[ he remembers: the place where jemma was absconded to by a force unlike any he knew could exist, in his world. jemma, in that place; what had previously motivated fitz to his point of fevered desperation.
klaus sucks in a breath as his friend goes on. it's a soft reaction not of surprise, but in preparation for a sigh of understanding. it's the same, tedious story, told countless times. love, unrequited. he looks off-screen into space: fitz is hurt. he feels as if he's not the first in jemma's heart, if he ever was or could be. ]
I doubt as important as you. [ they are not empty words, spoken merely out of rote comfort: they are true. klaus is sure of it; jemma cares about fitz and has cared about him longer than anyone she might know now. ] How long was she there?
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klaus sucks in a breath as his friend goes on. it's a soft reaction not of surprise, but in preparation for a sigh of understanding. it's the same, tedious story, told countless times. love, unrequited. he looks off-screen into space: fitz is hurt. he feels as if he's not the first in jemma's heart, if he ever was or could be. ]
I doubt as important as you. [ they are not empty words, spoken merely out of rote comfort: they are true. klaus is sure of it; jemma cares about fitz and has cared about him longer than anyone she might know now. ] How long was she there?