Title - Everyone Has Their Routines
By - PheonixFireBlack
Summary - Sawyer started it, Shannon went with it, they both continued it. Sometimes, you just get into a routine and when you get into a cycle like that, it's hard to break it....
Genre - General
Category - Lost
Feedback - Please? begs and grovelsI'll love you forever!
Criticism - I'd love it if you have it!
Disclaimer - I don't own anything. Life sucks. I'll go cry now.
Notes - A one-shot. I wonder if many people know what that is sometimes, though.... Anyway, here ya go...

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Everyone Has Their Routines
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Shannon was still the same Shannon she had been since they had first crashed, but she did make herself useful every now and then. But only when she felt like it. If she didn't see it fit for her to be doing anything productive, by all means, she wouldn't be doing anything. At the current point and time, Shannon was laying in the make-shift shelter made for one, though you could probably get another person in. She was trying to get to sleep, but it wasn't working very well. Shannon was one of those people that needed complete silence to fall asleep to, and around here, it was never completely silent. So, every night she had trouble going to sleep and she would for as long as they were here.

A noise she wasn't used to hearing made Shannon stiffen a little. It was almost like leaves rustling, only...right next to her. Behind her, actually. But what the hell would make that noise? There wasn't anything behind her. Or, there shouldn't be, but when she felt a light touch on her shoulder, she knew something was there.

"Loosen up, sweetheart. I'm not out ta kill ya."

Shannon rolled her eyes, "Sawyer! Go away!" She could just feel him grinning that stupid, sly grin that meant that he knew he was getting to her. And he hadn't even had to work at it this time.

"Where do you want me to go? We're on an island, there aren't many places to go."

"Just get away from me." She said quietly, turning on her side so she didn't have to face him.

"I don't think you really want me to go away." Sawyer whispered in her ear.

Shannon used all the will she had to not let that shiver run through her spine. And it barely worked at that. "I think that I do." She said bitingly.

"I don't believe you."

Well, I don't believe me either, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to reenforce it. She thought bitterly. She knew he was right. She didn't want him to leave, but she also didn't want to accept the fact that she didn't want him to leave. Instead of still trying to deny it out loud, Shannon just stayed silent.

"See? You don't want me to leave, do you?" He was still whispering in her ear.

Shannon tried to keep the shiver from running through her spine, but she didn't succeed this time. However, she still ignored him best she could.

"You tryin' to ignore me?" Sawyer asked, actually managing to sound a little hurt. If he really was hurt or not, there was no way to tell.

"Trying? How about I'm succeeding."

"Sweets, you couldn't ignore me since the second you met me."

"Shut up." Shannon muttered, not meaning it. Knowing she didn't mean it made Shannon angry at herself. She wanted to mean it. Wanted to want him to go away. But there was something about him that was just...intriguing. Before she had a chance to say another word, she felt a light kiss being placed on her cheek; then her jaw line; down her neck and to her shoulder. With that, she lost her composure. She leaned into the kisses. She hated it, but she couldn't help it.

Sawyer smirked. "Now...do you really want me to leave?"

Shannon ignored his question and asked her own question. "Why do we keep this up?"

"What?" He sounded confused.

"This....thing. I mean...it started about two weeks ago, and I know that we neither one like the other. .....Or am I wrong?"

"No. You're right."" And he knew it was true.

"Then...why do we keep it up?"

"I don't know....what do you think?"

When she spoke, Shannon's tone was quiet, "Maybe it's just...like a routine and...once you get into a routine, it's hard to get out of it. You know what I mean?"

"Yeah...." Sawyer nodded a little, "A routine...."

"We going to still keep to it?"

"We can't really stop it, can we? Like you said, it's already become a routine...and routine's are hard to get out of."

"Well, then...I guess we should just give into it, right?"

"It's all we can do...." Sawyer said in a smooth, even tone.

Shannon turned to face him, grinning up at him. "That....is absolutely right."

Sawyer leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips.

Shannon smiled against his lips and wrapped her arms around his neck.

It's true. Once you get into a certain cycle, you get so used to it that you barely even realize that you're in a cycle of any kind. It just seems so natural. And when you really get into a routine, if you do something different or try to drop part of that cycle, you almost feel as if a part of you has disappeared. The best way to keep that feeling of completeness is to never try and get out of your mechanical pattern. Just keep your routine the way it is. Everyone has them, don't they?

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Notes - Well...that didn't come out quite like I'd been thinking, but that's all right. I think it turned out ok. Whatever.... lol

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-PFB-