Communications

The Department of Communications is the largest part of the SHIELD Academy. Communications focuses on data analysis and team building. It may be the easiest department to get in but it doesn’t make its students any less valuable. Many great leaders and agents have come from Communications. The head of the Department is no other than Phil Coulson, former director of SHIELD. Communications also serves as a bridge between Operations and SciTech.

Academy of Operations

The Department of Operations has the most aggressive program as every graduate will end up in the field. They are trained to operate in every possible situation they might face. Because of that, their rate of drop-outs is much higher than it is in the other Departments. Though all graduates go out on the field, there will be students trained as Specialists for various jobs. The head of the Department is no other than Melinda May, legendary SHIELD agent and former right hand of Director Phil Coulson.

Academy of Science and Technology

The Department of Science and Technology (SciTech) is responsible for guiding many of the world’s best and brightest scientific minds. Their aim is to support and encourage clever minds to be better and make a difference in the world. Cadets are required to have at least one Ph.D., however, exceptions could be made if said person has proven themselves to fit in.  The head of the Department is Marcus Benson, former Director of Natural Sciences who uses SHIELD as his second chance.

Wall of Valor

The Main Hall has a Wall Of Valor just as its first incarnation. The Wall exists to honor agents who gave their lives in the line of duty and to remind every cadet that in their line of work, it is possible that they will give their lives. It is a reminder to honor and remember their history and a symbol of what they are fighting for.

The Daily Cadet

SHIELD Academy has its own online newspaper, The Daily Cadet, usually written up by students from Communications. They inform the cadets about the latest news around campus, deadlines as well as honorable mentions. Every cadet is welcome to join as it is a voluntary work.

A History Of SHIELD

Each cadet will be given a handbook with the History of SHIELD. Just as the Wall Of Valor, it serves as a reminder of their past and also a guideline for how to maneuver within the organization.

The Idea

In its first incarnation, SHIELD Academy consisted of three different Academies that rarely interacted with each other. Although the new Academy has different buildings as well, it is no longer divided into three different Academies. Theoretical courses take place in the same building and several of these courses are mandatory for each of the divisions which means there are mixed classes with cadets from all three divisions. In this building, the main building, there are also two libraries as well as the cafeteria and break rooms. Apart from the main building, there is a building with a big outdoor area for physical work and mock missions. Last but not least, one building serves as a testing area for SciTech where they can test potentially dangerous inventions without the fear of harming anyone else. Although everything is very high tech, SHIELD insisted on keeping several elements of its original charme.

Each division has its own schedule, however, there will be courses or even days planned for team building activities. Competitiveness is highly discouraged as they aim to prepare their cadets for the work in a team in the field where they will be confronted with people from different divisions. The whole idea of the joined Academy is to show their cadets that they have to depend on and trust each other if they want to be a SHIELD agent. Although each cadet is assigned to specialize in a certain division, they have the chance to attend courses from the other departments (eg. a com student taking op classes) if they show a certain amount of skill for the matter. Every once in a while, there will also be guest lectures given by (former) SHIELD agents as well as by people who have been workin with SHIELD (eg. an avenger)

Additionally, a program has been added to the basic SHIELD program, inspired by the Avengers Initiative which aims to prepare gifted students to become an avenger rather than a SHIELD agent. Clint Barton serves as instructor for the program.

[stxrdust-widow]

AoS finale spoilers!!!

I’m a wreck

I can’t believe we’re bever gonna see them on tv again

This season was amazing tho so 😍😍😍

Anyways some thoughts (not in order):

- BABY FITZSIMMONS abdhdudjdjj so cute I’m in love, and y’all totally called it. And naming her after a star system 😭😍

- the MayDaisy hug bless, it’s not quite what I was wanting but I suppose the “I love you” was implied

-timetravel hurts my brain so I’m still sorta confused by them interacting with their “past” selves and then their other selves disappearing but 🤷‍♀️

- The final scenes gave me iZombie finale vibes cause they also did that hologram-interface-whatever stuff

- May as a teacher???? I’m so happy for her, opening up and helping the new recruits. Now question, what is she teaching, and is the Coulson Academy like just one academy, like did they build more for Operations and SciTech and Communicatuons??

- also did May get her emotions back? Cause there was little lines throughout the season but I thought they were just to bug her but I guess not. Whatevs, we love an empath queen who saved the world with EMOTIONS who woulda thought. Now that’s called growth

- That fight scene with Coulson and May against the chronicons and Daisy against malick- badass, we live to see it

- Also Daisy absorbing Makicks shock waves- called it that was awesome. And the nerve of the writers to make me think they killed Daisy for a sec

- Fitzsimmons living their life finally together and with their baby we love

- Mack gave me fury vibes with his trench coat lol but I dig it. Also glad mackelena are together and happy and she’s doing missions with piper and Davis 😭😭 so great

- I was scared they were going to deactivate Coulson so I’m so glad they didn’t! Also Mack touched Lola 😮😮😂 but that transforming scene was dope

- I’m glad they saved kora. Like she was kind of anoying, but I get that she was easily manipulated, I mean she had no outside human contact for her whole life- like maybe 20 yrs max? And then someone comes along and promises her stuff? Like I get it. Good thing malick didn’t drain her like he drained Gordon oof.

- and Garrett being shot by Victoria Hand -poetic cinema 👌( I know it was actually Ward who originally killed her but he gave the order so)

- also Kora technically being older that Daisy but physically younger- nice. Makes for fun conversations I bet. I’m also glad daisy was able to get to her and to help her and her line like “it’s funny what can happen when someone believes in you” bruh I got tears

- Daisy exploring with Sousa 😭😭so cute. I’m glad they’re happy together. I’m glad daisy finally gets some peace.

- also the team gets together more often than once a year like- I don’t make the rules 🤷‍♀️. Also whenever Daisy’s back on earth she totally visits Fitzsimmons and has family dinners with May and Coulson and Kora and Sousa.

- also what was Simmons sending daisy?????

- And y’all know daisy is the best aunty ever she ded spoils Arya- actually I’m p sure everyone spoils her

- and Deke my precious space dummy. Saving the world and staying in an alternate timeline? Wow. I really like him this season. Also he’s like the director of shield??? That’s scary 😂 And his side gig of being a singing legend 😂😂

-I’ll probably think of more stuff later. I’m just very grateful they didn’t kill anyone and they’re all happy and they get together more often than once a year

Thank you, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D for 7 amazing years!

[a-biochemist-not-a-bird]

Leo Fitz and Daisy Johnson were recruited by SHIELD when they were 15 and 14 respectively for creating the most advanced androids known to humankind at that point. Daisy being responsible for the software and Fitz the hardware of course- they spent every day after school working on it. SHIELD Academy’s Science and Technology Division’s entry requirements include a PhD which neither teenager happens to have. Welcome to the SciTech pre-program for gifted recruits in situations where they do not have the means to earn one. It is run by SciTech seniors and was founded by Anne Weaver, herself, but in the new environment, the two best friends begin to draw apart. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? 

[assemblcd]

peggy carter, nick fury, phil coulson, jeffery mace, mack mackenzie, and deke shaw all walk into the boiler room at the scitech campus of shield academy...

oh, my soft boy, you’re in the big leagues now.

deke will look so precious with stress-induced grey hair.

[agentofship]

My rewatch AoS 1x11 to 1X15

I am very late for the rewatch so I thought I’d keep doing my rewatch review in blocks of five episodes (or whatever seems relevant). So here we go. With TAHITI, we're starting to get a glimpse of what the rest show is going to be since from that moment on. Except for Yes Men (who still gives an important moment information about May at the end) who really should have been in the first part of the season, every episode will be connected in a more or less big way to the main plot of the season. Like Yes Men who's completely independent or Seeds whose main plot doesn't seem linked until the end when we learn that Iain Quinn was linked to it, this first part of 1B makes the transition between the happy Bus days and the darker tone of the last seven episodes that will continue on in season two. So here's a few thoughts about separate episode: The Magical Place I absolutely love that first scene with the team working together perfectly, each using their own talent, it was perfect. Still love it when people call Fitz "sir" in season one, it's just so funny since he's so tiny 😄 May is really smart in that episode. Everyone did exactly as she had planned without even having to tell them (because she knew FitzSimmons and Ward would help Skye escape) and thus also remaining in Hand's good graces. Agent Skye mini May is adorable! But she really is as smart and ressourceful as May, she just needs to be trained in combat and badassness now! I know it's a very unpopular opinion but Raina annoys the crap out of me with her too sweet smiles and exaggeratedly sexy voice. I mean she's obviously really at getting in men's heads, including Coulson but I just find her… annoying. She gets more interesting after she turns, too bad she didn't last longer after that. Love the Coulson rescue mission, again that was some very good team work. And love the reunion scene, although I know at least Skye wanted a group hug. Love May's side smile and "Nice Jacket". "Bet there's no flower dresses where she's going!" "Amen to that, sister." Love that :D "Disengage bracelet" Coulson's dorkiness really is one of his most endearing traits. Seeds First of all, a big thank you for giving us enough FitzSimmons content for hundreds of FitzSimmons Academy Era fics. Love that FitzSimmons scene where they present each other's work mirroring the scene in the Pilot when they introduce each other, it's adorable. Also love the way their speech is so well rehearsed, it's perfectly flawing between them and I bet even that joke Fitz does was written on paper. "Potential can sometimes be dangerous…" Oh Fitz, you're going to remember that one quite bitterly in a few years. FitzSimmons are so proud of their Academy and being such stars there. I love their competition with Ward and Simmons' "Did you have one of these in ops? Did not think so." Yep, cannot imagine Ops having something so fun! SciTech would have definitely been more my kind of place (except for the fact that I didn't study science at all :p) "My room was just like that." We know it's a lie but it's cute, it's Fitz's slightly awkward way of trying to connect. We know he has trouble making first contact and it looks like he's also kind of thrilled of being someone's hero or even a father figure of sorts. Coulson saying "You're talking, it's weird" is the best. That's some pretty dangerous info we're getting on Skye. They really took their time giving us bits of information all through the first season to focus on it in season two. Love the little robot on the bar at the boiler room, never noticed that before, need to include it in a future fic, it's adorable! Too bad Donnie ended up as he did, he really wasn't a bad person and deserved a redemption arc. Again, May is such a freaking badass. And all this without a single superpower! T.R.A.C.K.S Although there will be some criticizing, keep in mind that this episode still remains one of my favorite episodes of the season and the show as a whole. Love the plot, the humor, the action, the different POVs and that's also some top notch drama at the end. So, first of all, the accents. Even I, a person who only some distant italian relatives, can tell that Ward's one is awful. But at least, he's not supposed to be Italian so that's understandable. But that conductor sounds like a mix between Mario and Jen speaking pretend Italian in IT Crowd (hilarious episode by the way, you should look it up if you haven't :D) Then, that train. You should read @valentinaonthemoon‘s post here about it if you haven't because she points out all that is wrong with the train and its route. But seriously, it's so weird. It's all too big and pretty. I have never seen a restaurant carriage with actual cute little wooden tables and chairs and actual room to walk between the table. And what the hell about the actual bed? I've taken a night train to Venice once, even first class wasn't close to looking like that! Anyway, now moving on to all the good parts. May is the definition of badass in this episode. First casually walking on a moving train and then taking of all the bad guys with the knife they stabbed her in the shoulder with. And I also love the little Philinda moment where she lets him help her but didn't let Ward. Love Fitz summing up every cliche Europeans have about Americans "They have some good shows. Lots of nice teeth." and "Someplace affordable with big portions." His pretend relationship and real friendship with Skye is very very sweet in this. I love all the teasing but also the way he insists she takes the gun and tells her to be careful. Jemma is, once again, very heroic in this. Once more, she takes the conscious decision to sacrifice herself for his friends and Fitz in particular. Of course, that grenade wouldn't have killed them but she didn't know that. So really, during the pod scene, when Fitz is faced with the reality that only one can hope to make it to the surface, his decision is easy. And I think it's not only because he loves her and couldn't bear to live without her anyway, but also because she did twice already and he thinks that's it's his turn now. He's just less lucky about the consequences it has on him. (And ironically, Ward provoked it instead of being here to save the day… but I digress). I love Fitz's reaction after Jemma falls. He doesn't run to her because he's stunned and frozen at the idea that she might be dead. His sigh of relief when Skye tells him she's alive is everything. And also the line about her little face is adorable, especially since I only learned recently that it was ad libed by Iain! I didn't remember how heartbreaking Skye was when she tries to call for help and has no voice left at all. For a moment, she must have thought she was going to die all alone in that scary dark room. I mean, I never was really worried because they weren't going to kill her off but still, that's gut wrenching :s But Jemma for the win though! She's not even a medical doctor and so many people are alive thanks to her! And well, of course, THAT HUG! I mean all of FitzSimmons hugs are wonderful but this one is just… I love how it parallels the one from 4x21 where they don't talk and he just has to reach for her shoulder for her to finally let go and cry in his arms. At first, she doesn't fully hug him because she's afraid of putting blood on him (which is very Jemma-like of her) but then she lets go and he doesn't need to say a thing because it's his presence that comforts her the most. Also, FZZT was the moment he realized his feelings had changed for the first time but this feels important too. This is the first of many hugs and the moment their relationship becomes more physical (not in the sexual sense of the word, just physical). As much as I like to imagine they spent their Academy days falling asleep in the same bed every week, I feel like until now, their friendship was very intellectual with only quick very tame physical displays of affection like the touch of a hand or shoulder. Even that kiss on the cheek seemed something wild in the way he reacted and she hesitated before doing it. After that, we'll see more hugs and more daring touches, culminating into the pod scene. (and then regressing and slowly progressing again in season two B and and three) Because being on the field had taught them how hard things could be and they're like each other comfort blanket for a time, thus the need to be physically closer. T.A.H.I.T.I I love how FitzSimmons are sitting so close together on that couch. I think they both need the comfort of each other's presence because they are the only constant in their ever changing world. They really should have let Ward blame himself here. The way May beat the crap out of Iain Quinn was very satisfying. Love Coulson's progression about Tahiti. "Turned out not so magical" and in the next episode it'll be "It sucked". Well, at least he got to see the real, beautiful Tahiti 😞 Awww Trip. I didn't like him all that much the first time. I mean I found him okay and all but only on the second rewatch that I grew to like him. Other than the fact that he could actually get "Witches weekly's most charming award", he really is just a genuine nice, easy going, good guy. Too bad it made him the perfect candidate for shock value death 😞 Love, love, love that scene with FitzSimmons looking through the files. It's stunning and blue light definitely suits Fitz. I also love him during the mission. We know he's kind of scared and he still doesn't like being on the field but he's brave and funny and adorable. "Not afraid, not yet…" "To certain horrible death? Absolutely" Classical sassy Fitz! One thing that had always bothered me during this mission: Couldn't they use non lethal weaponry to "attack" the base. I mean they're protecting a shady secret but they're still (mostly) agents of SHIELD. And they'd been left to die and be buried under all that rock. I get that Coulson wanted the truth and to save Skye but still … I absolutely love the way they decided to handle the Kree reveal. Make Coulson look terrified and let us imagine all the most horrible things and then only in the end the horrible mutilated corpse. Feels a lot like what Hydra did to Skye's mother by the way and very, very evil :s Yes Men I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would despite it not being the strongest episode and it has a lot to do with Sif being a badass. So, first of all, with all the super advanced technology they have, would an Asgardian really be impressed by a bike?!! Skye saying: "I must look awful". Honestly, makeup department guys? They did a really good job when she was close to death but now she doesn't even look a little pale. She doesn't a little circle under eyes and doesn't even look tired at all. And look at her hair! That's not the hair of someone who had been forbidden to leave her bed for days! Fury is already missing, it's getting serious! Sif is so freaking badass and really aces the super hero landing! Also, she's so extra, like she casually throws a car to provide cover. I love her connection with May and I would totally watch a spin off of them kicking ass together. I like the phrase about people being dangerous when they are controlled and how it's another hint at May's backstory. Okay, so I love Sif throwing a car during the fight scene and I love Coulson calling Sif "your ladyship" but seriously, didn't SHIELD have enough women fighters? Honestly! Jemma is totally right about being mad at Coulson about wanting to know more about GH325. Coulson has a good reason for keeping it in house but he should just tell them for god's sake! At this point, we can see that he's still struggling between the whole following the rules and doing things his way because he no longer trusts SHIELD completely. "Ward is not the man you knew. He will not hesitate to kill you." "He might try but he wont." Yep, yep, yep, you don't know how right you were, May! "Because yes, I am that good!" Fitz was cocky and cute there but really not that wasn't a smart move telling Coulson about Lorelei without knowing if he'd been swayed as well. Libido does take a bit of his genius away :p "He's always getting knocked out, isn't he?" Mmmhhh … okay but how freakishly strong is Coulson if he can knock him out with only one punch? "You were saying?" Honestly, they should have copied that collar to use for all the villains and their long boring speeches. And finally dun, dun, dun! They really did a good job making us paranoid and making us think May could be the villain.

[bunnykaye]

Agents of SHIELD 1x12 Rewatch Recap:

“crystalline nucleation process she designed“ “and a delivery mechanism he invented” — just one of the many FitzSimmons projects/plans/concepts that can be abused if it got in the wrong hands, as we’ll see until the later seasons....

You can see the “rivalry” between SciTech and Ops graduates when they brag about being “harder to get into” than the other. lol

“Is this where you got all your PHDs?” “Oh, no, you need at least one to get through the door.” — Jemma not-so-subtly bragging hahah!

Fitzsimmons — the popular kids! I mean with their record, as Professor Weaver will point out a bit later, they’re STILL the youngest graduates to ever enroll.

Skye and the Wall of Valor — and name dropping Bucky Barnes hmmmmmmm 

Also, one of the very few truths that came out of Ward’s mouth — “All you need to join is a dedication to the greater good. Coulson saw that in you the moment he met you.”

FitzSimmons talk…. then name drops HYDRA (and Centipede.. and AIM). They really dropped hints DIDN’T THEY?

.... aaaannnnndddddd then Donnie gets iced. LITERALLY.

May and Coulson with a mission of their own to find the missing agent paired with the agent who dropped Skye off on the orphanage...

Skye making fun of Fitz’s young looks — which IRL also parallels Iain’s, LOL (he/Iain looks younger than his age, at least imo)

“My room was just like this, except umm, there was a lot more laundry…. on the floor” FITZ, YOU LIARRRRRR!!!!! Your Academy dorm room was huuuuuuge. and there were things.... but just mostly papers!

“....but I’m tired of secrets, so I’m glad we’re here” LOOK. AT. MAY’S. FACE. She looked so guilty because she herself was hiding something from Coulson :(

AND THEN THE BOMB.

“Agent Ward and I have been having sex”

...and then LITERALLY a second after that they manage to track the agent lmao

“Oh thank God. It’s about the baby girl isn’t it?” -- dude just smashed wood and threw punches at May then realizes they were a “friendly”. Poor May!

“The baby? The girl was the 084?” 

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN

“We’re not sure SHIELD is the safest place for you right now” SO TRUE, and it also shows how amazing Coulson is. May was about to hand the agent over to SHIELD but he made a different call. :)

.... ALTHOUGH NGL, up until the last few mins I thought the male agent was a baddie!

“Wherever she goes, death follows” errrrrrrr

Skye is getting real good with the spy stuff!!! 

Fitz and Donnie at the dorm room — GOSH, the way Fitz talks about Jemma is just…… DUDE. You’re AT LEAST half in love already AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW IT :333333

OH NO! Well that was an ELABORATE plan to get Fitz to solve Donnie and Seth’s problem. Lots of red herrings!

“How could I have been so stupid?” “Fitz, will you stop?” — MY HEART. Such a little line BUT throughout the seasons we’ll be able to see and follow how Fitz thinks too little of himself at times. MY POOR SON :(((((

I SWEAR Fitz was about to swear THE F WORD when he realized Donnie and Seth had a backer.. which is a-hole Ian Quinn, btw

When Coulson confessed what he found out during his side mission with May to Skye… MY HEART BROKE!!!!!

Donnie and Seth didn’t even realize that the device worked… A LITTLE TOO MUCH.

poor Seth :((

when Coulson told May how Skye reacted to the news… :((((((((

“That's what she took away from the story. Not the family she'll never have, but the one she's always had.”

BRB I’M CRYING

the tag!!!!!!!

“The clairvoyant says hello”

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN

[shineyma]

*barrels in at well last midnight because what is a healthy sleep schedule or reality even* It's been 84 years, Amy, but apparently in Canada there's a site where college students can sign up to be "sugar babies" throughout college so they can pay off tuition and just live? Like, that's an actual article I just read? And my dumpster brain could only chant "Jemma and Ward. Jemma and Ward." But like, SOMETHING Jemma and Ward, not this necessarily, I mean I don't even know how this would (1/2)

work. Just SOMETHING, a leap I can't even comprehend, where a new SHIELD mandate assigns one SciTech student/recent graduate to one Ops specialist for training and whatever. And S1 Jemma just walks up to Grant (Hydra, not Hydra, IDK) with that "Pilot" smile and confirms her placement with official papers that match his and it's reAL and he's short-circuiting because cute but so effing tiny and what kind of a joke and Bobbi and Trip are a few feet away laughing hysterically-YA FEEL, AMY??? (2/2)

Okay nonnie, picture this: I’ve long headcanoned that there are honeypot classes at the Academy--a whole series of courses where specialists learn to seduce marks (and/or trick marks into seducing them). And you can test on things as much as you like, but when it comes down to it, for interpersonal stuff, you need practice.

And Jemma is so ensconced in SHIELD that she doesn’t get out much--there’s the Academy and all her classes and her focus on graduating early, then there’s Science! and her partnership with Fitz and somehow she just never finds time for more than, at best, a shared meal in the cafeteria with a potential date.

So when she hears that the latest crop of Academy specialists are looking for volunteers to practice their honeypot skills on--volunteers who will be treated to a variety of seduction techniques from a variety of specialists, and whose job it will be to resist those techniques for as long as possible....sure. Why not?

On the other end of things, Grant, Bobbi, and Trip are all assigned to the same adorable genius scientist. They’re all a little older than her and a lot more experienced, so...honestly, they feel kind of bad. This is gonna be like taking candy from a baby--the only question is gonna be who gets to her first.

But then she resists them! Because Jemma has never met a test she didn’t ace, and while the specialists are the ones actually being tested here....well, she’s been told to resist for as long as possible! She can’t just give in right away!

(No matter how nice Agent Triplett’s smile and Agent Morse’s hair and Agent Ward’s everything are.)

So then there is a long, drawn-out seduction, and eventually Trip and Bobbi get bored (and/or just bow out because Grant is starting to get intense about Simmons) and step back, at which point it’s just Grant vs Jemma and NOBODY IS WINNING because they BOTH want sex but Jemma just refuses to let it happen.

Months and months of UST later, Grant will finally surrender~ and say fine, she wins, his honeypot skills have failed him, can they please have sex now?

And Jemma will gloat about her victory for a good five minutes before agreeing. 

(Grant gets his payback by absolutely destroying the shirt she’s wearing. He is very pleased when she has to wear one of his shirts back to her quarters---a full day later, because they have months of tension to work through and part one (there will be many many more parts) took a good sixteen hours.)

And I know that has very little in common with sugar babies or whatever but it is where my mind went. Sorry?

[ilosttrackofthings]

Awww!! Coulson having romance radar and May knowing just how worried Grant is!! I miss the Bus family😭😭. I also have questions for the fic "showing up at my door". Did the whole SHIELD think that Grant was the bad guy in the love triangle? Nobody knew that Fitz was the one who essentially tried to ruin Jemma and Grant's relationship on their wedding day? And does Fitz eventually confess to his sins and apologize for it? Would SciOps eventually find out the truth and apologize to Ward?

Not all of SHIELD thinks Grant was the bad guy here. But definitely SciTech. FS’ inevitability was just part of their fame not just at the Academy but throughout SHIELD’s SciTech divisions. Of course there are a few people who think there’s gotta be more to the story, but there are a lot more of those in Ops and Comms.

In Fitz’s defense, he did think he was being romantic up until the moment he saw Jemma’s face and realized his feelings were not returned in the slightest. He will apologize to both Grant and Jemma once he’s sobered up and, even after Jemma’s gone, make a real effort to make things right with Grant. He doesn’t always succeed - there are definitely days where he’s more heartbroken and angry than self-reflective - but he tries and in the end the gains outweigh the losses. 

The whole story never comes out - none of them would want it to though. It’s just too embarrassing for everyone and it’s not like any of the people who are determined to hate Grant for Fitz’s sake are going to believe it, but they will treat Grant better when they see Fitz’s change in behavior. (And the few that don’t are likely the type to treat any ops agent as a neanderthal with a single digit IQ anyway.) So it all gets better regardless.

SHIELD does try to use this to partner Jemma and Fitz again, but she refuses. She’ll work with him on occasion and she’ll even, after a lot of effort on all sides, return to friendly terms with him, but she won’t be assigned with him.

[smallblueandloud]

frankenmeme!

created and tagged by the inimitable @megabadbunny, this meme (surprisingly) has nothing to do with halloween! instead it’s a mashing of let’s-see-what-you’re-working-on-atm and also let’s-peek-at-your-wips-folder, i believe. sounds like fun! (and please be warned that my wip folder is definitely way... emptier than probably anyone else’s is, lol.) 

the rules, i think, are to post the titles/descriptions of everything in your wip folder, along with the last sentence you wrote of each, but i fudged that part a little bit. ah, well, such is life, i guess!

so without further ado, i present to you: essbie’s wip folder! in order of distance to completion, more or less)

tramps like us; baby we were born to run this fic was written a few days after i watched ocean’s 8, because i had many feelings about debbie/lou and also danny/rusty/tess. (it’s really only missing a few edits, at this point, and i don’t really intent to publish it, but if there’s interest i can definitely put it up here/on my ao3 - just tell me if you want to read the whole thing)

fine, Lou replies, meaning it. Debbie was the one who didn’t have the sense to stay away from men who weren’t used to working on the wrong side of the law, and now she has to pay for it. There isn’t anything Lou can do for her by feeling upset.

dimension hopping rose aka the fic that has been in the works for all of twenty-four hours, basically a disjointed set of past-present scenes in the life of rose as a companion/defender of the universe, because her world still revolves around this daft alien that she calls the doctor no matter where she is (with cameos from thirteen, nine’s jacket, and possibly others that i haven’t decided on yet)

She meets the blonde woman for herself, one day. It’s her third jump in a row - Mickey and Pete and Jackie all hate it when she does them in sequence, but they’re running out of time and they don’t have time for unnecessary precautions or precautions in general, really - and she’s tired enough that she has to rub her eyes and make sure that she’s really seeing the sight in front of her.

“The famed Singing Towers of Darillium,” proclaims a guide a few meters away from her, to his motley group of assorted beings. He’d told her about them several times, said it was on his list of places he was saving for a special occasion.

tale as old as time the fitzdaisy beauty and the beast au! thought this one up while stuck in a car for several hours a day, several days in a row, and it is not working out. no, it’ll be fine, once i actually start working on it because all i have now is a couple of paragraphs and a page or so of plot. (starring the people we all hate from s4 in the place of various villains from the disney movie)

"What right do you have to ask us for compassion?" says Radcliffe, sneering down at him. Fitz sighs.

"I don't. But she- she taught me the importance of it. She showed me why you should be kind. If anyone's a monster it's me, and you aren't-" his voice broke. "I don't see a mob knocking down my door." A pause. “She doesn’t mean any harm. Please- please, you have to believe me.”

the blood in my veins this document is the one full of i-have-so-many-feelings-about-royai rambling, in which every part is only a couple hundred words long. ‘nuff said.

But it’s not just those encounters that make it difficult. It’s the fact that he can count the number of times he’s held her on his fingers and have plenty left over. It’s the fact that every day he goes home to an empty apartment that doesn’t smell like her perfume and doesn’t have dog fur on the cushions.

It’s the fact that he goes on ‘dates’ with three women a week and none of them ever measure up to her.

fitzskimmons ‘verse and i think everyone knows what this one’s about, but just in case you’ve missed my near-weekly posting about something related to this, this is a rewrite of agents of shield seasons 1-4 in which fsk becomes canon instead of just fs, written in the style of my other season rewrite (based on doctor who season 5, which is eleven/rose-centric and you can find here if that’s your cup of tea). it is... longer than i was ever expecting when i started it, and it is in no way close to being finished, but here’s a snippet (of the main fic; it’s going to be a series that extend past the end of seasons 1-4 canon) anyway, set during 1x05:

Anyway, she’s got some interesting biological samples to go over that were sent to her by a professor from the SciTech campus of the Academy. Watching Skye argue with Agent Coulson and her... boyfriend and listening to Fitz angrily polish wire cutters is a waste of her time.

At least, that’s what she thinks, but then for some reason, she can’t quite seem to tear herself away from the sight of Skye’s trite face on the screen.

These feelings might mean more that I thought they did, she thinks, and gulps.

Uh oh.

thank you so much for tagging me! in return, i tag @misstylersmith, @thewolfsdoctor, @theclaravoyant, @florchis, @agentcalliope, and @hedgehog-o-brien. go wild, but of course no pressure to anyone!

[captainsophiestark]

Partners

Grant Ward x Reader

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Written for Fictober 2024!

Fandom: Marvel

Day Thirty Prompt: "I won't let you down."

Summary: Grant's SO is tackling the biggest project SciTech has to offer an academy student, and he's about to be dragged into helping with it.

Word Count: 2,879

Category: Fluff

Putting work into an AI program without permission is illegal. You do not have my permission. Do not do it.

"Out of every single other member in your class, the board has decided to trust you with this assignment. Do you think you're up to the challenge?"

I kept my face carefully neutral, a skill I'd learned from my Ops boyfriend. Inside, my heart was racing and threatening to make an escape across the room and out the door, but in front of the entire SHIELD SciTech Academy board? I could not let that show.

Instead, I kept my back straight, and forced the slightest of smiles onto my face.

"Yes, ma'am. I am up to the challenge. I promise, I won't let you down."

"Good. We look forward to seeing what you come up with."

I kept the smile on my face and nodded, leaning forward enough to be at the very edge of a bow. Then, I turned on my heel and kept my head high as I walked out of the room. My boyfriend had taught me exactly the body language required to convey confidence, and I was putting all of it to use right now.

The second I cleared the doors, I let everything drop.

I took off at a sprint through the hallways of the main SciTech building, ducking through the hallways I knew better than anywhere else on earth, avoiding anybody that might try to stop or question me. I didn't slow down, even once I made it outside. Instead, I sped up, heading for the edge of the SciTech campus.

I was in my last year at the Academy. I was at the top of my class, so for a final project, the board had tasked me with creating a new tool for Field Agents and Specialists. They wanted something the agents could have on them that worked like an emergency button, transmitting information and location if the need arose. But, they also needed it to be basically undetectable to any sensor, easy for agents in the field to operate and conceal, and durable enough to do its job no matter what punishment it got put through. A nearly impossible task outside of these walls, and despite my preparation, still pretty damn hard for me.

I'd been workshopping a prototype for a similar idea all semester, and the board knew it. They liked what they'd seen, so they'd made it my job to finish a true prototype for them to present and then further develop on Monday. It was currently Friday, and my project still had one gigantic, glaring weakness.

No matter what we could come up with in the lab, our field inventions almost inevitably came back with complaints from the agents who actually used them. We could run simulations and tests and try to recreate conditions pretty well in the lab, but it never stood up to the hardships of actually being in the field like we thought it would. Which meant, if I wanted to keep my promise to the board and my standing within SciTech, I needed to get creative.

Fortunately for me, I happened to be dating the best Operations student in generations. Grant Ward and I had met last year and we'd been happily dating ever since, despite how hard it could be sometimes to spend time with each other from different Academy campuses. We'd found workarounds whenever and wherever we needed to.

Thank goodness we'd both agreed to spend time breaking the rules at the beginning of our relationship. I was on the brink of a crisis, and I didn't have time to try to find a way to break into the Fort Knox that was the SHIELD Operations Academy.

In almost record time, I made it to Grant's dorm, using the routes we'd scouted together forever ago. Luckily for both of us, he was a senior enough student with high enough standing to have his own small apartment. I quickly scaled the wall to his second story window, something else I'd learned how to do from Grant.

I didn't even pause as I climbed through the window, landing in Grant's bedroom. I didn't see him, so I closed the window behind me and then hustled into the small living room/kitchen at a jog. I found Grant in the middle of the room, apparently halfway through walking to the kitchen, but he froze in his tracks and was already looking at me as I burst into the room.

"Grant! Thank god you're home. I need your help."

Before I knew what was happening, Grant had pushed me behind him. He kept one hand on my waist, and when I turned to see what the hell he was doing, he had a gun in his other hand and was alternating pointing it at his bedroom door and the front door.

"What's wrong?" he asked me without turning around, his voice deadly serious. I fought to hold in a laugh and didn't bother fighting back against the smile.

"Not that kind of help," I said. "Sorry for scaring you, though."

Slowly, Grant holstered his gun and turned around to face me. Both his eyebrows were raised in a demanding type of question.

"You run in here like you're being chased by a murderer and it's not that kind of help?"

"No, but it is the kind of help that will determine my entire future and has the potential to ruin me and everything I've ever worked for in my entire life ever."

Grant just stared at me for a moment. He blinked, slowly, then let out a long breath. Finally, he nodded.

"Alright. What do you need help with?"

I blew out a breath of relief, then quickly explained the situation to Grant. He'd heard plenty about the leadership of SciTech and how important it was to me to keep impressing them, so this latest project and its associated stakes weren't news.

"So... what exactly do you want me to do?" he asked once I'd finished telling him about the events of my meeting. I gave him the most charming, persuasive smile I could manage, and he immediately frowned.

"I want you to try out the device I've put together. I have a few prototypes, and it's easy enough for me to make another handful for testing. I need feedback on how well they actually work for the intended purpose, for field and ops agents, in a way that I can't predict or test in the lab."

Grant sighed, then nodded and held out one hand towards me.

"Alright. Give me the thing, let's do this."

I grinned. "I love you so much."

****************

Grant and I spent the rest of the day and then some putting my device through various tests. Exactly as I'd been expecting, when Grant took it through various exercises that he went through at Ops, the device had weaknesses I hadn't predicted. From static electricity via crawling across the carpet turning the thing on before its time to the waterproofing failing after being submerged for too long, Grant and I found one problem after another, and each time, I fixed the issue.

"Okay, what if we had standard placement be on the stomach," I suggested, sticking the little round disk of my latest prototype just above Grant's belly button. "Would that protect it from the kind of weapon strikes we don't want it taking on your forearm?"

Grant hummed. "Maybe, but it's no garuntee. Besides, you want an agent to be able to activate the thing when we don't have another option. If my hands are tied behind my back, I won't be able to get to it."

"Dammit. You're right. Okay... what do you think, then?"

"How about the wrist, on the pulse point? I can probably find a way to activate that no matter what, and if a weapon really hits hard there, it won't matter if the device is destroyed."

I frowned. "I hate it when you talk like that."

"I thought you wanted good, honest feedback to improve this device for the SciTech board."

"Yeah, but I still don't like to hear my boyfriend talking about ways he could potentially die." I huffed and crossed my arms. "Still, you're right, and it's a good idea. But... maybe I can find a way to give the device a little death sequence."

"...Meaning?"

"Meaning, if it gets fatally hit like that, it automatically activates. And maybe I could even get it to deploy something that'll have a chance at stopping the bleeding."

"That would be pretty impressive," Grant agreed. I nodded, my mind already whirling with the possibilities.

"Okay. Okay, let's try to add that in, and then we can run it through the tests again."

Grant's eyebrows shot up. "The same tests we just did? Again?"

"Yeah. If I make major changes like that, we need to make sure it doesn't compromise any of the existing systems. Which means re-checking the systems we've already figured out."

Grant let out a long sigh and shook his head. He walked over to me, put an arm around my shoulders, and placed a kiss on the top of my head, then moved towards the kitchen.

"I don't understand why you like all this stuff. But I'll brew some coffee, since you're gonna need it. And I'll make sure the Ops pool is reserved for us when you finish your updates."

I grinned. "You are seriously the best boyfriend in the world, you know that?"

"What was that?" Grant asked, looking up from the coffee pot and feigning innocence like he hadn't heard me. I just smiled and shook my head.

"I said, you're the best boyfriend in the world."

Grant's feigned surprise immediately morphed into the charming smile I loved so much.

"Good. Just checking."

We spent the rest of the weekend like that, making updates and improvements to my little device and then testing how well they worked. Despite Grant's differing opinion, I genuinely loved doing this, more than just about anything in the world. But, even if I'd hated it most of the time, I would've put in the same amount of work for this project. It could very literally save my boyfriend's life some day in the future, after all. Now was not the time to half-ass something and call it good, even without the pressure of the SciTech board looming over me.

Finally, by about two in the morning on Monday, we'd managed to put the device on the wrist through every single test without fault or flaw. It worked as intended, and not a moment before it was supposed to, and if it was destroyed it sent out a final beacon and deployed some emergency blood clotting tech before it went. It was perfect.

"Thank you so much for all your help on this, babe," I muttered, the sleep finally digging its teeth into me now that my task had been accomplished. Grant and I had flopped down on the couch while I'd been going over the data, and now I curled against his side, resting my head on his chest. "I seriously couldn't have done it without you."

"Yeah, you could've," he said, stifling a yawn of his own as he wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "It would've taken you longer, but we both know you still would've pulled this off eventually."

I hummed, a smile on my face as I curled further into Grant's chest.

"Thanks, babe. I love you."

"I love you too, sweetheart."

He kissed the top of my head, his arms wrapped tight around me, and that's the last thing I remember before the world faded to black.

****************

"Babe. Baby. Come on, you need to wake up."

I groaned, squeezing my eyes shut tighter and rolling away from the voice of my boyfriend trying to wake me up for god knows what reason.

"Sweetheart, you have your presentation today. You need to get up."

And just like that, I was wide awake.

I shot straight up, my heart dropping all the way to my stomach. I was in Grant's bed—I guess he'd moved us before passing out himself—but I had no idea if he'd remembered to set an alarm last night. If I missed this presentation, after all the work we'd done-

"It's okay, you have plenty of time," Grant said, probably reading the panic on my face. "It's six thirty, you have another two and a half hours to get ready and get back to SciTech."

I turned to Grant with a scowl.

"You woke me up at six thirty in the morning?" I demanded.

"...You wanted me to let you sleep later?"

I huffed and threw the covers off my legs, scowling as I stood.

"No. I need time to wake up, get back to SciTech, get ready, put together my presentation materials, practice my presentation... I need the two and a half hours. But I'm still mad you woke me up at six thirty."

Grant snorted, but I caught him staring at me with a fond smile in the reflection of the bathroom mirror.

I moved as quickly as I could, gathering the materials I needed and that I'd brought with me to Grant's apartment, then giving him a quick kiss and heading back to the SciTech campus. I showered, put on my most impressive professional outfit, and then spent almost all my remaining time putting the finishing touches on my presentation. Luckily for me, I knew the device in and out after how I'd spent my weekend, and I was absolutely confident in what it could do. Both things helped immensely when it came to giving a good presentation.

I walked into the main building of SciTech with my head held high, and this time it wasn't an act. I found the board waiting for me, and I didn't hesitate to launch into my presentation with absolute confidence. The surprised, excited reactions came almost immediately, and they only fueled my confidence and excitement.

Of course, everyone had a few questions, but I answered them easily. When I'd finished answering questions and officially completed my presentation, the board literally clapped. I beamed at them; I wasn't sure they'd ever done that before.

"Excellent work," said the SciTech chair, her smile beaming. "This is above and beyond what we could've expected. We'll put it through a few final tests, but honestly, I don't expect it to need much. I know you're in the middle of your final semester here, but be prepared to take a trip to the Hub before graduation to help us present this development to Director Fury himself."

My heart exploded in my chest, and I couldn't wipe the smile off my face as I shook hands and said thank yous before heading out of the room. I had a slightly dazy smile on my face as I walked through the SciTech halls, and my shoulders were relaxed for the first time in days as I stepped through the front doors and into the bright sunlight.

"Hey!"

I jumped so high I might've cleared the first floor windows at the sound of a voice coming from the bushes. I whirled around to find Grant crouched there, lurking in the shadows like a murderer.

"Grant? What the hell are you doing?" I demanded, trying to keep my voice low. He wasn't technically supposed to be on our campus, and I didn't want to get him caught, but he'd also just given me a damn heart attack.

Instead of answering, Grant reached up and grabbed my forearm, pulling me into the bush with him. I landed hard against his chest, but I didn't totally mind it as he wrapped his arms tightly around me. Still, I met his gaze with a slightly raised eyebrow. He just smiled.

"I wanted to know how it went. And maybe get a little payback for the heart attack you gave me on Friday."

I huffed a laugh. "Well, mission accomplished."

"Great. So how'd it go?"

I grinned. Grant smiled back, his arms tightening around me, but he waited to celebrate.

"It went amazing. They loved it. I'm gonna help them present it to Fury sometime in the next few weeks."

Grant's eyebrows shot up, and he actually took a shocked half-step back from me.

"You're going with them to present it to Fury?" I nodded. "They never let recruits do that!"

"I know!"

I squealed and jumped up in the air, and a moment later, Grant caught me. He let out a breathy laugh as he spun me around, and neither of us let go for even a second when he set me back down on my feet.

"We need to do something to celebrate," Grant declared, his low voice right beside my ear. "Are you working on any world-changing inventions this weekend?"

I leaned back just enough to grin at him. "No. For once, my schedule's actually pretty clear."

"Good. You wanna come to me, or you want me to come to you?"

"Mm, I'll come to you. As much as I love what I do, I also wouldn't mind a little break from all the work I've been doing lately."

"It's a deal. Come over after your last class on Friday. I'll take care of the rest."

Grant and I shared a smile, then we closed the distance between us for a long, sweet kiss. From making out in the bushes to letting me test my most important projects on him, Grant was always there for me. And no matter what else came out of my career at SciTech, in the Academy and as an agent afterwards, the relationship Grant and I had built together would always be my proudest accomplishment.

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[ao3feed-fitzsimmons]

a complete man

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/MRqkW4C

by EnchantingWriting

“PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression,” his advisor reads off. “And you still want to be an agent, Fitz?”

“I’m smart, and I want to help people,” Leo says.

“Why?”

“I don’t know how to do anything else.” He swallows.

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After getting his Bachelors at Columbia University, Leo Fitzpatrick is off to get his doctorate from SHIELD’s SciTech academy and manage his codependency issues. He makes a few friends, a couple enemies, and accidentally reawakens an eighty-year romance between two supersoldiers.

Words: 2916, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of a chuisle mo chroí - the pulse of my heart

Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Rape/Non-Con

Categories: Gen

Characters: Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Grant Ward, Phil Coulson, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Steve Rogers, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Bobbi Morse, Lance Hunter, James "Bucky" Barnes, Holden Radcliffe, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Will Parker (OC), Deke Shaw, Peni Parker (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Teresa Parker, Harley Keener, Pepper Potts, Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Relationships: Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons

Additional Tags: Past Child Abuse, Past Sexual Assault, Alternate Universe - College/University, SHIELD Academy (Marvel), SHIELD Academy Era (Marvel), Peter Parker Has Siblings, Adorable FitzSimmons (Agents of SHIELD), POV Leo Fitz, POV Jemma Simmons, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/MRqkW4C

[theclaravoyant]

Trip x Simmons + “My hands are shaking.” ?

AN ~ For those of you who don’t remember, this was for a platonic prompt (ages ago) but if you’d like to read the ship into it that’s cool too :D I decided to go with late S1; a shaken Trip and Simmons talk about the fall of Shield.

Rated T for some mentions of violence. Just a little bit of hurt/comfort. Hope you like it!

Read on AO3 (~1300wd)

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Trip rubbed his hands together, absently brushing out an anxious rhythm he couldn’t place, and didn’t dare to. He danced between his feet as if the air was much colder than it was, his whole body thrumming with adrenaline. Flight instinct. It had been a while since he’d got it this bad. He braced an arm on the side of the vending machine instead, and found his fingers tapping. How long did it take to spit out a bag of Cheetos?

It was his third, actually, but he needed something to do. Something to chew. Something that wasn’t bolting from this place, like he desperately wanted to, and going for a walk to clear his head: aside from the danger of that, there was the skittishness. Everybody on the team was on edge, and now was not the time to disappear.

Even he jumped when a figure rounded the corner.

Jemma jumped too.

“Oh. Trip. Sorry,” she bumbled, the words falling out into a stammering heap. “I was just – I mean –“

She tucked her hair behind her ear, unsure how to proceed. Trip realised he was standing in the way of the vending machine, which was the only thing down here, and stepped back. She slipped herself in between and made her selections.

“It’s Fitz, you know,” she babbled, speaking more than anything to fill the silence. “I wanted to get him some comfort food. He’s really quite shaken by this whole thing I’m afraid, and I don’t- I don’t know what to say. He and Ward were quite close. It’s a tragedy, really.”

She turned with her bundle of selections and expected to see Trip smirking at her, with that easy, calming way he usually has about him. The one on the top of the pile is a packet of GrainWaves chips, and there’s a pecan cookie falling out from under her arm – both of which Fitz has actively protested in the past. No doubt, she thought, Trip would notice this and tease her. “Oh, right, and who’s this for then?”

Instead he simply nodded, and looked down at his packet of Cheetos.

His third. Which was unlike him. Jemma frowned.

“Are you alright, Agent Triplett?” she asked, a little softer now. He hesitated, blinking down at the chips.

“Huh. Would you look at that,” he remarked, in a detached sort of way. “My hands are shaking.”

“Perhaps you should come sit down,” Jemma suggested. She wasn’t sure if it was a panic attack, or something much more simple than that, but she couldn’t resist the urge to reach out.

She led him, still a little dazed, to the nearest seats – the lounges by the pool - and they sat side-on so they could face each other. Trip sighed and ran his hands over his face, leaning over his knees.

“This is heavy,” he confessed. “I thought I was dealing with it but… maybe not. It’s just so out of the blue, you know? I don’t know. I shoulda seen it.”

“Garrett was your Supervising Officer too,” Jemma recalled. Trip nodded.

“He was always an intense dude,” he explained. “Very, you know, ‘hoo-rah’ with the whole Ops thing. All about resourcefulness and independence. Never rely on anyone or anything.” He snorted, and shook his head, dismissing whatever thought had next come to his head.

“I’m sorry,” Jemma said, in sympathy. “I can’t imagine…”

But when she thought on it, even just for that moment, fear once again clutched at her heart. She remembered Agent Weaver’s video message, about the attack on the Academy. She remembered the nightmares she’d been having about it, in vivid but confusing detail. It was not just Ward, after all, but all of Shield that was collapsing around them. At least her closest friends seemed mostly to be the victims, rather than the perpetrators of these atrocities, but that was a shallow comfort if ever there was one.

“I’m sorry too,” Trip said. “I hope your friends get out okay.”

After that, they sat in miserable silence for a stretch. Cicadas chirped. The pool lapped gently at the will of its pump. A gentle breeze and the deepening night slowly turned the air cold. Still, there was more to say to each other.

“For what it’s worth, Agent Triplett,” Jemma offered eventually. “I think you did your grandfather’s legacy much prouder than Garrett’s, the way you’ve been acting lately. I don’t think I could have done that without you.”

“Ah, come on, Simmons,” Trip replied. “You told Coulson to shove it when he wanted you to back off on Skye’s medical care, and you told Hand where to stick it when you thought she was Hydra. Just a few things, without me.”

“I meant,” Jemma corrected, “I don’t think I could have done it without being killed instantly.”

“Some of the bravest people in this world get killed instantly.”

“Still. Best not.”

“I know, I know what you mean,” Trip assured her, a smile that was pride and amusement at once, creeping onto his lips. “And all I meant was, that’s powerful stuff, for a SciTech kid. Don’t sell yourself short.”

“Don’t you either,” Simmons warned. “Just because Garrett was a right tosser, doesn’t make you any less of a Shield agent.”

Trip laughed. “A what?”

“A Shield agent?” Jemma frowned. “Oh, a tosser. It’s British. It means he’s an asshole.”

“I know,” Trip assured her. “I’ve met British people before. Just none with your accent that have used that word. A ‘tosserrr’.” He overpronounced it to make a point, but Jemma’s expression was not quite as well-humoured as all that.

“Well,” she pointed out. “I can’t exactly call him what he deserves to be called, now can I?”

Thoughts brought crashing down to earth and all the poisoned memories, Trip quickly sobered up as well.

“No,” he agreed. “I don’t think I’ve even thought of those words yet.”

“Me neither.”

There was another beat of silence; still heavy, still palpable, but not quite as miserable as the last. Trip took a deep breath and sighed it out, and offered Jemma the opening of his bag.

“Cheeto?”

Air, fat, and cheese flavouring wasn’t her usual fare, but there was nothing usual about this situation so Jemma took a Cheeto and chewed it as Trip continued.

“Don’t bother,” he suggested. “Don’t bother trying to think of the words. Garrett was a bad man, he’s a dangerous man, he’s a lot of things. But what he isn’t, is worth your time. I’m stuck with him in my head; don’t let him drag you down too, okay? Promise me?”

“…I’ll try,” she promised.

“I can take that,” Trip agreed. “Now, it’s getting late. Don’t you have some ducklings you’ve taken under your wing to order to bed?”

“Quite right.” Jemma puffed her chest with pride, then deflated a little when she glanced back at the pile of snacks she had to scoop back into her arms. Chances were, most of this would disappear tonight and little rest would be had, but little rest would be had anyway, and – at least as far as Fitz and Skye were concerned – misery, fear, and snack foods was better than just plain fear and misery. She gathered the food into her arms, prepared to part ways until Trip called her back for a moment.

“You know,” he said, “I know some guys in the field. They’ve gone underground for now but if I can get in touch, I’ll get ‘em to check in on the Academy for you. Weaver’s good people. I’m sure she’ll have friends left on our side.”

Jemma nodded. It was still so hard to face, but there it was, that encouraging smile.

“Thanks,” she said. “And – you get some rest too. That’s a Doctor’s orders, Agent.”Trip nodded back. “Yes ma’am, I will. Good night.”

“Night.”

And they went their separate ways without another word.

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((Now I’m wondering about the Framework and the Hydra Academy. My interpretation of the Framework is that everything that leaves a digital online footprint is fair game, any records, any text messages, pictures, etc, to paint a full and realistic picture on top of the information in the minds of the people plugged in. It’s how the science was accurate, it’s how the people were accurate.

Therefore, anything in Romanoff’s info dump is on the table, including both SHIELD and Hydra records, anything Pierce had access to digitally. Anything Malik had connections to on his phone, anything Talbot and company siezed that had been uploaded to internet-enabled servers.

Hydra has historically done a good job of leaving only paper trails, but I can’t help but think that somehow, some way, info about the location and inner workings of Hydra’s training facilities are accessible. The video chats from s2 stored in some cache? Von Strucker being more arrogant than wise? Inter-Hydra memos? Professor correspondences? Maybe something got through because the more links in the chain there are, the more likely it is that one breaks.

That being said, consider Ophelia/AIDA and what she said on the beach—she met Fitz at the “Academy”. I had always presumed they were recruited for SHIELD SciTech and then recruited into Hydra straight-off, as would fit with AIDA’s “I didn’t change much” statement. What if, instead, they were recruited to Hydra straight out of uni, fresh-faced sixteen year olds, and were never placed within SHIELD at all?

This reinforces Framework Fitz’s odd feeling when he sees Simmons, since they never would have been in the same building. Instead of SHIELD’s sciences, they went to Whitehall’s, and that works with my headcanon that Fitz was Whitehall’s science padawan, equalling or surpassing von Strucker. (Not sure how von Strucker was killed in the Framework since the Avengers team would be incredibly different as previously discussed, so Ultron may not have existed, and the fight at the start of AoU would never have happened because the Bahrain/Cambridge Incident had definitely happened already, turning Hydra into the favored in the eyes of the people.) I see a lot of Whitehall in Framework Fitz’s techniques (“discovery requires experimentation”), so it completely works that the tiny, eager, blue-eyed Scotsman would have followed in his footsteps. Whether that happened after Hydra Academy graduation is up for interpretation. If there’s any chance at all of a data footprint of the HA, I think it’s reasonable to say that yes, in the Framework world, Fitz and Ophelia met there and not at SHIELD.))

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Name: Jemma Simmons Age: 28 Species: Human Location: Various

From a very early age Jemma Simmons was exceptionally bright, curious, and altogether kind. Despite this, Jemma's parents were constantly and severely disappointed in her inability to keep up with the family's expectations. The youngest of three by a decade, Jemma was constantly the dark stain in her family of Roxxon Oil tycoons. Dad didn't speak near as often as he shouted, and Mum spent most of her days popping pills to treat her manic depression. Her sister, Cassandra, hated Jemma with a passion and several times during her infancy tried to give her away to strangers or leave her places when the family went out. Gregory, the eldest, was so impatient with his baby sister's limited vocabulary that he would shout at her to shut up and leave him alone when she tried to engage with him. It began a long history of pretending to be happy, even when she felt invisible or as if the world were falling apart around her.

By the time she was 15 Jemma had her first doctorate in Applied Bioluminescence Technology (another disappointment to her parents, who wanted her to pursue petroleum engineering), and she was offered a place at the SHIELD Academy's SciTech division. With a lot of sleepless nights she managed to pair with Leo Fitz and earn her place in SHIELD by the time she was 17.After she and Fitz set the record for SciTech's youngest graduates to date, Jemma joined a team at the Hub and settled quickly into an unsatisfying routine. For eight years she was bored witless, even the most exciting aspects of her job seemed dull. In her spare time she earned a second doctorate in Chemical Spectroscopy, and took up an apartment in New York City rather than the SHIELD housing program. When she was 25 and heard about an elite operations team forming that was in need of both mechanical and biological experts, Jemma was quick to volunteer herself and Fitz for the positions. She wanted adventure, and this was the perfect opportunity. In her down time, she is working on a degree in General Medicine to keep up with the Bus team's medical needs.

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#AOSRewatch: Seeds

@consoledacup tagged me in today’s rewatch tag train to share my thoughts on 1x12. In general, this episode can be summed up in one word: BACKSTORY. Fitzsimmons, Skye, SHIELD/the Academy itself.

But at it’s core it’s a Fitzsimmons-centric ep (YAY)! Probably one of the reasons why I always loved this one.

The rivalry between SciTech and Operations (and by extension Fitzsimmons & Ward) is great. (And as someone with a comm degree, I resent how both academies looked down on the communications academy!)

Seeing Fitzsimmons in their element is adorable. “Who knew they were the popular kids?” “I did” -- the way they’re known and looked up to makes me happy! Recognize and appreciate my science geniuses

Always enjoy their potentiality speech and seeing Fitzsimmons in the spotlight-- I alway wonder what the rest of their lecture would have been like.

“Simmons is probably smarter, technically, but that’s only because she loves homework more than life itself.”

Fitz’s chat with Donnie takes on new meaning post Framework :( Lots of things in this ep come back around later-- like Fitz being concerned with the application of his inventions/people using them for nefarious purposes. He always wants to see the good in people.

I kept waiting for the deleted scenes (aka #FitzsimmonsOriginStory) before I remembered they were deleted scenes! 

And per usual, a couple non-Fitzsimmons thoughts:

Bucky Barnes and the Wall of Valor...

Skye finding out about her origins :( The way Coulson comforted her made my heart melt

“Her story started here... That’s what she took away from the story, not the family she’ll never have, but the one she’s always had.”

Tagging a few folks off the top of my head, as always feel free to ignore: @ifwehadamonkey @theboyfallsfromthesky @the-nerdy-stjarna