Hello dear readers,

Well, this is the start of a long and arduous journey, the simple premise for this story is that as a prank, Jemma has convinced Fitz to start acting like a lovesick puppy around skye, and without realising it, he starts falling in love with her. Just something to do to take my mind off of Skye and Lincoln, god they are way too stereotypical a couple. This story is before the season 1 finale, Ward is still on the team, Fitz doesn't have brain damage and Skye doesn't have powers. Starts of one-sided FitzSimmons, will later contain FitzSkye, one-side SkyeWard, and perhaps a small serving of BioSpecialist (might be one-sided).

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Hope you enjoy

Pranks are a fundamental part of being a shield agent, you aren't truly a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent until you get pranked. Jemma had been pranked, he had been pranked, he had no doubt that Ward and May had both been pranked as freshmen, but Skye, she was the outlier, an irregularity, Fitz was a simple man, his being a rocket scientist occasionally clashed with that, but one thing Fitz didn't like was outliers, irregularities, he could make an exception in Skye's case but wherever he could, he eliminated irregularities, which is exactly what Jemma and he had done to Skye, pranked her and given her the full S.H.I.E.L.D. experience. But they still had to give her the 'real' prank, every S.H.I.E.L.D. agent got the 'real' prank,it was that one prank, that was bigger than any other prank you would ever get. Sometimes they were subtle, and went on for ages, like moving your coffee whenever you put it down for a whole year, just to convince you that you're going mad. Jemma and he had started brainstorming ideas for the 'real' prank, every year the 'real' pranks got bigger, better, and harder to predict, so they decided that they would do something slow and subtle, that would take months to play out truly.

"No, no Jemma, i'm not going to do it" Fitz protested once he heard Jemma's idea, she always had crazy ideas like this one, no-one could ever predict his Jemma. "But Fitz, it'll be the best 'real' prank ever, they'll sing songs about us back at the academy!" she tried to convince him with the glory he'd get for successfully enacting the best 'real' prank ever, but she knew that he knew that wouldn't work. "They already sing songs about us back at the academy, because we're just that brilliant" he retorted quickly, and then she flashed him The Eyes, which she knew full well was cheating, because he couldn't resist the eyes, and she knew it. "Fine, it better be a bloody brilliant prank though", he finally caved, he knew it simply wouldn't be worth arguing with Jemma, they always just went in circles, and eventually he caved, he always caved.

"Excellent!" She exclaimed, and Fitz couldn't help but smile, because she was smiling. "So, we'll have to start with something simple, maybe just start spending a bit more time with her?", Fitz contemplated what she was asking him to do, then got lost in a philosophical debate over the ethics of it all, and so decided to clarify what exactly it was that Jemma was asking him to do: "So just to recap, you want me to do what exactly to/with Skye?" Jemma shot him a look before giving him the explanation, "Just spend more time with her at first, then, just start acting like you have a crush on her. Simple see? It'll be brilliant!". Fitz knew what it was she wanted him to do, he also knew that when it came to him and girls it never really worked out. "Ah, Jemma, well, you see... Girls and I don't really work, even without a crush involved, I'm not really sure that I'm the right man for the job" Fitz tried protesting, he knew it was pointless, but he tried anyway. It took Jemma a whole of two seconds to formulate her response "Oh Fitz, you'll be fine, just stutter a bit, throw in some tech jargon and then make some nerdy references to Star Trek, I'm sure you'll be the most convincing actor ever!", this statement meant little coming from Jemma, but he had to admit she was onto something, of course, she never noticed the stuttering, tech jargon or Star Trek references he made around her.

He was about to protest some more when Jemma piped up at something behind him, he turned and saw Skye ascending the steps to the common area on the Bus. He didn't even get to turn back around before Jemma pushed him out of the lab and shut the door behind him. He slowly and tentatively climbed the steps up to the common room and found Skye spasmodically hitting keys at her laptop, taking occasional sips from a lemonade on the table in front of her. He cautiously approached and cleared his throat so she turned to look up at him. "Hey Skye, I was, ah, wondering if, perhaps, by any chance you would, if I could, Um, is that seat free?" He gestured to the seat next to her. She threw him a quizzical look before shuffling over and patting the seat next to her.

"so, Fitz, what's on your mind?" She piped up as he sat down. Fitz realized he had no idea, nothing to talk about, so he said the first thing that came into his mind: "I just noticed you on your laptop, and I was wondering, maybe you wanted some help?". She looked at him for a moment before replying "You want to help me play minecraft? Sure go ahead.". Although he didn't find it strange that she was playing minecraft, he was actually fairly surprised that she was doing so on the bus. His confusion must have shown vegans she offered n explanation "Miles introduced me to it, and now I'm obsessed" as soon as she finished talking, her lips dropped the smile they were holding as she realized that she'd brought up Miles. Seeing her emotional pain, Fitz did what any gentelman in his position would do, distracted her. "Looks like you've got a pretty mean house there, I like the tree farms, but you could really do with some more diamonds, ever tried spider mining?", he commented on her house and entire opperation, hoping to take her mind off of her troubles. "Why thank you Fitz, and I agree, one can never have enough diamonds, what's this spider mining concept you speak of?" She asked him curiously, he replied almost immediately "Well I'm glad you asked Skye, basically it's the concert of how every ore appears in a vein of minimum two, as a result-" suddenly the fire alarm went off and he knew instantly what had happened. He turned to Skye and quickly excused himself "Oh, fire alarm, Simmons probably blew something up in the lab, I better go investigate" he turned around and began walking down the hallway to the stairs. Halfway there, he heard Skye call out "Some other time maybe?",he smiled at his luck and called back "Another time, I promise".

God damn, was he good, or was he good? Stumbling, check, jargon, check, Star Trek references, well, he'd have to work on those. And so he hurried down the stairs to see what trouble Jemma had gotten herself into.

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