Lost: Mortgage Hell
Title: Mortgage Hell
Fandom: Lost
Characters: Ray Mullen, Kate Austen
Rating: G
Summary: A black-and-white sheet of paper, stuck to the wall...
Notes: Drabble for lost_in_108, with the prompt Numbers. It really doesn't spoil anything unless you haven't seen up to episode three (Tabula Rasa). In which case: for heaven's sake, stop reading Lost fic! ;)
It's her.
Except... no. Can't be. Looks a bit like her from a distance, sure. But it's probably just a dodgy photocopy. Besides, his eyesight's not what it used to be.
He almost leaves.
But he doesn't. He has to double-check.
Yes, it's a bad photocopy.
Yes, his eyesight isn't what it once was.
Yes, it's her.
No, it can't be her. It can't.
(It can.
Her face, her hair, her profile.)
How can this defiant mugshot with a $23,000 bounty be the same girl who offered to make him a cup of tea this morning?
He wipes sweat from his forehead, his good arm aching.
Now what?
Fandom: Lost
Characters: Ray Mullen, Kate Austen
Rating: G
Summary: A black-and-white sheet of paper, stuck to the wall...
Notes: Drabble for lost_in_108, with the prompt Numbers. It really doesn't spoil anything unless you haven't seen up to episode three (Tabula Rasa). In which case: for heaven's sake, stop reading Lost fic! ;)
It's her.
Except... no. Can't be. Looks a bit like her from a distance, sure. But it's probably just a dodgy photocopy. Besides, his eyesight's not what it used to be.
He almost leaves.
But he doesn't. He has to double-check.
Yes, it's a bad photocopy.
Yes, his eyesight isn't what it once was.
Yes, it's her.
No, it can't be her. It can't.
(It can.
Her face, her hair, her profile.)
How can this defiant mugshot with a $23,000 bounty be the same girl who offered to make him a cup of tea this morning?
He wipes sweat from his forehead, his good arm aching.
Now what?