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↳𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 'yeah, they'll pass you by'
━━ 𓄼 𓄹 ━━
UNDISCLOSED ENEMY LOCATION
WHILE Cam drove, Fritz had managed to connect his coms to the car radio. So far, they hadn't received anything more than a confirmation of their own signal.
"It doesn't mean they didn't get it," Fritz had told her hopefully.
But as the minutes dragged into hours, his tone lost all optimism. By the time daylight began to fade, they had run out of service roads. When they finally stopped, Fritz pushed open the door to the Jeep and began to step out. Cam had only barely turned away when he cried out in pain.
"What? What is it?" Cam asked, whipping around as if something was coming through the woods. Her heartbeat pressed against her throat as she ran around the front of the vehicle, momentarily silhouetted by headlights until plunging back into the blue dark.
He steadied his breathing. "It's my leg. I must have been on one hell of an adrenaline high."
Cam's eyes went wide and she held out an arm to steady him. "Can you walk on it?"
Tentatively, he tried to take a step forward. "Kind of," he answered after a long pause. "I don't think it's broken. I didn't have the best landing with that parachute. Probably just sprained."
Cam blew a piece of curly hair out of her eyes. "Just sprained. How reassuring."
"It isn't that far," he promised, switching on a flashlight against the quickly-darkening sky.
Cam loaded up a pack with any of the supplies they could pull from the Jeep before ditching it in the brush, hidden enough that they could come back to it if they needed to.
They walked for what felt like hours. The blue light of evening dimmed until finally it disappeared completely, leaving nothing but the purple haze of a winter night. The temperature was dropping, and even the gear they had stolen wouldn't be enough to make it through the cold for another day.
Cam cleared her throat. "Fritz?"
"I know what you're thinking," he said, not meeting her eyes. His arm was hooked across her shoulders to alleviate some of the pain. "I'm thinking the same thing."
