tcnetwork | Jemma Simmons

For a genius, you sure can be dense.

Maybe future you and future Daisy are together?

Excuse me. I'm being confronted with a hypothetical daughter who is probably an alien, and you're judging my reaction?

And you want to say your math was right.

She's not an alien. She's definetly your daughter. For one thing, she's disturbingly okay with what I assume is future you pranking current me.

Obviously my math was right. The proof is in the kid.

She's definitely my daughter because she's okay with my planking you? That's hardly a secret or something only my kid would know. Everyone knows about our pranks.

And by that logic, your wife, who is totally okay with my pranking you, is my kid too?

The conclusion does not follow. DNA. We need to get DNA.

What if this is an invasion?

No, because she's continuing it.

An invasion of what? Children? They're not the children of the corn.

There's no possibility of Daisy having my kid. It has to be an invasion.

Weird things happen all the time. It doesn't mean it's forever a reality.

Please. If Seth and I can figure out how to make a baby together, I'm sure you can manage how to make a baby with science. Unless you're outright saying I am way smarter than you?

I AM NOT saying that, but I'm not going to create a person to prove it to you.

And we still haven't proven they're not something else.

You could always ask Eve if the one that claims to be hers is hers. Doesn't she have a connection with all of her kids?

But would she know if that young woman is mine?

If hers is hers, then the likelihood of yours being yours is higher, yes?

The possibility YES, but it's not absolute proof.

There is this thing called faith. Especially when this is the second time this sort of thing has happened.

The second time? My potential child's been here before?

Potential children have been here before.

And who were yours? Did Seth come? Did you test any of the children to be sure?

This time? Seth didn't come, but Sarah who we're currently...working on and James did. James offered a cheekswab.

Last time, I had a James also, but it was with someone else. Might be a variation of the same kid with a different coparent.

So these children aren't always facts, just possibilities.

That might break Daisy's heart. She'd be such a good mum.

Yes and no. By virtue of the fact we see them and interact with them, in some timeline they will always exist. Whether they exist in this timeline is up to us. As long as Nica and Allison Young are okay with it, I am curious enough about James' conception and who he is to attempt to bring him into being. And Nica and I were already trying for Sarah, so we can assume she'll be born as well.

If any iteration of Alice Rose is to be, that's entirely up to you and Daisy. But, as my boards keep saying, the match is good.

I suppose it all comes down to the children being wanted, isn't it? I've never thought seriously about it before. I see you and Nica with Seth and he makes you both so happy. I can see Daisy with a child. She's always so good with them, a natural.

But me? I was as much a project as a daughter to my parents. Don't get me wrong, they loved me, but were only happy with me when I was accomplishing something. I don't want to do that to someone, any iteration of Alice Rose, or another child.

[And, of course, in the middle of a serious discussion, in which Harry just got a whole bunch of serious and useful information, he has to bring up her ultra pet peeve.

On the other hand, it lets her stop being so serious.]

You're so single-minded at times, Harry Feynman! There are days I wonder how Nica hasn't smothered you in your sleep.

I didn't think I'd ever have kids, Jemma. I was pretty sure that I'd be dead or worse by the time I was thirty five, and before Nica my relationships never ended well. My best relationship before her was with my best friend, and he died. And before I came here, I don't even know if I would've been a good father. I have...had a tendency to get lost in my head. I still do, sometimes, but with the nanomites it's easier to pull me out of it. Remind me to send you a pdf of my old journal. It's...something.

I mean, there was a reason my dad retired early, and it wasn't because he got enough out of being a salesman.

[ Good God, it's Serious Harry. MAKE IT STOP. ]

You wouldn't do that to a kid, Jemma. I've seen how you are with Greene. And don't say it's not the same. He's not just a pet to you.

You're not allowed to die any time soon. I forbid it. It would be a shame, that if in any timeline Alice Rose didn't meet you.

Both of my last relationships ended with my being sucked into a stone, and the other turning to dust, literally. It doesn't make me anxious to try again, and nevermind with a kid. I couldn't recover from that. It's easier not to have people than lose people.

And I'd be really interested in seeing it.

[This is what happens. Sometimes it's all fun and digeridoos, and other times it's serious conversation about attachment fears.]

Greene doesn't need me. He likes me. He stays because he wants to. If he wanted to go back to his mother, I'd let him. I can't return a kid to anyone.

If anything happens to me, you guys have my permission to get Eve or whoever else can do it bring me back. Fair enough?

My last relationship before Nica was with a vampire because it seemed less likely she'd die. Instead, she cheated on me and got mad because I hate being treated like a child.

I'll send a sample page.

[ At least he's the type who gets it rather than dismisses it? ]

He might not need you, but he loves you.

Perfectly fair, but Nica would likely get there first. I'd rather you not do so at all, but reanimation is fair.

Oh, that's horrid. I'm relieved you found someone so perfect for you.

[Pause.]

That really IS something.

And I love him. He's the best bunny to ever bunny but he's still far more independent. I'm not sure I wouldn't be a disappointment to Daisy.

I really did. She's the best.

I wasn't in a good place before I came here.

I don't think you'd be a disappointment to her. Or anyone.

Jemma Simmons

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