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Benjamin F. "Hawkeye" Pierce ([personal profile] swill) wrote in [community profile] thearena 2013-12-31 01:08 am (UTC)

He shushed her, only because he had noticed her knock her ankle, too. He kept his distance, which in the hollow tree there wasn't much of, dutifully. A fresh lungful of air, he realized, he'd have to suck in soon or else risk death by suffocation. And silly him, he takes the words of cannibalism as a joke and only snorts. "Like hell I'm leaving my life in the hands of a teenager," he says and there's a real edge to them, however dull.

Still, she did have a point and no, he wasn't superhuman. So Hawkeye stayed silent for some seconds pondering her offer. He'd already come home with her, after all, what was so bad about sharing the watch? She was unarmed and hurt, he was unarmed and helpless. Together, they might stay alive a day longer. "Yeah, yeah, sure," he agrees, unease seeping back. "Get some sleep and try not to snore."

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