Her shoulder's numb under Jim's hand. She feels the weight of it but not the grip.
"He'd watch for me," she answers, in a tone as thin and sharp as razorwire, a tone to flay skin from bone before you even feel the pain. He would. She knows. One or the other, they'll be there for each other's last breath. All the team, but especially Biggie.
Her mind chases down the details, the logistics, and it's not enough to know how this is going to play out. Except that she'd be circling back by--
Now. Kate sucks in a short breath and lets it out as smile that's even shorter. They're not out of trouble yet, but if anyone can rewire or unwire a bomb in the time they've got it's her, and if not -- if not, they'll do what they did and get him out of the vest.
Fuck. Now she knows what Will and Declan were seeing at the beginning of the reel. She tenses again. Drive faster, Magnus.
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Date: 2012-03-14 04:56 am (UTC)"He'd watch for me," she answers, in a tone as thin and sharp as razorwire, a tone to flay skin from bone before you even feel the pain. He would. She knows. One or the other, they'll be there for each other's last breath. All the team, but especially Biggie.
Her mind chases down the details, the logistics, and it's not enough to know how this is going to play out. Except that she'd be circling back by--
Now. Kate sucks in a short breath and lets it out as smile that's even shorter. They're not out of trouble yet, but if anyone can rewire or unwire a bomb in the time they've got it's her, and if not --
if not, they'll do what they did and get him out of the vest.
Fuck. Now she knows what Will and Declan were seeing at the beginning of the reel. She tenses again. Drive faster, Magnus.