Title: Balancing
Author: Aeon Cole
Rating: FRT
Fandom: CSI: Miami
Spoilers: No Man's Land, Man Down
Challenge: Philosophy 20
Prompt: #10 Time
Word Count: 250
Summary: There are moments in one's life when time seems to stand still.
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There are moments in one's life when time seems to stand still. You seem to be able to take in every little detail of a situation and those details become etched into your memory. Some are good and some you wish you could forget. It's good to have a balance between the two. Too much good and you tend to stop appreciating those good memories. Too much bad and you can wake up in the middle of the night screaming from the dreams.
Maybe it's just the line of work I'm in but I tend to think that I lean toward the side of too much bad. Especially now, sitting in the hospital room with Eric. His head is all bandaged and he can't maintain consciousness for long. He keeps asking where Marisol is. I've explained to his a couple of times now but it just isn't registering yet.
When he got shot, I saw the whole thing happen in slow motion, every millisecond of that event is burned into my memory. It can join all of the others that I can't help thinking about right now, my mother, Speed, Marisol, too many more to name. But for every single one of them I can remember each and every detail as if time had slowed to a stand still.
This time, at least, the doctors say he'll recover. He may never be one hundred percent but he will recover. I don't think I could deal with losing someone else right now.
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