and if you feel discouraged [lost]
Title: and if you feel discouraged
Fandom: LOST
Summary: Tomorrow, he won't be so special.
Character: John Locke
Rating: G
Notes: For lost_in_108, prompt "tomorrow".
Salvation comes. And then John Locke prays.
His tenth birthday passes without comment or celebration. There is a chocolate cake bought from the store and a single candle on it.
Tomorrow you won’t be so special, his sister says. But John doesn’t mind.
He knows she’s wrong.
His twentieth birthday passes. There is a card and phone call. His sister has been dead for a long time.
Tomorrow, he hears, you won’t be so special.
Tomorrow passes. John Locke does not feel special.
He gets a job at the box company and settles for simple mediocrity.
And always he reminds himself -
Tomorrow, I won’t be so special.
Fandom: LOST
Summary: Tomorrow, he won't be so special.
Character: John Locke
Rating: G
Notes: For lost_in_108, prompt "tomorrow".
Salvation comes. And then John Locke prays.
His tenth birthday passes without comment or celebration. There is a chocolate cake bought from the store and a single candle on it.
Tomorrow you won’t be so special, his sister says. But John doesn’t mind.
He knows she’s wrong.
His twentieth birthday passes. There is a card and phone call. His sister has been dead for a long time.
Tomorrow, he hears, you won’t be so special.
Tomorrow passes. John Locke does not feel special.
He gets a job at the box company and settles for simple mediocrity.
And always he reminds himself -
Tomorrow, I won’t be so special.