#fitzpride

leo fitz + lance hunter

Happy first day of Pride Month!!!!! Here you go:

Untitled Queerplatonic FitzHuntingbird Fic

Fitz has never really understood the concept of friendship and the rules surrounding it, so it’s no wonder that all his friendships turn into something more. It was Simmons who gave him the word for it at the Academy. Queerplatonic. She knows about it because of her aromanticism. He likes the word. He likes having a label.

He doesn’t really know when his friendship with Bobbi and Hunter turns from just friendship to queerplatonic (again, the whole concept of friends vs. other relationships is very confusing), but at some point he recognizes that it has done so.

He goes back and forth, arguing with himself over whether to bring up the label with them. He thinks Bobbi might know what it means, because she’s been discovering that she’s aromantic as well, but he’s not sure if Hunter would.

~*~*~*~

One night, he and Hunter are up late. They’ve had a couple beers and they’re sitting on the couch in the common room watching a documentary on ‘The Mystery Monkeys of Shangri-La’ Hunter had recorded for him. The documentary finishes and Fitz rests his head against Hunter’s shoulder. “I love you,” he tells him, staring at the television screen as the credits scroll past.

“I love you too,” Hunter replies after a short pause.

Fitz tugs on his lip as he ponders the pause. “Not in a sexual way,” he clarifies after thinking it through. “In a queerplatonic way.”

“And I love you in a queerplatonic way,” Hunter says. “I paused ‘cause I was trying to decide if I should make a Star Wars reference or not.”

Fitz lets out a soft laugh as he understands what Hunter is getting at. “Save that for Bobbi,” he advises.

“Oh, we’ve been there, done that,” Hunter tells him.

“TMI,” Fitz says as he gets up.

Hunter stands as well and pulls Fitz into a hug, kissing his cheek. “Goodnight, love.”

“Night.”

~*~*~*~

He never does bring it up with Bobbi. They both just sort of understand without needing to talk about it. It’s obvious in the way they bicker and squabble like siblings, in the way he goes to her for advice, and she comes to him for comfort, in the casual touches they share, and the way their brains just seem to connect.

Fitz enjoys spending time with Bobbi and Hunter separately. He and Hunter argue about football, and Hunter finds that he’s actually interested in the nature documentaries Fitz enjoys, so they have good discussions about those. Fitz likes working out with Bobbi, learning basic self defense skills he’d always been too anxious to learn from May. He likes spending time with her in the lab.

Most of all, he likes it when the three of them spend time together. He likes it when they make meals together and Bobbi and Hunter bicker about the best way to cook mushrooms. He likes it when they cuddle together, and when they play board games together, and he’d even enjoyed that one time when they’d each gotten tipsy and Bobbi convinced them to re-enact Star Wars scenes with her. Bobbi had been Leia, Fitz had been Luke, and Hunter was Han. She’d even somehow managed to charm Mack into playing Chewbacca. He thinks Daisy has video of it somewhere ready to use as blackmail material should the need ever arise.

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The worst thing about his boyfriend, Hunter thinks, is histaste in football.

Fitz is great. Fitz is easily the smartest person Hunter’sever met (though that’s not saying much), and he’s kind in the sort of waysthat confound Hunter entirely, because no one should remember that he likesstrawberry syrup on pancakes, but Fitz does. When Fitz laughs, Hunter wondersif maybe, just maybe, someone else’s happiness can heal him.

But his football opinions? Nope. Definitely not. His mumwould be rolling in her grave if she knew that her son was dating a ManU fan. Sowould his dad, probably, but Hunter doesn’t give a flying shit what his dad thinks,so there’s that.

Fitz had always known they were biologically male and that, according to their father, meant they had to act a certain way

Fitz had never been able to act that way, much to their father’s disapproval

Fitz had never really understood what it meant to be a man, or even what it meant to be a woman

They didn’t feel like either

They just felt like Fitz

They didn’t really get to begin exploring their gender identity until after they’d graduated from the Academy

They’d been assigned to Sci-Ops, to work under a Level Three agent who identified as genderfluid and used ze/zir pronouns

It had taken Fitz almost four months to get up the courage to talk to zir about zirs gender

What they learned changed their life

Fitz began identifying as agender and using they/them pronouns

They decided to stick with the name Fitz, since as a surname, it was already gender-neutral

They started attending meet-ups with other LGBTQIA+ SHIELD Agents zir introduced them too

They came out to Simmons and Mum

Mum had accepted them right away. Of course she did. She always did.

Simmons was accepting too, but also went straight into research mode, which made Fitz feel a bit like one of Simmons’ lab specimens.

Fitz didn’t change much about their appearance. They’d never really felt much dysphoria about their body, so they didn’t feel the need to look any different in that way. They’d always preferred to dress in patterns and soft jumpers and cardigans

They went to their first Pride event the following summer with their friends from the meet-ups

They bought a button with their gender and pronouns and wore it every day for a year and a half until one day they didn’t fully pin it onto their cardigan and it fell and broke

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Agent Piper/Skye | Daisy Johnson, Lance Hunter/Bobbi Morse, Leo Fitz & Skye | Daisy Johnson, Leo Fitz & Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie/Yo Yo Rodriguez, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie & Bobbi Morse Characters: Leo Fitz, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Agent Piper (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Melinda May, Bobbi Morse, Lance Hunter Additional Tags: pride month, Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Bisexual Leo Fitz, Leo Fitz & Skye | Daisy Johnson Friendship, Leo Fitz-centric, Leo Needs a Hug, Homelessness, Piano, Billy Joel - Freeform Summary: