So that finale, huh?
I can't say that I'm disappointed that Daisy got her happy ending with Sousa and FitzSimmons had a kid but oh my gosh Deke got screwed over.
So, while I think that there will be stories of mine that deal with the consequences of being trapped in a timeline that doesn't exist, I think it's super relevant and important to IGNORE CANON.
And I've decided to do that by bringing in the rarest pair imaginable... A throuple! It's worth noting that I currently don't identify as polyamorous so I'm prone to get things wrong. I also know that there are different ways to be polyamorous. This one is the one in which everyone is in love with each other.
There's nothing that builds up a Deke/Daisy/Daniel ship but this is fun so let me have it.
Some ship names I've thought up so far (please leave more in the comments if you want):
Just Deke and Daisy- LemonQuake
Just Deke and Daniel- LemonSquare
All Three- Dankesy or LemonCheeseQuake (Daniel is the cheese because he's cheesy in a romantic way.)
I hope you like this. If you have serious concerns about how a polyamorous ship is presented or anything like that, message me and I'll try to make amends.
Review if you want to, sorry for the long A/N, enjoy!
Anyone can fall in love with Daisy Johnson. You have to be a special kind of person for Daisy Johnson to fall in love with you. The first special type was, unfortunately, evil. There was Miles and then there was Ward. She buried that part of her past and moved forward. Then there was the second type, the powerful type. Lincoln and Gabe. Lincoln had been her most heartbreaking relationship and she missed him to this day. And now she was on to her third type. Men out of time. Deke had made an acronym out of it, Moot. Daisy called them her space boyfriends.
There was something incredibly satisfying about traveling through space with Deke, Sousa, and Kora. She missed her S.H.I.E.L.D. family but she was glad she had this family, the one ripped from toxic timelines. Everyone in that family had been given a proper second chance by S.H.I.E.L.D. and she was so grateful for that. She wouldn't have the two loves of her life if it weren't for them. She wouldn't have her sister. And she wouldn't have the cosmos to travel through. It really was beautiful up here.
They had movie nights, twice a week. There were so many films that only Daisy had seen. She'd started them with ET, so Sousa could figure out space a little bit, then Space Jam, which was more for Deke's sake than anyone else's, since you can't just wear Michael Jordan's shoes and not know who he is. Now they were slowly working through all of the Star Wars movies. Deke was pretty sure he could create a functioning lightsaber, especially if he got Bobo on the phone, but that seemed like a bad idea in an enclosed space. Sousa had started calling her Quake abilities "the force." Daisy didn't mind the gentle teasing or Deke's crazy ideas. She was just happy to have some time cuddled up to her boys.
Daisy could swear that Deke and Sousa were closer to each other than to her. She didn't mind it, it filled her heart with joy that they were so happy together. Deke was the only person who almost never called him Sousa. It was always Daniel or Danny Boy. Sousa called him Lemon boy, as revenge, but Sousa had also been touched almost to the point of tears when Deke gave him a lemon and explained that it was a sign of affection. Daisy was very happy to point out that she had gotten eight lemons, in comparison to Sousa's one lemon. Both of the boys were a little mad at her after that, but it quickly passed and a few extra lemons ended up in Sousa's bed, bringing his total to twelve.
Lemons aside, the best thing was when Daisy would be off, reaching out to someone on earth, or talking with Kora or just taking a nap and she would come back to find Deke and Sousa snuggled up on the couch or one of them talking and the other looking at them with the rapt attention of someone who had found the two parts that made their everything. One of Daisy's favorite things about Sousa was the way he looked at you and really listened and so many times she'd find them in the middle of a conversation, Sousa leaning on an elbow and taking in every word.
Deke certainly felt like a million bucks. Outside of family, he'd never experienced a love so brilliant and full as the love he felt for and from his significant others. He hadn't known that you could experience love like that for two people without one canceling the other out. It was freeing, it was empowering, and it was wonderful. Though love certainly didn't make a person whole, for Deke, it finally felt like he was a part of something where he really mattered. Daniel was one of the first people who always listened to him, no matter what. Like, he could be in the middle of writing a fancy letter on his typewriter and if Deke wanted to talk about his childhood traumas, Daniel would take the time to listen. It really meant the world to him to have someone who listened, he knew that Daisy felt the same way. And in return, whenever Daniel wanted to talk about his timeline or the one that got away, Daisy and Deke would drop everything to hear him out.
If Daisy had to pick one thing that she didn't like about her men out of time it was their slang. Sousa still used the most outdated slang, but Deke was worse. He would use new slang and 80s slang interchangeably, incorrectly. Daisy had long since given up correcting him, but it was getting dire now that he was passing on his vocabulary to Sousa. It was cute that they were trying to fit into this timeline, though. It made her laugh, and they both lived to make her laugh. She had the biggest, prettiest smile when she laughed.
Daisy did her fair share of making them laugh, too. They would cuddle up together and she'd tell stories of her early days as an agent. It wasn't always funny but there were some things that everyone found at least a little bit amusing. Deke lived for the stories about his grandparents, not just the heartwrenching ones (which were in abundance) but the silly ones about Fitz playing poker with her ex, or the time Fitz and Daisy were undercover as an American couple on a train. Daisy, Sousa, Deke, and Kora spent the next hour after that one trying to fake their best Scottish accent. Surprisingly, Sousa had the best one. Kora didn't know what she was doing, Daisy's accent was still garbage, and Deke was trying his best.
"Every time Fitz pulled out his accent it sounded like he was trying to make fun of Ward."
"It's a shame that guy was like, super evil, he had such a cool name," Deke said.
"Yeah, the evil outweighs any of the coolness."
"We could've killed him in my timeline," Kora pointed out. Daisy let out a short laugh
"As tempting as that sounded, murder is not the answer for everything," Daisy reminded her sister.
"Okay, but like, it's the answer for some things."
"Like if you were filling out a crossword puzzle and the clue was, what is a six-letter word for assassination," Daniel suggested.
"What's a crossword puzzle?" Deke asked, "That sounds fun. Does it have anything to do with crossdressing?"
"No, it doesn't- wait. Deke, are you the one that's been wearing my clothes?"
"Daniel dared me," Deke said quickly.
"Come on snake, let's rattle," Daniel muttered, feeling slightly betrayed.
"You asking me to dance or to fight?" Deke smirked.
"I don't understand what language they speak," Kora said with an eye roll, heading back to the cockpit to get away from the couple's drama.
"Don't have a cow, Daisy. Daniel thought I looked good in your clothes." Deke laughed.
Daisy rolled her eyes as well, laying back over both of their laps.
"Just ask me next time, weirdo. I don't mind sharing clothes as long as you're not stealing them." She paused and looked up at Daniel, "Have you also been wearing my clothes?"
"Deke dared me."
"Who started the dares?" Daisy asked, incredulous at the himbo energy coming from her space boyfriends.
"That's not important," Deke said, "Danny looked super cute in your shorts."
Daisy smirked, "Danny's gonna have to show me."
Sousa grunted and turned towards Deke, "Do you have to keep calling me Danny? You're the only person in the whole world who doesn't call me Sousa."
"Do you want me to stop?" Deke asked, resting his head against Daniel's shoulder and resting his hand on Daisy's arm, rubbing patterns into her skin and causing goosebumps on both Daisy and Daniel.
Sousa glanced at Deke, his soft brown hair brushing against the side of Sousa's face. He let out a sigh, "You can call me Danny, Lemon boy."
Deke's face lit up and he leaned up to kiss Sousa on the cheek, feeling warm and happy.
The three of them fell into a comfortable silence for a while, Daisy still stretched out in their laps, and then Sousa decided to wax poetic.
"I still can't fathom how this happened, how the whole galaxy is ours. How I get to see the beauty of the heavens with the loves of my life." Deke and Daisy both blushed a little. Sousa always did this. Always composed these speeches that made them feel both secure and special. They both deserved someone like him.
"You both deserve a thousand galaxies," Deke said. He loved them so much, but he still sometimes felt like he was intruding. He'd lived his whole life feeling unwanted. Daniel wrapped an arm around him and ran his other hand through Daisy's hair.
"We all deserve this," Daisy said, "We all deserve this second chance." She sat up enough to kiss Daniel and then Deke, and then she was just sitting in their laps as they both stared at her, feeling this fullness of love that they had never felt before. Feeling, for the first time, like they really deserved the galaxies.