Dangerous Deeds

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Despite what he'd thought, it turned out that climbing was not easy. The towers of the school were rough and rugged, but there were a ton of protrusions, and just scrambling up the side wasn't nearly as easy as it looked. Broen was clearly practiced, knowing exactly what to do, while Jackal was far more cautious, sparing a glance down to where Ava and the Regalia both waited.

The trick with his powers is that he could keep up with Broen no problem. Any time he needed to close the distance, his powers adjusted. He became more stable, more agile. His fingers seemed to stick to the wall.

But he couldn't get past Broen. The moment he stopped hyping himself up--stopped going after him--he was back to totally normal.

Which meant he was keeping pace with Broen, but he wasn't pulling ahead.
 
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Broen couldn't lose this. He knew how to hold the wall, where to put his hands, how to leap. He was Ezio fucking Auditore. But no matter how well he was doing, anytime he looked over his shoulder there Jackal fucking was. Just on his ass. It was frustrating, because even from this height, Brown could tell that his partner was smirking up at him as he struggled against this fuckin demon centipede asshole.

"Fuck off with your tail bullshit, man!" Why hadn't he added into the rules that you couldn't use more than your hands and feet? He needed to get ahead. There was a hand hold slightly to the right that would let him pull up faster. But shit that was a jump he didn't know if he could make.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Broen kicked hard, leaping up send slightly sideways to grab onto the ledge.
 

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"My tail's part of my body, dick!" Jackal yelled up. His tail wasn't helping him all that much in the climbing, but it was sure as hell helping him keep his balance as he pushed his way from point to point. He was confident, but only that he wasn't going to fall to his fucking death and crack his head open. If he did fall, he'd look up at Broen, pop a pair of wings open, and call it his loss.

He was okay with losing. He was not okay with dying. A week in hell having to tell his siblings about Manta Carlos was not his idea of a good time.

"Well, at least you're keeping up," he added, squinting at the fucking jump her just made. Jackal could probably make it, and he did, but it was a goddamn near miss, and he bit back a curse as he smacked into the wall, the legs scrambling against the rock to find further purchase.
 

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Broen grinned like a man possessed as he scrambled up onto a window, ignoring the teacher inside the office staring at him. Fuck them. He was gonna win this. I made that last jump. I can make this one.

The jump in particular was a little higher than he normally went. But if he made a little hop up to the enct foothold without stopping to get purchase with his hands, he could grab it.

He did this and felt his fingertips brush against the stone, but not enough that he could grab on. "Motherf-" was all he could manage as he tumbled backwards. His ankle slammed hard into an outcropping, flipping him over and smashing his cheek into the wall. And he just kept falling. From this height, there was no surviving. Broen didn't pray. What was the point?
 

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If Broen had prayed for an angel to save him, he'd have been aiming the wrong direction. A year ago, Jackal would have let him fall. He'd have pulled himself up, sat on the outcropping, and watched Broen break on his way down.

But he was different now. A changed man. Most of his nearly-inlaws were murderers. Both of his best friends were. The number of innocent people in his life were vastly outweighed by the guilty, and Broen was a kid who'd killed one person total.

So Jackal simply jumped, counting that his powers would do what they need.

They did. Jackal jumped hard, his hand snagging an outcropping as his tail swung down, slapping into Broen as it slapped him against the wall. It probably hurt--Jackal's powers weren't meant for saving people--but he wasn't falling to his death either. Just some bruising. A lot of bruising.
 

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Broen smacked into the wall hard and he felt the air get knocked clean out of him. He coughed and sputtered and spit up blood. He hoped that.blood was from a busted lip and not a popped lung. It didn't feel like a popped lung, at least.

He hurt all over, and he definitely wasn't going to be able to move tomorrow. But he could move right now. Well, sort of. Jackal's tail was on top of him, pinning him to the wall. He grabbed onto one of the wiggling centipede legs and tried to push the appendage off of him. Grab onto a ledge and keep climbing. But he couldn't move. Fuck. FUCK.
 

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"Oh no you fuckin' dont," Jackal said. "You almost fucking died, you dumb shit. Call it a draw or call it a loss, but we're going down and you're going to the fucking nurses office."

Jackal wasn't kidding. He looked actually mad as he started to scale his way down the building.
 

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Broen strgugled and struggled but couldn't break free of Jackal's tail. "I have to fucking win, dammit!"

He was practically in tears by the time they got back to the ground, not from sadness exactly but just sheer frustration. His partner looked up from picking at her fingernails, looking at Broen slumped against the wall, his face and arms already starting to bruise. "That's a loss, bitch boy. Now it's six."
 

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Jackal didn't need to know why he wanted to win. He was goddamn losing it, and by the time Jackal deposited his ass on the ground, he was good and frustrated.

"Just take the win then," Jackal snapped, anger in his voice obvious.

But the moment his regalia said something, Jackal rounded on them, marching right over and looming over her.

"He could have fucking died. Show some fucking decency."
 

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She took a step back from Jackal, glaring up at him. "He's the one who decided to take stupid risks. I didn't tell him to do that."

Broen struggled to his feet and huffed. "It's not a win unless I win, Jackal. It's fine. Just... help me to the nurse's station and we'll call it a draw, okay?"

He stared at his partner for a good minute and then spit up some more of the blood that had pooled in his mouth from his busted lip. "Just go do whatever. You don't wanna hang around the nurse's office anyway."

She rolled her eyes and walked off, shrugging as she did.
 
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