A bar hanging in the Dark

[Doc Holliday]

It was the reaction he had expected. It wasn't unlike a commander or command officer to play "tough" to hide their feelings. They didn't want weakness to show although more often than not it would show the human side that subordinates came to respect. His own personal experiences from giving aid to refugees at the Port Jackson colony and watching the very people he helped slaughter Cretean farmers. The loss of his own wife and even his eldest daughter only solidified how he felt.

"I will not apologize for being so forward," he explained, "for being so firm but when at the end of a day we are sitting alone in our quarters, those walls just start to close in on us."
He was going to say "you" but said "us" as he was sitting with her through it. He managed his soft smile that only a doctor could manage. "Trust me when I say that your crew will respect you more for all of this."

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