She hated him. Nothing more, nothing less. It was by pure chance they even started talking, and then even working on the boy's drone. But that snowy Christmas night changed everything. Finally, Jemma Simmons saw Leo Fitz for who he really was. And maybe he felt the same way.

They say there are two things you should never let go of: hope and true love. But as insanity settled deep and heavy in her chest, Jemma could feel both slipping away through her fingers. The white stick read plus, and the video tape showed the father of her child being pulled away by a certain monolith. Life was trying to pull sanity away from her. But she promised to never let go.

"I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics; no energy in the universe is created and none is destroyed." "None is destroyed," his deep voice piped in, a bit of a smile tugging at his lips. And when his eyes shifted over to look at her, he was struck with awe. Even with the blue hue lighting and the multiple cuts on her face, she was still absolutely breath taking. Fitz could see so many things in her face; a future, the stars, a whole god damn universe and it was beautiful.

I didn't realise how deeply I had fallen in love with you until I had to do it all again. A Fitzsimmons love story set after the events of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D season one finale.

He knew when he gave Simmons that one last breath that there was a possibility that he would never take one of his own again - and it came true. He's dead, and now he has to watch her grieve because neither can let the other go. Part two of the Atlas series, a group of short stories inspired by the music of Ryan O'Neal and Sleeping at Last.