Title: Survivor's Guilt
Author: upsidedownbutterfly
Summary: If Sharon had never deserved a second chance, why should he? Tyrol POV. Drabble.
Rating: G
Spoilers: very vague ones through "Daybreak, Part II"
Disclaimer: They're not mine, people.
He spent six months watching as her life fell apart around her, and the next four years as she tried – and failed – to put it together again.
So when his turn came, when it was his life shattering around him, he knew better than to bother picking up the pieces.
Then suddenly the president was pardoning him, and the admiral was shaking his hand and welcoming him home. The pieces of his life were knitting themselves back together.
So Galen did the only thing he could: he walked away.
If Sharon had never deserved a second chance, why should he?