A/N: In case you were wondering, part of the inspiration for the name came from Red by Taylor Swift (which I do not own). Speaking of things I do not own, FitzSimmons etc. Please please please rate and review! Thank you!

Jemma Simmons learned at age 14 that there were places on the internet for teenagers with a deep obsession with Doctor Who and Harry Potter, and ever since, she had carved out time each day for a fansite deep into the bowels of the internet. It was there, at age 15, that she met science_is_cooler_than_you, an equally brilliant, equally obsessed Whovian who was practically her own age.

Her first interaction with him was when she sent him a message applauding a post he made in which he (a bloody genius) explained how he could (theoretically) build a TARDIS that would at least be bigger on the inside, if not capable of traveling through time and space.

[9:13:29 PM] not_hermione_but_close : I loved your piece on the TARDIS! I love it when science can legitimize science fiction! Bravo!

[1:09:43 AM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Thank you!

[10:35:32 PM] not_hermione_but_close : How did you come up with your TARDIS idea?

[10:36:17 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I get bored during language arts sometimes and I kind of sketched it out then.

[10:37:56 PM] not_hermione_but_close : How long did it take you?

[10:39:45 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : A couple hours. I worked on it on the bus to school some too.

[10:40:24 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Do you like science?

[10:41:01 PM] not_hermione_but_close : Yes! :) :) :) Why?

[10:41:35 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Cause I've got my ion you…

Jemma logged out as fast as she could and sprinted to the bathroom, hoping that her mum would not hear her and ask what the problem was. Nobody had ever said something like that to her before, and by the burning embarrassment in her face she was sure that anybody who saw her could tell what had happened. The mirror revealed that her skin was the normal color, and Jemma leaned on the sink to take a few calming breaths before returning to her studies. It was days before she dared to log back in, hoping that the bold and brilliant science_is_cooler_than_you had disappeared, and that she would be allowed to crawl back into her corner of the website, posting her own little fanfictions and musings about her favorite things. With shaking fingers she typed in her login and watched the navy blue screen load in front of her.

53 new messages.

Two were from followers of her Harry Potter fanfiction, asking when she would update it. One was a message from the server about an update. Forty were from science_is_cooler_than_you.

[10:43:28 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I thought you'd think that was funny

[10:45:39 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I actually like science I swear

[10:47:59 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I wasn't trying to be creepy

[10:55:30 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I'm not a serial killer I swear

[10:56:00 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : That made it creepier

[11:00:29 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I really messed this up didn't I?

[1:17:18 AM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I'M SORRY

[7:15:49 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : PLEASE COME BACK

[7:17:33 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Your followers are going to hate me

[7:20:45 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : PLEASE BE MY NERDY FRIEND

[7:21:09 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : YOU ARE ONE OF THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTOOD MY TARDIS POST

[7:22:07 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I AM NOT GOOD AT MAKING PEOPLE LIKE ME PLEASE COME BACK

Jemma scrolled through them in spite of herself. She almost typed out a reply, but decided first to dig around his profile a little more.

Dang.

Bloody genius. She couldn't just ignore him. There weren't enough brilliant teenagers that loved Doctor Who for her to pass on the chance of making a friend with this one.

[9:46:02 PM] not_hermione_but_close : Please don't kill m

[9:46:23 PM} science_is_cooler_than_you : I promise not to be creepy

[9:46:35 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Friends?

[9:47:04 PM] not_hermione_but_close : I'm not calling the cops

[9:47:32 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : I said I was sorry

[9:48:09 PM] not_hermione_but_close : Ok

[9:50:32 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : What kind of science?

[9:52:13 PM] not_hermione_but_close : biochemistry. You?

[9:53:23 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : engineering. Fake nerd or real nerd?

[9:54:34 PM] not_hermione_but_close : Doctor Who or science?

[9:55:09 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : both

[9:55:54 PM] not_hermione_but_close : both. You?

[9:56:24 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : both. I think we're soulmates.

[9:57:49 PM] not_hermione_but_close : I'm glad you can determine that based on a ten minute conversation. You promised not to be creepy. Bye.

[9:58:00 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Dang I did it again, didn't I?

[9:58:23 PM] science_is_cooler_than_you : Oops

Soulmates? He was ridiculous, Jemma decided as she began studying again for one of her finals. It was ten stupid minutes with somebody she didn't even know. Somehow she couldn't get her mind off of it. Her cheeks were as red as her converse.

Soulmates? He wasn't sure they existed, Leo Fitz decided as the sound of breaking glass in the kitchen announced that his parents were fighting again.