[fic] Lost. MIB-centered drabbles
..and cont'd...
THEMES 9-10
Prompt:Movement
Characters: Esau, Richard
Rating: G
Notes: post-finale!AU. 114 words.
“Watch,” the man in black says to the new ruler in his white shirt. He flickers his tan knuckles up and down as if playing piano keys, a gold coin dancing from one hand to the next. “Everything in this world has its own tether, its own purpose, rooted. Men. Planets. Coins. What are you tethered to, Ricardo? What rock do you stand on?”
“The island,” Richard says, calm. “As you are.”
“You are this coin.” Esau flips it up into the darkness. “I play you in one hand.”
“Perhaps we're tethered to each other,” Richard replies, and that makes the man in black laugh.
“Always.”
-end
Prompt: Fun
Characters: Richard, Esau
Rating: G
Notes: post-finale!AU. 116 words.
Esau teaches Richard how to play backgammon. The man isn't unskilled but Esau's fingers are worn smooth by centuries of playing and he sees through Richard's strategies, clear as water. Every now and then Richard will remember that they're not playing with pieces but with human lives and stalk off; all fury and disgust. And the next night he'd be back, pale and damp in the torchlight, yelling and gesturing and making threats that burn the air.
“But I'm having fun,” the man in black says calmly, and smiles when Richard kicks the board into the sand, then leaves. He picks up the little stones, rubs the sand off them.
“See you tomorrow, Ricardo.”
-end
THEMES 9-10
Prompt:Movement
Characters: Esau, Richard
Rating: G
Notes: post-finale!AU. 114 words.
“Watch,” the man in black says to the new ruler in his white shirt. He flickers his tan knuckles up and down as if playing piano keys, a gold coin dancing from one hand to the next. “Everything in this world has its own tether, its own purpose, rooted. Men. Planets. Coins. What are you tethered to, Ricardo? What rock do you stand on?”
“The island,” Richard says, calm. “As you are.”
“You are this coin.” Esau flips it up into the darkness. “I play you in one hand.”
“Perhaps we're tethered to each other,” Richard replies, and that makes the man in black laugh.
“Always.”
-end
Prompt: Fun
Characters: Richard, Esau
Rating: G
Notes: post-finale!AU. 116 words.
Esau teaches Richard how to play backgammon. The man isn't unskilled but Esau's fingers are worn smooth by centuries of playing and he sees through Richard's strategies, clear as water. Every now and then Richard will remember that they're not playing with pieces but with human lives and stalk off; all fury and disgust. And the next night he'd be back, pale and damp in the torchlight, yelling and gesturing and making threats that burn the air.
“But I'm having fun,” the man in black says calmly, and smiles when Richard kicks the board into the sand, then leaves. He picks up the little stones, rubs the sand off them.
“See you tomorrow, Ricardo.”
-end