Remembrance.

Day Fourteen

"Fitz!"

Simmons ran down the hallway, approaching his room.

"Hey, Fitz!"

He looked up from the night-night gun he was studying a chuckled.

"What? What's so exciting you had to scream down the hallway?"

Her face was beaming and her grin couldn't have been bigger.

"You get out of here in 3 days!"

They were both excited, of course, but Fitz was scared.

"Oh, awesome."

Jemma noticed he didn't sound too enthusiastic.

"What's wrong? Aren't you excited?"

"I guess, I just..once I start walking that means work and I can't remember anything. I've been studying this, this gun," he gestured, holding it up.

"And I cannot understand how I put it together, it's..it's just so frustrating. Plus, I can't remember you. I really want to because you seem like the best thing that ever happened to me."

She bit her lip as a smile approached on her lips.

"I feel the same way," she said, remembering what she said when they were underwater.

"Thank you," he continued, "for everything. Everybody else was giving up on me, but you're not."

"I could never give up on you, you're my," she hesitated, "best friend."

"Can we talk about how we got here? I'm a little confused on that part."

Of course, nobody explained well, pretty much anything.

"Me and you were working at the S.H.I.E.L.D academy and the head professor approached me. It was terrifying, I thought I did something wrong!"

She chuckled, returning to the story.

"They handed me a sheet of paper and before I could even read it they were explaining it. It was from Stark Enterprises. Tony Stark himself personally requested me. How he knew me was a mystery to everyone, but I have a feeling he called the academy to find a biochemist and they recommended me."

She remembered the day, it was magical for her.

"But, it was only for me. I couldn't leave you, there was no reason to go somewhere where you wouldn't be."

"Wait! You turned down the opportunity to work for the one and only Tony Stark?!"

Her shoulders rose up in a shrug.

"I couldn't stand the thought of not working in a lab right beside you. We've been together at the academy, and Sci-Ops, and on the plane."

His eyebrows crinkled in confusion.

"I've heard that before, where?"

She closed her eyes and nodded.

"Uhm, a few months ago, the team got word of an alien disease that spread through the air. It caused the bodies to electrocute and rise into the air."

His mouth was open, taking in all of the information.

"I, was infected and we had found no cure. I was trying and when I found out I had it, I worked very hard to get the cure. I had three tries and the first one failed. Then, I was talking to you and I snapped, out of frustration when you came back at me.

You said, that I've always been stuck in a lab right beside you; at the academy, at Sci-Ops, the plane. I was beside you the whole damn time. You bursted into the lab, eventually, and told me you were going to help me fix it. We made the other test serums and, they failed."

Fitz slowly shook his head, like he was engaged in a good show.

"I gave up. I overhead Coulson talking. It was instructed that if he had infected cargo, he needed to dump it. He would never do it himself, obviously. I was the one who had to make the choice. You never would've let me do it, so I knocked you out with a fire extinguisher. I opened the ramp, looked down, and prepared to fall. When I turned around you had woken up."

She had a few tears rolling down her cheeks.

"You were screaming and trying to open the door. I had purposely jammed it, but you were smart, you got it open. I was gone before you could and Ward put on the parachute to save me."

It grew silent.

"Oh my god."

He couldn't say anything else.

Wait till he heard his sacrifice story.