This is it! The drama is coming to a climax!

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"Briggs." I started simply, his hand tensed around the gun threatening so I held up my hands, only a few metres away from them now. "Briggs, you need to put the gun down." He gritted his teeth, "He fucked him!" He yelled, pressing the gun tighter against Evan's head, making him wince slightly.

"Calm down, Briggs. I trust Major Lorne with my life and I know he'd never lie to me about this. If you want proof, McKay is up there, checking through all of the footage." Lorne never moved a muscle, a confirmation that he had nothing to hide, which came as a relief to me, even if I did trust him.

"I want to see it myself. I don't trust any of you people." I nodded, letting my hands go back down to my sides. I turned and shouted up to the control room. "McKay, bring it to me." I watched as the feeble man approached hesitantly, handing the pad to me at arm's length before retreating quickly.

I showed him the pad, the sped up footage playing across the screen. Lorne was never less than a metre away from the man and then the footage changed to hallways, proving they'd gone separate ways. Rodney had tracked Harrison all the way back to Briggs' quarters.

He took the gun from Lorne's head and I moved to pull him away but not before there was a gunshot. I looked over at Lorne who was still crouched into my side but when I looked around further, I saw Briggs' body fall to the ground.

"Shit." I whispered, slowly walking back to the control room with Lorne who seemed more vulnerable than I'd ever seen him before.

Carter followed us back to the control room, looking rather shocked about the whole incident. I sat Lorne down in the corner on the floor and knelt down before him. Carson came to my side, checking Lorne for any hidden injuries before kissing my temple and stepping away.

"Can you give us some privacy?" I requested and Carter ushered everyone out of the control room, apart from Carson, as I sat beside the terrified man who now had tears, streaking his face. I wrapped a protective arm around his shoulders and pulled him to lay his head on my shoulder.

Carson sat on his other side, rubbing his arm gently. "I messed up." He sobbed but I continued to stroke his hair. "You didn't sleep with him, Lorne, you did nothing wrong." A few heavy sobs escaped him.

I knew what was bothering him; he actually really likes Harrison and felt responsible even though Harrison never cheated, it was Briggs' green eyed monster doing the talking.

"Your feelings for Harrison are irrelevant – Briggs did this to himself." Evan's head shot up which made me smile a little, he still hadn't realised that I'd figured it out in the mess hall earlier.

The crying stopped but we sat there for a while, comfortable with the moment. Harrison came into the control room and knelt in front of Lorne. He'd obviously been told as he had also been crying but now looked nothing less than relieved.

"Are you okay?" He asked softly and Lorne nodded. I was a little surprised by how calm Harrison was, maybe he really was relieved. "I'm sorry," Lorne squeaked out but Harrison shook his head, "Don't be. I don't blame you for this." He offered a hand to Lorne who took it and stood up.

Harrison dragged him into a hug and whispered into his ear. "He was a good guy, I'm not sure what happened to him but I know the good guy had been buried pretty deep. He was angry for a very long time and he always took it out on me. You saved me, Evan, but I just want to remember the good guy. I don't want to hurt anymore." Tears rolled gently down Harrison's cheeks and Carson leaned into my side tiredly.

"Okay." Was all he said as he leaned his forehead against Harrison's "It'll be okay, I promise you." Harrison nodded gently, wrapping his arms tighter around Evan's neck, breathing him in. Evan stood there for while just rubbing circles gently over his back as he sniffled.

After a long moment, Lorne turned his head to me, "How did you know?" I smirked softly, "In the mess hall. You were blushing like a girl." I teased him slightly.

I kissed Carson's forehead gently, noticing how damp it was, he'd obviously been worried about me. He looked exhausted as his eyelids drooped heavily. "Come on, let's get you to bed, it's been a long day."

"What about your chocolate cake?" I shook my head, "Screw the cake, I'll choose you over cake any day. You'll just have to owe me the next time there's some in the mess." He smiled up at me, "Then bed it is." If he weren't so exhausted, people would have filled that with innuendo.

I squeezed Evan's shoulder as we left and he gave me a small smile, still holding onto Harrison. "Get some sleep guys; it's going to be rough for a few days." They nodded and we left, wandering the corridors to my, our, quarters.

Phew! It all worked out for the better :)

Just a warning guys, the next chapter isn't really relevant to the story but I think it's a nice little tid bit :)