Title:
After The Scream
Author:
Rating:
PG13
Spoilers:
None
Synopsis:
N/A
It's
strange, the silence that comes after the scream, within the
space
of a breath the sounds of his entire world cease to be
heard...just
the thudding of a heart whose speed has been increased
by
fear and the incoherently whispered words full of meaning
and
unkeepable
promises.
Blood
turns from red to black as it pulses from between fingers too
weak
to hold its flow, between the fingers of a man to whom letting
go
is an alien prospect.
His
self assurance gone, his whole world, both real and imagined –
fading before his eyes in a pool of red-black.
Impending
danger goes unnoticed, nothing matters now but the woman in
his
arms, even as she looks at him using all her strength to tell him
with
her eyes that she loves him; that she has always loved him.
Danger
makes its move and he has neither the time nor inclination to
draw
his weapon, his attention, his entire reason for being lies
bleeding
in his arms, beyond that, nothing else matters.
A
single gunshot echoes off white tile and green linoleum and only the
absence of the searing pain he should have expected, causes him to
look up.
"She's
bleeding Alex, it's...I...I can't stop it."
"Paramedics
are about 2 minutes away Bobby, just keep pressure on
the
wound."
The
last part of her strength fading as she touches his face and
whispers
his name "Bobby, my Bobby, such a good boy, so caring..."
Eyes
too often clouded by illness, clear and she smiles, "I
always
loved
you, always...so proud of you."
He
begs her not to speak, to save her strength.
He
is seeing the end, he knows, but cannot accept - he knows losing her
could push him into the void from which he may never return.
"There
is peace in this for me Bobby, for us both."
bone. Suddenly, no longer the hardened detective; he is simply Bobby
Goren, about to lose his mother, not for the first, but certainly for
the last time.
"Mom...please..."
Then, without a sound, she was gone and she took his world with her.