Note: This begins a series of unrelated, 108-word LOST drabbles. I will update with new "chapters" as I write more drabbles.
Title: Ballpoint Stain
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: Post-O6, Jack is pinch-hitting in the ER. He knows, just by sight, that the leg has to go.
Spoilers: Do No Harm, and bits of Jack's general Oceanic 6 storyline.
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They're short-staffed when a multiple MVA comes in, so he's pinch-hitting in the ER.
Should have known this'd be a bad idea.
He's cutting open the jeans of the first guy on his table. He knows, just by sight, that the leg has to go. It's not a surprise – it's hanging by a thread – but it's sickening nonetheless. He jerks, ripping the jeans. Something clatters to the floor. He shouldn't, but he looks.
Two pens. One red, one blue. (Who the hell carries pens in their jeans pockets, anyway?)
"Shephard! Pull yourself together!"
He can't.
He downs a fifth of Jameson on the way home.