User blog:TraceFinder/Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

'''Unlike other Wikias, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki does not dedicate articles or subsections to characters' main relationships, which I find both understandable and regrettable. As an ardent supporter of the FitzSimmons relationship, I've been craving to create an article which specifically focuses on their relationship. And it seems that a blog post could be a great place to start.'''

"A love like that, that is stronger than any curse, and you and I, we are unstoppable together."

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, commonly known together as FitzSimmons, are a couple of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who became best friends over the course of their training at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Science and Technology. Having both joined Phil Coulson's team, they progressively discovered and declared their feelings for each other, despite being repeatedly kept apart, physically and/or emotionally speaking, causing Fitz to call their relationship cursed by distance. Acknowledged by both their friends and their enemies, their powerful love culminated in their engagement during the time the S.H.I.E.L.D. team spent in the 2091 Lighthouse, which was quickly followed by their wedding once the team got back into their time. Fitz's death during the Battle of Chicago marked the end of this marriage, but Simmons embarked on a quest to find another version of Fitz who was supposed to be in space.

The Seeds
"We were paired together in chem lab, much to our dismay, then we just realized that combined we were twice as smart."

- Jemma Simmons to Skye

Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons met during their education at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Science and Technology. Both being brilliant scientists of their own, their relationship was born in bitter rivalry, with Simmons going as far as stating that Fitz used to hate her. However, Fitz and Simmons were eventually paired together during a chemistry training, which caused them to realize that they could combine their incredible intellects instead of engaging in a pointless competition. Thus began a deep friendship between the two S.H.I.E.L.D. cadets, whose firts serious conversation together was about dielectric polarization. Despite quickly becoming best friends, neither Fitz nor Simmons saw fit to add a romantic component to their relationship. During her education, Simmons had several boyfriends and one-night stands, including Milton, who Fitz utterly despised and who eventually bore Simmons due to the fact that he constantly agreed with her on every matter Despite these relationships, Simmons admitted that Fitz was the only thing she found really interesting in the Academy. . Fitz, on the other hand, never dated anyone during his time at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. At the end of their training, having become rightful S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Simmons convinced Fitz to join the team which was being assembled under the orders of Phil Coulson, calling it an incredible opportunity in spite of Fitz's reluctance, who did not consider being really fit for field work. Therefore, even after graduation Fitz and Simmons were usually seen together, even being referred to as a single person named FitzSimmons, which could someone confuse those who did not know them such as their future teammate Grant Ward. Even then, Fitz and Simmons did not display any kind of romantic interest for each other. Indeed, Fitz initially try to hit on his new teammate Skye, a former hacker who had been recruited into Coulson's team, although Skye herself was already impressed by the depth of the connection he seemed to have with Simmons. Later however, Fitz was the first to realize his growing feelings for Simmons. When Simmons was infected by a lethal virus, Fitz was willing to risk contamination to save her, and would also have jumped from the Bus to save her from her suicide attempt had Ward not intervened to do it himself. Once Simmons was saved, she gratefully thanked Fitz, calling him a hero, and kissed her on the cheek, which left Fitz quite puzzled as he figured out what he actually felt for his best friend. Simmons, on the other side, was not in the same state of mind, becoming attracted to Ward who had saved her.

Simmons and Fitz were briefly separated shortly before the beginning of the HYDRA Uprising, since Simmons was temporarily stationed at the Hub to be a consultant on Deathlok. On that occasion, Simmons was accompanied by fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Antoine Triplett, who she became increasingly attracted to. Fitz and Simmons shared an intense hug upon being reunited in the end of the Battle at the Hub. However, Fitz detected his best friend's attraction to Triplett, and grew jealous of this, especially after the reveal that Triplett's mentor John Garrett had secretly been a HYDRA high-ranking operative, causing Fitz to question Triplett's loyalties.

During their stay at Providence, Fitz once again stated how he cared about Simmons when questioned by Eric Koenig, naming Simmons as the one thing he would like to have with him if stranded on a desert island. It was also during this time that someone informed Fitz that his feelings had not gone unnoticed, as Ward tried to convince Fitz to declare his love to Simmons before it was too late since they were in a highly dangerous situation.

First Declaration
"You're more than that, Jemma. I just never had the courage to tell you. So please... Let me show you."

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

The first significant step forward in the advancement of the relationship between Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons occurred in the bottom of the. Fitz and Simmons had been dropped in a Containment Module by HYDRA agent Grant Ward and contemplated their upcoming death until they were able to devise a plan to get out of the module and reach the surface. However, Fitz realized that there would be enough oxygen only for one of them, and offered to sacrifice himself so that Simmons might leave. Simmons was devastated by this choice, and refused Fitz's offer, stating that Fitz was her best friend and that she would not leave him behind. Fitz replied by confessing that Simmons was more than a best friend to him, thus hinting that he actually loved her even more than Simmons thought. Astonished by the reveal, Simmons burst into tears, hugged Fitz and repeatedly kissed him on the cheek and the forehead. She kept insisting that she would not leave him behind, but Fitz eventually did not give her the choice and commanded the module's opening. Fitz was immediately knocked unconscious by the violent outburst of water in which he nearly drowned, while Simmons was able to use the oxygen he had spared to resist the shock. Despite the danger, Simmons was not able to just leave Fitz to his fate and carried him up to the surface with her. They were then both rescued by Nick Fury, who had received the weak radio distress signal they had been emitting since they had been dropped into the sea. Fitz sustained severe brain damage because of this incident, but survived nonetheless. Although Fury told Simmons that she had saved Fitz, Simmons stated that it was the other way around and that he had actually saved her.

Distance Strike One: Brain Damage
"From what I've seen, the only thing that makes him worse is you." "I know. Why do you think I left?"

- Alphonso Mackenzie and Jemma Simmons

Leo Fitz remained in the coma for nine days following his injury. Jemma Simmons stood by his side all this time, but Fitz finally regained consciousness, he was disoriented, unable to speak and could only stare at his best friend. Simmons did her best to help Fitz recover, but Fitz was greatly changed by his trauma, which caused severe aphasia. Unable to correctly deal with this change, and feeling that her presence only made Fitz worse, Simmons accepted an undercover assignment within HYDRA, hoping that Fitz would get better in her absence. Nevertheless, Fitz's condition did not improve while Simmons was away. Months after the injury, Fitz still suffered from his brain damage, to the point that Phil Coulson deemed him unfit to correctly work for the S.H.I.E.L.D. team to design a cloaking for the Bus. Fitz missed his best friend so much that he even hallucinated about her and had conversations with his hallucinations. Initially, Fitz thought that Simmons was still here with him, but eventually realized that she was gone although he continued to hallucinate about Simmons.

Despite feeling incredibly lonely, even fearing that he could no longer serve as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Fitz was ultimately able to open up about Simmons. After having successfully helped the team to prevent an attack on the Bus orchestrated by HYDRA, Fitz told his new colleagues Lance Hunter and Alphonso Mackenzie about his feelings for Simmons, although he did not mention her name. As they all talked about moving on, Fitz noticed that the hallucinations of Simmons tended to disappear.

While Fitz began to find some comfort in his newfound friendship with Mackenzie, he and Simmons were eventually reunited when Simmons' undercover mission within HYDRA was ended. However, their reunion played out awkward due to Fitz's difficulties to communicate and Simmons having a hard time dealing with them. This escalated into an argument during which Fitz blamed Simmons for having given up on him. Despite that, Simmons still cared for Fitz. She went to thank Mackenzie for being his friend and supporting him, and admitted that she knew her renewed presence in the Playground could do Fitz more harm than good.

Therefore, Fitz and Simmons temporarily grew apart, carefully avoiding each other, which was noticed by fellow agents Mackenzie and Bobbi Morse. Simmons told Morse about Fitz's feelings and the history of his brain damage. She also confessed that she was confused about her own feelings, stating that on the one hand, she never thought of Fitz of anything but her best friend, but on the other side, she could not imagine her life without him.

Annoyed by an awkward silence between the two of them, Mackenzie urged Fitz and Simmons to talk to each other in order to move on. This prompted Fitz to tell Simmons that she would be the sole leader of the science division in S.H.I.E.L.D. as he considered himself to be unfit to assume such a position alongside her. Despite this growing distance, Fitz did not hesitate to protect Simmons when an earthquake shook the Kree City.

The relationship between Fitz and Simmons became even tenser in the aftermath of their friend Skye's Terrigenesis. Indeed, Fitz discovered that Skye's DNA had been changed and that she might display inhuman characteristics, but chose to conceal it from everyone else, including Simmons, who had grown terrified of supernatural abilities to the point that tended to consider them a plague. Nevertheless, Fitz's deeds were discovered and put him at odds with his team, including Simmons, who saw his behavior as a betrayal since he had faked test results and began avoiding him even more than ever.

Despite a slight improvement in their relationship, for example having a friendly conversation about Melinda May and Andrew Garner, Fitz and Simmons still disagreed about Skye's powers, Fitz expressing amazement at them whereas Simmons was much more skeptikal, prompting Fitz to tell Simmons that she had become close-minded.

It was not until S.H.I.E.L.D. was attacked by Robert Gonzales's faction that the first serious improvement in the FitzSimmons relationship arrived. Overwhelmed by Gonzales's agents invading the Playground, Fitz and Simmons held hands while waiting to see how the situation evolved. Simmons only agreed to tend to the wounds of Mackenzie, who worked with Gonzales, after she silently consulted Fitz, who approved that she did.

To an outsider look, however, it seemed that Fitz and Simmons grew more apart as Simmons seemingly agreed to help Gonzales open the Toolbox, which even troubled Fitz himself who feared that Simmons might have betrayed Coulson and wanted him to leave. As Fitz left the Playground since he categorically refused to work for Gonzales, he found the Toolbox hidden in one of his bags along with his favorite sandwich made by Simmons, thus confirming that they had reconciled and were once again successfully working together.

Second Declaration
"There's nothing to discuss, Jemma." "Maybe there is."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons were reunited in the Playground when Phil Coulson and Robert Gonzales agreed to work together, although Fitz was distraught by Simmons expressing her wish to kill Grant Ward, who was helping Coulson at the time. Back from a mission against HYDRA, Fitz admitted that he actually shared this intent, but Simmons revealed that she had actually tried to murder Ward with a Splinter Bomb.

Shortly before Fitz took part in a confrontation against Jiaying and the Inhumans of Afterlife, the relationship between Fitz and Simmon progressed further. Indeed, Simmons approached Fitz while he prepared for the battle and mentioned that they had never talked about Fitz's declaration of love in the bottom of the ocean. Simmons told Fitz that it meant a lot to her that they had resumed their friendship, and hinted that Fitz's feelings could be mutual after all. Before they could speak about it, however, Fitz was called by Coulson to leave for the battle.

Distance Strike Two: Maveth and Will Daniels
"I can't hate him. He's great. Why else would you fall for him? He did everything right." "And you dove through a hole in the universe for me!"

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

In the aftermath of the last battle of the War against the Inhumans, Leo Fitz, having safely returned to the Playground, decided to make his relationship with Jemma Simmons go further and invited her for dinner in a restaurant. Simmons' accepted but as soon as Fitz left the room, she was swallowed by the Monolith, which transported her onto the barren planet Maveth, leaving Fitz brutally deprived of his friend. Fitz refused to believe that Simmons had simply vanished and would never return. He explored many leads in order to find Simmons back, and was even willing to put his own life at risk, going to negotiate with the terrorist Yusef Hadad. When all hope seemed lost, Fitz was so much distraught that he tried to have the Monolith absorb him as well. Although this did not work and Fitz was pulled out of the Monolith's chamber by his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues, this helped him to figure out that Simmons had actually been sent onto another planet. thumb|left|250px|[[Jemma Simmons starts a relationship with Will Daniels]] Despite being light-years away from her best friend, Simmons relied on him and the memories she had of him to deal with her unplanned exile on Maveth. She frequently recorded messages in which she talked to Fitz for comfort and watched a video of him wishing her a happy birthday. She eventually met another person, astronaut Will Daniels, who also noticed that Simmons seemed to consider Fitz something more than her best friend. However, although she initially kept hope that Fitz would come to her rescue, Simmons' despair led her to start a relationship with Daniels, who had brought her comfort and support. Thanks to his efforts, including a collaboration with the Asgardian Elliot Randolph, Fitz was eventually able to save Simmons from Maveth, as she was being hunted down by Hive, the dark Inhuman who haunted the planet. Although she was devastated by having left Daniels behind, Simmons found relief thanks to Fitz. On the night following her rescue, as she was having a nightmare involving Hive, she woke up and found Fitz sleeping by her side, and she put her head on his lap to find some comfort and sleep peacefully. Fitz initially remained unaware of Daniels' existence. He did his best to help Simmons with her return on Earth, and the two were for example seen walking hand in hand as he helped Simmons to get used again to Earth gravity. Despite Simmons acting somehow defensively due to her troubles, Fitz behaved as a strongly supportive friend. They eventually had the dinner date they were supposed to have before Simmons was swallowed by the Monolith, and Simmons was astonished when she discovered that Fitz had held the reservation for months. However, memories of Daniels resurfaced during dinner, causing Simmons to burst into tears, and Fitz tenderly hugged her in comfort.

Fitz eventually discovered that Simmons had been researching ways of reopening a portal to Maveth since the Monolith had been destroyed. Wondering why Simmons would want to return to the hostile planet, he eventually got Simmons to tell him about everything that had happened to her on Maveth, including her relationship with Daniels. Although deeply upset by the reveal, Fitz kept his pain for himself. Indeed, he was ready to sacrifice his own happiness and to see Simmons with another man if it could make her happy, and therefore he swore that he would dedicate his efforts to bring Daniels back to Earth as well.

Such altruism did not go unnoticed, and was not well understood by some in S.H.I.E.L.D. For example, Lance Hunter did not consider that the fact that Daniels had saved Simmons meant that Fitz had to save him in return. Still, Fitz remained convinced that he owed Daniels a significant debt and maitained his efforts. In parallel, however, he also performed a background check on Daniels, hoping to find something distasteful about Daniels. In the end, Fitz found nothing of the sort, and had to admit that Daniels was as worthy as Simmons' love than himself. During his research on simulating the Monolith's portals, Fitz got a glimpse of what his relationship with Simmons could have been. Indeed, she approached him and asked him to retrieve the data on the phone she had used during her stay on Maveth. Accessing the files, Fitz found the records in which she talked to him, remembering how they met, confessing how she felt about him and even admitting that she had begun imagining that they could live together and have a family in a peaceful cottage in Perthshire, Scotland. This left Fitz profoundly moved.

Fitz and Simmons talked about these recordings, wondering what to do about it, but ultimately elected to leave it as it were for the moment and focus on their efforts to find Daniels. Nevertheless, Simmons had a hard time understanding why Fitz was so willing to help the woman he loved be reunited with the man she loved herself. Confronting Fitz on the matter caused him to finally voice his frustration, and for the first time he expressed his belief that their relationship was cursed by the cosmos itself. Although Simmons disagreed, Fitz insisted that they had been apart shortly after each of them had tried to confess their feelings. Fitz then admitted that Daniels was a great man and that he deserved to be with Simmons for everything he had done for her, but Simmons retorted by recalling that Fitz had crossed the entire universe through a dangerous portal to save her. This prompted Fitz to passionately kiss Simmons, who returned this first kiss they were finally sharing, despite Simmons having previously stated that she loved Daniels as well.

Despite Fitz insisting that they were indeed cursed, he and Simmons maintained their efforts to rescue Daniels from Maveth, eventually discovering HYDRA's involvement in Daniels' presence on the barren planet. This eventually caused them to be abducted by Giyera and Grant Ward, who sought to use their knowledge to open a new portal to Maveth and fulfil HYDRA's ancestral purpose. Exploiting the relationship between Fitz and Simmons in his best interest, Ward kept them apart and tortured Simmons while making sure that Fitz heard her screaming. He then taunted Fitz, asking what was worse between the moments when he listened to her pain and the moments when Simmons could no longer be heard. Unable to bear that the love of his life was being hurt, Fitz agreed to help HYDRA open a new portal. Upon being told about it, Simmons attempted to have Fitz renege on the deal, claiming that he should let her die rather than risking HYDRA to achieve their goal. Fitz refused, stating that he could not stand losing Simmons once again, and assumed that he would seize the opportunity to bring back Daniels. Still torn between her love for both Fitz and Daniels, Simmons had Fitz promising that he would return to her.

On Maveth, Fitz thought that he found Daniels, unaware that Daniels had actually been killed by the Inhuman Hive, who possessed his body. Fitz and Hive in disguise discussed about the relationship between Fitz and Simmons, and after a humorous comment by Fitz, Hive replied that he understood why Simmons loved Fitz. Later, however, Fitz figured out that Daniels was dead and his body was possessed by Hive, and was left with no choice but to destroy the body of Simmons' former lover to prevent Hive from returning to Earth. Fitz was able to escape from Maveth. Back to the Zephyr One in a Containment Module, he saw Simmons rushing to see whether he had been able to bring back Daniels. However, she quickly saw that Daniels was not here and the look Fitz gave her caused her to understand that Daniels was gone. In tears, Simmons rushed to hug Fitz, who felt incredibly guilty for having destroyed Daniels' body. Due to this guilt, Fitz thought that it would be best if Simmons kept being busy without him being around, leading the two of them to work on different projects (Simmons figuring out Inhuman biology with Lincoln Campbell and Fitz designing a new prosthetics for Coulson). However, Simmons missed working with her best friend. She thus went to see Fitz and, mentioning their kiss and Daniels' death, she suggested that they resumed their relationship by starting it over, introducing themselves to each other as if they met for the first time. This finally ended the long existing awkwardness between them.

The Singularity
"Are you comparing us sleeping together to crossing the event horizon?" "Yeah." "It's quite lovely when you think about it like that. And also terrifying." "Yeah, exactly. So... We should stop thinking altogether..." "... and just do. Yeah. Of course."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

Having decided to restart their relationship on a sound basis, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons were once again able to work together and to hang out as friends, for example watching documentaries together. In private, however, Simmons still blamed herself for all the dangers Fitz had gone through in his attempts to protect her. An advancement in their relationship was foreseen by Daisy Johnson: upon touching Charles Hinton, she had a vision of Fitz and Simmons holding hands under falling snow during a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission. When they realized that the snow Johnson had seen was actually ash, it was Simmons who told Fitz that they were supposed to take each other's hand and commented that some things might be inevitable, referring to Fitz's theory of the impossibility to change the future.

Eventually, Fitz and Simmons officially became a couple shortly after the Hijacking and Retaking of Zephyr One. Back to the Playground, in which the power was cut, they were violently projected by a grenade which left them quite in shock. In order to recover, Fitz and Simmons went into the former's bedroom, where they kept thinking about a potential way to discover whether their fellow Inhuman S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had been infected by Hive. As they discussed on his couch, Simmons leaned her head onto Fitz's shoulder. They then exchanged a tender look before slowly kissing each other. Fitz initially stopped the kiss and apologized, remembering that Simmons had suggested to start their relationship from the beginning and not wanting to go too fast, but Simmons replied it was fine, as they had known each other for ten years. They then resumed their kiss and remained in Fitz's bedroom until they noticed the Playground shaking due to Johnson, who was infected by Hive, damaging the base.

Distance Strike Three: Aida and the Framework
"I love you." "And you mean nothing to me."

- Jemma Simmons and The Doctor

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Distance Strike Four: Space-Time Travel
"I can't stand it being anywhere inside of me. I think that's why they left me behind, I think 'cause I'm too much of a risk to them... Too much of a risk to Jemma."

- Leo Fitz to Lance Hunter

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Engagement and Wedding
"I'm never leaving you again." "Then marry me, Fitz." "Absolutely."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

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Distance Strike Five: Death
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Quotes
"I'm engineering, she's bio-chem."

- Leo Fitz

"You and Simmons are so tight, it's like you're psychically linked."

- Skye to Leo Fitz

"I'm pretty sure that every minute of every day, you've been stuck in a lab right beside me. At the Academy, at Sci-Ops, this plane, you've been beside me the whole damn time!"

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

"Fitz, I don't know what you think you're doing but..." "I'm doing what we always do. We're gonna fix this. Together."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"It wasn't Ward by my side in that lab searching for a cure. It wasn't Ward giving me hope when I had none. It was you. You're the hero."

- Jemma Simmons to Leo Fitz

"Simmons had boyfriends." "Well, not quite. I never found anyone that interesting. Except Fitz. He was clearly the smartest one here." "Were you guys... best friends or were you...?" "We weren't friends. We were enemies. Bitter rivals. The two youngest in class though he is twenty days older than me, for the record. We were so competitive. Constantly trying to one-up each other. He hated me. Hated me." "Really?" "Yeah. Didn't speak to me. Finally we were paired together in chem lab, much to our dismay, then we just realized that combined we were twice as smart." "Huh." "No. Don't tell him that I told you any of that. I don't want his head to get bigger that it already is."

- Skye and Jemma Simmons

"At least we still have each other." "Good, 'cause the last thing I want is for things to change."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"You're stranded on a desert island alone. Sitting in the sand is a box. What's in the box?" "How big is the box?" "Just say the first answer that comes into your mind." "Simmons."

- Eric Koenig and Leo Fitz

"Everything is falling apart around us. We don't know how it'll end. If there's something you want to tell her, don't wait."

- Grant Ward to Leo Fitz

"The damage to his temporal lobe was too extensive. He's not the same, and since Simmons left, he's only getting worse."

- Phil Coulson

"Simmons said she thought he'd be better without her here, but her leaving just broke him."

- Phil Coulson

"So, I don't have an ex, but there was this girl that I liked, and I told her how I felt, but she didn't feel the same, so she left."

- Leo Fitz

"I'm trying not to treat you any differently than-" "I know, but I am different. And I... and I'm... I'm trying not to be, but I am. And if for some reason you can't accept it..." "Oh, that's not fair. Fitz, I'm only trying to help." "You left. I needed help. I needed help with the cloaking. I needed help with, um... with lots of other things, and someone to talk through, at least. You gave up on me." "I did no such thing." "You told me you were gonna go see your mum and your dad, and then you went off to... For all I... for all I know, you could... something could've... you could've been killed. And because what? Because you think I'm useless?" "Of course I don't. That's not why I left." "Well, then, why?" "Fitz I'm sorry."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"You know, that guy you're wishing he would be, I never met him. I only know this guy, and, uh... Yeah, I mean, he's a little weird, but, uh... but I like him." "I don't want him to be anybody but himself." "You sure about that?" "Yes." "Because I heard he told you how he felt and you bailed." "That's not what happened." "Look, I know you two have a past. But from what I've seen, the only thing that makes him worse is you." "I know. Why do you think I left?"

- Alphonso Mackenzie and Jemma Simmons

"All I wanted to do was help him. All I wanted was... My best friend back." "Your best friend?" "I never thought of him as anything else. That said, I can't imagine my life without him. It's all very confusing." "You've never told him any of this, have you?" "Oh, lord no."

- Jemma Simmons and Bobbi Morse

"Skye is my friend. She's different." "Oh, yeah. Like I was your friend, and then I changed. How did you handle that?"

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"We never really spoke about what you said to me at the bottom of the ocean." "This? Now? You want to talk about this now?" "No. We... We don't... Uh, it means a lot to me that we're friends again, and I, um, maybe when you get back, we could finally just talk about it." "It's... There's nothing to discuss, Jemma." "Maybe there is."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"Dinner." "Fast approaching, yes, and we'll eat it, I'm sure." "Yeah, no, no, no. But, uh, me and you ... maybe we could eat somewhere else, you know, somewhere... nice." "Oh." "Good. Okay. Uh, well, y... uh, you should come find me when you're finished here, and ... and I'll ... I'll start working on options to run by you... for that."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"This woman you went to all this trouble for... You love her, yeah?" "Yeah." "Only love can make a man so stupid."

- Yusef Hadad and Leo Fitz

"I can't thank you enough." "Yeah. It's a nice restaurant, isn't it?" "Yeah, but for more than that, for finding me." "What else was I gonna do?" "I don't know what to say." "You don't have to say anything."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"Everyone always said we could read each other's minds, Fitz. So I really need you to read mine right now. I'm alive. But I'm terribly alone and afraid. So I really need you to come and get me, okay? I know you won't give up, so I won't, either."

- Jemma Simmons

"You talk about him a lot. His name is like your favorite word. I mean, that's... a little bit more than a best friend."

- Will Daniels to Jemma Simmons

"Fitz, hi. I don't know why I'm still talking with you why I'm recording myself."

- Jemma Simmons' recording from Maveth

"Do you remember when we first met? I do. You were so quiet and pasty, and so incredibly smart, handsome... Quite a strange feeling, isn't it? Never wanting to be without someone. You must have been so annoyed, me following you around all the time."

- Jemma Simmons' recording from Maveth

"I imagine our dinner sometimes where we'd go, what we'd eat. I wonder about us a lot, actually. There's this small cottage in Perthshire we drove by once when I was a girl, some some family holiday, and I don't know why, but I I found it so lovely. I still think about it. A place where you and I could have..."

- Jemma Simmons' recording from Maveth

"I'll still talk to you on my own, if that's all right. I'll always be with you, Fitz."

- Jemma Simmons' recording from Maveth

"We're cursed."

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

"You think that I'm not angry? I'm sick to my stomach! I'm furious, but not at you! 'Cause we're cursed! The bloody cosmos wants us to be apart!" "The cosmos doesn't want anything." "Yeah, well, I beg to differ. 'Cause we had years side by side. Never occurred to us. And then when it does, we don't have the courage to talk about it." "Well, you only mentioned it at the bottom of the sea, facing certain death!" "You wait until I'm bound for a war on an aircraft carrier, and then you get swept off to some far-flung planet. With him. Top-marks pilot astronaut hero man." "I would do anything..." "Do you love him?" "I don't know. I think... Yes." "Yeah. Yeah, of course you do. Of course you do. He's strong and smart, and you gave each other hope on the edge of nowhere." "Don't do this, Fitz" "You think I didn't look for dirt on him? I did. And there's nothing. I can't hate him. He's great. Why else would you fall for him? He did everything right." "And you dove through a hole in the universe for me!"

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"I lost you once. I can't lose you again. I'm just... I'm not strong enough to live in a world that doesn't have you in it."

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

"I always thought Fitz would give up the world for you. Looks like now he finally has his chance."

- Grant Ward to Jemma Simmons

"I miss you. There it is. I miss you." "I'm here. Together. We're..." "Professional and matter of fact, and there's this chasm in the middle of the room of all these things, of our kiss and Will's death, and..." "And I'm sorry about that, Jemma, because... Because maybe there was another way... and there was something else that I could've done." "Will died saving me. What you did was kill a thing, a monster. You've been nothing less than extraordinary this whole time." "So, um... about this... chasm, as you call it." "Can we start over, back to where we began?" "16 and achingly shy." "Two people, endlessly inquisitive, about to embark on a relationship that will change their lives, but they don't know where it will go. I'm Jemma Simmons, biochemist." "Leopold Fitz, engineering."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"Will died trying to save me. And Fitz... Poor Fitz nearly got himself killed a number of times, and that's not even the worst of it."

- Jemma Simmons to Melinda May

"Fitz, it's been 10 years. We can't waste any more time." "Really? 'Cause I thought that ..." "Really! And since we're cursed or whatever nonsense..." "Oh, I said that one time." "Well, and you and your fourth-dimension idea..." "And for the record, actually..." "...that we can't change fate." "...today is more evidence that the cosmos is against us." "I'm tired of seeing our friends ripped apart from each other. That can't happen to us again. I won't let it." "Then we won't let it."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"Who needs space? Because I've got something magnificent right here."

- Leo Fitz to Jemma Simmons

"The crux of our relationship is like the singularity in transhumanism." "It is?" "Yeah, think about it. Singularity is the defining moment." "The point at which a measurable variable becomes infinite." "Right. So, our friendship is linear. It's simple, comfortable." "Effortless, really." "As soon as we deviate from that path..." "... change becomes exponential." "It's point of no return." "Just to be clear. Are you comparing us sleeping together to crossing the event horizon?" "Yeah." "It's quite lovely when you think about it like that. And also terrifying." "Yeah, exactly. So... We should stop thinking altogether..." "... and just do. Yeah. Of course."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"He thinks we're cursed, which I know is ridiculous, but... I don't know."

- Jemma Simmons to Alphonso Mackenzie

"I don't know. I suppose it's very new." "No, it isn't."

- Jemma Simmons and Alphonso Mackenzie

"Are we good after, you know, our disagreement?" "Oh, yeah, of course we're good. If I wanted a boyfriend who agreed with everything I said, I never would have broken up with Milton."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"Milton's odd-shaped head aside, we should make a point to never let work disagreements affect our relationship outside of work."

- Jemma Simmons to Leo Fitz

"What are you working on?" "Oh, nothing. Just browsing some things." "You're a terrible liar." "Well it was supposed to be a surprise." "Booking a trip?" "For two." "That's a romantic gesture. How very not you to be romantic." "What? Of cou- That is ridiculous." "We both know that I'm the romantic one. But it might not be the best time to be skipping off to the... Seychelles? Does look nice." "Hive's in custody, S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to recover that warhead, and then I was thinking that... We've had enough tragedy. A little fun wouldn't kill us. You think I'm not romantic? I'm gonna do something with you on that island that will take your breath away." "What is- Are you? Are you? Are you? Wha?" "Snorkeling. Did you know there are over 1,000 species of fish in the Seychelles? I cannot wait."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"I know what agent Fitz means to her."

- Jeffrey Mace to Melinda May

"It is nice having someone here to talk to again - you, specifically." "Someone other than Fitz?" "Oh, well, of course, Fitz, but he has been rather distracted lately." "Distracted how?" "Aida. You know how boys can be with their robots." "Actually, I really don't."

- Jemma Simmons and Daisy Johnson

"After all you've been through, no one would blame you if you put up your own firewall. But you didn't. Instead you became the most open, loyal, caring person I've ever met." "Maybe that's why it keeps happening." "It's why I fell in love with you."

- Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz

"Through all the insane crap we have gone through, the one thing I've known without a doubt, the whole time, is that you and Fitz belong together."

- Quake to Jemma Simmons

"I know him, not as The Doctor, but as a brilliant awkward heroic scientist named Leopold James Fitz. He is a good man and I love him."

- Jemma Simmons to Grant Ward (Framework)

"You two were in love. Unbreakable. A force to be reckoned with. The Fitz I knew nearly drowned for Jemma. He crossed the bloody universe to rescue her!"

- Holden Radcliffe to The Doctor

"She's afraid Fitz will be the same guy he was in the Framework." "No. She's afraid he still loves someone else."

- Daisy Johnson and Elena Rodriguez

"How can she even look me in the eye? Or even stand to see me at all? How can she still make it? The memory of seeing me shooting that woman..."

- Leo Fitz

"You know, the reason I wanted to get closer to you in the first place was... to try to understand what you two felt for each other. You and Jemma."

- Aida to Leo Fitz

"You understand that my love will never fade." "No, I know. Poor thing. You're a romantic. And there's only room in your heart..." "... for her."

- Leo Fitz and Aida

"Look, I know you two have still a lot to work out, but right now, I need you on the same page, O.K.?"

- Phil Coulson to Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"How about you and Simmons? Did you find a way to work it out?" "Distance is our curse."

- Lance Hunter and Leo Fitz

"I remember when you couldn't even admit that you liked her." "Maybe it should have stayed that way. Everything that keeps happening to us does seem like the universe doesn't want us to be together." "The universe doesn't want or care about anything. And even if it did, why wouldn it want you to be together? You two are so perfect for each other, it makes everyone a little bit nauseous." "Maybe it's trying to protect her." "From what?" "From me. From what I was in the Framework."

- Lance Hunter and Leo Fitz

"I've missed you so much. I've spent six months locked up in an off-the-books military prison, not to mention 80 years frozen in space, all just hoping to find you. And here you are. You know, I realized something. The universe can't stop us. 'Cause we have crossed galaxies, we traveled through time, we survived the bottom of the Atlantic just so we could be together. Now, a love like that, that is stronger than any curse, and you and I, we are unstoppable together. I... I don't wanna live another day without you. So, Jemma Simmons, will you marry me?"

- Leo Fitz's proposal to Jemma Simmons

"And Fitz-Simmons, my God, you really want to risk their lives again? They've been through enough!"

- Daisy Johnson and Phil Coulson

"That other thing we talked about. I want you to promise me that you'll do that, no matter what happens." "No. No, no. It's not important. Especially now. It's... That's... It's just symbolic. It wouldn't even change anything." "Symbols are important. Institutions are important. People need things to believe in, Fitz. Especially now. People need hope."

- Phil Coulson and Leo Fitz about the Fitz-Simmons marriage

"Fitz. I knew from the moment I saw you, from our first conversation about dielectric polarization, that you'd be in my life for a long time. But I didn't know you would be my life. My heart. My home. We joined this team for adventures and got more than we had hoped. But I can't wait for our next adventure. Building a family together. My love for you grows deeper and always will, no matter where the universe takes us next."

- Jemma Simmons' wedding vows

"I have been thinking about what to say. Just... Words don't really seem enough. I think that you are perfect. And, I don't deserve you, Jemma. I don't. I don't deserve you. And I'm well aware that I'm the luckiest man on any planet."

- Leo Fitz's wedding vows

"With this ring, I thee wed."

- Leo Fitz marrying Jemma Simmons

"Can you believed that we're married, wife?" "I cannot, husband. Do you think we'll ever get used to it, husband?" "No, I do not, wife." "Hey, I was thinking, we should hyphenate our last names, yeah?" "Uh, yeah, of course. Mr and Mrs Simmons-Fitz. Sounds great. Just rolls out of the tongue." "Yeah, right of."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"I don't deserve forgiveness, Jemma." "Just like you don't deserve me?" "Mack's injured. Daisy's traumatized. Do you know what the worst part about all of this is? I still believe that it was the right thing to do." "And you're right. It's such a confusing gray area. But if we are going to change the timeline, we have to do things differently. Make harder choices." "What does that make us?" "I don't know." "I really don't know where we go from here."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"He's losing himself. I feel like I'm losing him, too." "You haven't lost him. You know him better than he even knows himself. He's complicated. And he's stubborn. That's why you let him win arguments sometimes, right? He can be a real baby when he's sick, so that's why you got to take care of him. And he's always got the weight of the world on his shoulders. That's why he needs you there to help lighten the load. Oh, and he loves his prosciutto and mozzarella sandwiches that no one can make right except you." "How could you possibly know all those things?" "Because my mom used to tell me about her parents all the time. She always spoke about her dad with so much love and admiration on her face. Said that he was the best man she ever knew. So I know that you can help Fitz. And I know that you two are gonna be okay. Because, "the steps you take don't need to be big"..." ""They just need to take you in the right direction". You're our grandson?"

- Jemma Simmons and Deke Shaw

"I was thinking we could come back to England for our honeymoon. If we ever got one." "Sounds perfect." "Don't make me the third wheel, guys."

- Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz and Yo-Yo Rodriguez

"I'm sorry you never got that honeymoon you dreamed of." "Nonsense. I'm protecting England from evil robots with the man I love."

- Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

"You two are adorable. I ship it. I really do."

- Ruby Hale

Trivia

 * The relationship between Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons is based on the relationship between Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen.