Hiii @jemmablossom, it’s me, your FitzSimmons Secret Santa!!! 🥰 I LOVED that your prompt was “something positive and happy“ because we really need it after this roller-coaster of a year, and it also sets us up for a much hopeful year ahead 😊 I’m a sucker for wedding songs (especially if I can tie it to FitzSimmons, lol) and Niall Horan’s “Black and White” is an absolutely perfect wedding song for them methinks 🥺 Happiest of holidays to you and I really hope you’ll like this one! 🥰
Our Love Lasts So Long - Epilogue - 2013 (Twenty-Six Years Old), 2019 (Thirty-Two Years Old) & 2020 (Thirty-Three Years Old)
A FitzSimmons Secret Santa gift for @ughfitz
No matter what happens in their lives, no matter how many years go by, they still trade letters back and forth.
Chapter 6 - Rated T - 600 words
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Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyssssssssssss it’s the last chapter!!! I’m so excited for you to read it but I’m also very sad that this lil story is at its end! This is honestly just a cute little epilogue and I hope you enjoy it! I would like to give one final thanks to Racquel who started this all by coming up with this prompt! Thank you for setting my imagination on fire, and I hope you love it just as much as I do. Anyway without further ado I will let you get to reading!
Our Love Lasts So Long - Chapter One - 1994 (Seven Years Old)
Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are two extraordinary children, stuck, bored out of their minds in a class where the work is far, far too easy for them. But when their teachers give them a new letter writing project, their lives take a turn that neither could ever predict.
Chapter 1, Rated T (Maybe subject to change), 6k+ Words
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SURPRISE @ughfitz it was me who was your Secret Santa this whole time! It was so much fun getting to know you and chat these past few weeks and as you guessed very very accurately, your prompt of Pen Pals AU (friends to lovers) absolutely set my imagination on FIRE and I promptly wrote about three pages of notes when my assignment first came through. This has been such a fun prompt to write, (and am still writing, the last chapter is still in progress, which I wanted it all finished for today but December has been a crazy month and I am honestly about 2k away from finishing) thank you so much for coming up with this, I’m not sure I ever would have written it or come up with it on my own, so yeah, thank you, and I hope you enjoy!
I will see you next Saturday for the next chapter!
Skye :)
(and yes the title is pulled from seven by Taylor Swift. It felt very appropriate given the circumstances)
Our Love Lasts So Long - Chapter 4 - 2005 (Eighteen Years Old) Part 1
A FitzSimmons Secret Santa gift for @ughfitz
It’s Fitz’s 18th birthday, and Jemma has several surprises in store. Will a particularly special letter change everything between them?
Chapter 4 - Rated T, 3.7k Words
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Hello lovelies! I’m very excited about this chapter! You are in for a treat, I PROMISE! Expect much sweetness in every single sense of the word. I actually had planned for this chapter and the next to be just one chapter but this just ran away from me and suddenly what was supposed to only be the first half was nearly 4k long. Ah well, it just means I get to tease you all for another week! I will let you get to the reading! Enjoy!
I will see you next week when it’s Jemma’s birthday!
Our Love Lasts So Long - Chapter 5 - 2005 (Eighteen Years Old) Part 2
A FitzSimmons Secret Santa Gift for @ughfitz
Fitz has been acting a little odd ever since his birthday, but Jemma is determined not to let feelings get in the way of her having the best eighteenth birthday ever, or will so many unsaid feelings get in the way of their friendship forever?
Chapter 5 - Rated T - 5.2k Words
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Well well well. I WONDER what Fitz could POSSIBLY have planned for this most momentous of days?? In all seriousness though ya’ll are gonna SHOUT AT ME. I’m prepared, I’m ready. I really wish I was sorry. I’m not. I’m really not. Without further adieu I will let you get to the reading and to the inevitable shouting, enjoy! ;)
Skye :)
SPOILERY LITTLE EXTRAS UNDER THE CUT
So, being the little romantic bean that Fitz is, I figured he would choose the flowers he sent to Jemma with VERY specific intentions. Cut to: me researching what flowers are in bloom in September and have romantic connotations. LUCKILY FOR ME sunflowers hit this all perfectly:
Sunflowers signify pure thoughts. It symbolizes adoration and dedication. It is symbolic of dedicated love.
LIKE HOW UTTERLY PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our Love Lasts So Long - Chapter 2 - 1997 (Ten Years Old)
It's been three years since Fitz and Jemma started writing each other letters, each finding solace in each others words and friendship, but all of that is about to be tested...
Chapter 2 - Rated T, 4.5k+ words
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Hello hello and welcome to another chapter! We've jumped forward in time a wee bit, so hopefully the dynamic you'll see between the still pretty young FitzSimmons is much much closer than the last chapter. I honestly cannot tell you how much fun I had writing this story honestly. I cannot thank Racquel enough for that absolutely GLORIOUS prompt. I should say, before you go diving in that the domestic abuse themes are at their peak in this chapter (thank u Alistair for that) so please consider that before you go in head first. Anyway, I shall stop my usual ramblings and let you get to the reading!
Our Love Lasts So Long - Chapter Three - 2003 (Sixteen Years Old)
A FitzSimmons Secret Santa 2020 gift for @ughfitz
Fitz has just received the oddest phone-call. Naturally he turns to Jemma for advice, but what will he do, when she has news of her own?
Chapter 3 - Rated T, 4.9k+ words
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Hello again lovelies! Another week another chapter! She’s posted two fics in the same week, who is she? Another little time jump this week, six years instead of three this time. They’re sixteen years old, you all know what’s gonna happen. I shan’t faff about this week, but instead will let you get to the reading!
See you next week! They’re eighteen and things are BOUND get a little bit interesting ;)