Sonny rolled onto his side, coughing, dry heaving, sucking in as much oxygen as he possibly could, and saw what he'd been seeing in his nightmares ever since Clay had been taken; Clay, thrashing around in a pool of his own blood like a wounded, rabid animal. Dying.

Time passed quickly after that. The distant sound of Clay's voice mingled in with a chorus of others. Lisa could feel herself being moved onto a gurney, and more latex - clad hands on her skin than she could count. She kept her eyes squeezed shut. Fear, as white hot and all-consuming as wildfire, burned through her veins. / Canon Divergent Coda to s2ep18, "Payback."

All that Ray Perry could do while Trent tried to rig what little they had left into something useful was hold steady pressure on the gunshot wound that had obliterated the right side of Clay's collarbone. Quietly, he prayed for a miracle ... Just like the world outside, God was quiet. / A spin-up in Taliban Country goes sideways.

Couldn't breathe. Couldn't see. Couldn't stand. Sonny distantly remembered slumping to the ground while the world burned around him. After that? Nothing. Darkness. / Preview of The Smell of Blood on the First Four Knuckles's upcoming chapter.

Bravo Team. They're all around you now. Touching you, talking to you—you don't know how to convey that you can't hear them. You can't hear anything. Sonny is the most frantic of them all, stroking your hair and touching your face, barking at Trent Sawyer while Jason flags down an ambulance. / Coda to episode s2e17, "Paradise Lost." Mentions of Clay/Stella and Clay/Brian.

Miraculously, Brain Armstrong survives his parachute malfunction during the HALO jump—but only by the skin of his teeth, and neither him nor Clay come out unscathed. After a concerning talk with Adam Seaver, Jason doubts his decision to draft Clay onto Bravo Team—but Ray is adamant that Clay Spencer is a chance worth taking. —but is he? / Rewrite of Season One.

With a heavy sigh and an even heavier heart, you glance down at the photo on your phone again. It's a blurry selfie of Lisa and Clay at Lisa's OCS graduation. They're pressed cheek to cheek, grinning ear to ear, and your heart aches with such overwhelming love and uncertainty and adoration and grief that it causes tears to sting your eyes. / Coda to s2e20, "Rock Bottom."