Unprocessed Evidence
1x02 - Losing Face
by Bookwormdragon
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When Speed made his wry comment about the "Top Ten Ways to Get Your Head Blown Off", it was all Horatio could do not to burst out laughing. It was a struggle, but he managed to keep it inside. Mainly because once he started, he wasn't going to stop until the tears came, and maybe not even then. He didn't have time for the luxury of dealing with his emotions right now, they would have to wait until he had caught the coward who had killed his friend and mentor.
Besides, no one but the other members of the Bomb Squad would understand. Sometimes, when you couldn't cry, you laughed instead. And no one had been better at laughing in the face of danger than Al. When faced with the sure possibility that you could die at any moment, without warning, rhyme or reason, laughing in the face of Death became a way of life. As long as you were laughing, you won in the end - even when you lost. You didn't spend much time on the Bomb Squad without developing a rather dark sense of humor, and Al had been on the Squad for a very long time: he would have found the joke hilariously funny.
Reassuring Speed that he hadn't taken offense, he turned his attention back to the only thing he could do for Al now: bringing his killer to Justice.