A/N: Sad/Angst start, but quickly gets happier — like within five sentences. If you've read any of my stuff before, you should know by now I can't write sad/angst. This still isn't exactly my normal fare, but I like it now that it's written.

A/N 2: Hydra's been discovered, but doesn't necessarily follow the downfall of Shield from canon. It's just vague and unimportant.

It was a year since Simmons had died jumping out of the Bus to save them all from the Chitauri virus.

Fitz and Skye had started dating a few months after that, after Fitz (and Skye) had had time to properly mourn Simmons' death, because Fitz didn't want to lose a second chance to be with a girl he liked, like he had with Simmons, even if he hadn't realized it until she jumped. And now the two of them were on a mission together, gathering intel on a biochemistry lab that was selling research to Hydra.

They had just been shown into one of the facility's labs when Fitz looked across the room at the exact same time as one of the scientists looked up at him.

"Fitz?"

"Simmons?!"

Ignoring all lab safety rules, they sprinted across the room to each other, colliding in the middle in the tightest hug anyone had ever given. Though neither was aware of their own or the other's, they both had tears leaking out of their eyes as they buried their faces in each other's neck, just breathing each other in, joyous beyond words to see the other again. Eventually, Fitz pulled back slightly to be able to look down into the face of his longest friend, who he had thought he'd lost forever. As their eyes met, ten years of unrealized desire flooded through them both, and their lips crashed onto one another's.

But as Simmons' tongue soon ran over the seam of his lips, begging for permission to enter, images of the last time a girl had done that with him flashed through his mind, and he suddenly remembered that not only did he already have a girlfriend (who was the one who had run her tongue over his lips the night before), but she was standing on the other side of the room watching him kiss Simmons.

He leapt back like he'd been shocked.

As he cast around in his mind wildly for how he was going to explain any of this to Simmons, doubtlessly breaking her heart and his own in the process, and wondering if Skye would ever forgive him for however briefly cheating on her, he heard a soft, slightly sad, "I just lost you, didn't I?"

Fitz looked over to find his girlfriend standing right next to them, instead of across the room like she'd been when he sprinted over to Simmons. Simmons, meanwhile, looked back and forth between the two of them in confusion, wondering why Fitz had jumped back so quickly and how Skye could have lost him, when he was clearly standing right there.

So before Fitz could reply to her or say anything to Simmons either, Skye looked at Simmons herself and said, "After we thought you had died, Fitz and I started dating. But I think we can safely say those days are over now that he found you again. And don't worry, I'm not upset with either of you for it — you're clearly meant for each other. A little upset that my time is over, sure, he is a great guy, but I certainly won't be the one to stand between true love. I'm happy you guys found each other again. And happy we found you again in the first place, since no one's said that yet. How are you here?"

"It's good to see you, too, Skye," replied Simmons earnestly, hugging the younger girl. "And the best doctors can figure, and I can figure, there was a really tall, really steep wave that despite terminal velocity gave me enough of a curved ramp to slow down on that my body didn't rip apart when I finally hit flat water — I don't know, it still seems impossible, and I certainly shouldn't still be here after a fall like that, but somehow I didn't die, and I was picked up by a fishing vessel, though unconscious and definitely in bad shape. Spent three months in the hospital, and while my intellect is all still there, I could't remember anything about my past, or you guys. It wasn't until I saw you and Fitz a minute ago that I remembered anything, and it's mostly just memories directly involving one or both of you. So that's why I never came back despite being alive, because I didn't remember Shield existed, or was my life. But getting back to you and Fitz dating, if you two are together, I can't break you two up — he always did like you ever since you came on board."

But Skye shook her head. "No — you two were meant for each other. That kiss — your first reaction after seeing each other again for the first time after you thought the other was dead or remembered the other exists — is proof enough of that. And while I'll miss him for sure, I couldn't be happier that you two have a second chance now."

But Simmons merely looked at Skye contemplatively for a second, before suddenly dragging Fitz over to the side.

Once they were out of earshot of anyone, Simmons asked him seriously, "You love her, don't you?"

Fitz sighed, nodding.

"But I —" he began, before Simmons' finger pressed firmly against his lips to cut him off.

"You love me as well — yeah, I got that from the kiss," she smiled. "But I'm not asking you to choose. I want to know if you think you could have both — not separately, but all three of us together."

Fitz stared at her in shock for several seconds.

"Seriously?" he finally managed to ask. "Do you think Skye would do that? And more importantly, would you want to do that?"

"I am the one who suggested it, Fitz," replied Simmons with a roll of her eyes.

"Yeah, but you could just be being nice, not wanting to break up what Skye and I already have, but not wanting to give up the possibility of us, either," countered Fitz.

"I'm not," replied Simmons reassuringly, resting her hand on his chest. "Girls aren't my thing, you know that from ten years as classmates, roommates, lab partners, and best friends, but I think I could see something working with Skye. And while I can't say whether Skye will be interested in this or not, I do know she does swing in this direction, or at least occasionally did before Shield."

She paused for a second, before asking seriously, "So are you in?"

Fitz took in a deep breath, studying her, before letting it out slowly. "Mission first — but yes."

Walking back over to where Skye was standing with the by now quite confused lab director who had been showing them around the facilities, Fitz said to Skye, "Let's finish our tour here, and we'll talk later."

Turning to the lab director, he continued, "And I think Doctor Simmons here can show us around the rest of the facility, if that's okay with you."

The lab director looked like it wasn't particularly okay with him, or at least wouldn't be with his boss, but nevertheless gave them a stiff, "As you wish," and let them go.

~FSK~

Thirty minutes later, the three of them sprinted onto the Quinjet Fitz had set to park itself on the roof of the BioChem lab they were investigating after dropping them off near the building, knowing their covers weren't going to last long enough for them to walk back out the front doors.

Once the jet was safely in the air and headed back for the Bus, Fitz nodded to Simmons to begin her proposition, which she quickly did.

"Skye, I know you told me back before that you dated girls off and on before you joined us on the Bus, and you clearly like guys, and Fitz specifically, as you've been dating him for a while now. So is there any chance you could date both at once? Specifically, date Fitz and I. Or, I suppose, really add me to you and Fitz's relationship you already have, since your relationship was there first."

Skye stared at her in shock, before looking over at Fitz.

"I'm okay with it too," he said nodding, before she could ask anything. "I want to date Simmons — you're well aware that I realized I loved her romantically when she jumped and we thought she had died, since I spent many nights crying on your shoulder about it — but I love you as well, and don't want to give up what we have built. It will be a challenge for all of us, as none of us have done anything like this before, but I'm willing to try it if you are — and Simmons of course has already said she's willing to, as she's the one who came up with the whole idea in the first place."

"Will you have two girlfriends, or will we all be one relationship?" asked Skye mostly to Fitz.

"Well I was hoping one relationship, but if you would prefer—" began Simmons, but Skye quickly cut her off.

"No! I want it to be all three of us if we do this," she said quickly. "I don't think I could handle sharing Fitz with another girl, even you, but if we're all dating each other together, that I'm willing to try. But if I begin to feel like I'm hurting you two, I'm pulling out and letting you two have each other. You were meant for each other, and I'm not going to be the one to keep that from happening. But if it's possible for you two to be us three, I'll try my hardest to make it work out."

"Then it's a relationship," smiled Simmons, before smirking, "Now get over here and kiss your new girlfriend, Skye."

A/N: I'm sure the science behind her survival isn't at all realistic, but I had to make up something, and it would theoretically be possible if you had something tall enough, water or any other smooth, solid surface. And it's similar to what the script writers did in the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth movie, so I'm not the only one to use this crazy idea.