Lost drabble (and a half): When (Desmond/Penny, PG)
Title: When
Pairing: Desmond/Penny
Rating: PG
Summary/Note: A prompt for lostsquee Drabble Challenge went off the rails and became this. Apparently, my inner Desmond was feeling melancholy. 160 words.
When
He thought it would be easier now that he's home, but he still doesn't quite know how to make her real again, sleeping here in his arms.
Whether she haunted him like a ghost of his own failure or was nothing more than a beautiful fevered dream he couldn't shake, Penelope was always with him. But now that he's by her side again, sometimes he feels no nearer to her than he was all those days, weeks, years lost at sea.
Lost to himself, he thinks. Maybe it's he who's gone, pulled inside himself until the waking world is like a dream, until he's just a ghost of a man walking through it.
"When will I go home?" he murmurs to himself the same way he did at the end of every 108 minutes. Each time he wakes up to find her tucked up along his side, warm and solid and beautiful, he has to tell himself again that when is already now.
Pairing: Desmond/Penny
Rating: PG
Summary/Note: A prompt for lostsquee Drabble Challenge went off the rails and became this. Apparently, my inner Desmond was feeling melancholy. 160 words.
When
He thought it would be easier now that he's home, but he still doesn't quite know how to make her real again, sleeping here in his arms.
Whether she haunted him like a ghost of his own failure or was nothing more than a beautiful fevered dream he couldn't shake, Penelope was always with him. But now that he's by her side again, sometimes he feels no nearer to her than he was all those days, weeks, years lost at sea.
Lost to himself, he thinks. Maybe it's he who's gone, pulled inside himself until the waking world is like a dream, until he's just a ghost of a man walking through it.
"When will I go home?" he murmurs to himself the same way he did at the end of every 108 minutes. Each time he wakes up to find her tucked up along his side, warm and solid and beautiful, he has to tell himself again that when is already now.