you tell me that it's not so hard, and it's all so hard (mission_insane - Table #13, Prompt #6)
Title: you tell me that it's not so hard, and it's all so hard
Fandom: LOST
Characters: Alexandra Rousseau, Benjamin Linus
Prompt: Table #13, Prompt #6 (desperate) // January 22, 2010 (error and truth are uncertainly blended)
Word Count: 172
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Violence and character death.
Summary: All he has to do is walk outside.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
you tell me that it's not so hard, and it's all so hard
They killed her mother only a few days after she saw her for the first time. They killed her boyfriend. Left their bodies to defend themselves against the world they left behind.
Daddy!
She's forced to fall to her knees in front of a house that was once a home. A house where her father is, hiding from the truth.
Daddy!
It's her turn, and it's not comforting to know that the cold metal pressed against her head is just like her father's gentle touch.
Daddy...!
The cold consumes her as she says through sobs that she will die if he does not control his game soon.
Daddy...?
All he has to do is walk outside. It should be as easy as breathing.
Daddy...!
He pretends the years they spent together don't exist instead, because it's just so hard.
Ben...!
She closes her eyes, refuses to see in her final moments the island that took everything from them.
God--
Silence falls, just as it should have when they first met as strangers.
Fandom: LOST
Characters: Alexandra Rousseau, Benjamin Linus
Prompt: Table #13, Prompt #6 (desperate) // January 22, 2010 (error and truth are uncertainly blended)
Word Count: 172
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): Violence and character death.
Summary: All he has to do is walk outside.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.
you tell me that it's not so hard, and it's all so hard
They killed her mother only a few days after she saw her for the first time. They killed her boyfriend. Left their bodies to defend themselves against the world they left behind.
Daddy!
She's forced to fall to her knees in front of a house that was once a home. A house where her father is, hiding from the truth.
Daddy!
It's her turn, and it's not comforting to know that the cold metal pressed against her head is just like her father's gentle touch.
Daddy...!
The cold consumes her as she says through sobs that she will die if he does not control his game soon.
Daddy...?
All he has to do is walk outside. It should be as easy as breathing.
Daddy...!
He pretends the years they spent together don't exist instead, because it's just so hard.
Ben...!
She closes her eyes, refuses to see in her final moments the island that took everything from them.
God--
Silence falls, just as it should have when they first met as strangers.