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[outlierdirector]

a different path,
the same road.

When I thought that I fought this war alone
You were there by my side on the frontline
When I thought that I fought without a cause
You gave me a reason to try CODE BY TESSISAMESS

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[outlierdirector]

[ Nightingale yells out in frustration. Jesse jumps to the side, startled, but succeeds in pushing over the other agent. She starts to run towards Barry until a gunshot goes off.

It grazes her arm.

Jesse stops in her tracks. Heart pounding in her ears. ]

You better stop making this harder, R.L. Stine! It's just gonna get everyone else hurt.

[crazyisinevitable]

Then you stop making it harder and let them go! [ Alan glares at Nightingale, suddenly seeing red because of how close the bullet came to hitting Jesse and probably Barry too. ]

If you let them go, you can haul me in or whatever it is you're going to do. Otherwise, I'm not stopping. No way in hell am I going to stop and let you do this.

[outlierdirector]

No can do. They're at the least witnesses, and at the most aiding you in all this crazy shit! I'm giving you one last warning to knock it the fuck off!

[ Jesse glances at Barry who nervously looks between Alan and everyone else at the scene. Then, her gaze moves back to Alan. It's obvious she's terrified of what might happen. What if this crazy FBI agent decides to kill him? She can't really protect him. Polaris can't really protect him. Whatever he's going to do has to be on his own.

Whatever it is. ]

Alan...

[crazyisinevitable]

Damn it-! [ Alan swears loudly, because he really has no idea what he's supposed to be doing here. Obviously, his focus is on keeping Barry and Jesse safe, because they got dragged into this because of him; the last thing he wants is them getting hurt. He hoped he could buy them some time, and convince Nightingale to let them go, but that obviously didn't work. ]

Okay, okay... say I knock it the fuck off, or whatever. What's your next move? I mean, what are you going to do with us?

[ He does his best to make his tone conciliatory, as if hinting that he's about to just give up and let Nightingale do whatever it is he has in mind. It's a long shot, but if Alan can just make Nightingale think he's giving in, maybe then he can find an opening and seize his chance.

... but his chance to do what, exactly? ]