AoS/LG crossover drabbles III

Disclaimer: no one of the characters is mine, but they all belong to their appropriate owners.

21) Paralyzed

Jemma Simmons was huddling in a makeshift shelter, almost paralyzed from cold, hunger and exhaustion. Would that be the end of her?

22) Silence

The silence on the alien world was uncanny – all that Jemma could hear were sounds made by her, or the wind, the shifting sands of the dunes, the rocks of the cliffs – inorganic sounds. This planet was clearly habitable, yet…there was no one – no human or humanoid, no animal or plant, not even a fungus or a lichen around. This was weird. This was wrong.

…And would Jemma learn as to the reason behind this wrongness before or during her death? And when her friends would rescue her, anyhow?

23) Solitude

…Of course it was always possible that Jemma would just grow insane first from loneliness. Yes, she was a proper high-ranking agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and she did expect something like this ever since she had been spying on Whitehall's branch of Hydra, but somehow she expected it to be different – and no theory had prepared her for experiencing this in practice. Just how was she going to handle it?

Or was she just going to die, insane or sane?

24) Reunion

"Jemma? Jemma!"

"Leo? Leo! You made it! You are here? How did you manage it? Who are your new friends? They're not Hydra?"

"No, that's Dyson and Bo. I am not sure what they are, but they are Canadian."

"…"

"Let's just go," Dyson winced. "The king of this land doesn't like the living…he doesn't like anyone, and we don't need him to launch another invasion, you know?"

"Invasion of what?" Jemma muttered as the four of them were leaving.

"Well, the world of the living in general, but Toronto specifically."

Jemma wisely decided to pause and to see as to what will happen when they got back to Earth. She was not disappointed, actually…

25) Loneliness

As Jemma and Leo sang karaoke in honor of Jemma's rescue, ('Genie in a bottle', something about a century of loneliness or more), Tamsin looked over at Mack, feeling off-balance for some reason.

"So, what's with the axe?" she muttered, keeping an eye on the others – so far, all of Mack's friends were keeping quiet with each other, except for Grant and Kara, who clearly wanted to talk to her. Go her! But before… "You're cosplaying a Viking or something?"

"No, I'm a Gord Cantrell fan!" Mack snapped, before facepalming. "I mean… that's not what I mean! Can I start again?"

Tamsin could not help it – she snorted at his antics.

…Maybe things will be even better in the future?

26) Commitment

"The FitzSimmons are going to get married!"

"…What else is new?"

27) Night

"Remind me, why did you think that staying overnight at Grant's – and Kara's – place was a good idea?" Daisy muttered to Lincoln; the other InHuman wisely said nothing.

28) Cooking

…And on the next morning, of course, Grant cooked pancakes for breakfast.

29) Alone

"I'm not sure how can we work out a compromise that is even, but we don't have to be alone," Mack told Tamsin brightly, who just grinned – very, very happily.

30) Hunger

"I don't know if we should stay for breakfast," Daisy said crossly. Her stomach chose that particular moment to grumble in hunger.