[fic] Lost
Title: the sacrifice
Rating: G
Author: raikune
Recipient: vio55
Series: Lost
Characters: Richard, young!Ben
Summary: You can't take it back. For 31days_exchange. 112 words.
Prompt: 02 - press your fingers into all the holes you made
It's how they look at me, Ben says, in a voice too solemn and sad for one of his years. They look at me like I'm different. Because I am. I'm an outsider.
Not to me you aren't, Richard replies, but the boy just looks away.
My dad says I've changed. That ever since I came back, I've changed. What happened? What's happened to me?
Richard swipes the tears away from Ben's pallid cheeks with his thumb. Nothing. There's nothing wrong with you, Benjamin.
Then why are you the only one who loves me, the child whispers, and Richard hugs him to his chest tightly, knowing that some things can never be undone.
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Rating: G
Author: raikune
Recipient: vio55
Series: Lost
Characters: Richard, young!Ben
Summary: You can't take it back. For 31days_exchange. 112 words.
Prompt: 02 - press your fingers into all the holes you made
It's how they look at me, Ben says, in a voice too solemn and sad for one of his years. They look at me like I'm different. Because I am. I'm an outsider.
Not to me you aren't, Richard replies, but the boy just looks away.
My dad says I've changed. That ever since I came back, I've changed. What happened? What's happened to me?
Richard swipes the tears away from Ben's pallid cheeks with his thumb. Nothing. There's nothing wrong with you, Benjamin.
Then why are you the only one who loves me, the child whispers, and Richard hugs him to his chest tightly, knowing that some things can never be undone.
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