So this is how it starts.
It's not that Leo Fitz is the Jealous type, but right now as he watched his best friend Jemma Simmons tend to another man with such care, he thinks he may have to reevaluate that.
He knows he doesn't stand a chance, he never did. To Jemma he was simply her best friend and he would never be nothing more. He could tell by the way she looked at the men in front of her.
It was obvious she was in love with Grant Ward, he didn't know the other hadn't caught up with i. It was obvious by the way she looked at him and the way she tended to his wounds with care. He couldn't tell if Ward felt the same about her though- the agent was to good at keeping his emotions in check-but that didn't change the fact that she would never love him like he loved her.
"Fitz you're okay?" asked Skye from next to him, bringing him out of his thoughts.
"What? Yeah, I'm fine, why?" he answered trying to hide the anger from his voice.
"You look distracted."
"I'm not. So what were you saying?"
"Have you found out what the device Ward collected does?"
"Not yet. I may need Jemma's input on this though. She needs to find out how it reacts to human biology. We don't even know it's origin."
"Okay then. I'm going to debrief AC." she said walking out of the lab, but not before glancing to were Ward and Simmons were one last time.
She couldn't stand being there anymore, seeing the way Ward kept looking at Simmons. She wasn't obvious about it, and if someone asked she wouldn't confirm it, but she had a crush on her S.O. for a while now. She never really knows were they stand, sometimes he is gentle and understanding and the next he is cold and distant. But now she knew nothing would ever happen. She had only been kidding herself by thinking she could ever be with Ward.
She pushed those thoughts away when she reached Coulson's office and knocked, waiting for an answer.
"Come in." she heard Coulson say through the door.
Skye stepped into the room and was greeted by Coulson sitting on his desk going through reports.
"Hey AC, we just got back from the mission and I thought I would come and debrief but you seem busy so I'll come back later."
"No, it's okay." Coulson interrupted.
"Oh, okay." Skye said taking a seat in front of Coulson heavily.
"Skye are you OK? You look angry."
"I'm OK AC. No big deal."
"You're sure?"
"Yeah! Can we just debrief please?" Skye asked a little harshly.
"OK, sorry." Coulson answered wondering what had gotten into her.
And with that Skye started debriefing Coulson about the mission.
After that Skye went to the lounge with the sole purpose of watching a movie to relax after a stressful day in the but the lounge was already occupied. Fortunately it was only Fitz so she didn't have to deal with Ward or Simmons. Despite Simmons being her best friend she couldn't stand to be around her much lately(especially when she started to notice Ward's crush on Simmons). No matter how hard it was to admit, Skye was jealous of the British girl because she was the one receiving Ward's attention and she didn't even realized it.
Bringing herself out of her thoughts, Skye made her presence known by sitting down next to Fitz.
"Hey Fitz. What are you watching?"
"Oh, just the Hunger Games."
"Mind if I stay here?"
"Not at all." Fitz answered turning is attention back to the movie playing.
"Mind sharing the popcorn?" Skye asked a moment later already reaching for the popcorn in Fitz's lap.
"Get your own." Fitz said batting her hands away.
"Oh, come on Fitz, share with me." Skye tried reaching for the popcorn again.
"No! Get your own." He says once again batting her hands away and moving the popcorn to his other side.
"Oh, come on Leopold." Skye pleads pouting at him and reaching for the popcorn one more time. This way she was facing him and almost in his lap.
Fitz stops, then pushes Skye away and lifts one lone finger in front of her face.
"Okay, first don't ever call me Leopold again. I hate that name, and second,"he adds lifting another finger"stop pouting, it doesn't work with me.
"Are you sure?" Skye ask leaning over him again.
"Skye" Fitz sighs "Can we just watch the movie, please?" he tries looking at the screen, but finding it hard with Skye's head in front of him.
"Just give me the popcorn and I won't bother you anymore." Skye promises still pretty much in his lap.
Fitz decides it's better if he just gives up so he sighs in defeat and says "Fine."
"Thank you Fitzy. You're the best."
Skye actually reaches for the popcorn this time and she's still on Fitz's lap. On her way back to her seat Skye decides to kiss Fitz on the cheek(she remembers how flushed he gets all the time) because she's not gonna stop annoying him even though she said she would.
When Skye is kissing Fitz on the cheek(still pretty much on his lap) Ward decides to walk in saying something battleship and cheating.
He stops dead in his tracks as the words die on his mouth. Skye and Fitz still haven't acknowledged his presence and he doesn't give them time to do it. He storms out of the lounge to his bunk without looking back.
For a while he just seats on his bed thinking about what he just saw and what it meant.
Deciding it was worthless he tried to focus on the book he was currently reading, but try as he might he couldn't focus. His mind kept going back what he witnessed on the lounge area. Not that what happened was any of his business, he didn't expect Skye to hang around until he got the guts to confess his feelings for her, but he didn't expected Skye to just go and fall for another guy that easily- not after Miles- and definitely not for Fitz. He thought Skye liked him to some extent but apparently he was wrong. Apparently every time he thought she was flirting with him she was just being her usual annoying self. And he stupidly urged her on, 'supposedly' flirting back with her.
Grant sighed and gave up on trying reading deciding to got to the kitchen to get something to ea, only remembering he had to pass by Fitz and Skye again too late.
Passing the lounge again, Ward couldn't help but look and notice that Skye now had her head resting on Fitz's shoulder while Fitz had his arm around her shoulders. He quickly averted his gaze from the scene and made his way to the kitchen where he then started to make himself a sandwich.
When he was finishing fixing his sandwich, Jemma walked in apparently lost in thoughts and a look of disappointment on her face.
" You're okay?" Ward asked bringing Simmons out of her thoughts.
"What? Yeah, I'm great. Why wouldn't I be great?" Jemma said clearly caught by surprise with the question.
"You look kinda sad. You're sure you're alright?" he asked concerned for his friend.
"It's nothing really. Don't worry."
" Well, if you ever need me to talk I'm here." he said reaching over the table to squeeze her shoulder reassuringly.
"Thanks Ward, but I don't want to talk about it." Jemma answered with a small smile.
Ward then finished his sandwich and left for his bunk.
As soon as Ward was gone Simmons dropped the act- which apparently wasn't convincing- and sighed sadly. the truth was, she had just passed the lounge area where her two best friends were watching a movie, and saw their intimate position. Not that she didn't do the same when she watched movies with Fitz but it was different, they were best friends. At least that's what she told herself, but deep down she knew there was more to it, at least for her. After what she saw in the lounge she knew it wasn't for him.
It wasn't like she was going to do something about her feelings for him, she was too scared of ruining their friendship, what was acceptable, because she couldn't put years of friendship in jeopardy just because she realized she had a crush on Fitz. A crush she now knew wasn't reciprocated.
She would get over it. There were other guys out there, it couldn't be that hard. Of course it would be easier if she wasn't a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent but she was still optimistic.
Bringing herself out of her thought, Jemma remembered what she came to the kitchen to do in the first place and proceeded to make herself a cup of tea, then making her way back to the lab to the distract herself.
Before she could slip away to the lab she was stopped by Fitz and Skye in the lounge.
"Hey Jems. Do you want to watch the movie with us?" he asked from where he was still seated whit his arm still around Skye's shoulders.
'Sure, all I want is to is to seat next to the guy I like while he cuddles with another woman, who just happens to be my best friend.' Jemma thought bitterly before answering him. "I have work to do, sorry."
And she was once again on her way to the lab. Once there she found herself once again thinking about Fitz and how she would never get a chance to be with him. Pushing those thoughts aside she made a promise to herself right there that she was going to forget Leopold Fitz.
Little did she knew, she wasn't the only person on the plane felling the same way.
Back in his office Coulson was seated on his desk looking at the camera feeds on his computer when someone knocked on his door.
He quickly turned the screen off and said "Come in."
When he saw it was only Melinda he sighed and turned the screen back on so.
"Oh, it's just you, thought you were someone else. what's up?" He asked turning back to the computer to entertain himself.
"Please tell me you're not doing it again." Melinda sighed exasperatedly.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yeah, right."She said rounding his desk so she could see what he was looking at.
Coulson tried once again turn off his computer screen, but he wasn't quick enough and Melinda saw what he was up to.
"Come on you know you want to do it too."
"Have fun at our team's personal lives, no thank you. The plane is landed for the night,are you going to take me out or not?"
"Well, I don't really feel like going out. Maybe we could just stay and..." he started only to be cut off.
"I already told you I'm not interested in our team's personal life."
Coulson merely scoffed at that. "Yeah, I haven't caught you looking trough the camera's feeds before. Come on lets just stay in tonight. I promise we will go out and do whatever you want next week." he promised. He would probably regret that promise, but it it meant he got his way now he didn't care. He could worry about it next week.
"That's what you said last week." She reprehended.
"Please Mel. I know you want to. You can't fool me."
She found once again sighed and decided to give in to her boyfriend's pleas."Fine! But if next week we don't do what I want you're gonna find yourself single once again... and probably for the rest of you're life."She pushed a chair next to his and took a seat looking expectantly at thee screen that showed different areas of the bus.
Coulson just simply ignored her treats turning his head back at the screen.
"Did you brought the popcorn?" he asked a moment later.
"Don't I always." Melinda answered before pulling a bag from inside her jacket.
Phil silently took the bag from Melinda and both turned their attention to the screen seeing what their team mates were up to this time. were up to this time. /p