"Movie night!" announced Coulson, skipping into the kitchen.
The team cheered, but then they began to bicker over what movie watch.
"We should watch Friday the 13th!" said Mack.
"No, we should watch all the Lord of the Rings!" argued Hunter.
"Lance that will take way too long!" replied Bobbi, "I say we watch Mean Girls again."
"We've watched that, like, twenty times," whined Skye, "I say we watch The Titanic. Then we can make fun of Jack and Rose again."
"No!" said Simmons, "That movie always makes me cry! Let's watch Despicable Me 2!"
"Karate Kid!" declared May.
"Paranormal Activity!" screamed Fitz.
"Frozen!" yelled Brynn.
"NO!" everyone else yelled back.
"Star Wars!" demanded Mack.
"Star TREK!"
"The Notebook!"
"Pride and Prejudice!"
"CINDERELLA!"
"Easy A!"
"Dear John!"
"PRINCESS DIARIES!"
Everyone turned around and stared at Hunter.
"What? I thought was a good movie."
Everyone stared for a bit, and then resumed yelling at each other.
Soon the debate died down to four movies.
"Star trek!" Chanted May, Simmons and Bobbi.
"Star WARS!" yelled Hunter and Mack.
"Cinderella!" protested Skye, Coulson (yes, Coulson really wanted to see Cinderella), and Brynn.
"Paranormal Activity!" screamed Fitz alone.
This went on for about five more minutes. Finally Coulson yelled
"ENOUGH!"
Everyone shut up.
"There we go," said Coulson, "Much better. Now, whose birthday is closest to today?"
"Fitz's." grumbled Simmons.
"Good, then Leo gets to pick the movie."
"Yes!" cheered Fitz, "Paranormal Activity it is!"
Skye paled.
The team huddled in front of the TV with a copious amount of popcorn and twizzlers. Fitz was not fazed by the movie at all (or so he thought). He looked over at Coulson and May, who were sitting a little closer together than usual, chewing twizzlers at an alarming speed. He then glanced over at Mack and Hunter, who were squished together on an armchair. Mack sitting perfectly still, tensed all over, and Hunter clinging to the mechanic's arm, gnawing on popcorn. Fitz then looked at the huddle of girls and grinned. Simmons was sitting in the middle, with Skye on her left and Bobbi, who was holding a curled up Brynn, on her right. Skye had swung her legs over Jemma's and Jemma had her leg over Bobbi's curled up one, and all were wrapped tight with a blanket, and all four had their arms in a tangle knotted around each other. Fitz got a brilliant idea. Picking up a piece of popcorn, he chucked it into the midst of arms, blankets and hair.
"Spider!" he yelled.
Deafening shrieks erupted from the blanket, and limbs flailed everywhere, knocking over a bucket of popcorn and three bottles of Coke. Hunter screamed and jumped onto Mack's lap, Mack screamed and threw Hunter's popcorn at the TV, May screamed and kept chewing her twizzler, and Coulson screamed loudest (and longest) of all, and threw a lamp across the room. Fitz laughed and laughed and laughed and then choked on popcorn, and kept laughing.
"Fitz!" screamed Simmons, "You horrible, dirty, evil, treacherous—YOU NEARLY SCARED ME TO DEATH!"
"Never do that again!" screeched Bobbi.
"WHERE'S THE SPIDER?" shrieked Brynn, shaking and kicking the blanket chaotically.
"It was just a piece of popcorn," said Fitz laughing, pausing the movie, "You should've seen you all's faces! Mack was like, "Oh my gosh!" and then-hahahahaha- Hunter was all like, "Aaaaah!" and then Simmons was like "Weebk!' and then-ehehehehehe- Coulson-ehehehe-your face was like-PRICELESS!"
"Never to that again!" warned Coulson, picking up his dropped Captain America teddy bear, "Or I will send you to your room and you can't finish the movie. Now press play."
Fitz resumed the movie, and grinned broadly to himself. Mission accomplished.
When the movie finished, everyone made Fitz clean up the mess that resulted from his prank. He didn't mind, though, the looks on their faces and their screams were worth it. He finished throwing away the destroyed lamp and looked up. Everyone else was gone. And he was alone. All alone.
Brynn lay as still as a rock in bed, tensed up, eyes darting back and forth between her room door and her closet door. She barely breathed. And she really had to pee. Lots of thoughts crossed through her mind.
Should I get up? Should I hold it until morning? Maybe I should get up. But then the supernatural force will get me! But I really need to pee. Maybe I could just wet the bed? Huh. That's a possibility. Nope. Eww. That's gross. I should really get up. I'll bring my ICER. But what if it doesn't work? I should still bring it. I'll bring my knife too.
She debated herself for a few more minutes, and then cautiously reached under her pillow and got her ICER. Then, ICER pointed at the closet door, she slowly rolled out of bed and grabbed her knife. With ICER aimed at the closet and knife pointing towards the dresser, she slowly edged closer and closer to her door. She slowly turned the knob and creaked it open. She peered outside. Seeing nothing there, she crept out, edging against the wall towards the girl's bathroom. She finally reached the door, and her bladder was almost bursting. Slowly she reached for the knob, and the door suddenly swung open, a shadow in the doorway. Brynn screamed and aimed her ICER, and then the shadow screamed and knocked the ICER to the ground, and then Brynn screamed and pointed her knife, and then the shadow screamed and knocked the knife to the ground, and then Brynn screamed again and then the shadow screamed again, and then Brynn screamed for the fourth time and the shadow—
"Brynn?"
THE SHADOW HAD SKYE'S VOICE! No wait… that was Skye.
"Skye!" she screamed, "I really have to pee!"
Skye dragged her into the bathroom.
"Go pee. I'll guard the door. And no more screaming. They might hear you."
Brynn couldn't decide whether Skye meant the team or…..*shudder* Those demons.
She quickly relieved herself and ran over to Skye, who had her gun pointed at the door.
"Did you flush?"
"No!" hissed Brynn, "A demon might come out of the toilet."
"Okay. Good thinking."
Skye slowly pushed the door open and, picking up Brynn, dashed into her bunk.
They slammed the door shut, panting, and then they screamed again, when they saw someone curled up on the bed.
"Hunter!" Skye screamed, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I'm scared!" he whimpered, "I don't want to sleep by myself."
"And neither did I," said Bobbi, popping up from the other side of the bed. Skye and Brynn screamed and Hunter fell off the bed.
"Bobbi! When did you get here?"
"I was here before you, Lance!"
"How come I didn't see you?"
"Because you were wrapped up in that ridiculous blanket!"
"Everyone shut up!" whispered Skye, "The demons might hear you!"
They all shushed, and climbed into the bed.
"Lance! Get out of the middle!" hissed Bobbi.
"No! I'm scared."
"Brynn and Skye go in the middle! They're younger."
Lance sighed and clambered over to side closest to the door, and huddled close to Skye, who was basically encasing Brynn, and Bobbi had her long arms stretched over Skye. They lay like that, and slowly began to doze off to sleep. They jerked awake to the sound of someone entering their room. Skye slowly pulled out her gun and pointed it at the intruder.
"It's just us!" yelped Simons and Fitz, who were both clutching blankets and pillows.
"What do you guys want?" whispered Skye, putting her gun away.
"We were too scared to sleep by ourselves, but then we were still scared together, so we came to find Skye." Said Fitz.
"Fine." Said Skye, "You can both sleep on the pillows on the floor."
Simmons and Fitz made beds out of the pillows on the ground and lay down, pulling their blankets over them.
Brynn woke up in the middle of the night and saw Mack lying between the two scientists, an arm wrapped protectively around each. She lay back down and put her head on Bobbi's shoulder.
Suddenly her eyes flew open, and she could just make out the door slowly creaking open. She shook Skye and Bobbi, who awoke immediately, and saw the door slowly being pushed open. They shook Lance who leaned down and flicked Mack's head. Mack jumped, waking up FitzSimmons. They all took out their ICERS and pointed them at the door.
Coulson was greeted by seven ICERS all pointed at his head.
"Cripes!" he yelled, "It's just me!"
They all sighed in relief.
"I was too scared to sleep by myself." He explained, spreading out a sleeping bag at Mack's feet and laying down.
The rest of the team nodded and went back to sleep. Just as Brynn thought everything was safe again, the door was thrown open and a very angry person was standing in the doorway. IT WAS THE DEMON! The team screamed and everyone jumped on the bed, squishing Brynn against the headboard.
"I can't believe you all came here and didn't invite me!" hissed a furious May, "I was completely alone at the end of the hall! Do you know how terrified I was?"
The team collapsed in relief. Mack and FitzSimmons rolled back onto their pillows, putting their ICERS by their heads.
"Sorry May," said Coulson, climbing back into his sleeping bag, "I should've woken you up."
May growled and spread out a comforter on a few pillows she had brought and lay down.
"Now everyone go to sleep."
The next day, the base was sprinkled everywhere with salt and sage and Brynn was carrying a rabbit's foot in her pocket.