crack_van | Do What You Have to Do by Dira Sudis (PG)

Fandom: THE DEAD ZONE
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:

dsudis
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Why this must be read:

When you're trying to save the world, you have to be careful you don't end up being the cause of its destruction. In the episode "Finding Rachel," Johnny shares with Bruce his fear that he may be instrumental in the very apocalypse he's trying to avert. But that kind of knowledge weighs heavy on Bruce, and in this story he shares it with the only person he can: Walt. Because Bruce isn't sure that he can do what Johnny needs him to do...

"Johnny," Bruce said again, and then halted, frowning down at his hands. "You saw his basement."

For a bad second, Walt thought of Frank's basement, still lurking at the edge of his memory, but of course Bruce meant John's basement, which meant he really meant... "Those boards. The ones you said you didn't know anything about."

Bruce nodded, not looking particularly caught out, and hell, it wasn't like they hadn't all known he was lying. "You read 'em? Both of 'em?"

"I saw his timeline, yeah," Walt said, because that was the one everybody in the county hadn't had delivered to their doorstep. There had been nothing in Frank's basement that Walt found half as scary as John Smith's vaguely deranged handwriting spelling out FUTURE? And NUCLEAR? BIOLOGICAL? TERROR? in red marker. "And I know he thinks Stillson has something to do with..."

"With the coming apocalypse," Bruce said grimly. "Yeah. Well, that's not all."

Walt leaned back in his chair and took a breath, bracing for it. "Okay, hit me."

Do What You Have to Do