5, The Master Plan
The most dangerous thing in the world is not nuclear bombs, invading alien forces, and not even simple, human stupidity – it's boredom. Because when you're bored, you mind makes up all those stupid scenarios it would like to see play out and, and since you're bored, you actually play them out.
With varying results.
So it's not a big surprise that Jemma's craziest idea comes to her on an awfully slow Monday afternoon.
"You know," she starts, sitting at her desk in the Bus's lab, playing with her pen, "I think Skye and Ward would make a cute couple."
A couple of feet from her, Fitz scoffs.
"No, I mean it. They are both very aesthetically appealing, similar in some fields, while in other fields, their differences would balance each other out rather well, I think."
Fitz kicks his chair back and turns towards her.
"And what do you plan on doing with this theory?"
Jemma sits up straight.
"Of course we should test it out," her words are coming faster as she speaks. "We should get them together!" She claps her hands.
"Okay, but how?" She can feel the excitement creeping into Fitz's voice as well.
"Maybe…" she thinks out loud. "Maybe we could give them a model to covet. If there was a happy couple around them, maybe they would realize that it is what they want too."
Fitz seems to consider this for a moment, but then opens his arms wide helplessly.
"Where do you see a happy couple here we could use as an example?"
Jemma scratches her chin. Well, it's a valid question.
"Maybe we could play that part. Pretend to be a couple." As ridiculous as it sounded at first in her head, she's starting to get excited by the idea. "That way we could even adjust our behavior to their responses! It would be great."
For a long, long moment, Fitz only stares at her, almost as if she'd grown a second head. Then he pinches the bridge of his nose.
"This is without a doubt the stupidest plan you've ever had. Of course I'm in."
