Fitz stood up with a guilty feeling in his gut after remembering the face that was now neaten and bloody. He saw that girl before and he kicked her out and the worst part was, she somehow meant a lot to Jemma. He had so many questions to ask but he saw the look in her eyes that told him there will be time for everything, but right now, they had to help the long haired girl in the man's lap.
''Ward, we need to get her up.'' Jemma whispered, gently grabbing one of Daisy's limp arms in attempts to get her up.
Ward shook his head, ''It's okay, I've got her.'' He said and felt his heart drop at how limp and fragile her body felt in his arms when he lifted her up from the ground. Jemma nodded, grabbing Fitz by the arm gently, he looked at her, still not feeling as if this all was real to him.
She was dead. Dropped in the ocean... He shook his head and decided to put all of his questions back. He was with her and that was all that mattered. Jemma observed Daisy's injuries as best as she could in the dark whilst Ward carried her through the woodlands. ''I can't see everything on her face,'' She admitted, ''But she's got a few broken bones.'' Jemma bit her lip at the painful thought. Ward wanted to find whoever did this to her, even though he wasn't that type of man, he would've felt great if he got to land at least a punch into the man's stomach.
''Over there!'' Jemma yelled once a few headlights that were still being blocked by branches entered her vision. They all took off towards the headlights, entering the narrow road, before any of them could scream for help, the car drove by without a second thought.
''Help!'' Jemma yelled to another by passing car but that earned her nothing. The car took a swift turn, leaving them in the cold.
''Help us!'' Ward yelled when another car approached, it went by but quickly stopped just a few steps ahead of them.
''Thank you.'' Jemma whispered to herself with closed eyes. The driver of the car got out and approached them slowly with a shocked look on his face. Jemma's mouth fell open and her eyes widened in surprise that somehow relieved her, ''Mack!'' She exclaimed in a friendly manner at the familiar figure in front of her.
Mack furrowed his brows, he clearly didn't remember her. ''What happened to you?'' He asked, observing Daisy's still body, and the bloody faces of Ward and Jemma.
''It's a long story.'' Jemma said and looked at Daisy, ''But we need help.''
Mack seemed to think for a moment, but by looking at all of their faces, he couldn't let them down. Not when these innocent looking people needed help. He nodded, ''Get in.'' And pointed towards his car, Jemma smiled gratefully and took off running towards the car with Fitz by her side. She pulled the back door open for Ward, who placed Daisy's body in the gently.
Ward's eyes landed on the small, young child in the backseat, the little girl had her eyes closed, she was asleep. ''Hope...'' Jemma whispered quietly again as she stared at the girl with loving eyes.
''We were just coming back from a camping trip with my girl.'' Mack said in a calm voice before getting into the drivers seat, ''Get in, I'll take you to the closest hospital possible.''
''Thank you.'' Fitz said before getting into the front seat. He didn't know what happened out there, but the way everyone around him was hurt, he knew it wasn't pleasant. Ward positioned Daisy's body into a sitting position whilst Jemma squeezed in beside him. They were careful enough not to wake the little girl.
''What happened to you all?'' Mack asked, and looked at the mirror above his eyes to see what they were doing.
Ward sighed, ''Something you wouldn't understand.'' He turned to Jemma, who still had some tears in her eyes because of Daisy's state. By the way Jemma was looking at Mack, Ward knew she knew him. ''You know him?'' Ward asked just for confirmation and she ended up nodding.
Fitz turned in his seat to face Jemma, who stared at him with sparkling eyes, ''You're hurt...'' He said, instantly feeling bad for not noticing before.
She shook her head, ''It's nothing.'' She said before taking in a sharp breath that mixed with wet tears, ''We need to treat her first.''
It was no longer that ten minutes and they were already at the hospital.
''I'll go get someone over here.'' Fitz said and ran out of the car towards the building with a big red cross. Mack unbuckled his belt and opened the back door, allowing them to get out. Ward lifted Daisy in his arms again and got her out of the car, Fitz came back with three doctors by his side and a stretcher. The doctors carefully took her out of Ward's arms and placed her into the stretcher before making their way back into the building.
Ward went after them, and no matter how much Jemma wanted to go too, she had to get back to remember before she lost him again. She couldn't just let him go. Daisy was in safe hands now, she knew that. Mack looked at her with a confused look, then at Fitz, who decided to stay behind with Jemma.
''Are you sure you don't need to get checked up too?'' He asked with a strange look, wondering why they were still here.
Jemma shook her head, ''Mack, I know your sub-conscious doesn't want to remember the real world because you have Hope here, but I need you to remember me, remember us all.'' She calmly said before placing her hand on his warm, muscly arm.
He gently moved his arm away, ''I'm sorry?'' He asked and tilted his head, he was almost left speechless again at how she knew his and his daughter's name.
''Mack, please!'' Jemma begged, ''I don't know what to say to get you to remember, but this world isn't real...''
Fitz was also in complete surprise and worry, but he stood there, listening to every detail and word she had to say in attempts to understand something. Her being alive was impossible, at least that's what he thought up until now.
''It seems like you know me.'' Mack began and took a curious step towards her, ''How?''
Jemma sighed, not knowing how to put this all into believable words. ''Because I do!'' She said, ''we were put in here by an android who's out here, trying to kill me and prevent you from remembering anything from the real world!''
Mack almost wanted to laugh, but somehow, he was intrigued by what she had to say, ''The one thing I hate in androids, '' He said with a shake of his head, ''And we're getting nowhere in this conversation, I'd like to leave now, but I hope you're all gonna be doing okay.'' He finished and turned towards his car, only to be grabbed back by Jemma's hand again.
''Please believe me, I can prove it all!'' She exclaimed and that was when he stopped and listened.
If she was psycho like Mack was thinking, he wanted to see how she was going to prove it. He crossed his arms and stood there, leaning on the hood of his car. ''You are an agent of SHIELD, who's a very dedicated man, risking his life a multiple times just to do the right thing!''
''SHIELD?'' Mack asked, he admitted wanting to join SHIELD a multiple times before, but after his ex-wife gave birth to his daughter it all changed. ''It's funny how you mention it, I wanted to be an agent before.''
''You are!'' Jemma exclaimed again, ''Only this all isn't real and you are something a lot stronger in the real world, though not very different.'' Jemma stopped and inhaled in attempts to get air into her lungs, ''You're still helpful here, but you helped to save me a multiple times and save a lot of other people, so please,'' She said, stopping again, ''Let me do the same for you, let me save you from this hell. Your brother would want you to come back, your friends like Bobbi and Hunter... They'd all want you back even though you couldn't see them right away.''
It was saddening for her to say those things, to remember how many people they lost that were close to her during her time in SHIELD, but she had to do it to help Mack remember. He turned towards his car again with an awkward look that told her he didn't believe any of this.
''I gotta go home, my little girl needs to be home too.'' He said and walked away before Jemma dropped to her knees. She tried to stop him by yelling his name but Mack drove off without stopping.
''Hey, hey hey!'' Fitz repeated gently and wrapped his arms around her, embracing her in a warm hug. He crouched down beside her and didn't let her go until she had finally stopped crying. Jemma missed her chance to get her teammate out of this hell...
''It's okay...'' Fitz whispered into her ear through her sobbing, her whole body was shaking beneath his arms but that didn't stop him from comforting her.
She shook her head, ''It's not okay, I failed him, he could be stuck in here forever...'' She said before another warm tear streamed down her face. Fitz wasn't sure what she was talking about, but he was sure she wasn't lying or making anything up, she was alive and that was one of the most unexpected things to happen to him. Fitz wouldn't be surprised if someone told him that all of his life was a lie...
They sat on the ground in front of the hospital for about thirty minutes before Jemma finally decided to get up an calm herself down. With Fitz's help she entered the hospital and sat in the waiting room near Ward. Fitz looked down at his watch, ''I need to call my fiance and tell her where I am...'' He whispered into her ear.
Jemma's eyes widened at his thought, she was sure he didn't remember anything that happened. It made sense to her, after that blow in the head from Aida, Fitz most likely forgot some parts of what happened. She grabbed his arm when he reached for the phone in his pocket. Feeling her skin on his suit he turned to her. ''Don't call her, Fitz.'' She said
''Why not?'' He asked, looking strangely at her.
''Because she did this to us...'' She replied and pointed to her and Ward's face, who sat silently and waited for any news on Daisy. Fitz shook his head with his mouth open, he found it hard to believe because she was his fiance, a woman he had spent a lot of his life with...
''She did?'' Fitz questioned and looked around to calm his mind. Jemma nodded, letting him think. His gaze drifted to the finger his ring would be after they got married, but now, he wasn't sure if it was going to happen...not if Aida hurt Jemma. ''But why?'' He asked again.
''Fitz, this all isn't real, I know I sound like a complete psycho but it's the truth.'' She said in a calm voice, ''This world is just something that was created by an android with a computer, well, I don't exactly know how but what I do know is that whatever I'm saying is the truth.''
His heart stammered in his chest because she sounded completely serious, no sings of lying showed up in the way that she spoke and acted. But a fake world? This place he had lived in? He couldn't believe that... ''How are you alive, Simmons?'' Fitz finally asked, having remained quiet for most of the time.
''I died in the framework before my avatar was uploaded here. In that case, I came to life, but if I die again then I'm dead in the real world so I beg you to remember as soon as you can, Fitz.'' She said in an encouraging voice because she needed him on this journey to help her save all of their friends.
''I'm sorry,'' Fitz began, not believing this, all he thought was that it was some silly hallucination because her being alive was something he didn't believe would ever be possible. Fitz saw her die next to him. This couldn't be real, no matter how believable she made it all seem. ''I'm sorry,'' He apologized again and stood up, ''I can't do this. I saw you die...'' He said with a tear in his eye, ''And then I haven't seen you since...''
Fitz started walking away and Ward got up before walking to the silently sobbing scientist, she broke off into a run towards the man she loved and placed her hand on his firm shoulder, making him turn around. ''I love you, Leo Fitz!'' She said, only making him stare into her eyes wider, ''You crossed the bloody universe for me, Fitz! You did that to rescue me and risked your own life!'' Jemma exclaimed and her voice cracked through the many tears that fell out.
Fitz blinked a few times, faster than he did before and took a look around, ''Jemma?'' He questioningly said her name before pulling her face closer to his own, their lips pressed together as they shared a warm, loving kiss that was nothing else but pure love. He remembered it all. Fitz knew...
I'm back from my holiday! I'm so happy to be updating this story though I have plenty of school work...
Thank you for all the beautiful reviews you all! It honestly means so much how you take your time to review each chapter to thank you so much!
As I said, I finally introduced another character which is out little Mack!
