Title: No Such Thing As Freedom At the Bottom of the Sea
Author: kab16
Spoilers: season 3, episode 1 of season 4
Characters: Hurley, Charlie
Rating: PG
Summary: He was supposed to be free.
prompt: sink
He cannonballs.
Floats down. Freedom.Like maybe he could just swim off the island right then and there.
The canoe cuts through the water like a knife to the throat.
He's trudges through the sand, the grain sticking to his wet feet. His eyes sting. Water clings to his shirt, making it heavy.
"Where's Charlie?"
They're all yelling, talking over each other.
"Desmond."
Completely ignoring the lacking presence.
"Where's Charlie!"
He knows from the look in his eyes. Before then, really.
He feels like he's back in the water, sinking down, down to the bottom; imagines finding Charlie's body in the blackness there.
Dead.
He doesn't cannonball again.