Drabble 4: The Best Medicine

Skye had tried to get Simmons' help a few times before. All she wanted to do was surprise the others, and make them laugh.

Yet every time, it was Simmons who laughed the hardest.

When Ward was having a bad day, the week before.

"Simmons, I need your help," Skye said.

"What is it?"

"I wanna cheer up Ward. He hasn't smiled all day."

"Okay. What do you want me to do?"

Skye told her the plan, and everything was going fine as they snuck up on Ward a few minutes later, Skye aiming a snowball at him as Simmons said something to distract him – until Simmons saw the look of absolute confusion on Ward's face when the snowball hit, and started cracking up laughing.

Ward quirked a smile and started to laugh, but Skye noticed Simmons did it first.

When Fitz was upset about modifications on the D.W.A.R.V.E.S., Skye developed another little plan, and again asked Simmons for help. This wasn't really Ward's style, and though it hadn't gone exactly as planned last time, Simmons had still helped.

So Skye recruited her again, to make Fitz laugh.

"You're sure he's on his way?"

"He was just finishing lunch when I left him," Simmons said, trying to peer around the desk. "He should be here any second."

They waited impatiently in the lab, Skye's finger resting on the play button on the remote. Simmons leaned back quickly and tapped Skye on the arm a few seconds later, and Skye pressed the button. The two stood up as the song started, the music increasing in volume so it didn't completely startle Fitz. Fitz stepped fully into the lab and just looked at them for a second, no doubt wondering why they were acting so strange, when the song became apparent.

"Hey hey we're the monkeys!" the speakers projected, loud and clear.

At that point Skye and Simmons held the objects in their hands high above their heads (like Simba in the beginning of The Lion King). Skye stared at the ceiling in a dramatic fashion, chin tilted out as she presented her monkey beanie baby to the world. Simmons started off straight-faced, but made the mistake of looking at Fitz before fully raising her own monkey beanie baby.

She never recovered the straight face.

Fitz looked confused, surprised, touched… but mostly amused, and his expression settled fully on amusement as he saw Simmons laugh. Skye couldn't fight her own smile as the scientist chuckled.

Skye had thought it was the surprises and jokes that made people laugh the most. Now, she realized having someone else laugh first can have just as powerful a result, if the laugh is genuine.

She didn't know how she went so long realizing it:

Simmons had the best laugh.

It was so genuine and heartfelt, so innocently gleeful, it was infectious.

Every time she laughed, the others smiled. Usually they chuckled, or else fought very hard to keep a straight face. She remembered when Fitz had been pranked with shaving cream while he was sleeping, and how Simmons had laughed so hard at the look on Fitz's face. Skye had laughed at Fitz too, but Simmons had made her enjoy it so much more, hearing the absolute glee in her laughter.

Once Simmons was laughing, getting the others to follow suit was easy.

Skye turned away from Simmons' door without knocking, going instead to Fitz's.

He opened it and smiled. "Skye, what can I do for you?"

She looked to Simmons' closed door and lowered her voice. "We need to make Simmons laugh."

A/N: Sorry about the delay in updating. My computer decided to not connect to the internet for a few days.

One of my favorite scenes in the first season is the end of the episode "Repairs," when May's prank on Fitz is revealed. Hearing Simmons laugh makes me laugh every time, and I think it's awesome that the other characters all laugh because of it too (mostly Ward). So I had to make a little drabble about it. Hope you liked it. Again, if you have a moment you want to see, just let me know. Thanks.