crack_van | Alone, by Dawning Star (PG13)

Fandom: NUMB3RS
Characters: Colby, Charlie
Length: 7,581 words
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Dawning Star on Fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:

In the supporting cast, Colby Granger is a favorite of many (he's darn cute), and there are a lot of stories that place him front and center. From multi-generation military family Colby looks to be an all-American straight-shooter, until (Spoiler Alert!) he is revealed to be a traitor selling secrets to the Chinese in the Season 3 finale. But is he really?

Captured by the bad guys, tortured, drugged, and unable to tell the difference between reality, dreams, and hallucinations, he waits. But even when Charlie is a fantasy, Colby can count on him to tell the truth.

Haunting and beautifully written, 'Alone' evokes Colby's disorientation and despair.

Check it out:

Aboard the Chinese freighter, drugged and too well aware that Death waits patiently for him in a small vial while the stream of questions pulls at him, Colby Granger dreams of rescue.
It's Don who bursts into the cabin first, bellowing "FBI! Drop your weapons!" and within seconds everyone is in standard-issue handcuffs. They handcuff Colby, too, before they take him out of the chair. He's the focus of their angry eyes, not Carter, not the spy. Even Megan looks like she'd kind of like to shoot him. He's betrayed them, betrayed their trust, and it doesn't much matter that he was under orders. They won't forgive him.
David says it, says "You were never one of us, Granger, and you never will be."
He's okay with that, though, because he deserves it, and they came for him anyway, and he's not alone after all--

Alone