Relationships:Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz & Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie, Leo Fitz & Skye | Daisy Johnson, Phil Coulson & Leo Fitz, Leo Fitz & Melinda May, Leo Fitz & Agent Piper, Enoch & Leo Fitz, Enoch & Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz & Deke Shaw, Leo Fitz & Deke Shaw & Jemma Simmons
Characters:Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Alya Fitzsimmons, Daisy Johnson, Phil Coulson, Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie, Agent Piper, Flint, Melinda May, Yo Yo Rodriguez, Daniel Sousa, Enoch, Deke Shaw
Additional Tags: and some surprise guests, as a treat, because my brain wanted post-7x13 feels about EVERYBODY, background Dousy, background Mackelena, canon compliant
Summary: Missing scenes between Fitz and the team; Fitz and Jemma introduce Alya to their family.
Chapter 4 Snippet:
Alya was two and a half when she went on a nap strike. Jemma was positive that Alya was too young to stop napping altogether (despite her own admission that, according to her parents, she herself had stopped napping right after her second birthday; Fitz, on the other hand, remembered napping through nursery school). But after a week of forty-five-minute attempts to lull Alya to sleep for what ended up being twenty- or thirty-minute naps, Jemma gave up.
“At least until Enoch gets back,” she said with a sigh, picking up a determinedly bright-eyed Alya. Enoch was on a supply run for the next few days, but once he returned, maybe he would have better luck than either of them.
“We’ll just take her to the lab with us,” Fitz said, gathering up Alya’s toys (and a blanket and a pillow; while she’d never been the kind of kid to just fall asleep mid-play, there was a first time for everything, he reasoned). When he saw Jemma squeeze her eyes shut and rub her forehead, he paused. “You all right?”
“Yeah, just a headache,” she said lightly. “Too much time staring at a screen.”
“And not enough time sleeping,” Fitz said. You’d think taking shorter naps would mean that Alya would sleep better at night, but according to all their research (and they’d done a lot), that wasn’t how toddler brains worked. Instead, she’d been up two or three times a night for the past week.
Jemma brushed a hand over Alya’s hair. “Mmm, I suppose.”
With the toys, blanket, and pillow wedged between his elbow and his side, Fitz held out his hands to take Jemma from Alya. “Well, just because she doesn’t want a nap doesn’t mean you can’t take one.”
Jemma curled her arms around Alya more tightly. “But I’ve almost got those calculations figured out.” She’d been working on determining the precise degree to which the cryo-pod would need to lower May’s core temperature so that they could transfer her to the healing pod, but the calculations had been giving her more trouble than usual, probably due to interrupted and insufficient sleep.
Fitz raised his eyebrows. “And maybe after you sleep on it, you’ll have them figured out completely, yeah?” He held his hands out more insistently. “C’mon, we’ll be fine for a couple of hours. She can help me with Coulson.”
Relationships:Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Characters:Jemma Simmons, Holden Radcliffe, Daisy Johnson, Anne Weaver, some other canon characters, many OCs (this IS a big Victorian doorstopper after all), and Bessy Higgins! but not as you know her
Additional tags: Strangers to Friends to Lovers, eventually, Alternate Universe - Victorian, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Arguments about the Miasma and Contagion Theories of Disease, Class Differences, Cambridge University Act of 1856, Loosely Inspired by North and South, VERY Loosely Inspired by North and South
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
The image is an excerpt of Shipping on the Clyde by John Atkinson Grimshaw - public domain. (It’s almost 30 years too modern; please don’t look too closely at the clothes or vehicles).
Relationships:Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Characters:Jemma Simmons, Holden Radcliffe, Daisy Johnson, Anne Weaver, some other canon characters, many OCs (this IS a big Victorian doorstopper after all), and Bessy Higgins! but not as you know her
Additional tags: Strangers to Friends to Lovers, eventually, Alternate Universe - Victorian, Alternate Universe - Industrial Revolution, Arguments about the Miasma and Contagion Theories of Disease, Class Differences, Cambridge University Act of 1856, Loosely Inspired by North and South, VERY Loosely Inspired by North and South
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
The image is an excerpt of Shipping on the Clyde by John Atkinson Grimshaw - public domain. (It’s almost 30 years too modern; please don’t look too closely at the clothes or vehicles).
Relationships: Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
Or, in other words, if you fancy a story that aims to combine this kind of energy
Relationships: Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Victorian, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Loosely Inspired by North and South, Very Loosely Inspired by North and South
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
Relationships: Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Victorian, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Loosely Inspired by North and South, Very Loosely Inspired by North and South
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
Relationships: Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Jemma Simmons & Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons & Anne Weaver, Leo Fitz & Holden Radcliffe
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Victorian, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Loosely Inspired by North and South, Very Loosely Inspired by North and South
Summary: Miss Simmons, aged 22, wants what any sensible young lady wants: a laboratory where she can study the stages of decay, a subscription to a circulating academic library, and for her parents to stop making difficulties about that misunderstanding with the livers. When her father announces that he’s moving the family far away from their home in Cambridge, she fears that her already slim chances of contributing to scientific progress will vanish forever. Perhaps, however, the cosmos has something rather different in mind.
not sure how @agl03 is doing tbh, but somefictional characters need a drink
tbh I like to think that there is a least one person who put this fic on their to read list but then they saw one of these tumblr posts and when “hmm, better not”
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