Title: It Wasn’t Fair
Author: Bj Jones
Prompt: #78 - Disease
Word Count: 147
Rating: FRT
Disclaimer: I think we all know that I don’t own them, cause if I did…. Anyway. Various executives, producers, studios, and writers who have more lawyers on retainer than I want to mess with – own them. I’m not making any money, just borrowing them. I promise to return them to the lab when I’m done with them
Beta: Kay (Joe)
Warning: Slash – if you don’t like it – don’t read it
2nd Warning: Spoilers from all seasons
Author’s Note: The episode – didn’t happen
Challenge: 100 Drabbles – Horatio Caine/Timothy Speedle

It wasn’t fair. Speed had fought to live that day. Horatio gave him the strength to face his past, the darkness within, and for the first time in ten years he truly lived. He was happy content with who he was, who he was with.

Speed sighed and rolled over in the bed to tired, to even get out of it. Horatio had fallen asleep in the chair next to the bed. He studied his lover carefully. The stress was taking a toll on him.

It had come unexpectedly. Speed had collapsed at a crime scene. A few dozen tests later the doctor gave him the news. Cancer, a tumor to be specific, in the brain and it was inoperable. They didn’t know how long Speed had. They told him to just enjoy what was left of his life.

It wasn’t fair. He had fought to live.