Portentn. 1. A sign or warning that something significant is likely to happen; “an occurrence of crucial portent.”Euan sat, and he waited. Just like countless days before this. If he couldn't be there to sit, and wait, he made sure someone else wasn't very far away. The interior of this hospital and this ICU room had become like a second home to him, even more so than his office at work. Life went on, day in, day out. Euan still worked, now elevated to Captain. He still had his fingers in countless pies, and saw horrific things in his line of work. His past forever haunted him, but these days, he saw it as a foundation of fuck-ups upon which to build a better life.
This life, he wasn't just a cop. He was a father, a husband, a son, a grandson, a brother, an uncle, a friend. He cherished every single one with each breath he was gifted with inhaling. Fuck knew, he didn't deserve any of it. Not really. He should have been dead and buried long ago. It was impossible for him not to think of this as Karma somehow coming back to get him for all the cuntish things he did. It didn't matter if he wasn't the same person anymore. Nothing erased your past.
( Noah was like a son to him. Not young enough to be his biologically, but Euan always felt way more old than his years... )Euan Fitzpatrick (Original Character)