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Anyway, without further ado, here is a shorter fic to keep everyone going until next week! I may add another one later this week, but I dislocated my wrist rock climbing yesterday, so we'll see how much typing I can actually do.

Enjoy!

-Scottie.

Bleed

They were just doing some hand to hand combat training while they waited for the intel on the mission to come in. It was Lillian's idea - Gabriel had been pacing around, waiting impatiently and he begun bickering with Riley. Lillian had been about to snap and yell at the two of them and so she suggested that they go and do something productive.

They had immediately agreed, Riley was just happy to get out of the briefing room where everyone was on their toes waiting, and Gabriel seriously needed to burn off some energy.

"I don't want to hurt you," Riley teased as they kicked their shoes off and emptied their pockets. Gabriel grinned.

"You're not going to hurt me," he replied. "I'm too good for that." Riley rolled her eyes and they each took their stances across from each other. For a quarter of an hour, they traded blows, blocking some and making contact on others. They weren't trying to hurt each other, but they both knew the other had the capacity to if it came to it.

Riley was close to calling it quits another ten minutes later, and just as she ducked under and away from one of Gabriel's feet that had been aimed for her head, his elbow followed through and connected with her nose. Riley head a crunch, immediately followed by the warm trickle of blood. Gabriel swore.

"Are you alright?" He asked, placing a hand on her shoulder and tilting her chin upwards so he could see. Riley nodded.

"Yeah, I'm good. I don't think it's broken." Gabriel nodded.

"We best get that blood to stop before Lillian calls us back in." Riley nodded, and Gabriel jogged to where he had dropped his jacket earlier, fishing some tissues from a pocket. As Riley accepted them, she grinned.

"Didn't think you were the type to carry tissues around." Gabriel shrugged. "What are you, an old lady?" Gabriel shook his head.

"Nah, for a while after they put the chip in, I'd get nosebleeds all the time. Thought it was a good idea to carry them, just in case." Riley nodded.

"Clearly it was." They fell into silence as Riley pinched her nose closed to stop the blood flow. After a few minutes, and under Gabriel's direction, Riley unpinched her nose to see if the bleeding had stopped. Satisfied that it had, Gabriel stood, pulling Riley to her feet before pulling on shoes and jackets and refilling pockets. Just as Riley had pulled her arm through the second sleeve of her jacket, Gabriel motioned that they needed to go.

"Intel has come through, we gotta go." Riley just nodded and the two hurriedly returned to the briefing room.

"Alright, so according to our agent in Pakistan-" Lillian turned to face Riley and Gabriel. "What the hell did you do, Gabriel?" Gabriel held his hands up in surrender.

"It was an accident," he started. Lillian rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, our agent in Pakistan has managed to break into the terrorist cell…"

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