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#4 in the After the Fade to Black
Tag to The Only Easy Day
Season 1 Episode 2
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The only easy day was yesterday.
- Navy SEAL motto
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Thwack.
Sam Hanna hit the heavy bag in front of him trying to release the anger and tension that he had been feeling sense they had discovered that Holgate, Raspin, and Jackson had robbed the drug dealer behind the drive-by that had killed their team mate.
Thwack.
Sam understood the need for vengeance. Kneeling on the sidewalk in Venice as G, his partner his brother, was bleeding out after being shot five times, vengeance had only been super-ceded by the need to insure G lived.
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But as soon as they knew G would live, it had become almost all he thought about. When they didn't have active cases Sam was trying to find something, anything, that would help him find who tried to kill his partner.
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However after the eighth time Hetty had found him at mission at 3:30 in morning, she had set him down and reminded him of the difference between vengeance and justice. She had also told him quite bluntly that G would be quite put out with having to break in a new partner if Sam did something stupid.
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"Mr. Hanna, Mr. Callen needs you to get him back to work not get yourself in trouble trying to get revenge for him." Hetty had chastised him before sending him off with a stern warning that if she found him in the mission that late again when they weren't on an active case she would stand him down for a month.
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Sam chose that moment to look up and saw the tiny operations manager in front of as if his thoughts had summoned her. "Go home, Mr. Hanna, before Mr. Callen decides to shoot that thing." Hetty said giving him one of her probing, all-knowing looks. "You will find no answers hitting something no matter how cathartic it may make you feel."
"Fine, Hetty, I'm going."
"Mr. Hanna."
"Yes, Hetty?"
"Do remember, when you get upset with their actions, that talk we had a few months ago."
"I will."
Sam considered Hetty's words as he drove home, remembering something else she had told during that late night conversation almost four months ago.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
-Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
