Breathe Series

Title: - Breathe 12

Author: - Katt

Rating: - PG-13

Feedback: - Like it or loathe it let me know

Archive: - Archived at the Shield Fanfiction Archive

Disclaimer: - I don’t own any of the characters of The Shield, they all belong to Shawn Ryan and FX.

Author’s Notes: - An episode tag for "Dragonchasers".

Breathe 12

Breathe – regain control, replace the mask.

Tears on his face marking him as weak.

Words, black on white, showing him to be transparent. All his weaknesses there to be seen, written by a monster.

A monster he’d stopped, but not quickly enough to save Sally.

A monster who’ll be replaced by another.

Success and respect will be transitory. Pain and despair eternal.

Wiping the wetness from his face making sure no one had seen.

Knowing he’d won this battle, but that he was doomed to lose the war.

He didn’t make a difference. He couldn’t save anybody – not Sally, not himself.