lost ficlets: fire on the hill (sun/jin) + people for miles (charlie/claire)
title: fire on the hill
character(s)/pairing(s): sun kwon (sun/jin)
word count/rating: 237, pg
summary: ficlet, set S5. she has spent her entire marriage looking for her husband.
A/N: For isis2015 who requested Sun. Used for sacred_20 prompt - lamentation
She wonders if it's her fault that it ends this way.
She has spent her entire marriage looking for her husband. Past facades and walls. Past language barriers that were more than second tongues. Even after his "death," she still looked for him around corners and in every stranger who bumped into her. (She never looked at Ji Yeon because that sort of resemblance was too painful to bare noticing.)
She never saw him. She never saw him, and yet, she knows Jin - her Jin - is real. She knows the man she loves exists - somewhere - in some time period - in some plane. That Jin always slips through her fingers, leaves her looking.
Sometimes, like now, she thinks of the people left behind so she could chase her oasis. She cast away her father because he was an insult to Jin's memory. She left behind her daughter because there was no place for a little girl on an island like this one.
In the end, all of it was done in the hopes of getting back a person she hasn't truly seen in years.
And it's now, as she sits with Richard, among people she's never known, family to a woman whose life she once took, she realizes that looking for Jin leads down the same repetitive path.
Disappointed and alone.
And she cannot blame anyone but herself for not recognizing it sooner.
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title: people for miles
character(s)/pairing(s): charlie, charlie/claire
word count/rating: 265, pg
summary: ficlet, it won't be long before they're together again
A/N: For eponine119 who requested OTPs. Mine happens to be Charlie/Claire. Used for sacred_20 prompt, communion.
He hates to think about what's happening to her.
He hates that he can't move on.
Hates Desmond for being wrong. Hates Jack for filling his roll in Aaron's life. Hates Kate for playing mommy. Hates Sawyer for not looking harder.
He hates that he's still capable of hate.
Most of all, he hates that he has to sit by her side and watch her slowly fade away to nothing and not be able to do anything about it. She is all alone in the jungle, abandoned by the man who she thought was her father. She has been left to wither away and die from her grief. Left without her son.
It's not something he wants to see, but it's not something he's going to walk away from. When he first met her, she had abandonment issues. He promised himself the day he realized this that he would never leave her. He took it with him beyond the grave.
"Claire," he whispers.
She cannot hear him, but she closes her eyes and her head shifts towards him. He thinks maybe somehow she can feel him anyway.
It won't be long before they're together again. Not long before the pain she's feeling drifts away and all she's left with is bitterness where it should be peace.
Then, he will take her hand in his. They will try to heal together. This is Charlie's plan. This is Charlie's only hope for salvation - through her.
Until then they'll sit like this. Him with his hatred and her with her grief.
Like they always were - inches apart and yet miles away.
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disclaimer: I don't own Lost. Both titles taken from "I Love" by Athlete
character(s)/pairing(s): sun kwon (sun/jin)
word count/rating: 237, pg
summary: ficlet, set S5. she has spent her entire marriage looking for her husband.
A/N: For isis2015 who requested Sun. Used for sacred_20 prompt - lamentation
She wonders if it's her fault that it ends this way.
She has spent her entire marriage looking for her husband. Past facades and walls. Past language barriers that were more than second tongues. Even after his "death," she still looked for him around corners and in every stranger who bumped into her. (She never looked at Ji Yeon because that sort of resemblance was too painful to bare noticing.)
She never saw him. She never saw him, and yet, she knows Jin - her Jin - is real. She knows the man she loves exists - somewhere - in some time period - in some plane. That Jin always slips through her fingers, leaves her looking.
Sometimes, like now, she thinks of the people left behind so she could chase her oasis. She cast away her father because he was an insult to Jin's memory. She left behind her daughter because there was no place for a little girl on an island like this one.
In the end, all of it was done in the hopes of getting back a person she hasn't truly seen in years.
And it's now, as she sits with Richard, among people she's never known, family to a woman whose life she once took, she realizes that looking for Jin leads down the same repetitive path.
Disappointed and alone.
And she cannot blame anyone but herself for not recognizing it sooner.
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title: people for miles
character(s)/pairing(s): charlie, charlie/claire
word count/rating: 265, pg
summary: ficlet, it won't be long before they're together again
A/N: For eponine119 who requested OTPs. Mine happens to be Charlie/Claire. Used for sacred_20 prompt, communion.
He hates to think about what's happening to her.
He hates that he can't move on.
Hates Desmond for being wrong. Hates Jack for filling his roll in Aaron's life. Hates Kate for playing mommy. Hates Sawyer for not looking harder.
He hates that he's still capable of hate.
Most of all, he hates that he has to sit by her side and watch her slowly fade away to nothing and not be able to do anything about it. She is all alone in the jungle, abandoned by the man who she thought was her father. She has been left to wither away and die from her grief. Left without her son.
It's not something he wants to see, but it's not something he's going to walk away from. When he first met her, she had abandonment issues. He promised himself the day he realized this that he would never leave her. He took it with him beyond the grave.
"Claire," he whispers.
She cannot hear him, but she closes her eyes and her head shifts towards him. He thinks maybe somehow she can feel him anyway.
It won't be long before they're together again. Not long before the pain she's feeling drifts away and all she's left with is bitterness where it should be peace.
Then, he will take her hand in his. They will try to heal together. This is Charlie's plan. This is Charlie's only hope for salvation - through her.
Until then they'll sit like this. Him with his hatred and her with her grief.
Like they always were - inches apart and yet miles away.
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disclaimer: I don't own Lost. Both titles taken from "I Love" by Athlete