Long Drop

Title: Long Drop
By: Junkfoodmonkey
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: I don't own the A-Team. I don't make any money from this.
Summary: Murdock remembers a very close call.
Warning: Memories of a disturbing event from the episode Duke of Whispering Pines, where Murdock was nearly lynched.

Long Drop

A long drop and a short stop. That's what they say. I was lucky, no long drop. Lucky me, just hanging around. Just strangling.

The catering truck roared out of the dark, spitting bullets. One shot took the rope out and then I got the long drop. But the short stop was the ground. I stayed down out of the line of fire. And because right then I wanted as much of my body as possible in contact with that beautiful, cold, solid ground.

Hannibal must have been shook up. He didn't even try to claim that he'd fully intended to shoot though the rope, just admitted later it was a lucky shot. You know I'm a man who likes new experiences. But that twenty, thirty seconds I'd otherwise have spent swinging and waiting for them to cut me down... Well, let's say that's one experience I'm happy I missed.

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