#( DYN. REDGUNSLINGER ) i'd take a bullet for you / 'cause you're my huckleberry !

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   Was Rialto the smartest place to run to after getting chased out of Blackwatch? Probably not, but it felt like it was the safest. She’ll make her way to Paris, eventually ---- after this.... tiny detour, for nostalgia’s sake. There’s a lot of posters plastered around ---- her face, an exorbitant amount of money, sanctioned by the UN...... Closing her eyes is a mistake--- she still can’t remember everything about that Talon base.....

    ....but she remembers Moira vanishing when they needed her most. Her teammates --- her fucking family --- going down one by one. Blood. Being surrounded. The last thing she remembers is sobbing as she clutched Jesse to her, begging him to stay alive before their hiding spot started getting shot to hell.

    And then she got angry. 

   Everything's a blank after that. Some of the footage she’s seen.... White hair, black sclera, blazing blue eyes, steam coming from her mouth.... 

   Maybe she is a monster, if she lost control like that. Maybe those big honchos at the U.N and Overwatch are right. It’s amazing how quickly they buckled from Talon painting a den of villains as an innocent town.

    Hearing footsteps, she tries not to betray any fear, but fuck, she doesn’t want to fight on these docks. Theese docks mean too damn much to her, as weird as it sounds to anyone who’d hear it. It’s too special of a place to her, anyways.

     “Listen, buddy---- if you’re here to kill me, can we at least do this somewhere else? This place is kinda important t’me---” Turning around was a mistake, because she’s met with the business end of a familiar gun, and if she looks absolutely terrified and her eyes are a little misty.... well, who could blame her? 

       “J-Jess...?” / @redghoulslinger because nobody stopped me and i accidentally angsted

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   Honestly, she swears on the fuckin’ stars Jesse’s gonna be the death of her.

   Take this mission, for example --- they’re investigating Rialto for.... possible seedy shit. As in “ one of the Talon heads might be here.” So, through some... er, probably questionable methods, Commander Reyes pulled some strings, and boom, Jesse’s working in a fancy restaurant that’s a Talon favorite, gathering intel, waiting tables, yadda yadda, unnecessary bad Italian accent.

   So, for him to miss the check in time? Either he’s in deep shit and she’ll have to bail him out, or maybe this fancy dress will be enough for her to get in, find him, make sure he’s okay, and then slip the new hideout coordinates to him... somehow.

   It’ll be fine, they’re all professionals! ( welll.... Moira still terrifies her, but they’re professionals! )

   It’s a bit hard for her to track him down without his hat, but she finds him stuck with a group of women badgering him to dance. Now, had she not learned how to dance from some of the other agents ( Reinhart was surprisingly adept at ballroom! ) then she may not have been able to really... do anything.

   Adjusting her glasses, she bobs and weaves through the crowd with calculated effort, before tapping him on the shoulder to catch his attention. “Hey, stranger... hope you don’t mind me cuttin’ in, but may I have this dance?” Even if she’s in a dress, she bows, knightly as ever and offering a hand for him to take. 

   Well... at least he’s not getting shot at. / @redgunslinger

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Blackwatch training is good for a lot of things --- namely, covert missions, being stealthy in general... Even if she IS a tank, her target’s never gonna know what hit them. It’s only a matter of vaulting onto the high ground in the courtyard and finding them.

She looks pretty intimidating, at the very least, with the sun behind her and Jesse’s serape billowing in the wind.

Speaking of which...

There’s nothing more terrifying than when Jesse uses Deadeye and nobody knows where he is. The sound effect is the same, but---

“It’s high smooch.” 

Uh-oh. / @redghoulslinger RUN JESSE , RUN

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c..........casual tagdrop........................... bc eden is the worst(tm)

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   “ Hey, Jess? “ 

   The little forest clearing near her house may not be the docks of Rialto, but there’s still a lake..... and a dock...... and the moon. It’s quiet here, even with the occasional crash of the waves and the crickets..... funny, how she can barely hear them.

    What were they even talking about? She’s half-huddled into his serape that he loaned her --- damn her for not dressing for the weather, right? --- one hand clutching the worn red fabric closer, and the other occupied with tangling her fingers with his.

     “.... c’mere for a second, would ya?” It’s not that difficult for her to lean up--- she’s practically in his lap at this point, still desperate for warmth and being close that she feels almost drunk from it.

      What’s difficult is how she hovers near his face, about to kiss him but thinking better of it --- there’s a long, painful moment before Hotaru settles for the corner of his mouth.

       “....sorry. Your smile’s just too irresistible, huckleberry.” / @redghoulslinger

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  “If I ever see that asshole again, I’ll shoot her.” Goddamnit, she hates Moira--- she really does, but this is just the icing on the piss wizard cake. Who the fuck does she think she’s kidding, using her family as a bunch of human guinea pigs? As pissed as she is, she can’t exactly focus on that right now....

  “Jesse, if I hadn’t caught you...” No, she’s not going to let herself be consumed by what could’ve happened right now---- the mission’s over, and they can go home now.

  Still, as she presses a kiss to his still-glowing deadeye, she can’t help but smile at how warm it is... but, also---

Taking off her glasses to reveal her glowing blue eyes, she can’t help but chuckle at the stupid comment she’s about to make. “Guess we match now, huh?” / @redgunslinger bc my yees have been hawed