Despite the overwhelming sadness she started feeling the moment Fitz left her apartment, Jemma managed to keep her head above water for a whole week. The day she would finally learn if she got the job or not was getting very close and now more than ever, she had to be perfect at work. If anything, she worked even harder and longer than she ever did. After all, her passion for her job was what stopped her from having a normal social life and she couldn't even conceive not getting what she'd been working so hard for. Also, getting home so late everyday and going to bed almost immediately at least had the upside of not leaving her much time to wallow over how lonely her nights felt.
But when she got her first real day off work, she had a whole week of cleaning up to catch up on and the very
