( eve feels cold, despite having just run, despite her blood pumping. her hands don't shake, though, and she doesn't shiver — the last time she'd been this focused, it had been on two figures fighting on top of a moving train. she'd missed, then. she isn't planning on missing again. good agents learn from their mistakes, and eve may no longer be a field agent, but that doesn't mean that she's forgotten any of her training, that she's set her sense of duty aside. this is still her job, field agent status or not.
it doesn't give her pause that he knows her name. he's managed to hack into their system more than once. of course he knows who they are. ) Is that what you would like?
( if he wants to play psychological games, fine. it'll give her a little more time to assess the situation, their respective positions. she has little cover where she is, but there's an opening to another room not to far from the entrance, no door in the doorway, but if she could make it into that room, it would provide her with the cover of a solid wall, enough to stop another bullet. and she would have as much of a shot at his position from there as from here. )
This doesn't have to end with someone in a body bag. ( keeping her voice even; bored almost. it takes some effort. it takes more effort not to reveal her intention to move before she does; pushing herself off the wall and half-running, half-throwing herself through the opening.
it's not elegant and it isn't poised. it doesn't need to be either of those things. )
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it doesn't give her pause that he knows her name. he's managed to hack into their system more than once. of course he knows who they are. ) Is that what you would like?
( if he wants to play psychological games, fine. it'll give her a little more time to assess the situation, their respective positions. she has little cover where she is, but there's an opening to another room not to far from the entrance, no door in the doorway, but if she could make it into that room, it would provide her with the cover of a solid wall, enough to stop another bullet. and she would have as much of a shot at his position from there as from here. )
This doesn't have to end with someone in a body bag. ( keeping her voice even; bored almost. it takes some effort. it takes more effort not to reveal her intention to move before she does; pushing herself off the wall and half-running, half-throwing herself through the opening.
it's not elegant and it isn't poised. it doesn't need to be either of those things. )