The Avenging Variety

Fandom: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Category: gen

Rating: G

Word Count: 99

Notes: Written for the LiveJournal group MFUWSS December 2009 Challenge #1 – “angel”

 

Solo sat back, catching his breath after another narrow escape. Beside him, Kuryakin leaned forward over the steering wheel, squinting through the bullet holes peppered across the windscreen.

“Good timing, Illya! But if you don’t mind my saying, you don’t look like an angel of mercy.”

Illya turned a bruised eye toward him. “I don’t do mercy. I am of the avenging variety.”

Napoleon patted his abused dinner jacket. “Nothing to avenge but my tux. There is one thing, though…”

“You really shouldn’t leave home without a spare set of trousers.”

“Why do I have to think of everything?”