Title: Searching For Some Kind of Miracle
Rating: PG
Spoilers: S6 but non-specific; takes place around Recon.
Prompt: #55/shadow
Summary: “I came back wrong, Kate.”
Author's Notes: written for
lost_in_108 . I've wanted to try this pairing for awhile and I've finally gotten up the nerve to do so.
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(She glimpses the moon through the trees, watches the shadow of branches dance manically against the night sky, tree bark rough against her back.)
“Sayid-”
“I can't feel anything,” he whispers, and he reaches his hands out for her warmth, twisting his fingers through curls as his lips hover over the curve of her neck - waiting for something to stir inside his soul, to fill the emptiness taking up space.
“I came back wrong, Kate.”
There's a desperation and truth and need captured in his words never heard before.
He lowers his lips. A tear rolls down her cheek.
She's forgotten what it feels like to be needed.