@advcnturewithin asked: Unspoken Prompt: Reciever finds Senders Muse covered in blood. (Harry)
How often had their new crewmates actually been targeted growing up?
They'd been warned that Gil and Harry would be targetted by assassins sent to kill their father's offspring, he'd just not thought they'd be found so quickly. His body pushed to the limit as he sprinted through the town. They'd found Gil, but Harry was still missing and based on how the blonde had been found, alive but badly beaten....he was terrified.
Sprinting around a corner, eyes roaming the streets for the other he skidded to a halt before backtracking to an alleyway entrance......There he lay, a pool of blood seeping into the cracked cobblestone beneath him even as the assailant stood over him. Harry's hook in the man's hand, clearly taken from him and now poised to be driven through his heart.
He launched himself forward, body moving on instinct before his mind could even catch up. Panic and fear taking a backseat in lew of the sight before him, fading before the burning rage that turned his vision almost red as he zeroed in on the shadowed figure. Body easily moving lower to the ground as one hand found the hilt of the Wado Ichimonji.
In a breath he was past the attacker, the white-hilted katana nearly singing in his hand. Drawn attacks like the one he'd just delivered were a specialty of the blades he carried, their slight curve adding to the lethal speed-drawn cut that had the body behind him sliding apart into two pieces. The move finished as he stood smoothly, flicking the blades and then resheathing it as he exhaled.
Stillness settled over him for only half a breath more before he was kneeling at Harry's side, knees instantly soaked in blood. Panic and fear rising once more to the forefront as he pressed his hands to the wounds on Harry's chest.
"Harry!? HARRY!? Stay awake you stubborn asshole!" A sob tore through his words even as his voice cracked as he roared at the male who was stealing his heart with every sly grin and wink. "STAY WITH ME!"