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This chapter is a bit shorter, sorry about that, but I hope you still enjoy!
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A few years later they've graduated from the academy three years earlier than they were supposed to, both at the top of their classes. For a year and a half after graduation they work side-by-side in a SHIELD lab somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Every so often they apply for field jobs, but for awhile no one takes them up on it, so they stay in the lab day in and day out.
Then Agent Coulson requests for them to be on his team. Jemma almost bursts with excitement, "Oh, Fitz. It's the most perfect opportunity for us to see the world! We'd be fools to pass this one up!"
Fitz was unsure, but because he didn't want to end up in the lab alone, and her enthusiasm was contagious he went right to practice for the field assessment, and to the field assessment itself with her.
It was after the field assessment that they both trudge, sweaty, exhausted, and with an overwhelming sense of failure, into his room. Jemma merely collapses on his bed, but Fitz goes to the mini-fridge he'd built to grab what he'd made as a post-test celebratory treat.
"What do you want to watch?" his partner asks, as she pulls Netflix up on his laptop.
"How about Doctor-"
"No, I don't feel like watching it today, we've watched it so much lately." she interrupts. She got touchy when she was tired, so he decides not to push her, even though he feels as though he deserves to watch his choice of show since it was her fault in the first place that they had to take the bloody test.
"Fine, what do you want to watch then?"
She goes silent for a moment, and he assumes she's scrolling through the choices, "How about Sherlo-"
"NO." he practically yells, "We've seen all of those like eight times and they're so long."
She huffs a sigh of annoyance, but doesn't press for her show either. There's another moment of silence as she looks for something they can both agree on, and he prepares the treat.
"Have you ever watched Supernatural?" she asks finally
"I haven't, but Ronny was telling me the other day that she loves it."
Jemma nods, "I've heard that it's good as well."
"Supernatural it is then."
He grabs the two bowls he's made and takes a seat next to her. Once the laptop is balancing on their legs she starts playing the first episode. He hands her a bowl as the episode begins.
"What is this?"
"Pudding." his reply is somewhat muddled by the bite he'd taken.
"What kind of pudding?"
He rolls his eyes, "Just try it you'll like it. Now shh, I can't hear it."
The silence lasts long enough for them to see the two on screen children's mother burst into flames, "This is really good, but seriously what is it made of?"
Fitz thinks about not answering, as he's invested in the episode now, but does because he knows she won't stop bothering him otherwise, "It's persimmons pudding."
"No seriously Fitz, what's it made of."
"I told you! It's persimmons pudding!" he crosses his finger over his heart, "I swear I'm not lying."
Jemma doesn't speak for a moment, and he realizes, by the slight shake of her shoulders next to his, that she's laughing, "So you finally got tired of eating plain persimmons all the time and decided to spice it up?"
Ever since that first persimmons at lunch, he'd gotten them every time he could, which was, surprisingly, quite often. She was right in guessing that he'd wanted to change it for once. He'd gotten tired of the same-old same-old, and therefore had decided, while keeping with the theme of persimmons, to actually make something for once.
"Exactly right, I did want to spice it up… literally. There are a lot of spices in this pudding."
They finish the pudding as they watch Supernatural late into the night, making it halfway through season one before they end up falling asleep. Because they're so exhausted they don't even care when they find out the next day that they failed their field assessments. Neither does Agent Coulson