Prompt from twitter: Ilios date! 380 words. :)
Hanzo stared at the gaping hole in the ground. He’d heard about it, but seeing it in person was vastly different. It was huge.
“Remind me why this is here?”
McCree shrugged. “Don’t rightly know. For people to fall into?”
“That seems unreasonably hazardous for an urban setting.” Hanzo leaned over the edge and peered in. It was astonishingly deep, and he thought he could hear the splash of water at the bottom. He was relieved that today’s mission in Ilios had been on the far side of the town, away from this public menace.
“Sure is,” McCree agreed, coming up next to Hanzo and putting his arm around his waist. “Last time we were here, I fell in.”
“Bit embarrassing, to be honest.” He chuckled and ran a hand through his hair.
“How did you get out?” Hanzo glanced over the side again and shuddered. There wasn’t even a barrier, just a knee-high ring of concrete around the edge. He wondered how many bodies were at the bottom, too far down to be retrieved.
“Fareeha caught me. Flew me out.” He grinned crookedly.
Hanzo did not smile back. “Is this what this date is? A greatest hits of the times Jesse McCree almost died? We have already visited the building you fell off, the alley you got shot in, and the place where a bomb almost blew you up.”
“Well, when you put it like that—”
“I had been hoping for cake. Or at the very least, coffee.”
“Don’t fret, sweetheart,” McCree reassured him, pecking him on the cheek. “I got a plan, and the next part don’t involve me making you worry.”
“I always worry about you,” Hanzo mumbled as McCree led him away from the pit. “Whenever you are on a mission without me, I cannot help but imagine you not coming back.”
“I feel the same.” McCree’s voice was almost inaudible as they headed towards a cafe overlooking the ocean.
“Next time we are in Hanamura, I will show you around my old haunts.”
“Yeah?” McCree perked up and grinned. “I’d like that, darlin’.”
“And I am very much looking forward to showing you all the places where my life was endangered.”
McCree stopped. “Now, hold up—”
“Fair is fair. I believe you owe me a coffee?”
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