A Waking Dream

By: PhoenixJustice

Disclaimer: Lost is owned by people who are not me. I only own this story and make no profit from this.

Warning: Rated PG. AU!Sawyer, AU!Miles

Genre: Gen

Pairing/Characters: James Ford, Miles

Setting: Season 6 other timeline where Sawyer and Miles are cops and work together. Part One in the Other Side series.

Summary: James ponders on something that has been nagging at him.

"D'you ever get the feelin' that we're...not where we're supposed to be?"

"Huh?" Miles looks up from some paperwork at his desk, raising a brow at James. "What are you going on about? Last I checked, you were happy with your job."

James sighs, tilting his chair back a little, glancing up at the ceiling before turning back to his partner. "I am. I love what I do. That's not what I mean though. It's just...I get this feelin' every so often, like I'm misplaced. Or something is wrong." At Miles' incredulous look, he shrugs self-consciously.

Miles puts his paperwork down and looks at James a little closer than before. "I wasn't going to say anything. But now that you did...I might have felt that way once or twice."

The other man places his chair back down, leaning closer to his friend. "So what do you do about it?"

Miles shrugs. "About what? I don't do anything. I ignore it and I keep on with what I'm doing. It doesn't matter if it has anything to do with that stuff," he was referring to the spirits. "or something else. I worked hard at this life and I'm not going to give it up just like that."

James nods. "Yeah, I feel the same. It's like I walk a fine line of a dream and at any moment I could fall over the cliff, leading me back down into reality-and the nightmares that brings."

Miles stares. "That's deep coming from you."

James snorts. "Shut up."

A/N: This idea hit me over the head as soon as I saw Sawyer and Miles as cops in the alternate future/present. There might be more in the future of this AU-which is amazing coming from me, since I have never really done much AU or felt the need to.

I hope you enjoyed this!

Let me know what you thought!

-PhoenixJustice