A/N: So I finally broke down and downloaded the last two episodes from last season because I figured that if I was going to write Lincoln fics, I needed to have everything at my fingertips that had to do with him so far, and I haven't bought last season on DVD yet. (That may have to wait until after graduation lol) Anyway, so while re-watching the scene where Lincoln gets burned alive I felt like I could poke at it a bit more. I may write a follow up oneshot and put it in as a second chapter with him waking up at the hospital. Let me know if you'd like me to =)

Burning

The first thing that he felt was a strange sort of numbness. One second he'd been standing there, gun aimed, and pleading with the girl to step back, but the next… He wasn't sure. It had all happened so fast.

The numbness didn't last as the fire consumed him, ripping and tearing at his flesh. Lincoln would have called out, screamed, but as soon as he took a breath he felt the girl's fire ripping at his throat and vocal chords and he hit the ground hard.

He couldn't move, couldn't scream, couldn't think. He thought he might have heard someone call for a med team, but couldn't be sure. People scurried all around him, but he couldn't see them.

His eyes were shut. That was it. Very slowly they cracked open, the barest of movement hurting and he took a couple of unsteady breaths and finally came to focus on a sight that was well worth the effort. Olivia Dunham.

She was crouched down next to him, green eyes full of every sort of worry that her voice couldn't and wouldn't give way to. "Lincoln?"

"Liv," he tried to great her, but it only came out in the smallest of whispers.

"Hey."

He tried to speak, but no more words would come. He wanted to reach up and to promise her that he was fine, or that he would be, at any rate. He wanted to run his hands through her hair and kiss her like he'd done that one cold night so long ago. He wanted to tell her everything that he'd kept quiet for so long. He tried. He really tried, but in the end all he managed was a struggling breath before darkness closed in.

A/N: Remember, reviews are the good drugs that Walter talks about. XD