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Definitely hit a nerve.

That reminds me. I got you something.

[ And something comes, ten minutes later, in the form of someone somewhere in this house playing a for actual digerido. ]

[Jemma's going to hunt that down and kill it.]

[ And he will blow it right in her face. ]

[Have you ever seen someone smack a didgeridoo, Harry? If not, you have now.]

New house rule, no didgeridoos in the house.

Arbitrary rule. Nope.

[Jemma is about to use the fact it's technically her house, and he's living here gratas, when another opportunity arises.

The opportunity is about 4.5lbs, fluffy, and judgemental.]

Greene! Do come in, my handsome boy.

[Now she's just going to grin.]

You really think I won't blow this at a rabbit? [ Of course he wouldn't, but still. ]

I really think you like having that lock installed.

[Greene, of course comes in, because it is his house, dammit, and how dare someone stop him from going wherever he wants.]

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[ Is it weird to glare at a rabbit? Probably. He's still going to do it. And begrudgingly, he'll put the instrument away. ]

[Jemma picks up her fluffy hero, and kisses the top of his head.

Is it possible for a rabbit to look smug? Yes it is and he's doing that right now.]

He's better than a dozen guard dogs, I swear, and find some place outside of this house to keep that blasted thing.

[Didgeridoos are her least favourite instrument.]

[ And right then and there, Harry Feynman started making plans to buy a lamellophone. ]

We'll see.

Here I was hoping you were the more mature of the Harrys Feynman.

And what does "we'll see" even mean?

I'm not the one making up arbitrary rules or threatening people, am I?

It's pretty self explanatory I think.

It's perfectly reasonable to expect a didgeridoo-free home environment.

It sounds like you plan to completely ignore my wishes.

Oh, you'll have a digeridoo free-home.

That sounds more like a threat.

How could that possibly be a threat?

I don't know, but you're Harry Feynman and it doesn't matter which one of them you are, I can tell you're plotting.

You don't know anything about me.

You keep saying that, but I know a hell of a lot more than you give me credit for.

Prove it. Name something about me that isn't about him or 'you thought you were dead.'

[So a theory she's been working on comes spilling out.]

You're so damned determined to be some other person, you'd rather give up the chance to see your wife and children again.

But I don't think it really has anything to do with insisting you're different, and everything to do with something so the same with him, that you think you're so damaged, it's not worth it.

I will not be cast in as a part of your dark fate. There's some other version of me doing exactly that right now.

[ Snapping his glare from Greene to her. ]

I'm already past my 'dark fate'. There's no countdown, there are no days hours minutes and seconds til the day something fucking awful happens to me. My head isn't filled with the knowledge that I can't stop it, because it happened, and there's nothing.

[Glare right back. She's used to the guilt-ridden. SHIELD is built on them.]

And here I am, playing the part you cast me in.

[That snap? Proved her point.]

What happened to you is over. You have a whole life ahead of you, and that rate you're getting inexplicably younger, that's a hell of a long life ahead of you.

You can't erase what happened, but you can make that dark fate a moment, rather than look at everything after this as nothing.

I've already been cast aside as nothing by one person, and you can go to hell, if you think I'm letting you do that to me too.

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