Title: "Just One More Minute"
Rating: PG/K+
Spoilers: Through "Do No Harm"
Summary: All he needs is one more minute. Spoilers through "Do No Harm". One-shot, in sonnet form.
Dedication: To Boone Carlisle, c.1982-2005. Wednesday nights will never be the same without you.
Just one more minute, that's all I need,
I have to tell him where we are.
John begs me to get out, but his warning I do not heed;
Then I'm falling, oh so far.
Jack swears that he won't let me die,
But all I want is for the pain to go away.
He won't see it, though - he has to try
To save a life that will be gone by day.
I want Shannon; there are so many things I must confess:
How much I don't regret Sydney's events,
How sorry I am about this whole mess.
But, alas! My dying wish, her absence prevents.
Oh, God, she's still not here, and I'm about to die.
Please, Jack, tell Shannon that I -
