Fic: For the Night Has Been Unkind (Sun, Kate)
Title: For the Night Has Been Unkind
Rating: PG
Summary: Everyone has been treating her as though she’s made of glass ever since they arrived on the boat. She hasn’t given them much of any indication that she isn’t, but it’s still been a lonely couple of days.
Disclaimer: I do not own Lost. At all. I wish but alas...
Author's Note: Used for au100, prompt #007: days. Set during 'There's No Place Like Home'. Also used for lostfichallenge, Challenge #81: Friends.
Sun doesn’t look up at the knock on her door. Truth be told, she really just wants to be left alone. The door opens, and another knock comes. She does look up then.
“Hi,” Kate says. She’s standing in the doorway nervously. Everyone has been treating her as though she’s made of glass ever since they arrived on the boat. She hasn’t given them much of any indication that she isn’t, but it’s still been a lonely couple of days.
Sun attempts a smile, though. “Hello.” Her voice is so flat. It makes her sigh and look down. Kate steps inside the door and closes it behind her. Sun looks up again. “Where is Aaron?” she asks.
“With Jack.” Kate walks a few steps closer. Sun looks at her, curiously. Ever since Sun had handed him over to Kate, he hasn’t seemed to leave her arms. She approaches her slowly, sitting next to her on the bed.
She shrugs, good-naturedly. “I figured…you needed me now,” she says.
Sun attempts a smile, and fails again. She honestly doesn’t know what to say. Her insides twist painfully, which, though not uncommon these days, still leaves her feeling raw. A tear rolls down her cheek, and she nods. “Yes,” she agrees. “I do.”
Kate smiles sympathetically as Sun leans her head against her shoulder and closes her eyes. She feels Kate’s arm around her shoulders and her eyes only squeeze tighter, the only dam against the sea of tears threatening to spill down her cheeks.
“I miss him,” she says, and the words are agonizing. It’s ridiculous. Jin has only…it has only been three days, and yet every moment that passes feels like a week. Every hour, a year. She counts the seconds that pass, stupidly masochistic.
Kate holds her tighter, closer, pulling her in as far as she’ll go and whispering, “I know.” Sun hears the loss in her voice, the pain that only experience could possibly have put there. And even through her grief, Sun feels pain for Kate, for whomever she had loved and lost, and what that has done to her.
So she holds Kate as Kate holds her, and they cry together, for all that they have lost, as the world moves on around them.
Rating: PG
Summary: Everyone has been treating her as though she’s made of glass ever since they arrived on the boat. She hasn’t given them much of any indication that she isn’t, but it’s still been a lonely couple of days.
Disclaimer: I do not own Lost. At all. I wish but alas...
Author's Note: Used for au100, prompt #007: days. Set during 'There's No Place Like Home'. Also used for lostfichallenge, Challenge #81: Friends.
Sun doesn’t look up at the knock on her door. Truth be told, she really just wants to be left alone. The door opens, and another knock comes. She does look up then.
“Hi,” Kate says. She’s standing in the doorway nervously. Everyone has been treating her as though she’s made of glass ever since they arrived on the boat. She hasn’t given them much of any indication that she isn’t, but it’s still been a lonely couple of days.
Sun attempts a smile, though. “Hello.” Her voice is so flat. It makes her sigh and look down. Kate steps inside the door and closes it behind her. Sun looks up again. “Where is Aaron?” she asks.
“With Jack.” Kate walks a few steps closer. Sun looks at her, curiously. Ever since Sun had handed him over to Kate, he hasn’t seemed to leave her arms. She approaches her slowly, sitting next to her on the bed.
She shrugs, good-naturedly. “I figured…you needed me now,” she says.
Sun attempts a smile, and fails again. She honestly doesn’t know what to say. Her insides twist painfully, which, though not uncommon these days, still leaves her feeling raw. A tear rolls down her cheek, and she nods. “Yes,” she agrees. “I do.”
Kate smiles sympathetically as Sun leans her head against her shoulder and closes her eyes. She feels Kate’s arm around her shoulders and her eyes only squeeze tighter, the only dam against the sea of tears threatening to spill down her cheeks.
“I miss him,” she says, and the words are agonizing. It’s ridiculous. Jin has only…it has only been three days, and yet every moment that passes feels like a week. Every hour, a year. She counts the seconds that pass, stupidly masochistic.
Kate holds her tighter, closer, pulling her in as far as she’ll go and whispering, “I know.” Sun hears the loss in her voice, the pain that only experience could possibly have put there. And even through her grief, Sun feels pain for Kate, for whomever she had loved and lost, and what that has done to her.
So she holds Kate as Kate holds her, and they cry together, for all that they have lost, as the world moves on around them.