Title: The Message
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jeffry Sinclair, Michael Garibaldi.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Spoilers/Setting: War Without End.
Summary: Jeff can’t leave without saying goodbye to his friend.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 423: Amnesty 70, using Challenge 19: Old Friends.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Double drabble.



Sinclair hates doing things this way, he knows it’s not fair on Garibaldi, but it’s for the best. They’re old friends, and they’ve been through so much together, but Michael can’t be a part of this. He’d want to go along, and that’s out of the question because where Jeff is going, Michael can’t follow.

Sinclair knows he won’t be coming back, this is a one-way trip into the past, and when he gets there, he won’t be the person he is now, won’t even be human. He’ll be a Minbari, in every way that matters. He’ll be accepted and listened to the way he never would be if he remained human.

For the present to exist, he must do what he’s already done in the past, and that means leaving this life, and all that matters to him, behind. It means saying goodbye to an old and dear friend, but not in person. There’d be too many questions, and he doesn’t have the answers, not the ones Michael, with his ever-suspicious mind, would want.

So this is the way it has to be, a recorded message, a final greeting and a farewell. It’ll have to do.

“Hello, old friend.”


The End