to love me is to suffer me

Chapters: 24/? Fandom: Lost (TV 2004) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Neither of them speak for a while. James seems too shaken to talk, but even when she tries, his answers are short, curt. If he acknowledges her at all. He refuses to look at her, to touch her, so they walk nearly halfway through their jungle trek in silence.

When they pause to share the water James has stored in his pack, he nearly recoils at the brush of her fingers against his.

“Claire okay?” he grunts to cover the reaction.

Juliet hesitates but finally nods, taking a long sip from the bottle. “Locke brought the serum, Jack was going to administer the first dose as soon as I left.”

“Ben must’ve told him where to find the medication. He had it by the time I got there,” he mumbles, scratching some of the dried blood from knuckles he must have brutalized against Cooper’s bones. “That guy was Locke’s daddy.”

Chapters: 23/? Fandom: Lost (TV 2004) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

It takes him only an hour of hustling through the jungle before he finally locates the medical station mentioned in the files Juliet discovered—the Staff, with its bright red symbol wrapped around the ‘Dharma’ logo that is on most of the Others’ shit. Sawyer grunts as he tugs open the doors, descending into the station like one would an underground cellar.

The place is massive, constructed with a maze of hallways, each path leading into a room featuring towers of medical equipment. But he knows he’s in the right place when he ventures into a room with an ultrasound machine and a bed equipped with stirrups, meant for delivering babies.

He’s searching through filing cabinets, sorting through anything and everything that might fit the bill of what Juliet described as a serum of some sort. He almost doesn’t hear the approaching footsteps.

Almost.