Fic, Lost: Four Times in Which Truth wasn't the Best Policy (And One in Which It Was), PG13
Title: Four Times in Which Truth wasn't the Best Policy (And One in Which It Was)
Rating: PG13 to be overly sure.
Characters/Pairings: Locke, Boone, Sun/Jin, Jack/Sawyer, Sayid, Juliet, Desmond, Charlie
Word counting: 1000
Disclaimer: The title alone should prove nothing here is mine.
Spoilers: From 'Deus Ex Machina' up to 'The Man Behind the Curtain.'
Summary: Four canon moments which could have gone differently if someone had been more honest and one which is totally made up but could have happened.
A/N: So I forced myself not to get wordy and to make every section 200 words. I'm proud of proving that I can be short when I want. Written for today's prompt at lostsquee, Losties telling the truth for once. And re-reading it I realize that the first part could, uhm, be kinda shippy if you want it to be shippy, but it wasn't my target.
#1: When Locke Had a Sudden Fit of Honesty
The overwhelming need to walk is suddenly replaced by a fit of honesty so sudden that Locke finds himself unable to stand the sight of Boone climbing up to the beechcraft. Ten seconds and he’ll get in.
The plane isn’t stable enough for someone to stay there. Locke can see it.
His body pleads for him not to act, his legs aching to be able to stand again. His mind calmly pleads the exact contrary.
One says this is meant to happen; the other one simply says you can’t.
“Don’t, it’s too dangerous!”, he manages to say without losing his voice before Boone gets in. Boone waits for a second, nods, climbs down.
Locke feels tears prickling under his eyelids, he feels the aching of ever muscle of his body which isn’t below his waist. He manages not to cry. He can’t.
“Help me up.”, he mutters when Boone crouches near him. Boone does so and their eyes meet, Boone’s arm strong around his shoulders, half-smile on his lips.
The island can test him another time, Locke decides, gazing into the deep, crystal-clear blue of Boone’s eyes, just slightly perturbed by a sparkle of doubt. What he sees, is beautiful.
#2: When Sun Told Jin The Whole Truth
Sun doesn’t want to tell him. He’s so happy. Can she shatter his happiness telling him that the baby might not be his, that she cheated on him? No use excusing herself with the he was changed card anymore. If Jin had changed, it had been because of her and she knows it.
By the time they left Korea, what once had been love was stained in lies. This is their fresh start. He deserves to know.
Sun speaks those few sentences in a language that becomes more foreign for her every passing day and tells Jin the whole truth.
Jin listens. Then she’s slightly trembling, his arms still around her waist.
He can understand her.
It wasn’t exactly that Jin knew. He had suspected and sometimes he couldn’t resent her. He had changed for the worse. No use excusing himself with the I’ve done everything for her card. If she had loved him, it had been because of what he was.
Jin knew how twisted in deceptions their relationship had become. After what happened, though, he knows they have another chance and he won’t throw it away.
Sun expects him to lash at her, but he kisses her instead.
#3: When Sawyer Confided in Jack
Sawyer hadn’t planned on going the whole way with that confession, not at all.
Closest thing to a friend was more than enough for his standards.
But as Jack’s expression changed, as that artificial light of the hatch created unnatural reflections on his much too wide eyes, which seemed golden-brown now, as Jack’s lips parted just slightly trying to speak and not being able to, Sawyer felt an overwhelming need to confess, to confide in him. Something so uncharacteristic of him that he could sense his lip trembling oh so slightly, while opening his mouth again to speak.
But no words were going to come out of it, he knew, and so he just leaned that bit more, came just that little closer and brushed Jack’s lips with his, letting them linger a bit, confessing the whole truth and confiding in him to keep it. Then Jack’s hands were on his cheeks and he was kissing him back, a light touch which was the most perfect kiss Sawyer ever experienced. Suddenly he thought how his ma would always say that honesty was the best policy.
Then closed his eyes and tried to forget the world, if only for a moment.
#4: Where Juliet Was Honest with Sayid Before Everyone Else
Sayid doesn’t know what to make out of Juliet.
After Jack interrupted his questioning before it could start, she had called him in the back of their little expedition, motioning for him to come alone.
He did and she told him.
While Sayid was sure that she was a mole, he was completely put out by that confession. Why would she tell him?
“I do not understand.”
“What’s there to understand?”
“Does Jack even know?”
“He doesn’t, but I’ll tell him when we reach your camp.”
“Then why telling me now?”
Juliet smiles slightly, puzzling Sayid even more than she had done before, then looks at him straight in the eyes.
“Ben has never been honest with me. I want to be honest with Jack. But you wouldn’t have believed me, if I told him first.”
Juliet turns and approaches Jack and Kate again; Sayid stays in the rear, eyes fixed on her, processing what she said.
He can’t believe in a sudden fit of honesty from her, an Other, of everyone. Then again, he is sure Juliet had her interests on her mind first. And if Jack was one of them, he guesses she couldn’t mean too much harm.
#5: Where Charlie Trusted Desmond
Desmond sits close to the fire, looking at Charlie, who’s playing guitar on the opposite side. He lowers his head, shaking it, and bites his lip.
Desmond can’t do this. Sooner or later fate will get the both of them, he may not bear the immediate consequences, but Charlie will and he can’t bear failing anyone else. He lost track of everything and everyone he failed until now, too many. He doesn’t want Charlie to be another number on his failed list. He doesn’t need a responsability like this.
Next thing he knows, Charlie is sitting next to him.
“We’ll make it, mate. Don’t feel bad.”
Desmond would love to believe him.
“You don’t know it. I...”
“Des. We can do it. You know, I trust you on this.”
Charlie looks at him with such determination and calm that Desmond feels ashamed of how insecure he is. Charlie at least does trust him and Desmond doesn’t want to let it down, not in a situation so fragile. Charlie returns to his place and starts playing again.
Because maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me..., Charlie sings.
Desmond knows it’s for him.
He smiles. Maybe he can after all.
End.
Rating: PG13 to be overly sure.
Characters/Pairings: Locke, Boone, Sun/Jin, Jack/Sawyer, Sayid, Juliet, Desmond, Charlie
Word counting: 1000
Disclaimer: The title alone should prove nothing here is mine.
Spoilers: From 'Deus Ex Machina' up to 'The Man Behind the Curtain.'
Summary: Four canon moments which could have gone differently if someone had been more honest and one which is totally made up but could have happened.
A/N: So I forced myself not to get wordy and to make every section 200 words. I'm proud of proving that I can be short when I want. Written for today's prompt at lostsquee, Losties telling the truth for once. And re-reading it I realize that the first part could, uhm, be kinda shippy if you want it to be shippy, but it wasn't my target.
#1: When Locke Had a Sudden Fit of Honesty
The overwhelming need to walk is suddenly replaced by a fit of honesty so sudden that Locke finds himself unable to stand the sight of Boone climbing up to the beechcraft. Ten seconds and he’ll get in.
The plane isn’t stable enough for someone to stay there. Locke can see it.
His body pleads for him not to act, his legs aching to be able to stand again. His mind calmly pleads the exact contrary.
One says this is meant to happen; the other one simply says you can’t.
“Don’t, it’s too dangerous!”, he manages to say without losing his voice before Boone gets in. Boone waits for a second, nods, climbs down.
Locke feels tears prickling under his eyelids, he feels the aching of ever muscle of his body which isn’t below his waist. He manages not to cry. He can’t.
“Help me up.”, he mutters when Boone crouches near him. Boone does so and their eyes meet, Boone’s arm strong around his shoulders, half-smile on his lips.
The island can test him another time, Locke decides, gazing into the deep, crystal-clear blue of Boone’s eyes, just slightly perturbed by a sparkle of doubt. What he sees, is beautiful.
#2: When Sun Told Jin The Whole Truth
Sun doesn’t want to tell him. He’s so happy. Can she shatter his happiness telling him that the baby might not be his, that she cheated on him? No use excusing herself with the he was changed card anymore. If Jin had changed, it had been because of her and she knows it.
By the time they left Korea, what once had been love was stained in lies. This is their fresh start. He deserves to know.
Sun speaks those few sentences in a language that becomes more foreign for her every passing day and tells Jin the whole truth.
Jin listens. Then she’s slightly trembling, his arms still around her waist.
He can understand her.
It wasn’t exactly that Jin knew. He had suspected and sometimes he couldn’t resent her. He had changed for the worse. No use excusing himself with the I’ve done everything for her card. If she had loved him, it had been because of what he was.
Jin knew how twisted in deceptions their relationship had become. After what happened, though, he knows they have another chance and he won’t throw it away.
Sun expects him to lash at her, but he kisses her instead.
#3: When Sawyer Confided in Jack
Sawyer hadn’t planned on going the whole way with that confession, not at all.
Closest thing to a friend was more than enough for his standards.
But as Jack’s expression changed, as that artificial light of the hatch created unnatural reflections on his much too wide eyes, which seemed golden-brown now, as Jack’s lips parted just slightly trying to speak and not being able to, Sawyer felt an overwhelming need to confess, to confide in him. Something so uncharacteristic of him that he could sense his lip trembling oh so slightly, while opening his mouth again to speak.
But no words were going to come out of it, he knew, and so he just leaned that bit more, came just that little closer and brushed Jack’s lips with his, letting them linger a bit, confessing the whole truth and confiding in him to keep it. Then Jack’s hands were on his cheeks and he was kissing him back, a light touch which was the most perfect kiss Sawyer ever experienced. Suddenly he thought how his ma would always say that honesty was the best policy.
Then closed his eyes and tried to forget the world, if only for a moment.
#4: Where Juliet Was Honest with Sayid Before Everyone Else
Sayid doesn’t know what to make out of Juliet.
After Jack interrupted his questioning before it could start, she had called him in the back of their little expedition, motioning for him to come alone.
He did and she told him.
While Sayid was sure that she was a mole, he was completely put out by that confession. Why would she tell him?
“I do not understand.”
“What’s there to understand?”
“Does Jack even know?”
“He doesn’t, but I’ll tell him when we reach your camp.”
“Then why telling me now?”
Juliet smiles slightly, puzzling Sayid even more than she had done before, then looks at him straight in the eyes.
“Ben has never been honest with me. I want to be honest with Jack. But you wouldn’t have believed me, if I told him first.”
Juliet turns and approaches Jack and Kate again; Sayid stays in the rear, eyes fixed on her, processing what she said.
He can’t believe in a sudden fit of honesty from her, an Other, of everyone. Then again, he is sure Juliet had her interests on her mind first. And if Jack was one of them, he guesses she couldn’t mean too much harm.
#5: Where Charlie Trusted Desmond
Desmond sits close to the fire, looking at Charlie, who’s playing guitar on the opposite side. He lowers his head, shaking it, and bites his lip.
Desmond can’t do this. Sooner or later fate will get the both of them, he may not bear the immediate consequences, but Charlie will and he can’t bear failing anyone else. He lost track of everything and everyone he failed until now, too many. He doesn’t want Charlie to be another number on his failed list. He doesn’t need a responsability like this.
Next thing he knows, Charlie is sitting next to him.
“We’ll make it, mate. Don’t feel bad.”
Desmond would love to believe him.
“You don’t know it. I...”
“Des. We can do it. You know, I trust you on this.”
Charlie looks at him with such determination and calm that Desmond feels ashamed of how insecure he is. Charlie at least does trust him and Desmond doesn’t want to let it down, not in a situation so fragile. Charlie returns to his place and starts playing again.
Because maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me..., Charlie sings.
Desmond knows it’s for him.
He smiles. Maybe he can after all.
End.