Here's the prompt for Day 2: Adventure. Have a little Pre-Bus FitzSimmons. :)

Thanks to my Beta StarryDreamer01 who helped me edit this.


The Beginning of their Adventure

"Will you stop looking so grumpy?

"I am not grumpy."

"You are..."

"Am not!"

Fitz scoffed and stabbed the meat on his plate with more force than necessary. Jemma rolled her eyes and ate her lunch in a milder manner.

They were sitting at their usual table in the small café next to their lab. It was Monday and they always started their week having lunch there rather than in the Sci-Ops lounge room/cafeteria. It had become habit for them.

Jemma glanced at her partner who was still looking rather glum and wondered if he felt as though this routine they had was a bit stifling.

She didn't dislike it actually. She liked her job at Sci-Ops, loved working with her best friend and living together in their apartment in Boston.

But after seeing the events that had occurred in New York less than a year ago with the Avengers fighting Loki, Jemma had a restless feeling.

It fueled her desire to go out and do fieldwork.

Months ago, that same (yet not so strong) feeling had made her convince Fitz to take the field exam with her so that they could still work together. She'd never leave him behind: she couldn't bear the thought.

However, their examination had gone royally bad. They had both failed for the first time in their lives and it left Jemma feeling unaccomplished.

Fitz, on the other hand, didn't seem to mind staying where they were. He was doubtful of going into the field in the first place, fully aware of all the risks that it could cost them (and not fully realising how much they could gain). And the Battle of New York seemed to cement his thoughts that leaving their lab was a terrible idea.

He'd accepted to go to the field and take the exam but now that they were truly offered the chance, would he still do it? She didn't know and this made her nervous.

All of this made their fast approaching meeting all the more difficult...

Jemma looked up only to find Fitz looking at her with a serious gaze. She smiled slightly as she took a sip of water and felt her body relax when his eyes softened.

"So... Aren't you excited?" Jemma asked, trying to be nonchalant. Fitz snorted.

"Me? What about you?" He teased, wiping his mouth with his napkin. "Isn't Maria Hill on your list of Inspiring Woman in SHIELD that you'd want to meet?"

Jemma blushed and fought against the urge to toss her napkin at him. She kicked him under the table instead, making him yelp.

"Ow! What was that for?! It's the truth!"

"Yes and you have no reason to tease me about it!" Alright, she admired SHIELD's Deputy Director: so what?

"Why did you kick me?" Fitz rubbed his leg under the table.

"Because you're a prat!" She very maturely stuck her tongue at him and laughed when he scoffed and then grinned at her.

They were back to their old relationship where they could bicker, tease each other and feel at ease. They still had moments when a touch or a look made an awkward silence fall between them but it didn't happen often. Jemma had learned to reign in her confused feelings and keep a straight face despite her racing heart. It didn't matter though: she had her best friend at her side and everything was fine.

And she didn't want to lose this...

"Hmm...So..." Jemma cleared her voice slightly and Fitz looked at her. "Have you decided what to say once we're offered-"

"-a position in the field team?" He finished quietly. She saw the way his eyes clouded slightly and she felt her heart lurch. "Well... Maybe." Her heart pounded. "You?"

He knew her answer. They had spent the last few nights and afternoons talking about it.

They'd been talking about this ever since they'd received two identical sealed envelopes from an agent called Melinda May who worked in the Administration department at the Triskellion.

It was an official letter saying that they'd been chosen to join a elite team that would be working with a Level 8 agent and would be travelling around the world. Deputy Director Hill wanted to meet them to talk about the whole ordeal.

Jemma was elated. They'd been both promoted to Level 5 and the offer had come immediately after; it seemed as though someone had been waiting for them...

And yet Fitz was doubtful...

"I think it would be the perfect opportunity to see the world," she remarked. "You know, we'd be fools to give this up. It's a great chance for us."

"Even though we might be in danger?" He looked sceptical.

"We'd be in the lab, Fitz." Did he really think that they'd be shoved into a mission without preparation? "And there will be other agents: trained specialists from Operations.."

She couldn't recognise the emotion that suddenly clouded his eyes. It looked almost as though he was upset that someone else would be there to help them. She was about to ask more when Fitz called the waiter, asking for the check. Apparently, they were almost due for their meeting and she hadn't realised it.

They quickly paid and left to go to Sci-Ops ' airbase. It was a rather odd location for a meeting -she'd expected a more formal venue- but Jemma realised that Deputy Director Hill might be really busy and had cut out a small amount of time to see them.

The concern and nervousness that she'd been feeling at the thought of Fitz not wanting to accept the offer was slightly overtaken by the giddiness of meeting Maria Hill and talking to her about their opportunity to be on a field team.

Jemma looked at her side after a few moments of silence and found Fitz staring at her with a small smile. She blushed and bumped his shoulder with hers.

"Don't look at me like that," she said. "I know that I look ridiculous but... do you even know how hard it is to find a woman in a relevant position here in SHIELD? There are very few: Victoria Hand and Maria Hill, Agent Romanoff in the Avengers... and Peggy Carter back when she founded SHIELD..." Jemma couldn't help but sigh. "It's a pity that most agents don't even recognise their true value and-"

"I do," he retorted. "I've known you for long enough to know that women can be way better and smarter than men."

Jemma ignored the way her heart skipped a beat and stared at him, smiling broadly and feeling enormously pleased. Fitz rubbed the back of his neck and looked forward, blushing slightly.

They arrived at the airbase shortly after and an operations agent led them inside the furthest hangar. Once inside, Jemma's mouth almost dropped open at the sight of an enormous plane.

"What the hell-?" Jemma turned and saw Fitz staring at the vehicle with wide eyes. He didn't look stunned like she was; more like shocked and impressed.

"What?" She asked. He turned to her.

"I know this plane!" He exclaimed and she cocked her head to a side, puzzled.

"What?"

"Remember when I was called to help create a cloaking device?"

"Yes, wasn't it-..?"

"-last year, yes! I saw the schematics for this plane and had to make a few adjustments as well. It's a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III: completely modified from the looks of it..." Fitz started walking down one side of the plane, studying it and Jemma trotted by his side, listening to him list all of the features. She failed to hide a smile at his enthusiasm.

"Do you think that it will be used for a mission?" She asked. "It might be heavily equipped with-"

"-weapons and has many offensive abilities," Fitz agreed. "I think-"

"That's SHIELD 6-1-6."

FitzSimmons turned as one and found themselves face to face with Maria Hill.

"SHIELD 6-1-6?" Jemma repeated and she flushed realising that this wasn't the first thing that she would have wanted to say to Maria Hill.

The woman in question nodded, smiling slightly.

"Yes, that is its name," she replied. "Officially, it's called Airborne Mobile Command Station, but some call it the Bus."

"Bus?" Fitz repeated, staring at the enormous vehicle. Jemma was just as sceptical: that had nothing to do with a bus.

"It's still in the works but you'll get to know it well, FitzSimmons," Deputy Director Hill looked at both of them. "This will be your base and commanding centre."

Jemma blinked. They'd be stationed on a plane? On this plane? They'd be on a -literally- mobile team? The thought alone made her shiver in anticipation and she turned to Fitz and was elated to see him look excited too.

Maybe he'd be convinced...

"Follow me." Maria Hill started walking towards a room at the end of the hangar and they walked after her.

"I told you that it wouldn't be so bad," Jemma whispered, leaning towards her partner.

He rolled his eyes.

"Alright, it might not be all dangerous..." He admitted. "The plane's really awesome."

"Think of how the lab must be."

"According to the schematics, there was a large space by the cargo ramp and the motor room: it would make a great lab space." Fitz grinned at her and Jemma felt a smile make its way on her face too.

"With the best equipment and utensils," she mused and he nodded. "And we'd get to see the world."

"It would be... nice. And we'd get to see the world and places we don't know." Jemma looked at him and he stared back before nodding slightly with a smile. Jemma felt her heart burst with happiness.

They didn't realise that they'd walked into a small room where a man was standing with his back to them. Before either could ask a question, Agent Hill gestured to him.

"That would be your supervising officer," she remarked airily and folded her arms.

When Agent Phil Coulson -a very not dead Agent Coulson- turned around and smiled, FitzSimmons were too stunned to speak.

But after a minute the barrage of questions started and it took the dual effort of the other two agents to keep them at bay.

-:-

As they headed back home, that evening, Jemma couldn't help but think about everything that had happened. They were going to join Agent Coulson's team.

He wanted them.

Pride mixed with elation coursed through her body. But she was most of all so, so glad that Fitz had accepted the offer along with her and hadn't decided to stay behind or make her choose what to do.

They'd see the world together and do something good.

They'd leave together for this new adventure and nothing would stop them.


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