User blog:TraceFinder/What will happen to Fitz-Simmons?

I just want to write that down and hope that I am mistaken at the highest level.

As soon as I started to watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I became an ardent supporter and even admirer of the whole FitzSimmons couple. I've always find their love story to be the most beautiful of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a beautiful fictitious love story in general.

I guess I am one of the people Phil Coulson mentioned when Fitz and Simmons got married. One of those who knew before Fitz and Simmons themselves that they would eventually get married.

But...

I might be a romantic, but I am also quite pessimistic.

When Fitz declared his love to Simmons, he suffered terrible brain damage minutes later, which drove Simmons away from him. When Simmons returned, she and Fitz did not get along that well for a long time. When Simmons hinted that Fitz's feelings could be reciprocal, she was transported to Maveth. When Fitz rescued Simmons from Maveth, he discovered her relationship with Will Daniels. When Fitz and Simmons finally started dating and being more intimate than before, they were torn apart by the Framework. When Simmons forgave Fitz for what had happened in the Framework, she was taken into the future while Fitz was left behind.

Now, they are reunited, and most important they are married. And we know that they will have at least one child who will become Deke Shaw's mother.

Still, I cannot help but dread about what the future holds for these two.

I have always pictured the FitzSimmons relationship as the center of a conflict between two Cosmic Entities: Love and Distance. The curse Fitz mentioned for the first time in Many Heads, One Tale.

And although I was moved by Fitz's speech in Together or Not at All where he claimed that their love would overcome any obstacle, I cannot stop thinking about what might be Distance's next strike.

In Past Life, we learn that Coulson is dying. And when I discovered the title of the twelfth episode of the season, The Real Deal, a horrible idea came into my mind. What if this "real deal" involved Fitz and Simmons, who had proposed to each other? I imagined some kind of twisted deal like the One More Day storyline in the Spider-Man comics, a deal in which the Spirit of Vengeance or another demonic entity would demand that Fitz and Simmons gave up on their love to save Coulson.

During the wedding in The Real Deal, I was thrilled, of course, but also a little worried that something horrible could occur. What a relief when the episode ended on this touch of hope and happiness!

I really do hope that what I imagined will not come true in any form. That Fitz and Simmons will be left alone, because, like Daisy Johnson said in the episode, they have suffered enough. That Distance will acknowledge its defeat to Love and that the conflict between the two entities has come to an end.

No doubt that there will be some smaller ordeals to overcome, but hopefully, nothing unreachable. And if it seems unreachable, I want to hope that Fitz's words will come true and that they will not be stopped in their love in the end. I am not especially a big fan of happy endings overall, but for these two, that is what I want. Not a beautiful but tragic Romeo and Juliet-style ending. A beautiful and happy Walt Disney-style ending. Is it too much to ask?

I just wanted to write that down so I can check on it once the whole series is over, to see how pessimistic I was at the time.