Revenant [February 24, 1964 11:25 pm]
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groznyj_gradDavid was getting restless.
He had always been quick to heal from injury or recover from illness, even as a child, rarely sick longer than a couple of days at the most. He'd broken his leg in high school, tibia snap, bad fall on the football field, and was out for six weeks, then another six weeks of PT and he was good as new, even better.
It had been three days since he'd been brought in from the cold, poisoned. Suffering from exposure and hypothermia and other things, and now, he felt almost like normal. Maybe a little more tired, but that could just as easily have been attributed to being stuck in the infirmary with little exercise.
Three days.
He'd been able to keep up the amnesia ruse, and so far, the nurse hadn't found his tactical knife hidden between the mattress and bedframe. No one had come to haul him away for interrogation under suspicion of being an American spy.
So far so good, as they said, but David knew it wouldn't last.
He brushed a hand over his dark hair, which was cut in a simple soldier's crop, universal military. It wouldn't give him away, not like the thousand other things that could cause him to slip up - an idiom he didn't know, a joke, a concept. He might know the language and speak it with his father's muscovite accent, but that didn't make him Soviet.
David Petrovich Kerensky bled red, white and blue.
His time was running out, the mission had gone wrong, and now he was pretty sure the CIA had given up on him, sent the self-terminate signal to his CODEC, cut him free like a kite on a string.
He'd gotten caught in a tree branch, disavowed.
Thing was, if he didn't have the mission, he didn't have anything.
So mission it still was. He needed to come up with a plan of action, find Snake, figure out what to do about the Boss, stay alive, and get out of Russia, somehow.
David sighed, and lay back in the infirmary bed.
He supposed he had better get started on that.
He had always been quick to heal from injury or recover from illness, even as a child, rarely sick longer than a couple of days at the most. He'd broken his leg in high school, tibia snap, bad fall on the football field, and was out for six weeks, then another six weeks of PT and he was good as new, even better.
It had been three days since he'd been brought in from the cold, poisoned. Suffering from exposure and hypothermia and other things, and now, he felt almost like normal. Maybe a little more tired, but that could just as easily have been attributed to being stuck in the infirmary with little exercise.
Three days.
He'd been able to keep up the amnesia ruse, and so far, the nurse hadn't found his tactical knife hidden between the mattress and bedframe. No one had come to haul him away for interrogation under suspicion of being an American spy.
So far so good, as they said, but David knew it wouldn't last.
He brushed a hand over his dark hair, which was cut in a simple soldier's crop, universal military. It wouldn't give him away, not like the thousand other things that could cause him to slip up - an idiom he didn't know, a joke, a concept. He might know the language and speak it with his father's muscovite accent, but that didn't make him Soviet.
David Petrovich Kerensky bled red, white and blue.
His time was running out, the mission had gone wrong, and now he was pretty sure the CIA had given up on him, sent the self-terminate signal to his CODEC, cut him free like a kite on a string.
He'd gotten caught in a tree branch, disavowed.
Thing was, if he didn't have the mission, he didn't have anything.
So mission it still was. He needed to come up with a plan of action, find Snake, figure out what to do about the Boss, stay alive, and get out of Russia, somehow.
David sighed, and lay back in the infirmary bed.
He supposed he had better get started on that.
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Date: 2008-05-02 04:01 pm (UTC)"Why?"
It escaped from his lips, an uncalculated whisper, uttered before he could evaluate its impact and the thousand other vectors that would arc away from that point.
As questions went, it was a good one, though he supposed. Rakitin's vehemence had been fueled by the anger of a brother, of man protecting his wife, a father seething with hate and helplessness over some harm done to his child. Strangely genuine in a way David was unused to.
He searched Rakitin's strikingly odd, dark gaze. The KGB lieutenant had pupils and irises that were almost the same shade. Unfathomable, hard to read, but David never went solely by the eyes anyway. Facial tics, body language, those held many more clues, but at this moment, with this particular man, David felt at a loss to understand any of them.
David's brows cut in, sharply.
"Just...like that?"
The lieutenant's earlier words came back to him now, drifting across his consciousness like a cloud that had a shape to it, a first formless, then recognizably distinct.
"Like it would happen in a vacuum?"