Time. To. Meet. Destroyer. xx.O-P-E-N.xx

[steverogers]

Steve gasped for the breath, his chest heaving. "Hailey..." he murmured. He gently reached up a hand and touched her cheek. He smiled gently at her, but it quickly turned into a grimace of pain. "Why...? Why did you come out here alone? You should have called me...sooner..." He told her, swallowing the pain. "Don't you dare leave me either..." He murmured, moving his hand from her cheek to the wound at her side. He pressed against it to stop the bleeding.

[Hailey Heart]

She sighed, this was exactly how their first mission had gone. They had both survived that. She winced when he pushed his hand into her side, glad he hadn't seen the condition of her left leg yet, she was wearing shorts, and had no way to hide it. "I wasn't going to let them kill and more civilians." She murmured, remembering the boy with a large shard of glass sticking from his chest. She leaned her head against his, losing energy with the loss of adrenalin."I'm World War Two, since when do I carry a phone?" She tried to laugh, but couldn't call the sound.

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[steverogers]

Steve sighed and used his free hand to press it against the wound in her shoulder. "Get out of here...you need medical help," he wheezed. "Blame Stark for the phone," he murmured trying to chuckle, but was unable, as he pressed the phone into her hand. His head gently fell back and he let his eyes slide close. "If I could figure it out," he said breathlessly, "so can you/"

[Hailey Heart]

She gripped the phone, and leaned her head against his. "If you die on me, I'm not calling for any help for me." She sighed, kissing the top of his head.
She looked at the phone, and remembered someone saying something about if you're in trouble, call 911. So she dialed 911.
"Hello?" She croaked, out of breath, the only thing keeping her going was the need to keep Steve alive.

[steverogers]

"Ma'am? How may I help you?" came the female voice of an operator on the other end of the phone.
Steve's breathing became labored, he tried to hide the difficulties he was having, but was unable as his chest started to heave and blood dribbled from his slightly open mouth. His hand trembled with the effort to keep it pressed against Hailey's wounds and several times it started to slid down, almost too weak to keep it there. But each time he forced it back to where it had been, trying to stop her flow of blood.

[Hailey Heart]

Hailey wheezed in releaif as she heard a voice on the other end of the line. "Steve Rogers. Down town Manhatten. Hurt badly. Needs help. Now." She said in a clipped voice. As soon as she finished, the phone slid from her blood slick hand, and plunked in the small pool of it.
She felt Steve's hand slip, and removed one of her hands from his chest, and pulled his hand off out her side, and returned both hands to his chest. "Shh...."

[steverogers]

Sirens were heard in the distance growing closer.
"No..." He murmured and moved his hand back, but it slid down and hit the pavement with a dull thud. "...I....love......you.....and.....I'm.....sorry....." His eyes slipped closed and his head fell back. He choked a bit on the blood in his mouth and then it slid out the side of his mouth and his chest heaved for a breath that he couldn't quite grasp.

[Hailey Heart]

She pulled him into her lap, more. Tears were starting to stream down her face. "No..." She said, shock, and disbelief in her voice. "Damn it! Steve No!" She screamed at him. She pressed her hands into his chest harder, cutting off blood flow, not caring if it hurt him. "Don't do this to me!" She screamed, into hid ear.
She kissed the side of his face, even though it was covered in both of their blood. "Don't leave me." She whispered into his ear. She pressed her face to his, listening for breath, there was t much blood, and she was holding his chest to hard to see if he was breathing or not. I can't live without you. Steve, I love you. More than life itself." She whispered gent;y into his ear. She felt the tears rolling down in thick torrents now, dripping from her face, the clear tear tainted with the harsh red of blood. Please. Don't go." She whispered, still holding on to him, as medics rushed over to them.

[steverogers]

One of the female medics hurried over to Hailey and said, "Ma'am both of you require medical attention!" She waved a hand and one of the men gently eased Steve away from Hailey to get him onto a stretcher, where he was immediately rushed to one of the ambulances. The woman took Hailey's arm and stood her up and led her over to another stretcher where she was instructed to lay down.

[Hailey Heart]

She watched Steve, being loaded into an ambulance, and grit her teeth as she was pulled to her feet. She was dragging her left leg behind her. "IF there is only one operating room, you save him. Not me." She looked to the paramedic, and was pushed back onto her back on the stretcher. "If you can only save one of us, save him." She grit her teeth, as all of her energy left her, weak and alone. Her adrenalin was gone, and now that Steve was safe, so was her survival drive.

[steverogers]

The woman looked at her, "We have several operating rooms, don't worry ma'am." She seemed a little confused at why Hailey was speaking like this. She pushed Hailey against the stretcher and stuck an IV into the crook of her elbow. She sat on the bench beside the stretcher and stuck a few more wires into Hailey as the ambulance was started.

[Hailey Heart]

She winced slightly as the woman pushed a needle into her arm, she never liked needles. "Just....promise..save him..." She mumbled, as she slowly slipped away, into the dark, lifeless, comfortless world of unconsciousness.

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[Victor Veloci]

Victor sat up, a lump on the back of his head. "Damn you Captain America and Mistress Liberty." He hissed, then her morphed into a pterodactyl and flew away.