




Well, I don’t watch Agents of SHIELD anymore, but as of tomorrow it’s been a year since they killed off half of my ship. I’m getting nostalgic as usual, because I was on board this from when the pilot first aired (three years ago wtf???) and it SUCKED to see it ripped apart - and to see what happened to a character that had been one of my very favourites.
Fortunately, me and my girlfriend @slamncram have taken the “AUs fix everything” approach, but sometimes I still just gotta go back to that good ol’ season 1 feeling before we knew how bad it would get when everything was still happy and good.
Fitzward + Zombie Apocalypse AU
The world is more No Man’s Land, now. The population is estimated to be somewhere around 70-30 - in humanity’s favour, but the ratio gets tighter every week. The world’s militaries have banded together under their leaders to fight back against the infection, and sustain the humans who still live and breathe. A branch of the North American Forces, in concert with a branch of the European Military Coalition, have aimed to take the movement to sustain humanity a step further. It’s not just sustainability, anymore. It’s regaining ground; it’s finding a cure.
Doctors Jemma Simmons and Leopold Fitz, renowned before the Infection, are brought in by the military, and split - Jemma to the UK, Leo to the US - where they work in close quarters with military companies assigned to protect them, and their work. The project hopes to find success on one continent or the other, working off the hope that the strains, with an ocean between them, aren’t too different.
Staff Sergeant Grant Ward is assigned, with his men and women, to protect and transport Dr. Leo Fitz. It’s a job that would be difficult enough, if the brilliant scientist didn’t insist on constantly putting himself in danger’s path, or combating boredom by finding ways to get under Grant’s skin.
With humanity’s fate resting on Leo’s shoulders, and Leo’s safety placed squarely in Grant’s hands, the two move from military base to military base, surrounded by allies, hoping for a breakthrough.
Before the ratio turns in favour of the Infected.
I didn’t want to hurt you, I tried to avoid it.
You tried to kill us.
No, I wanted to save y o u.