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Smoke and Mirrors
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"Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do and die." – Alfred Lord Tennyson
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title: aftermath
prompt: W; why
featuring: Jimmy
set: post-series
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It's over now. Wakefield's dead, Henry's dead, everyone's dead. But not him.
Jimmy's alive even if he doesn't understand how—or why.
Why didn't Wakefield leave him to drown? Why didn't Henry kill him when he had the chance? Why did Shane have to die, Nikki have to die, everyone have to die and he got to survive?
The thoughts haunt him, the maybes and could-have-beens follow him, he pretends for Abby's sake that he deserves his survival, but he's trapped, one word on repeat, again and again.
Why?
It's over now, but he feels like it's only just begun.