Holding the Shadow by Sunlesslands (PG-13)

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Fandom: NUMB3RS
Pairing: Colby Granger/OMC briefly
Length: 1,696
Author on LJ: sunlesslands
Author Website: http://sunlesslands.livejournal.com/tag/!numb3rs
Why this must be read:

Colby had never been strong on sentiment or memory. He had too many of one and tasted too much of the other for any romantic notions to survive. A quick look around, the boxes that were his life, said everything by saying very little; thirty years of life, packed away in two days.

This is the story of how Colby became what he is, as apposed to what he could have been.

Set to Chopin's Prelude #15, it jumps in time between a young Colby with an artistic soul and a grown Colby who put that soul aside to make a dead father proud of him.

This is one of those beautifully written stories that makes you hurt in the best way possible.

Holding the Shadow