The Taste of Death
by Fluterbev

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Category: Could be gen or slash, depending on how you want to interpret it.

Summary: A drabble, set during Sentinel Too.

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The doctor had promised Ellison that he could see his partner soon.

Jim wasn’t sure if the tremble in his hands was there because he’d been running on empty for hours, or because his body was finally reacting to what he’d almost lost. Tearing open the wrapper of a candy bar, he downed it in two gulps. It barely hit the sides going down. In desperation, he opened another, and chewed it slowly, trying to savor it.

But no matter how much he rolled it around, all he could taste was the foul, stagnant water in Blair’s cold, dead mouth.

Fin

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