Choose Your Battles

**A twist on the Lee-Laurens duel in which John gets shot instead**

Alex knew he wouldn't be able to sleep. Not that night, not for the next three nights. See, anytime he closed his eyes he could hear the bullet as it exploded from the barrel of the gun; see John as the color drained from his face, staggering backward trying everything he could to stay upright. He could feel his friend as he trembled in his arms, struggling to catch his breath; smell the pungent fumes of gun powder enveloping the two and taste his tears, feeling himself fall apart from the inside out.

So keeping these things in mind, no, sleep, in fact, was not an option.

**This beautiful cover was made by the amazing @KinziFace! Thank you so much!**