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Summary: Skye and Jemma accidentally get locked in a freezer room.
"This is purely for the purpose of our health." Jemma mumbled.
"Completely platonic." Skye added, clutching Jemma's body and pressing her cheek against Jemma's because it felt so warm.
"Of course." Jemma said, but her arms snaking around Skye's waist felt contradictory. Her teeth chattered and she could feel the intense shaking of Skye's body as it tried to maintain a reasonable temperature. They'd gotten locked in the freezer room on accident, Jemma had been organizing chemical components that needed to stay cold and Skye had followed her in, leaving the door hanging open. Another SHIELD scientist on the base must have looked inside, not seeing them behind a shelf, and closed the door.
"It's freezing in here." Skye hugged Jemma's body even more tightly. There were curled up on the ground by the door. Jemma had insisted that they preserve body heat after they'd banged on the door and on one heard them.
"It is well below freezing in here." Jemma couldn't help but let out a little frustration in her voice because Skye had gotten them locked in here, but the hacker didn't know any better.
"We're not in any danger, are we?" Skye asked innocently.
"Of course not, we shouldn't show any symptoms of hypothermia or frostbite for at least another five minutes. Fitz knows I'm in here, he'll find us by then." Jemma said calmly.
"Hypothermia and frostbite?! In five minutes?! I think losing a finger counts as danger." Skye said sarcastically, but she stuttered a few times at the end of her sentence because her jaw was numb.
"Your fingers are fine." Jemma said, intertwining them with her own to prove a point as well as keep them warm, because Skye was right, their fingers would probably be the first part of them to freeze if they weren't found soon. She knew that if they were in here for an hour or two they would probably have severe hypothermia and yes, they would have damaged limbs from freezing that could take twelve months to heal completely.
"This isn't so bad." Skye mumbled, gripping Jemma's hand and letting a deep shiver run down her spine. She felt chilled to the bones and was beginning to wonder if Fitz would find a skyesicle when he opened the door. Jemma scoffed and turned her head to face Skye, even though that only left their faces a few inches apart. Skye's breath was warm on her nose and cheeks, and it actually felt more like a relief.
"Fitz!" Jemma yelled when she saw a shape pass over the window. She pried Skye's stiff, cold hands off of her clothes and left the shivering girl on the concrete floor so that she could get to the door and grab his attention.
"In here!" Jemma yelled, smacking the glass with her palm. She turned and looked behind her at Skye, who was shivering profusely. Her lips were a light shade of blue, and Jemma assumed hers were, too, she'd been in the room for even longer than Skye.
When Fitz finally spotted her in the door, his eyes widened and he ran to it. He had to punch in the key code several times, he was rushing and pushing the wrong buttons. When the door finally hissed and cracked open, Jemma offered her hand for Skye. Skye obliged, grabbing it and letting Jemma help pull her to her feet.
"What the bloody hell, Simmons?!" Fitz yelped, pulling both girls outside and into the rest of the lab. Jemma felt like her skin was burning all over, she had gone from extreme cold to a comfortable warm in less than a second.
"Are you alright?" He asked them both.
"We kept each other warm." Skye explained with a smile. Jemma didn't know whether Skye wouldn't or couldn't let go of her hand. She might just enjoy the warmth there, but her hand could also be numb and too stiff to move. It didn't matter, though, Jemma held it right back and would hold it as long as Skye wanted.