A NUMB3RS story by Ecri that deals with Don and the team struggling to solve a series of murders, which is even more complicated when Charlie gets blamed for it.
Don and his team have to find a way to clear Charlie's name and find the real culprit behind the murders, but everything is as it seems.
It can be found on Fanfiction.net:
It was completed on November 20, 2006.
Tropes for this fic include:
- Blackmail: Don is blackmailed into giving information to the Big Bad to ensure Charlie's safety.
- Clear Their Name: Don and the team try to clear Charlie of the murders.
- Heroic BSoD: both Don and Charlie go through, this as Charlie faces getting beaten up in prison and Don gets blackmailed to ensure his brother's safety.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Non-fatal version as Don takes a bullet for Charlie when Buchmann shoots at him when he aims and Charlie but he manages to survive.
- One-Word Title: Manipulation.
- Taking the Bullet: Don takes a bullet for Charlie when one of the men who took them shoots at Charlie and Don jumps in front of Charlie and is shot but he survives.
