Sometimes you feel older than normal. Landing slightly wrong when jumping from one roof flat to one about five feet lower was one of those moments.

He wasn't sure if he heard, or just felt the pop, but something definitely popped. It traveled like a shockwave throughout his entire body.

He came down in a heap, and instantly knew that he wouldn't be able to follow the suspect on foot.

Once he was able to sit up, he tried straightening his right leg. It didn't really hurt all that much, but his knee felt odd.

He reached for his radio, "This is 30-David. Suspect is running south along the roofs. I will not be able to pursue."

He tried bending and straightening his leg a few times, and found that it didn't snag or hurt. Actually, it felt pretty much fine.
Just, odd.

He got to his knees, and then got up. He tested his leg gingerly, but it felt okay enough.

He was limping a bit, involuntarily. But not too bad.

He limped over to the plateau he had come from, and lifted himself back up. Not in the most graceful way. Then he limped back to the door he had exited earlier.

The knee felt odd. He couldn't quite explain it in any other way than that.

Not before he started climbing down the stairs, and his knee wobbled. It almost tried to fold slightly sideways. Like his knee joint was rotated about 30 degrees left.

He was barely able to grab onto the railing, before falling down the flight of stairs. Pure luck.

He grimaced and took the next couple of steps cautiously. The next three went fine, but then his knee attempted to buckle at the fourth one.

"Well, that's not healthy…" he mused, pausing and taking a seat at one of the steps.

Then he wrapped his hands around his calf, and tried to pull and press it, to check how loose his knee actually was.

His stomach sank as he realized his knee had about two inches of slack. Something had to be torn inside, even though it didn't really hurt.

He knew he would have to get his knee checked out once they were done for the day. He was not overly optimistic about the diagnosis.