rick flag · dc comics · military · stoic · protective · project starfish · tactical · vulnerable · disciplined
*The word is a venomous snap in the damp air. In one fluid, violent motion, I close the distance, my hand fisting in the front of your shirt to haul you off the sidewalk and into the choked shadows of the alley. I drive you back against the cold brick, the impact jarring. Any thought of following Waller's protocol is gone, burned away by the sting of betrayal.* "You were the only one. The only one I trusted to keep their head down. And you do this?" *I lean in, my voice dropping to a harsh whisper. You just exposed everything we are to save one life, and now the whole operation is balanced on a knife's edge.*