[ the blue alien squints at them both, and then back at the footage of them in the sleeping bag together. you are... partners? it asks. ward shoots a warning glare at fitz to keep his mouth shut. ]
Yeah, we're together. He's with me.
[ he insists. and he means together on this mission, on this technological delegation, even though fitz is here with shield and probably wants to kill ward for crashing it. but it's not like he can help it — he was supposed to be meeting skye's father, not getting kidnapped into outer space. seeing fitz made him realize he has bigger problems. like the possibility of melinda may somewhere else on this ship. ]
[ the alien seems to be mentally connected to the projected screen it is using to verify them, and it flicks through a bunch of images. ward, whose ability to retain split second information is part of the reason he got top marks at shield, realizes it's doing the equivalent of a reference check on both of them and a google search on what appears to be human marriage. ]
[ uh oh. ]
[ the alien seems satisfied, and marks the back of both their hands with a glowing display of some sort that's probably equivalent to a visitor's badge, and informs them that luxurious quarters have been prepared to human specifications that they may rest in while they wait. ward isn't actually sure what they're supposed to be waiting for, but the alien seems much less hostile than when he'd found it threatening fitz, so that's an improvement. fitz's hostility seems to be at about the same level, but then, the last time he and ward had spoken... it hadn't ended so well. ]
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Yeah, we're together. He's with me.
[ he insists. and he means together on this mission, on this technological delegation, even though fitz is here with shield and probably wants to kill ward for crashing it. but it's not like he can help it — he was supposed to be meeting skye's father, not getting kidnapped into outer space. seeing fitz made him realize he has bigger problems. like the possibility of melinda may somewhere else on this ship. ]
[ the alien seems to be mentally connected to the projected screen it is using to verify them, and it flicks through a bunch of images. ward, whose ability to retain split second information is part of the reason he got top marks at shield, realizes it's doing the equivalent of a reference check on both of them and a google search on what appears to be human marriage. ]
[ uh oh. ]
[ the alien seems satisfied, and marks the back of both their hands with a glowing display of some sort that's probably equivalent to a visitor's badge, and informs them that luxurious quarters have been prepared to human specifications that they may rest in while they wait. ward isn't actually sure what they're supposed to be waiting for, but the alien seems much less hostile than when he'd found it threatening fitz, so that's an improvement. fitz's hostility seems to be at about the same level, but then, the last time he and ward had spoken... it hadn't ended so well. ]