💛 and firstprince please xx
💛 reunion kiss / relief (honestly, no comment on the length. anyway there's no relief kiss like an 'I thought you were dead' relief kiss. enjoy. read all the kiss ficlets)
Henry is watching from his sniper’s nest in an apartment down the street when the office building collapses.
He can’t believe what he’s seeing at first. It’s just not possible—they had no intel that there were explosives involved, no reason to think that there’d be any danger of such a thing. It should have been an easy in and out, especially for Alex. He’s a master at infiltration, at getting places where he shouldn’t without anyone even knowing he’s been there. Henry’s just his backup on this op, there because he can shoot a fly off a balloon at a hundred yards, because they needed to make sure one particular guy didn’t show up while Alex was inside.
Which he is. Alex went in ten minutes ago, and the building collapsed, and Henry doesn’t think before he’s flying down the stairs as fast as possible. He runs at full tilt toward the disaster even though he’s blocks away, dodging everyone who’s running in the opposite direction. There might be screaming but he doesn’t hear it over the blood pounding in his own ears, over his ragged breathing as his lungs scream for oxygen. He runs harder than he’s ever run in his life, and it probably won’t even matter because if Alex is was on the fifth floor, like he was supposed to be, there’s very little chance he’d be able to survive.
But it’s Alex. He’s practically unkillable. He can’t be dead. After everything they’ve been through together, Henry won’t let him.
The area around the building is full of dust and smoke, and there’s debris falling from the unstable structure, but Henry pushes through even though it burns his throat and stings his eyes. It doesn’t matter that the building is still in the process of falling down, he has to find a way in, he has to—
