Chapter One: You hand fits in my like it's made just for me

Being on the ground felt good again, a week on a plane only stopping for fuel and supplies was tiring and though someone had died when a gifted person had burned them to ashes it was still really good to walking on a floor that wasn't moving. They'd cleared up the scene and grabbed what ever evidence was going to be useful for their report and plan to head back to the plane. However both Fitz and Skye had adamantly refused to step back on the plane after only 30 minutes on the ground, so May partially agreeing with the both of them, decided that the 'kids' could do with a walk back to the plane. Ward had refused to walk back so he and Coulson gathered up all the gear they needed, put it in the back of the SUV and headed to the plane via the road. The plane was only a 10 minute drive from the scene but it was a 30 minute walk that slowly turned into an hour as they walked through the small town that was near by checking out the Sunday markets.

Both Skye and Fitz had run off like a bunch of 5 year olds towards the Markets while Simmons stayed by May's side, waiting for the older woman to catch up with their younger counterparts.

The markets turned out to be full of trinkets and beautiful items that had the small group buying all sorts of wonderful things. May had hung around a stall with music boxes, that played beautiful melodies and Simmons had seen her buy one before heading over to see Skye's new purchase. Simmons herself had seen a beautiful jewelry store while Fitz had seen handmade watches in the next stall.

"Fitz come and check this out" she called watching as the engineer put down the watch he was looking at and walked over to her.

He looked over her shoulder as she looked down at the necklace made to look like the periodic table, she smiled as he rested his chin on her shoulder and looked around at the rows and rows of necklaces. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a simple silver necklace that was made of 20 stars all linked together, Jemma followed his gaze and gasped at the tiny stars. The vender smiled at the two of them as he brought out the simple necklace placing in on the glass counter.

Simmons pulled her gaze away as Skye called her name, moving to join the hacker by a table of hand made figurines. Fitz turned back to the vender and bought the necklace watching for Simmons out of the corner of his eye. The biochemist was completely absorbed in looking at the wooden figurines and didn't notice her partner buying the necklace.

May came up behind Fitz as he pocket the necklace and gave him a rare smile as they both headed over the other two. Skye and Simmons were looking over wooden figurines of the Avengers and various other TV characters. Currently Simmons was laughing at the Thor model while Skye was holding a little green Hulk who had the weirdest expression on his face. After deciding that Agent Coulson would love an action figure of Captain America, May bought one for him with a smirk towards the other agents.

Skye deciding that it was time for ice cream dragged their little family, towards one of the ice cream stalls on the edge of the market square and once they'd all acquired their choices, May decided that heading back to the plane was a good idea.

Throughout the walk back to the plane they shared their trinkets and purchases between them. May had bought a music box for herself and another pale blue one that everyone assumed was for Coulson, along with that she'd bought the Captain America figure and some simple bookmarks folded out of paper.

Skye had acquired two little robots that moved by solar energy, one a little monkey and another a little spider-looking thing. She's also along with Fitz hand ransacked the book stall coming out with 15 books on varying topics ranging from chess and battleships to technology and computer science. She'd also gotten Ward and Coulson wooden trains from the store that said their names just for fun. Fitz had walked away with little besides the books, he'd only gotten the necklace that Simmon's didn't know about and a similar monkey to Skye's solar energy creatures but this one was bigger and required batteries.

Simmons had gotten some old books from the same store, her own music box, a couple of better coloured ties for Fitz, Jasmine tea for May, Ward a swiss army knife to replace the one that she broken by accident, Skye she'd found a book on techno babble as the younger woman called it to help her in the lab and biology and an old pocket watch for Coulson.

As they reached the plane they saw to silhouettes standing by the open plane hangar, Coulson was standing their with raised eyebrows and a slight smile on his face while Ward was sitting down on the ramp his face impassive.

"Have a fun walk?" asked Coulson watching as the remainder of his team walked up the ramp.

"It was fun, May took us to the Markets" said Skye, her enthusiasm making the other members smile.

"They were great sir, lots of well...everything" said Simmons, while Fitz nodded in agreement

"And ice cream" said Coulson looking at the remaining cones in the scientists hand and the cup in May's.

They all headed up to the common area to share their purchases with Coulson and Ward being surprised at getting gifts from their team mates.

Fitz smiled as Simmons handed him his new ties and together they moved to Fitz's bunk to put away his ties. Simmons watched as her partner put way his new ties on his tie rack, before hanging them back in his cupboard, she sat on his bed flipping through the latest engineering journal on his tablet. As he head back out to grab some water she stared at the photos sitting on his wall of the town of them, along with one photo that Skye had taken of May, Ward, Fitz and herself sitting on the edge of the hangar watching an 0-8-4 fire out of the slingshot.

One photo was of them sitting on the BUS, smiling at the camera after beating Ward in chess. Ward had learned his lesson after challenging both of them to chess after that, but both of them were smiling holding chess pieces and she was wearing Fitz's favourite jumper.

The second one was taken 3 years ago while they were back at the Academy. Both of them were decked out in winter clothes standing in the snow in Hyde Park, a long pathway covered in lights behind them. She was wearing boots, skinny jeans, a large dark purple overcoat, with a lighter purple scarf and matching beanie, and she was at least looking at the camera. Fitz however was looking away from the camera a wide smile on his face, wearing a black overcoat, jeans, converse and her mother's hand knitted scarf around his neck. His cheeks were rosy from the cold as were hers and both of them were ankle deep in the christmas snow.

She turned to look back at her partner as he came back from the kitchenette shrugging off his jumper and rolling up his sleeves, sitting next to her cross legged on the bed. He grasped her hand in his much larger one and gently passed her a small bag.

Simmons frowned before taking it, opening it and gasping at the sight of the simple silver star necklace in her palm. Fitz smiled his goofy smile back at her before motioning her to turn around. Simmons moved around on the bed before allowing him to place the necklace around her neck.

She gently fingered the small stars before squealing slightly when Fitz pulled her back between his legs, wrapping his arms around her shoulders. One arm reached out an grabbed the remote for the TV, switching it on and smiling when the menu for Doctor Who Season 5 came up. Simmons relaxed back into her partners arms, gently linking their fingers together with her right hand and the other to run along the star necklace that was around her neck.

The warmth of his hand around hers and his solid form behind her made her relax more and enjoy the TV show playing in front of them.