another short one and i've got M written too, so they'll both go up at the same time.
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anyyyway, here's L
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L is for Linger
He asked her for two weeks.
It rained on day fourteen, sheets and sheets of rain pouring down on the compound and creating lakes of mud puddles.
Sawyer goes out at Horace's request (Jerry is "sick") to help keep everyone moving onto the sub.
So he stands there with a stupid Dharma umbrella staring at the stupid yellow submarine and waiting for stupid (he takes it back already) Juliet.
The last family climbs into the sub and Sawyer is feeling about as dark as the thunderclouds above his head.
He doesn't know why he feels betrayed, or sad, or angry, just that he does; Juliet is not his girlfriend, his mother, his best friend. She was just a person who had his back.
Liar.
Truth is, he's dreading seeing her come down that path with her small bag of clothes.
But the moment comes eventually and there's a flash of white as another umbrella comes down the path. He sees a streak of blonde as wind lashes at a smaller body. He doesn't look at her.
She comes to a stop on the dock next to him, folds up her umbrella so she's just brushing his side to stand under his.
His heart begins to beat faster and his stomach clenches as the sub captain closes the hatch and she's still next to him.
Slowly, as Sawyer and Juliet stand there in the rain, the little yellow submarine submerges and then disappears completely, not to be seen for another two months.
"Missed your sub, sweetheart,"
"Looks like,"
They stand there for what feels like an hour but is actually three minutes before turning simultaneously and walking back up the path to the compound.
When they reach the house they still share with Miles, Dan and Jin, having come the whole way in silence, Sawyer turns to her under the shelter of the porch roof.
"Why're you stayin'?"
Juliet looks away and then back at him, right into his eyes. "Who else is going to watch your back?"
He takes her hand and he doesn't know why and she doesn't flinch or look away from his face.
They stay like that a moment until there's a crash from inside. Sawyer blinks and drops Juliet's hand and she slowly smiles.
He does the same.
They head inside to see what's happening now.
next is H; reviews are LOVE!
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