together

Fitz spent months in a federal prison slowly losing his grip on his own sanity, even doing research on himself and confirming he might have suffered from some form of schizophrenia, considering the possibility that he did something to his team and blocked the memory. He spent so long trying to isolate himself from framework!fitz, tried to convince himself he wasn’t him. And then he has to become him, he has to lean into it to get Jemma and the others back. And then he has to reconcile that Fitz with the one he wants to be, has to reconcile how easy it was for him to act like that, how violent and calculating he can be, and tries to split himself so much away from The Doctor in his mind that he actually creates him instead. He splits himself into two warring personalities because he can’t reconcile both of them together. And when they split, The Doctor takes everything that Fitz became as he overcame his TBI, leaving Fitz his early s2 self, shaky and unsteady and stumbling over his words, and seeing ghosts. Everything that made Fitz who he was post-TBI becomes The Doctor.