“It was a reckless thing to do.” Chuck didn’t need to ask what he was referring to. The news of Sobel’s hasty departure and replacement had spread through the Battalion like wildfire. He wasn't all that surprised to learn that the how of it had likewise reached ears in other Companies.  “It was necessary,” he countered, defensively. Speirs exhaled something that might have been a snort on someone less dignified and a laugh on someone more inclined to show his hand.

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“You ain’t suppos’d to be here, Sledgehamma’,” Snafu says, but it’s almost a gasp, like he’s running out of air. “Go home, Gene.”

Eugene opens his mouth to ask Snafu what in the hell he’s talking about, but his throat is still locked up, the words getting stuck. It’s then that Snafu looks like he’s going to continue speaking, but blood just spills from his lips instead, right into Eugene’s open mouth.

Gasping and choking, Eugene tries to shove Snafu off of him. Realizes a little too late that he’d managed to move and grab his sidearm, pointing his pistol at Snafu’s stomach. Eugene thinks he shouldn’t be able to see anything, not when it’s this dark down in the hole, not with Snafu hovering over him like this, but regardless, he can see plain as day.

He’d shot Snafu in the gut, somehow, some way, and now Snafu is bleeding out right into Eugene’s mouth, suffocating him with it.

Snafu’s mouth opens impossibly wide, like he’s taking the world’s biggest breath in preparation for a scream. Instead, his words are soaked in blood, roaring in Eugene’s ears and slamming into him like a freight train.

“I said go home, Eugene!”

Rating: Mature

Relationship: Sidney "Sid" Phillips/Eugene Sledge

Characters: Eugene Sledge, Sidney "Sid" Phillips (The Pacific), Mary Houston

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Infidelity, Possessive Behavior, Established Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Pining, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, liberal use of frank sinatra, Post-War

Words: 9831 Chapters: 1/1

Summary: Eugene wishes he were surprised when Sidney says it. He wishes he could crow happily for his friend’s future, or even just sit there, shocked silent as Sid slips further and further from him with every passing moment. He wishes — but he’d known. It was in the way he’d met Eugene at the station, subdued, somehow so different from the acute physicality they’d both felt on Pavuvu.

He’d known before he even got in the car: something about Sid had changed.