( For a second he manages the tiniest smile, brimming with tremulous, exhausted relief.
And then all hell breaks loose.
Drift's roar reignites the powder keg of adrenaline in Leonard's newly-healed veins. The flinch is instinctive, a spasmodic flail that turns into attempting to shove himself in any direction via the bracing angle of Jim's knee, weak as a kitten and getting utterly nowhere for his efforts. )
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( For a second he manages the tiniest smile, brimming with tremulous, exhausted relief.
And then all hell breaks loose.
Drift's roar reignites the powder keg of adrenaline in Leonard's newly-healed veins. The flinch is instinctive, a spasmodic flail that turns into attempting to shove himself in any direction via the bracing angle of Jim's knee, weak as a kitten and getting utterly nowhere for his efforts. )
Lord have mercy--