Afterslip

Life as a part of Coulson’s SHIELD… well, it’s not what Fitz would have ever signed up for, but it’s quickly become his new normal. There’s something freeing in the reality that he never knows that the day will bring, something that zings down his spine to just realize that he’s already stared death in the face. The fact that he’s still here now, still alive… it all has to mean something. He refuses to accept that he’s survived everything that’s been thrown at him just to die now.

Leg pinned underneath the debris and fallout from the earthquake, Fitz can’t fight down the desperate, unstable giggles that climb their way up his throat and out through his lips, because of all the things - of all the bloody things that might put him out of his misery, it’s an earthquake.