Precipice
When the Discovery finishes the jump protocol and they face the Ship of the Dead, Lorca should leave. He has the information; everything needed to return home.
His crew urges him to it without suspicion. Without blame, if he does.
He can't. Physically, he can't. There's a cord knotted between his heart and Burnham's; he tore it out once and barely recovered from the wound.
He won't again.
Bathed in the holy light of phaser fire, Michael returns to him. As she must. Broken, bleeding, yet whole, for the first time.
She's ready.