A Scratched Map
Rating: PG
Characters: Sark/Sydney
Summary: The human body is just a map of a person's life.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions.
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There were moments that she fooled herself into thinking that she knew all of him, that the map she had traced of his body detailed all the things above and below. There was a scar on his chin, crescent-shaped and the color of a permanent bruise. Fresh stitches laced across the smooth skin of his chest, the tiny punctures pulling the edges together. The line of a longer scar, pale and barely visible, swept across his back in one vicious streak. Of all the marks she touched, it was only this one--lightest and oldest--that made him flinch. The pale hairs rose in her fingers' wake.
Characters: Sark/Sydney
Summary: The human body is just a map of a person's life.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions.
***
There were moments that she fooled herself into thinking that she knew all of him, that the map she had traced of his body detailed all the things above and below. There was a scar on his chin, crescent-shaped and the color of a permanent bruise. Fresh stitches laced across the smooth skin of his chest, the tiny punctures pulling the edges together. The line of a longer scar, pale and barely visible, swept across his back in one vicious streak. Of all the marks she touched, it was only this one--lightest and oldest--that made him flinch. The pale hairs rose in her fingers' wake.