Picking up strays - Closed
@stevecandothisallday
It wasn’t the distance he fell that nearly did the Asset in, so much as the way it happened. The gunshots to his chest probably wouldn’t have done him in on their own. His body would push them out eventually, and the aim was far enough off that they were more painful than dangerous. They were enough to knock him off balance though, backwards off the rooftop. The landing was agonizing, pain so sharp through his limbs that even the Winter Soldier couldn’t shake it off.
The best he could do was crawl away, into an alley, out of view of passers by. Every movement had him clenching his jaw on the urge to cry out, but it wouldn’t do to attract attention. He was a ghost. A severely injured ghost, but a ghost all the same. The Asset hid as best he could as the world went gray around the edges. He could feel himself drifting as he waited for extraction. Extraction never came.










