Title: her black robes trailing
Fandom: LOST
Characters: Jacob
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 108
Summary: Mother always knows best. (prompt - force, written for
lost_in_108 )
"So," she says. In the fire her hair glows unnaturally bright, gold as the sun. "You've finally surrendered to fate."
He shouldn't need to prove himself to her, and yet- "It's my choice."
She knows better, knows him better. "Silly Jacob."
"I'm... not afraid to die." (he can already feel the cold metal buried in his chest)
"Of course not, dear," she mocks, fingers ghosting over his cheek. Jacob shudders. In the world he rules, a world that defies science and logic, she is the strange, the unnatural.
She laughs at him, the sound light and bubbly like a fairy.
(like a witch)
"I'll be waiting for you."