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The Past That Stands Between Us

Author: @eclecticmuses Rating: Mature Chapter: 8/20 Relationships/Characters: Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons, Daisy Johnson, Alistair Fitz, Alphonso ‘Mack’ Mackenzie, Elena Rodriguez, Holden Radcliffe, Leo Fitz’s Mother, Daniel Sousa, Enoch, AIDA (mentioned) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Drama & Romance, Fluff & Angst, Doubt, Secrets, Manipulation, Mild Sexual Content, Angst With a Happy Ending, Background Daisy/Sousa Summary: When Jemma Simmons meets famed scientist and inventor Leo Fitz at a trade conference in New York City, she thinks she’s found the man of her dreams. A whirlwind romance and elopement ensues, but once she settles into her new home with Fitz in London, she realizes that not everything is as it appears. It seems that no one—not even Fitz—has let go of the memory of his beautiful, popular first wife, who died tragically in an accident just one year prior. As Jemma sinks deeper into a web of doubt and criticism, she begins to question her place in Fitz’s life—and the secrets he’s keeping from her. An AU of the classic novel Rebecca.

Excerpt from Chapter 8:

It wasn’t as though Jemma was ashamed of her marriage to Fitz—far from it—but she had still hoped to keep their relationship under wraps for as long as possible to curtail any awkward questions or nosy reporters. That hope was dashed almost straight away at work the following Monday when Kenneth noticed her rings.

She was sitting at her computer station going through her morning emails and had not yet slipped her rings onto the silver chain she was wearing around her neck to keep them from snagging on the nitrile gloves she used for her lab work. That was her first mistake, she would tell herself later. She should have just come in to work with the rings already hidden beneath her blouse.

Kenneth passed behind her carrying a small stack of file folders, ostensibly headed for the outgoing tray for the lab techs to process later. Jemma sensed rather than saw him stop just a step past her chair and do a double-take. “Holy shit,” he hissed. “No way. You married him?!”

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