unrecovered: (Face: What in the actual fuck)
Agent Washington ([personal profile] unrecovered) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions 2016-11-04 08:51 pm (UTC)

Wash stops short when he hears a familiar voice (and he hasn't heard that voice in so long) call his name. He turns, searches for the source, and-

This isn't happening. It's just not possible.

He reaches out and taps the shoulder of the person nearest him (one of the triage workers, probably on their way to someone who needs their help a hell of a lot more than he does) and points. "That guy over there with the scar over his eye - you see him, right?"

The triage worker looks unsure. "Yeah?"

Unsure isn't good enough. "So he's actually there, right?"

Now the worker just looks concerned. "Yeah. He is."

"Great." Wash pats their shoulder and lets them go before they start asking him too many questions; instead, he files away the fact that he's not hallucinating and looks over at...

At York.

Deep down, he'd known this was always a possibility. The Time Trapper had grabbed Grif from an earlier point on the timeline, after all; there's no reason for the rest of Wash's past to be off limits. God knows he's got some damned capable people back there.

But...but it's his past. He put it behind him. He'd had to. The past had tried to eat him alive for a good long while, and he'd let it: let it drive him to commit ill-conceived revenge that wasn't entirely his to take; let it nearly get him killed over and over; let it ruin him worse than he already had been. He'd buried it, because it was the only way he could move forward and make things better. If he let it back in, it would consume him-

And yet here it is, here and now, calling his name and staring him in the face, when he's so far past his breaking point he can't even see it anymore and is barely clinging to stability by his fingertips, and he-

He can't do this right now. He just can't.

He turns on his heel and walks away.

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