[But "rote" is how Fitz feels all of this must be. Jemma loves someone else. It would make her happy to be reunited with him, and how could he possibly deny her that? There's nothing else to be done, but what they're doing.]

I'd been working for six months before I came here. I believe that her conception of spacetime places her sometime later than that. She remembers me bringing her back, but I've not yet done that. I don't know how long she had to get to know him. There was no reliable method of timekeeping in her prison. It might have been years, for all we know.