Sometimes when the team returns home, something of the mission remains with them. (JackDaniel)

He's seen Jack in bad shape before, and they've always pulled through, together. He knows that this time they won't."

Tell me you're okay, and I'll pretend to believe you. Tell me any damn thing. I'll feel better to know that one of us is alright, because I still have dreams where you fall, and I can't catch you." JackDaniel friendship pre-slash

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him?"

Living with ghosts and learning to let go.

There are, believe it or not, consequences to disobeying that many orders. Syd and Vaughn are just going to have to live with them. UPDATED CH 3

"She's very aware of the complete and perfect lack of sound, and then the heavy thud when she drops her carry-on. The noise echoes around the living room, bounces back as a whisper that tells her that something is very, very wrong."

Sometimes people aren't who we think they are, or who we want them to be. S/V, sort of.

Holding on, letting go, and the long and difficult process of falling apart. S/V

"He takes the wine out of his grocery bag, grabs a glass from the cupboard, and sits down at the kitchen table. He remembers that the last time he did this, he consumed the entire bottle, and that helped a little." S/V

Will uncovers information about project Helix that makes life difficult for Sydney and Vaughn. Set after "Firebomb". Chapter 5 is up!

"Time is the longest distance between two places." Circumstance leads Sydney to someone she thought she'd lost. S/V

"It's safer that way, to remain constantly on the move. But this isn't the first time that they've sacrificed safety for something else." Sydney/Vaughn

"Yeah, there's that sound again. That pause and the almost-silent hiss of signal-drop static. Definitely the sound that the sky makes when it's falling."