Consanguine

She couldn’t find Deke.

More worryingly she couldn’t find Jemma.

Daisy placed her hands on the wall of the bunker and concentrated on feeling the vibrations. It wasn’t a trick she often used her powers for but sometimes she could sense the vibrations of people she knew, she wouldn’t have done it if she hadn’t already checked everywhere.

The control room was buzzing with various agents working steadily on locating Coulson, the training area where May was pushing some of the younger agents through their paces although this was more likely a way for her to relieve some of the tension she was feeling with Coulson being missing and her being unable to help or stop him. She could tell that from the yelps and thuds that echoed through the room. The med bay where she spent a happy few minutes with Mack and Yo-Yo listening to them bicker and flirt about who was being more over protective over who.

She couldn’t bring herself to go into the isolation chamber and see Fitz, she could handle seeing him now when her emotions were so raw from what he did. Anyway the room outside the isolation chamber was empty and she could just catch a glimpse of her friend’s back as he had turned away from the world and hid himself away.

She felt all the vibrations throughout the walls of the base there were too many people in there now to accurately guess which was which. She dusted of her hands and started toward the control room again, maybe her other super power would help her track the duo down.

The ground and air rumbled and fizzed with vibrations and she couldn’t quite deny herself that she had missed them. Her powers where part of her, as much part of her as her arms and legs or hearing, all the time she had had the implant in and blocked away from them she had felt it missing like a deep black hole inside her chest.

But the possible devastating price of having that part of herself back was too much. She didn’t want to be responsible for destroying the earth to be responsible for that terrible future to be known as the Destroyer of Worlds. And that Fitz, her friend a brother from another mother, had made that future possible again by turning on her powers without her permission was too much.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw Piper and Davis coming towards her, she fixed an as friendly smile as she could muster on her face at them. “Hey Guys?” She tried to sound as light as possible “Have either of you seen Simmons or Deke? No one has seen them for hours”

Piper smiled nervously as if she still wasn’t sure she was fully back in the fold “Yeah we just saw them in the common area. I think they went out for some air”

It surprised her that Simmons would do something so reckless when they are fugitives from almost every law enforcement agency in the world, but then she guessed any person would want to get a little air when there partner had a psychotic episode when his evil side took over.

She was not surprised Deke had done this stupid thing.

She ran along the corridor and skidded into the common area, in the kitchen were both Deke and Simmons along with many shopping bags. Jemma had her back to her and was clearing prepping some food while Deke sat on the stool next the table top and was leafing through a big book.

She threw herself at Jemma and hugged her quickly but tightly and pushed her away, worry for them made her sound more angry then she really felt, “Where on earth have you two been? You didn’t tell anyone where you had gone!”

Jemma flinched away from her and she noticed how drawn and pale she was, she definitely hadn’t been eating and by the dark circles under her eyes she hadn’t been sleeping either. Deke popped between them and she had to resist the urge to quake him into something. “Hey” he held his hand up placating, although his body language was kinda sorta protective towards Simmons. “Jemma had a bit of a shock and We thought we would go and get some air…” seeing the tension was defusing he sat back down and began leafing through his book again “…and thus began Deke and Jemma’s Day of Fun!”

 He sounded waaaay to happy about that than anyone should.

He looked at her expectantly waiting for her to ask what they had been up to. She glanced at Simmons, how gave her a look that clearly said humour him

“So what did you guys get up too?” she asked while idly sipping some of the energy drink that Simmons had brought for her, Jemma was clearly making sandwiches.

“Well” he looked around conspiringly “First of all we robbed a hospital”

She spat out the mouthful she had just drunk in shock “You Waaa???”

He made little relax motions with his hands “Chill Ok, we didn’t really rob it. Fitz needs some medication for his.., you know” he tapped his temple earning a glower from Simmons “So Jemma forged me a prescription and all I had to do was go up to the lady, give her the form and tell her I was from the future” he chuckled “you can’t believe how fast we got it.”

Of course Simmons would be trying to help Fitz in any way possible he’d taken medication before to deal with his brain injury and obviously they wouldn’t have them in the base.

“Then we snuck up to the….” Deke glanced at Simmons and she couldn’t quite read the look that passed between them, it lasted a while and then Simmons slowly, gently and sadly shook her head. Deke briefly looked like a kicked puppy and cleared his throat and continued “Anyway…never mind then we went to get some extra medical supplies for Mack and Yo-Yo. They have so many things to make people better you wouldn’t believe”

She temporarily tuned Deke wittering on about the marvels of modern medicine out to look at Simmons, her friend didn’t usually hid things from her but then thing were still bad between them.

“Then Jemma said that it was such a nice day we should go for a walk” she tuned back in to Deke. His face was alive with discovery and she knew she had seen that expression on someone before but she couldn’t quite place it. “told me all about the trees and flowers and animals, how the world work then she got me this encyclopaedia to bring me up to speed.”

She glanced down and sure enough the book Deke was looking at was an encyclopaedia, it was probably a good idea, couldn’t having him running off into the world and getting himself killed or worse exposing them.     

“Then we went to this place call Denny’s, God their cheese burgers are even better than the one I had at that bar where I got arrested.” Deke turned the page of his encyclopaedia and was temporally distracted by a diagram of the earth’s crust. She took the opportunity to study Simmons, who was nearly finished stacking the sandwiches but had a fond smile on her face, clearly enjoying listening to Deke babble on about to various merits of Orangeade.

Simmons slid a plate with cheese and pickles on it over to her a small smile a peace offering maybe. She look it gladly she was starving and Simmons made amazing sandwiches. Then Jemma slid another plate over towards Deke. It was her amazing prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella sandwich with pesto aioli, why was she making it for Deke?

He looked at it oddly as if unsure what to make of someone giving him food instead of trying to steal it “No one has made me a sandwich in a long long time”

He looked at it looked a Simmons and then look a bite. He chewed it slowly and thoughtfully then swallowed. He put the sandwich back on the plate gently and hunched in on himself clearly blinking away tears. Simmons with a concerned look on her face placed her and on his shoulder whn he abruptly got up and hugged her tightly his face buried in her neck. Simmons hugged him back and petted his back soothingly.

“Everything with be Okay Jemma” The certainty in his voice was so sincere “We won’t lose him”

He then resumed the attack on his sandwich with vigour.

Simmons’s squeezed his shoulder, a thank you maybe for his support and then collected the other sandwich and tucked the bag of medication under her arm. Juggling these items she picked up a thermos of tea.  “We’ll watch Back to the Future later, after I talk to Fitz Ok?” and after exchanging another smile with Deke, his cheeks bulging like a chipmunk and a tentative smile at her she departed the room to visit her self-imprisoned husband.

She picked at her sandwich in silence pondering over the sudden change in Simmons and Deke’s relationship. Simmons had barely been tolerating Deke and Deke had barely seemed to notice her and Fitz. And then he had seemed overly interested in their relationship. What had changed? What was going on?

Even though she was angry at Fitz and even a little a Simmons she couldn’t stop herself from speaking up. “Don’t do it Deke,” He looked at her all confused, which was kind of adorable “Don’t get in between of Fitz and Simmons, she’ll never stop loving him”

“Eww” He dropped what remained of his sandwich and cringed at her “What are you implying?” then his face contorted with disgust. He waved his hand animatedly in denial “No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, NO, its not like that” He dropped his head and he looked so woebegone for a moment that she felt sorry for him.

“Really twelve No’s” She teased him gently.

“Its not like that.” He said quietly fiddling with the remains of his sandwich “Its just she…she reminds me of my Mom” he cleared his throat and shrugged “she was like Jemma, and I guess she just reminds me of her, being around Jemma help me remember her”

He ate the rest of his sandwich and then polished of her half eaten one and they both sat there in silence her deep in thought him reading the encyclopaedia until

“These monkey things are the coolest things ever!”

Spacemen!