Title: Heroes, Part One
Characters:
Don Flack, Lindsay Monroe
Author's Note: I think I'll expand on this later.
Rating: T

He's standing outside her door at three o'clock in the morning, hands in his pockets. He looks tired. Not the kind of tired that comes from lack of sleep, but the kind of tired that comes from seeing too many bad things.

"Don?" she says gently.

"I didn't know who else to ask. You're the only one, Lindsay. You'll give the right answer, I know."

His eyes meet hers, and she's startled by the stark emotion there. Desperate is not an emotion that Don Flack jr. deals with well, this she can see.

"Why do people have to die, Lindsay?"