Keep Your Eyes Open

A song fic based on the song "Collide" by Howie Day, featuring Jacks life hanging in the balance.

Disclaimer: Once again we can't afford food, so please don't sue us.

The bullet tore through the warm flesh of his chest.

As the blood began to seep from the wound a strong solid voice said in his ear, "No, don't you leave me. You'll be fine."

He closed his eyes.

The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
Your barely waking, and I'm tangled up in you, Yeah

Well, I'm open, your closed,
Where I follow, you'll go,
I worry I won't see your face, light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes,
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme,
Out of the doubt that fills my mind,
I somehow find You and I collide

As his life flowed onto her sweaty palms his mind drifted deep into the past.

She sauntered into the briefing room in her pristine air force uniform. He had rolled his eyes. Not another scientist he had thought. He had given her profuse amounts of disrespect that day, but she had countered them all, but one comeback remained in his mind all this time. "Just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside doesn't mean I can't handle whatever you can handle."

"It'll be ok sir. They are almost to our location. Jack… don't close your eyes again. Focus on my face."

I'm quiet you know,
you make a first impression,
I found I'm scared to know I'm always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes,
Even the stars refuse to shine,
out of the black you fall in time,
You somehow find, You and I collide

As his watery pain filled eyes tried to focus on her concerned features, his vision blurred and what could have been swam in, in place of her face.

He finally got her out fishing.

A small house, a black lab,

A daughter.

"Jack! They're here….."

"I can't stop the bleeding."

"Don't you dare close your eyes Jack! We've come all this way, keep your eyes on me!"

Don't stop here,
I lost my place,
I'm close behind

Even the best fall down sometimes,
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme,
Out of the doubt that fills your mind,
You finally find You and I collide.

You finally find
You and I collide.
You finally find
You and I collide.

He closed his eyes.