Hey everyone! I just recently caught up with Agents of SHIELD. And come on, who isn't obsessed with FitzSimmons? Hence this story!

I was inspired to write a College AU, since I am actually graduating from college in like two weeks. So I started writing this on the last day of classes, and now I've been writing a little bit everyday, so hopefully I can keep this up over the summer.

Without further ado...

SHIELD University

Simmons POV:

I was finishing making my bed when I heard the door to my new dorm room open. It was probably my new roommate, Daisy. We have talked a few times through email to coordinate what each of us was bringing, but I was finally going to meet my freshman year roommate. I was so nervous. I've heard horror stories about roommates who end up hating each other. Was it childish for me to hope that we could be best friends? Ok, maybe that was a little over ambitious. I could only hope that we could be civil with each other. And maybe if I'm lucky, we could be friends.

"Hello?" I heard a girl say, who I deduced was Daisy.

I was nervous to go out and meet her. I was never especially good at social interactions, especially meeting new people. But my kitchen stuff was in boxes all over the living room, so she knew I had already arrived. I couldn't hid in the bedroom forever.

"Hi!" I said a little too enthusiastically, as I walked out the bedroom. "Daisy right?"

"Yea, and you're Jemma?"

"Yea!" There is that enthusiasm again... Ugh, she's gonna think I'm some preppy overachiever already. I mean I am, but I don't want that to be her first impression of me. I want her to think I'm cool.

But actually. She's the cool one here. Black leather jacket and all kind of cool. My dreams of us becoming best friends as slowly fading. I can already tell, girls like her aren't friends with nerds like me.

"So this is the bedroom" Daisy said as she walked into the small room we would share.

"Yea, not very big. Not that I expected it to be. I already rearranged the furniture a little because when I got here, you could barely get to the bed, nor could you sit at either desk. Much better use of space now. But we can move things around more if you want. Oh, and I took the bed by the window if you don't mind."

We were living in a one bedroom double with a living room/kitchen.

Freshman could only choose between 1BR doubles and 3BR Quads, and while the quads give you a 50% chance of having a single, I decided that three roommates might be too overwhelming.

"Yea, I actually prefer to not sleep near the window, so the sun doesn't wake me up in the morning," Daisy answered. This was perfect then. Daisy threw her duffle on her unmade bed and jumped on it to lay down. As you would expect in any college dorm, the mattresses were practically rubber, but at least these didn't have springs poking out at your back.

"So," Daisy said, forgoing unpacking. I guess it's 'get to know your roomie' time. Thank god she was initiating it, because I did not want to come off as a clingy roommate. "You're from England right? Did you move in alone, or did your parents already leave?"

"No, I moved in alone. I actually went to boarding school in the US, so most of my stuff was here is storage already. And I guess I've just always been independent." Truth be told. My parents just don't seem to really care. They've always pushed me in my academics first and foremost. So something sentimental like moving their only child in to college on her first day didn't really seem worth it for them to make the trip to the US. Another little secret. All of their pushing was responsible for me graduating school early. I'm actually 16. But I'll be 17 in a few weeks. It's not really something I want to advertise just yet, because no one wants to invite a 16 year old to a college party.

I was so stuck in my own thoughts that I almost didn't hear Daisy saying, "Boarding school. That sounds so cool. I've been to every kind of public school. I can assure you that they are nothing like the movies." Daisy had already me through email that she was in foster homes for most of her life.

"Well I highly doubt college will be like the movies either. But I guess since neither of us have people here with us, we could go to the orientation stuff together..." I asked nervously. Hopefully Daisy wouldn't think that I was being too clingy...

"That's a great idea," Daisy said. Relief flooded me. "The first required event is at 2:00, and it's already 1:45, so maybe we should start heading to..." She checked her phone for the location I assumed, "College Hall now? Might be a good idea to leave early. So we don't get lost." More relief. Not only did she care about the required events. She wanted to get there on time. Maybe hope of a friendship wasn't so farfetched.

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It was around 5:00 when all the required new student orientation (or NSO as it's called) activities were over. Thankfully, not only did Daisy not ditch me, she seemed to be clinging to me just as much as I was clinging to her. Well 5:00 was perfect time for dinner, so we decided to go to one of the many dining halls on campus. We discussed it at large about how we might as well try out all the dining halls during the week of NSO to find out the best ones to eat at during the year. We had sat down after getting our food and started chatting, as we had been all afternoon.

It was looking optimistic toward our friendship. We actually turned out to have a lot in common. As it turned out, we were both huge nerds, although I never would have pegged her for one. And we were both pursuing degree's in STEM. Me in Bio or Chem, and Daisy in Comp Sci. We briefly talked about rushing the Women in STEM sorority (also neither of us are the sorority girl type. But our brief discussion was about if the STEM sorority would be better). Ultimately, we bonded over the fact that both of us had to learn to survive on our own, Daisy being in foster care, and me being at boarding school with distant parents.

Once we finally headed back to our dorm, Daisy started unpacking her things, as I started to arrange the living room/kitchen. We had our first hall meeting at 8:00, so we didn't have an abundance of time. Our hall was actually the freshman leadership initiative hall, meaning we would have special hall activities though our the year devoted to enhancing our leadership skills. I loved the idea of the program, but I also knew a lot of people applied to it only because it guaranteed the best housing. Usually freshman don't have living rooms or kitchens, but the freshman leadership hall was actually in one of the upperclassman dorms, hence the nicer rooms. I was just thankful that Daisy actually seemed interested in the leadership program and not just the housing.

Promptly at 8:00, it was time for our hall meeting.

End of Chapter 1!

Not much going on yet, but I'm getting there. Next chapter we meet Fitz!

Also, I use a lot of references to my actually University, so if you can guess what school I go to, then 1000 points to you! (as I write more, the references will probably become more obvious.)

Also also, if you have any suggestions, I'm always looking for more ideas. Right now I have 5 chapters planned out, but after that it's all up in the air.

See you next time!