[ it's like trying to hold down a wild bull, or some people have said over the years. even when he was less of a literal monster nobody could manage to keep him still. and they tried. they tried a lot.
he can feel david starting to slip off, but as always, he doesn't expect the grab to the shrapnel. he really doesn't expect david to hang his whole body weight off it. the agony as it starts to rip through him, tearing skin and muscle alike as it comes loose too slowly to deal with, gets a noise out of him that's both the closest and further from human he's ever sounded in a fight.
it stops evan in his tracks, that's for sure. he scrabbles frantically over his shoulder to grab david and wrench him up, get the leverage loose before the metal snaps and leaves him a bleeding, nearly-crippled wreck. whether he can manage it or not, though, is up in the air. david's losing his grip on evan's back, but not on the metal, and that makes him even harder to find. ]
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he can feel david starting to slip off, but as always, he doesn't expect the grab to the shrapnel. he really doesn't expect david to hang his whole body weight off it. the agony as it starts to rip through him, tearing skin and muscle alike as it comes loose too slowly to deal with, gets a noise out of him that's both the closest and further from human he's ever sounded in a fight.
it stops evan in his tracks, that's for sure. he scrabbles frantically over his shoulder to grab david and wrench him up, get the leverage loose before the metal snaps and leaves him a bleeding, nearly-crippled wreck. whether he can manage it or not, though, is up in the air. david's losing his grip on evan's back, but not on the metal, and that makes him even harder to find. ]