Tim decides to sneak around and tackle Alex to the ground before going after Jay.
Tim quickly redecides that no, that would take too much time, time that Jay doesn't have, and so he positions himself in front of the only window in the room his dying friend is in and slams his body against it.
Ow, fuck! Tim swears, both in his head and in real life, as he rolls along the ground, broken shards of glass digging into his arms. He stops as he hits something.
"Y'r here," Jay slurs at him, and Tim rips his head from the ground to look at him and christ that's a lot of blood--
"Not 's bad 's it looks," Jay responds, and Tim realizes that he probably pushed his previous thought into Jay's head. The lack of alarm in his friends voice is what sends him into action, and he clambers to his feet to kneel down next to him.
"Where does it hurt, buddy?" Tim looks down at Jay's quivering hand, holding his gushing side, and he rephrases his question. "How much does it hurt? Can you stand?"
"N..." Jay looks like he tries to shift his feet, but they slide uselessly against the floor and Tim has to tell him to stay down twice for him to stop trying.
"Okay. Okay," Tim talks, both to himself and Jay, and he stands up and kneels back down a few times trying to decide what the hell he's going to do.
Please don't die, Tim whispers into Jay's head.
He doesn't get a reply before the locked door bursts down, and Tim whips his head around as someone shoulders their way through.
Alex, Tim and Jay simultaneously think, except Jay's is three times more fearful than Tim's, which is brimming on inexplainable rage.
"Knew you'd come," Alex says quickly, mechanically, like he's trying his best not to waste his time. "This makes things a lot easier. Thank you."
Jay whimpers when Alex raises the gun.
And Tim--
just
rips.
He barely hears the gurgle that pushes through Alex's lips as his enemy staggers backwards, blood oozing from his nose. Tim narrows his eyes at him, nearly closing, and Alex falls to his knees, and Jay is staring, and then he's talking and Tim, Tim you have to stop, Tim I'm--
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I Will, Hold On
FanfictionTim practically FELT the bullet burrow itself into Jay's side. --- In which exposure to the Operator gives Tim and Jay superhuman abilities, and it changes the course of Marble Hornets entirely. [Tim and Jay centric, story told from different perio...
