Title: Jealousy Rears Its Ugly Head
Prompt: #17/ missing time
Words: 108
Summary: Claire struggles to adjust to normal life.
Spoilers: Post 6.17, 18 – The End
A/N: I kept wanting to write something about the Claire from season 6, both her time on and off the Island, so I finally scribbled this down. Hopefully more drabbles will follow soon. Some prompts credited to 64damn_prompts on livejournal.
The staccato ticking of the clock, like a knife being sharpened, forces her into the mindset of survival. (She refuses to think of who died at her hands from that very weapon.)
Yet here she is chopping up vegetables for tonight's dinner – the silver edge much sharper than anything she plunged into someone's chest – while her son (she has trouble thinking of him as hers, having missed most of his childhood) dashes down the hall, playing some hide-and-go-seek game with Kate.
The brunette rushes into the kitchen, breathless; stopping short at her expression.
"Oh Honey," she says sympathetically, not seeing Claire's white-knuckled grasp tighten around the blade handle.