Episode: Sundown
II.
Sayid is sitting on the edge of the pool watching over the corpses like a guardian, starring intently at the blade still grasped firmly in his hand and at the blood running down the edge.
"Sayid?"
A voice causes him to turn at the neck. He cackles demonically to himself, oddly amused at who he finds. "Hello Benjamin."
Ben scans the spring and the carnage that lays within. His eyes cross the brandished dagger and he keeps his distance. "Come on," he speaks slowly and methodically, "I know a way out of here."
The sound of the tyrannosaurus like creature can still be heard tearing a warpath through the temple. Fire and brimstone litter what is left of the camp and loose debris lay twisted and distorted. Sayid looks around with a smile. He belongs here.
"Why would I want to leave?" He asks while pushing his eyebrows together curiously.
He spins the knife in his hand and watches the graceful movement gleefully. Sayid glances back to Ben and they both have the same thing on their mind. He stands to his feet. "Why do you want to leave Ben?"
Ben responds by taking a few paces back. His eyes are cautiously observing Sayid from below his raised eyebrows. "Come on," he repeats carefully, "there's still time."
Sayid considers it. Not Ben's plea but stabbing the knife deep into his neck. He wants to but knows it won't do any good. He had already trying killing Benjamin Linus when he shot that bastard of a child. He extends his hand and grasps Ben's with his other. He places the knife, still soaked with blood, into Ben's palm and wraps his fingers around it. This isn't the first time Ben has had blood on his hands. Sayid neither. There's something fitting about having the same blood stain both of them.
"Not for me," he replies and turns back to admire the destruction behind him.
The sounds are dying out and there is an eerie calm spreading throughout the camp. Sayid cranes his neck again and sees that Ben has retreated, abandoning him. He notices Claire stumbling through the wreckage like a zombie towards her master and he follows suit, out to join his new family.