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Annie and David are having difficulties But too late

Beauvoir walked back into the bedroo into space Then he slid his hand beneath the pillow and taking the top off the bottle he shook out a pill It sat in the palhtly bleary, he closed his fist over it Then he swiftly opened his hand and tossed the pill into his lass on the nightstand Beauvoir waited For the now faan to feel the ache subside But another, deeper hurt reot dressed and quietly left the B and B, disappearing into the night

Why hadn’t he seen it before?

Beauvoir leaned closer to the screen, shocked by what he saw He’d watched the video hundreds of times Over and over He’d seen it all, every wretched fraear

Then how could he have ain Then hit replay, and watched again

There he was, on the screen Weapon out, ais buckled As Jean Guy watched, he saw himself fall to his knees Then pitch forward face first onto the floor He remembered that

He could still see the filthy concrete floor rushing toward him Still see the dirt, as his face smashed into it

And then the pain Indescribable pain He’d clutched at his abdomen, but the pain was beyond his reach

On the screen he heard a shout, "Jean Guy!" And then Gamache, assault rifle in hand, ran across the open factory floor Grabbing hied Beauvoir behind a wall

And then the inti in and out of consciousness Of Ga hi his hand over the wound, to stanch the blood

Of seeing the blood on the Chief’s hand So much blood on his hands

And then Ga not meant to be seen by anyone else He’d kissed Jean Guy on the forehead in a gesture so tender it was as shocking as the gunfire

Then he left

It wasn’t the kiss that stunned Beauvoir It hat came after Why hadn’t he ever seen it before? Of course, he’d seen it, but he’d never really recognized it for what it was

Gamache had left him

Alone

To die

He’d abandoned him, to die alone on a filthy factory floor

Beauvoir hit replay, replay, replay And in each, of course, the sa He wasn’t upset because he’d failed to save Gary because Gamache had failed to save him

And the bottom dropped out from beneath Jean Guy Beauvoir