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As I promised, this conversation will bring us to what we saw at the end of conversation 22 in the bad timeline. How did we get there?
Conversation 24: Text messages to Nana
D FitzSimmons: Hey, it's me, your only grandkid. I am safe in 2018- not your 2018 but a 2018. That's a long story. Apparently, you manage to make a bridge between timelines using Bobo as an anchor. At least, that's the running hypothesis.
D FitzSimmons: We're hoping to do that again with these messages. This is why I'm using my phone. We think we are currently in a window, but monoliths are finicky little things and were using their particles for this.
D Fitzsimmons: I'm not sure if this will work, but I'm going to try anyway. This is the perfect time because the Princess is having a frappe in the living room, and grandpa is making out with Hunter in the corner. In between talking shit about me because he still thinks I'm the same guy who sold out Daisy to the Blues. Because they're distracted, this is the best time to send you a bunch of text messages to see how you're doing. They won't be looking over my shoulder to see me asking you how much you drank today. Or if you were drinking while in the lab. I don't like it when you do that.
D FitzSimmons: I hope you don't actually get that message because I shouldn't have said it that way. I was just angry typing. I wasn't really planning to send that message, but not-Friday sent it anyway.
D FitzSimmons: In this timeline, Friday is like Enoch, and Ana runs everything.
D FitzSimmons: You know I'm definitely going to ask you about the drinking because I always ask you about the drinking. I wish you wouldn't drink so much. I get that you're in pain. I just wish there was a way to not make you hurt so much or at least a way to help you work through your pain that doesn't involve José Cuervo. You didn't lose Bobo once; you lost him twice. I get why you drink; I just wish I could stop it. I just want you to not be sad. I want you to be the woman that my mom told me about growing up.
D FitzSimmons: I feel like telling you about Bobo and Hunter in this timeline is definitely going to lead to you being further in the bottle. If such a thing were even possible at this point. I don't want that at all. I don't want you in pain.
D FitzSimmons: Good news. I am in 2018 with your Bobo. The first one. Whatever you did worked. We're not entirely sure what you did to bridge the two dimensions instead of merely sending me back in time in my own timeline. But the Princess has a working theory that we're going to try out. She's the smartest person I've ever met. She knows everything.
D FitzSimmons: Why didn't you tell me you were planning this? I could've helped, and then I would know how to get home now.
D FitzSimmons: So the fact that I'm with Bobo one means that he didn't die in the explosion. The monolith sent him back 22 months (?) in time. He sort of made a new timeline. Now I personally would have done something cool like becoming a rockstar super agent. Bobo One decided to become CCO of Stark industries and ended up with Hunter.
D FitzSimmons: This is actually closer to what I really did in our timeline than I would like to acknowledge. Obviously, he made a new timeline where he ends up married to Hunter. You and Bobo have really similar taste in men. I really want to know how that happened, but I am afraid to ask.
Ana Junior: James Leopold, a.k.a. the first Leopold Fitz of your original timeline, believe that he arrived in his own timeline. Just earlier and that his actions erase the original timeline. He felt it was best to move on with his life since the Fitz and Simmons of this timeline were together. However, he did work to get them engaged sooner. The wedding was a year ago.
D FitzSimmons: Well, he was wrong. Also, good on him for getting the wedding moved up. Other Nana invited me to their anniversary party.
D FitzSimmons: These messages aren't going through, are they?
Ana Junior: They are not at this time. I was initially not planning to tell you that until the princess returns from her frappe break and her conversation with her brother. I feel that you need to vent; otherwise, you may end up punching Leo.
D FitzSimmons: I vented. I'm not going to punch Bobo out. I just think he's a bit of a dick. Nana has been working tirelessly to get him back, and he's just been running around fucking Hunter and living his best life as the head of SI.
Ana Junior: Actually, he's been working with a team to prevent Thanos from wiping out half of the world's population. As I mentioned earlier, James was unaware that his original timeline even still existed.
D FitzSimmons: While I doubt he's going to leave Hunter now. He shouldn't because if we can get the stones back, then we can bring Bobo 2 back from the snap. Bobo 2 deserves to actually be happy.
Ana Junior: Speaking of Hunter. He also brought you a frappe and bacon cheese croissant.
D FitzSimmons: I think I might not hate this Hunter despite sleeping with Bobo. I really can't hold that against him because Nana is also sleeping with Hunter.
Ana Junior: Hunter doesn't hate you. He's currently defending you.
D FitzSimmons: I don't want to hear what Bobo one is telling him. Yes, I gave Daisy over to the blues. Do I regret that now that I no longer live in a dystopic hellscape? Yes. In the dystopic hellscape, it was a necessary evil. Well, that dystopic hellscape. I lived through a few.
D FitzSimmons: I'm just frustrated. For these last 22 months, he's been here living this happy life, and I've been dealing with alcoholic Nana for five and a half years. I'm exhausted and angry. I just want her to be okay like the Simmons here. She's just so lovely and sweet and not drunk all the time. That's the woman my mom told me about.
Ana Junior: She is at present five weeks pregnant. The consumption of alcohol would be ill-advised.
D FitzSimmons: She's pregnant?
Ana Junior: Yes.
D FitzSimmons: That's good to know. That's earlier than they had my mom, so I guess this will make this baby my aunt or uncle, sort of. Although they'd probably got married sooner in this timeline.
Ana Junior: That is a way to look at it. Leopold Fitzimmons and James Leopold see each other as brothers rather than nearly alternate dimension counterparts.
D FitzSimmons: One big happy multi-verse family.
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Okay, not that happy of a multi-verse family because, contrary to what Nana says, Bobo is a dick. He didn't finish his conversation with Ana because instead of asking what he was working on. Bobo ripped the phone out of his hands and started berating him. Deke responded by punching him.
Good news, none of the equipment was broken. Peter kept the workstation from crashing to the ground because they kind of knocked it loose. The bad news he's currently being yelled at by the Princess.
"I leave for ten minutes to talk to my brother, and you two start fighting. You're both adults. If it wasn't for Peter, you could've completely wrecked what we were working on." The princes almost yelled.
"I am. I am not sure about him." Bobo one replied. Hunter was healing his face with something that Bobo came up with. Note to self figure out what it is and see if it's something he could sell to Pepper.
"You're the one who disrupted my experiment. I'm not the person you know back at the lighthouse. A lot has happened in the last 5 1/2 years. Like me having to take care of the wife you abandoned Just so you can shack up with Hunter." Deke screamed.
"I didn't abandon anybody. I didn't choose to end up here." Bobo, one argued.
"You didn't try to leave, did you? We've only been working on this for a couple of hours, and we already have a working theory. I bet super genius Princes could've got you back home in a week tops." Although Deke is personally sure, he's going to be stuck here.
"Both of you, take a moment and calm down. We can't do anything if you are sniping at each other. We have to do this together." The Princess chastised.
"Or go and talk about this elsewhere. We're trying to focus on this." Friday said from the side. He knows she has another name here, but he's going to keep calling her Friday because it makes him feel less alone. Like there's at least one person from his other life here.
"What's the point? This isn't going to work, and I'm going to be stuck in another timeline. I'm not going to end up at SI this time because I am not gonna work with him. Although I'm sure Pepper is still as lovely as always." He really would like to meet this timeline's Pepper
"She is. Aunt Pepper is also kind of with Happy this time around, so that may not work out for you." Friday interjected.
"She's a friend," Deke argued.
"Sure." Friday just nodded her head; obviously, she didn't believe him at all.
"What happened?" The Princess asked
"When you were eating, he decided to call his Nana even though we weren't ready to test the multidimensional messaging device yet." Bobo one explained.
"No, I tried to text message my Nana. I thought that by using my phone, I could create a bridge between the two timelines. It didn't work."
"Because we're not ready yet. If you could just wait until..." Bobo one stopped speaking when Hunter and Friday glared at him.
"You're going in the right direction, but I think because we're calling out from this side, we need a device from this timeline to anchor us. So you using your phone wouldn't work." The Princess explained. That made sense.
"Which is what I was trying to explain." Bobo one complained.
"No, you are being a knob to your grandkid. We all make mistakes; get over it." Hunter told his husband. Yep, Deke likes this Hunter.
"Did Laura have her phone on her during the kidnapping?" Friday asked.
"Yes, she was text messaging your father at the time." Bobo one answered, and the Princess tapped one of the beads on her wrist, and a hologram appeared.
"What are you doing?" Bobo one asked.
"Sending a message to Laura. Ana is letting me see a conversation between her and her husband in real-time I'm trying to intervene."
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Genius Princess: We would really like that information as well. We can start getting the stones while we figure out how to get you back. We are trying on our end.
Genius Princess: Although if you're reading this message, then that means that we've at least figured out how to send text messages to 2223 of the original James Leopold timeline. I'm going to see if I can push Deke's mission report to you as an attachment. I have no idea if I will be successful.
Genius Princess: Deke wants to know if his Nana has drunk herself into a puddle or locked herself in the framework? He's concerned.
Counselor Laura: Shuri, is this you?
To be continued…
Okay, now we are caught up timewise to conversation 22.
What happens next? You will just have to wait and see.