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It hadn't taken Alex long to figure out at all. She and her father may not have been especially close - on better terms, these days, still tentatively - but sharing a hut, they spent plenty of time together, saw each other often enough. When she'd woken up to find him gone, she had tried to ignore it, to excuse it, but even then, she had suspected

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Sawyer had finally managed to settle down. And as much as he tried to make it seem like it was a natural, thoughtless process, that he'd just tired of searching for empty hut after hut, it was a decision that he'd consciously made, whether he would admit to it or not. There was only so much energy that he had for running anymore, only so much time he could put toward maintaining the wall that he kept around himself and the anchor slung over his back. Alex had been the first to know, of all those he knew on the island, simply because if Ben Linus was likely to find out where Sawyer lived anyway, the only way for Sawyer to have any say in who knew his whereabouts was to give it up to the teen before it slipped out some other way.

There was a smile that immediately pulled onto his face as he saw Alex approach, but it disappeared at the slightly overwhelmed expression on hers, a frown in its stead as he heard her question.

"Stay with me? Well, sure, I guess. Had a fight with daddy dearest?"

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"No," Alex sighed, unceremoniously dropping her bag on the floor just inside the door and crossing further inside, combing her hands back through slightly tousled hair. If only it had been that simple, part of her wished. For a while, there had almost been a pattern with she and her father. They would fight, both mutually disapproving of each other, Alex would storm off for a while, but eventually, inevitably, they would reconcile, though there weren't always words exchanged to do so. At least he was always there, even when she hadn't wanted him to be. There was reassurance in it all the same

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"Dammit," Sawyer hissed under his breath as soon as realization dawned. It was just like that bug-eyed bastard to somehow worm his way out of a trap, to slip through the cracks and leave behind people who needed his goddamn guidance. But this in particular was unforgivable. It didn't even matter that Sawyer knew Ben Linus probably didn't have a say in whether or not he stayed. All Sawyer could think of was the fact that had Ben tried a little harder, had he physically hung on tooth and nail, kept his daughter closer by his side, then they wouldn't have been separated. Just in the same way as how, had Ben only given a little, worried about himself and the island less, Alex never would have had to die in the first place

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Alex wasn't a girl especially accustomed to outward displays of affection, for comfort's sake or otherwise, the last few years in which she'd grown distant from her father overriding any previous memories she might have had. As such, it came as a surprise when Sawyer pulled her to him, but not an unwelcome one in the slightest. Here especially, she had come to think of him as something like family; now, he was the only thing resembling it that she had left. A moment was all it took for her to lean into the touch, more vulnerable than she usually let herself show