Steady Girl On Your Feet (Sayid/Sun), PG-13isis2015February 26 2011, 06:27:48 UTC
They're in London, for now. It's three in the morning, it's raining, and she's sitting on the edge of the bed with a sheet wrapped around herself, staring at the window. Sayid is asleep behind her. There is a part of her that feels guilty, even after all this time. Jin is dead. She reminds herself of this over and over again, but there remains a part of her brain that tells her that is absurd, as if a world could not exist that Jin were not in.
She feels disloyal, though. As she had been with Jae. She had hated Jin then, and she has never loved him more than she does now, as she sits naked separated by only a few feet from the warm body of another man.
"You should sleep," he tells her, suddenly awake. She hears the rustling of the sheet and knows that is reaching out his hand to touch her back.
She wraps the sheet more tightly around her body, covering herself as she walks to the window and parts the drape of the hotel room window just enough to peek through. "One of us has to keep watch," she says.
It's a lie; they will be fine, for now.
He doesn't say a word, though. At some point he began to accept her distance, possibly even to understand it. Her heart isn't with him. Her heart isn't even with her.
So he goes back to the sleep, and she stares out the window, watching the rain.
She feels disloyal, though. As she had been with Jae. She had hated Jin then, and she has never loved him more than she does now, as she sits naked separated by only a few feet from the warm body of another man.
"You should sleep," he tells her, suddenly awake. She hears the rustling of the sheet and knows that is reaching out his hand to touch her back.
She wraps the sheet more tightly around her body, covering herself as she walks to the window and parts the drape of the hotel room window just enough to peek through. "One of us has to keep watch," she says.
It's a lie; they will be fine, for now.
He doesn't say a word, though. At some point he began to accept her distance, possibly even to understand it. Her heart isn't with him. Her heart isn't even with her.
So he goes back to the sleep, and she stares out the window, watching the rain.
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Loved the whole thing, but this part especially.
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