Title:First Steps
Author: Kinabaki
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Pairing: None really
Rating: PG

Lassiter crumples gratefully into the unforgiving wood of a fading bench and lets out a heavy gust of air.

He feels a bubble of shame and disappointment boil its way up his throat as well. Lassiter used to be able to run a few miles before he was this exhausted, but now a measly two blocks wears him out. True, back then he wasn't recovering from a sever gun shot wound and intense physical therapy but that's besides the point.

Carlton takes a moment to regulate his breathing and enjoy the view around him because O'Hara was right, this really is a peaceful view.

And Carlton realizes that he would die for this city and the people living in it and that means a whole lot more now than it did a couple of months ago and that scares him a little.