"I like being the only person awake sometimes" Simmons? :))
This ended up being more of a #mood thing than using the actual sentence, hope you enjoy it, anon!
Everyone and their mother has told her that she will grow bored of this.
(Some has even gone as far as to say “terrified” instead of “bored”. They didn’t feel like speaking much after the looks she sent their way at that choice of words.)
So far, they all have been wrong, because moving out of base has been a great choice. Sure, she is not there on the blink of an eye for an emergency anymore, but that is even a bonus, because she is not really good at putting limits on herself for that kind of stuff, and better have the distance do that for her. Better help them grow out of her immediate need for her.
Being a little detached from things also helps her gain some perspective, although she is not planning on telling the rest of her team that.
Mostly, she is grateful that this way she can have respected her own times and her own spaces. Sure, Fitz owns a key and more often than not he and Daisy would drop uninvited with beers and video games. Sometimes it’s Bobbi with a bottle of vodka. Sometimes it’s Coulson with steaks and salad.
Sometimes it’s even May and a bag of fresh tea.
But on the regular, she can get up as early as she wants, get her first cup of tea of the day going and just… stare out of her window. Watch the world stretching its limbs, getting rid of the numbness, opening its eyes lazily. Watch the sunrise, always. Watch people coming home from working all night with the first ray of sunshine on their shoulders. Watch unlucky kids having to wake up ungodly early to go to school.
To remember that even though she thought she had met Death- and there are still days when she is not fully convinced otherwise- the world didn’t stop spinning because she was gone. And maybe for some people having that knowledge would be devastating.
But for Jemma Simmons, it can only be a blessing.
