Because All This Time, The Monster Has Been Me
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And So, In Darkness, It Lies Watching. It Lies Waiting by PeregrinOfTheShire
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
03 Oct 2024
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“Did we lose them?”
Gaby’s breath is hot on Illya’s neck, her slight frame trembling as she crouches, pressed against him in the snow. Around them, the shadows of the forest hang like funeral shrouds, gnarled branches creaking in a phantom breeze.
Illya’s leg is beyond painful now, almost numb. Tarry with a slush of mud and blood, dark and crusted, muscles screaming.
“I don’t think so,” he murmurs, even though he can’t hear anything to suggest footsteps. T.H.R.U.S.H never gives up so easily. They’re still out there. Somewhere.
Gaby sits down, dark eyes like tombs in her pale face. The slice on her forehead has dried, leaving a red latticework like lace. Bruising blooming like a dark flower.
Illya doesn’t like how blown her pupils are, nor how she’s stopped shivering. Silence hangs suspended around them, stretching away into the twilit woods, ground thick with snow and rotting leaves. It feels like they have been running for hours, though Illya knows it’s probably only been minutes.
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The forest is never as deserted as it seems...Series