I've had this introduction stored away in my computer probably since... I first saw the Bourne Ultimatum at the pictures. I kept thinking, I'll post it on but then I never did, don't know why, guess I just chickened out lol, but after reading some real amazing FF stories based on the Bourne series on here, and after watching Ultimatum about a million times this past week I decided to give this a shot. It's not brilliant and I'm still not that sure about it, but as far as introductions go I guess it'll suit.
Oh yeah, it is a Jason/Nicky story, I was never much a Jason/Marie shipper and after watching the Bourne Supremacy and seeing Nicky's character in that I was just like... wow, I love Nicky, her and Jason are meant to be together lol. Since Nicky's history isn't really... told in the films I've designed her past and such.
Okay, so like I said, this starting thing isn't the best thing in the world but, it'll do me and hopefully the next part will be better. The story is mainly about Nicky at first, this first part is Jason oriented and then Nicky oriented but I'll have some input from him throughout Nicky's thingie.
Part One
The icy cold water of the Eastern River hit him like a knife as he plunged into the black depths from the top of the building. For a few moments he could not think, he was frozen, paralysed. Unable to make his stiff limbs move.
Panic set in, and he suddenly twisted in the water, causing pain to shoot through his lower back. He had been shot. Paz had not done it, the guy had lowered his weapon, but by Vosen. Noah Vosen had appeared on the roof and fired a shot at him just before Bourne had leapt from the building roof.
In those seconds of hitting the pitch black, freezing water, he had forgotten the injuries gained, but now that he tried to move, to force his cold limbs to swim, he felt the burning pain of the bullet lodged within his back.
Logic finally set in, and through the sharp agony he managed to make himself swim in the cold river. He kicked his legs trying to ignore the searing pain from the bullet. No doubt those on top of the roof, Vosen and Paz, would be waiting for him to surface, to know whether he lived or had perished from the long drop to the river. But he could not surface, he would not surface. No matter how much his lungs screamed out for oxygen, all that mattered was getting away from the building without showing he was still alive.
Breaching the surface meant that people would discover he was alive. If he did not appear, if he just swam out of sight then no doubt the conclusion would be reached that he had not survived, and that seemed like the better thing. He could slip away. If people thought he had perished in the River then they would stop searching for him and he would no longer have to keep peering over his shoulder to make sure he was not been trailed. He would escape from it all. Play dead.
Though he wanted to be as far away from the building and Vosen as possible, he knew he could not remain without oxygen any longer and so kicked with his legs to propel himself towards the surface before feeling the freezing chill of the air on his face as he broke through the water and into the cold, frosty night. The biting icy water splashed around him as his breath fogged in his face and his steel blue eyes scanned the river for any signs of a way to escape the numbing water.
His eyes landed on the embankment of the river, it was not too far away from his current position though his body was screaming at him that it could take no more abuse. Treading water for a few seconds, he allowed himself to feel the stabbing pain of the bullet lodged in his back before steeling himself against the pain and forcing his body back into motion. Swimming would keep him warm, and the sooner he reached the embankment, the sooner he could remove the bullet and find some place to lay low.
Hospitals were out of the question. Definitely out of the question, there was no way he could show himself in there, a guy soaking wet, freezing and sporting a bullet wound in his back would most likely attract the attention of the police and with them the people who were out to end his life. The only option he had was sorting his battered self out on his own.
After what seemed like an eternity, he reached the embankment and managed to haul himself from the river and onto the muddy grass land. Resting his head in the grass, he took deep shuddering breaths and felt the tug of the bullet in his back with each ragged gulp of air that he took. His body was numb, so very numb, and for the moment he could barely think straight as he lay in the cold mud, his clothes stuck to his frozen body and the blood from the gun shot in his back seeping through his soaked clothes and into the river.
"Look at what they make you give," The words spoken to him by The Professor and then from him to Paz replayed themselves in his mind as he slowly pushed himself to his hands and knees, his breath coming out in a sharp gasp as the bullet twinged painfully in his back.
His body trembled violently beneath his soaked clothes and his wounds were doing nothing to help him as he swayed on his knees and struggled to get to his feet. He should have known something like this was going to happen, sure, he had seen that Paz was not going to shoot him, but he should have expected someone else to try and take the opportunity. He wasn't so sure whether the fact that the bullet hadn't hit him in an area that would kill was a good thing, being dead would make his life a whole lot easier. Death would mean that he was truly free of them all. But then again, he would not be able to take his own life. Maybe that was why he was quite reckless, he hoped for someone else to erase this memoryless existence.
His entire body ached from driving a car off a roof and then landing himself in a car crash all in the same day and getting shot just put the icing on the cake.
He wanted to cry out in pain when he managed to get his feet beneath him and stand up. Moving to his full height made the bullet wound feel much worse than what it already did and so he stood, hunched over, his left hand wrapped around his waist to feel at the hole in his back.
It had gone deep which meant that it would be a bitch to get out, he wouldn't be able to get it on his own, but he didn't know who else he could trust. There was no one. Marie had been the only person that he would have trusted with his own life, but Marie was dead and that left him to suffer alone.
Nicky. The name slithered through his mind before he even had time to register what he was thinking, and when he did, he snarled at himself in anger. He couldn't trust Nicky, and besides, he didn't have the slightest clue where she had gone after he had said his last words to her at the bus station. But then why did her name come to his mind? And the bigger question was did he want to find her?
"It was difficult for me... with you." Difficult for her with him? He had no idea as to what she meant by that, there were so many possibilities and as much as he wanted to know why she had difficulty with him, he also feared the answer. Was it possible that before he had gone on the mission to kill Wombosi but had wound up in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back that he and Nicky had been more than what he believed?
The thought made his head ache even more as he managed to limp away from the chilling water's edge, the smell of the river clogging up his senses and the pain in his body making his usual ability to think straight less accurate.
He just wanted to lie down and sleep. He was tired of the running, the hiding, the killing. He wanted desperately for it to end, but at the moment he focussed on putting one foot in front of the other and heading away from the River and towards any place.
I've started on the next part, well I have it written up, but I can't for the life of me choose an alias for Nicky, I've gone through pretty much all the names I could find on the internet and I was left with quite a few names that I liked so, if anyone reads this I'm gonna post the names that I liked and you guys can help me decide so... the names are...
1. Erika 2. Selene 3. Skye 4. Olivia 5. Lily 6. Alexandra 7. Georgia 8. Elizabeth 9. Roseanne 10. Evelyn
So they're the 10 names, if you review just say which name you like at the moment I'm liking Erika, Georgia and Roseanne but every time I add the name I want to change it.