Because I'm bored at work and I was just in the tag, here's a prompt: hitman au, "This was a mistake."
It wasn’t often, nowadays, that Ryan traveled for work. One of the perks of shifting into his role as a handler, after all, was that the bulk of his work could be done from the comfort of his own home. He only needed to put in the effort for assignments with as complex arrangements as this one. Not to mention that he was hardly put out over having to lounge about on a tropical island.
Or, at least, that was what he had been up to until Gavin’s earpiece fizzed out in the midst of a shrill ringing that almost wrecked Ryan’s eardrums. He couldn’t find anything useful on any of the cameras he had access to either---all civilians making a mess in their panic, nothing else.
He was half out of his chair, already reaching for the kit he kept ready in case emergencies required him back in the thick of things, when the communications channel sprang to life again.
“Sorry about that! Had to patch in through one of the cleaning staffs walkie-talkies. Not an easy task let me tell you... Ryan? Come on, don’t be already out---”
“I’m here.” Ryan slammed back down into his chair, gritting his teeth against how the rickety plastic groaned beneath him. “But that doesn’t mean I’m pleased about it. What the hell happened?”
“There might have been a mistake?” Gavin said. “Mostly about how close you need to be to set off a proximity mine? But it’s fine, really! Took the target out still and everything!”
“Gavin.” Ryan reached up to press the earbud further into his ear, straining to pick up the ragged breaths Gavin was fighting to subdue. “Where were you hit?”
“Nowhere I can’t walk it off.” Gavin managed a strained laugh. “Well, actually, you be surprised how a bloody bit of jewelry can almost take out your knee if the chance is right. Still able to walk, though!”
“Can you get to me?” Ryan asked. He hated how heavy his fingers felt as he tugged out the modified first aid kit, cursing when the contents almost fell out altogether when he got it open.
“Please, love,” Gavin murmured, a smile warming his voice somehow even then, “as if anything could manage to stop that from happening.