#fitzmack friday

My contribution to Fitzmack Friday this week is another excerpt from "A Story About Moving Day," a bit more of which can be found here. Weirdly, this excerpt has no actual Mack in it, but it's a conversation about Mack and how smitten Fitz is with him.

This story is part of a sprawling AU series I've started undertaking. There's a lot of stuff going on, too much to explain here. I think for now it suffices to say that Fitz and Jemma are siblings; "Uncle Nick" is, yes, Nick Fury--their dad's best friend and Fitz's godfather; and Mack is moving into Fitz and Jemma's former family home. Because reasons. Aaaand I think that's all I'll say for now.

"I don't know what you and Uncle Nick thought you were cooking up, sending me out here alone," Fitz said, "but the joke's on you, because Mack and I have been having a perfectly lovely time without you, so there."

"Who's Mack?"

Fitz huffed. "Mack. The renter." Silence on Jemma's end. "Tall, gorgeous, works for Uncle Nick?"

"I thought his name was Al-something."

Jemma sounded so genuinely puzzled that a seed of doubt crept into Fitz's mind. "Jemma," he said slowly, "did you and Uncle Nick talk about today?"

"What about today?" she snapped, and oh, not good. Now she was so confused she was getting angry about it.

"About him asking both of us to help Mack move in but only me actually going?"

"Fitz!" Now wounded!Jemma was making an appearance. What a conversation this was turning into. "I would never do that to you! Make you go to the house alone to spend a day with a stranger."

"All right, all right, jeez, I get it," Fitz groused. So this was solely Uncle Nick's doing. He just had to figure out why.

"So," Jemma said, hurt replaced by a teasing note, "tall and gorgeous, huh?"

"Oh, Jemma," he sighed, leaning against the workbench, "you should see him. A religious man might say his beauty makes the angels weep."

"What do you say?"