catch your death
Title: catch your death
Author: Phelipa
Rating: PG
Warning/Spoilers: All aired season 5 episodes. *Character Death*
Summary: Speculation post 5.06
Pairing: Hints of Sawyer/Kate, Juliet/Jack
Disclaimer: I don't own Lost or the characters used in this fanfiction, nor do I make any profit from my work.
he runs to her. runs. like she’s the air that he’s been denied for too long.
and it hurts. a lot, more than she’d like to admit.
he embraces her, lifting her off her feet and crushing her so tightly that she yelps and gasps for breath. but she smiles as she cries out and that makes it hurt even more.
she feels utterly empty as he caresses Kate’s hair, strokes his dirty fingers over her thick curls, and presses a breath taking kiss to her plump, pink lips.
she wipes the blood from her upper lip with the back of her hand and drops to the sand, knees buckling under the weight of loss and despair and travel.
a warm, strong arm slides around her shoulders and gently supports her, lifting a cloth to her nose and tenderly laving the skin. she struggles to see who’s holding her so tightly, so lovingly, but a white film settles over her eyes and she’s robbed of her sight.
she gasps as thick blood slides down her throat, filling her palate with the sickening taste of old pennies, and the arm shifts her forward so she doesn’t choke.
she blinks again but her vision blacks and suddenly she can’t taste or smell, she’s almost completely senseless. she can feel the thump of her heart slowing and her lungs seem to clamp down, blocking the steady flow of air and making her choke and writhe in the comforting embrace.
as she teeters on the edge of consciousness she feels a rough thumb brush over her cheek and a hoarse, almost forgotten voice murmurs,
“I ‘m sorry I can’t fix this.”