Jemma Simmons had once joked with Leopold Fitz.
She said the universe did not want them to be together, but Leopold Fitz quickly refuted that claim. He believed the universe cared about nothing, much less whether two microscopic aggregates of particles moved closer to one another. There was no physical repulsive force between them—the two had known each other at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. The fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. had forced them to flee across the world with Agent Coulson, and after experiencing mission after mission together, their feelings had steadily deepened. No matter what predicament they faced, even if they were locked inside a containment box and thrown into the Seabed, they could always face it together and solve the problem.
Yet they had been separated for all sorts of reasons. Either Jemma Simmons had been sent undercover into a Hydra corporation, or they had been transported to another planet through some strange portal. That was why Jemma Simmons had made that joke, teasing their state of spending more time apart than together—when the Emperor had still used the identity Salomon to negotiate with S.H.I.E.L.D., he had once performed a Tarot Card reading for Leopold Fitz with great interest, because he had seen the twists of fate and tangled timelines surrounding the pair.
Although Leopold Fitz had little faith in such random numbers, he had had nothing better to do at the time and intended to play a card-guessing game with Salomon. However, the Tarot Cards Salomon used were not cards with illustrations drawn on them beforehand, but cards whose faces needed to be painted with Outer Dimensions energy. Turning over a card was equivalent to making an observation of the Outer Dimensions, drawing out a vague concept from fate in a superposition state and collapsing it onto both the diviner and