She might have been safe, but how many others weren't? And how many other Overwatch agents were watching all of this go down? He could mentally calculate all the people he was familiar with in that building, some that were residents there and others that came and went. Hundreds of people would be in that building when it fell. There were reports of survivors, but there were no exact numbers.
It was still chaos. A few theories of what had happened were mixed and not likely. Gas leak first. Then terrorism. Then sabotage. Depending on the news station, the theories were varied. All that was constant was the desperate bid to find and pull people out and punish whomever had been the root cause of the disaster if it was a person.
He touched his own side where he was still healing where he had been punctured through with rebar, feeling a flare of pain with the contact. "They're our people, Gabe..." he murmured, even if he knew he wouldn't go. Reyes plea was enough to keep him resting on the older man's back. "I need you too... I feel so helpless."
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Date: 2019-07-02 01:33 pm (UTC)It was still chaos. A few theories of what had happened were mixed and not likely. Gas leak first. Then terrorism. Then sabotage. Depending on the news station, the theories were varied. All that was constant was the desperate bid to find and pull people out and punish whomever had been the root cause of the disaster if it was a person.
He touched his own side where he was still healing where he had been punctured through with rebar, feeling a flare of pain with the contact. "They're our people, Gabe..." he murmured, even if he knew he wouldn't go. Reyes plea was enough to keep him resting on the older man's back. "I need you too... I feel so helpless."