A/N: My muse still can't leave the finale alone. I've tried to get it to, but all these damn challenge lists make it kinda hard to do that, so...yeah. Bear with me. I swear when the new season comes, I'll get over it, but for now...oh, and CI's not mine.
There are many paths that one takes in the course of their lives…many decisions that need to be made. Sometimes the right one isn't always the one chosen. I learned that one a while ago. Being a cop made it pretty much impossible not to.
It used to be that I thought every one of us so-called "boys in blue" took the high roads to get where they needed to go. And then I realized that I was wrong. That corruption went undetected more often than not. IAD did the best they could, but it wasn't always good enough.
So I went about things the way I always did; rose through the ranks with those who had come with me through the academy. And then I went into the Major Case Squad, and stayed there. Five years, and for the first time, I was really seeing how far corruption could really go.
I didn't expect it to end the way it did. Over the years I had watched as friends and fellow brothers in arms came to a crossroads in their careers. Some took the high roads out; others didn't. And I had come to my own crossroads now, and for once, the path I was to take was not clear.
It always had been before. It scared me now that it wasn't, but at the same time, I felt that I knew what it was that I was supposed to do. I had served my time, and had given my everything to this department that had been my livelihood for so long. But the time had come, finally, for me to decide which way I was to turn. I had my squad on one side, but on the other, there was my family…my wife and my children.
So when my detectives came to me, intending to fight this latest scandal with everything they had, I told them to drop it. It no longer mattered. I told them of my decision, hoped they would accept it, and we went about things as normal.
Coming to a crossroads in live has never been known as easy, especially in a situation such as the one I had been in. But I had been known to take the road less traveled, and I had made my decision. My resignation was in, and I had chosen my path.
There was no turning back.
