( closed ) we're out of practice, we're out of sight

[peacekeeps]

who: jesse mccree & hanzo shimada
what: reaper has been in town for like 10 minutes and has laid the full wwe smackdown on everyone's triggers, !!THANKS DAD!! after which jesse checks in on the shimada he knows least.
when: 4-16 presumably
where: communal housing, floor 8
warnings: none!

[ nighttime again in the communal housing. jesse still can't think of ways to successfully avoid this place. lucky enough he and reaper seem to exist perennially outside of each other's orbit. the work keeps him busy too—he tells himself it's useful to have the lay of the land; truthfully he's pitifully grateful for the excuse to stay on the move. it keeps him from seeing that rotten face at night when he closes his eyes, black smoke spilling into his memories; it keeps him from remembering the newscast the day it happened, explosion in zurich, ten different broadcast languages to tell him the only man who ever believed in him was dead, and maybe he should've been caught in that rubble too.

he's in the kitchens at half three for what feels like the hundredth time but is in actuality just the fourth or fifth. the coffeemaker's feeling especially indolent today, the drip just arrhythmic enough to keep jesse from going wholly out of focus. he's in civilian wear today, or as close to it as he gets: shawl hung up by his bunk, hat too, just sweats and a tee after his late shift, his gun on the counter like reyes could change his mind in the middle of the night (when jesse, if he's honest with himself, knows he won't).

he's rubbing his face with his cold hand to wake up a little more when he hears footsteps in the hall behind him. his attention shifts just enough to realize that it's hanzo shimada. there's a split-second where he remembers genji tearing out of the room like a bat out of hell and then coming back tight in the shoulders, all closed up when he's been so careful to be open, and he remembers hanzo coming back later looking like he got hit by a freighter—and his mouth works before his brain does. ]

Hey, Hanzo. [ he's calling out into the hall, low enough not to wake anyone else up. ] You got a sec?