Drabble challenge response

[auntiemeesh]

fell_beast2 asked for Lost: Sawyer or Michael's thoughts when they return to the island.

This is unbetaed and a bit rough. I didn't do a word count, but it's somewhere between i00 and 200 words, I think. Spoilers for the very beginning of season two, as well as the last few episodes of season one.

It was too much, really, and Michael's control, never all that firm to begin with, just shorted out. The boat destroyed by pirates (he could think of no other name for the others who had attacked them) his son stolen away by those same pirates, taken right out of his hands, Jin gone and most likely dead, stuck with Sawyer of all damn people; Michael just let loose and allowed all the anger and hatred that had been brewing inside him flood out. When Sawyer pulled a bullet of his shoulder with his fingers, Michael just sniped at him. When the shark attacked, he was glad of the opportunity to shoot something - the power of the gun felt scarily good in his hands.

When they washed up on the shore and Jin came running down the beach, arms bound behind his back, terrified and shouting incoherently about 'others', he felt, for one moment, nothing but relief. Not that Jin was alive but that the Others were here. Because if the Others were here, then so was Walt, and nothing else, not his life or the lives of his companions, mattered nearly so much as getting his son back.

Later, he would think that he should probably feel ashamed of that first reaction, but he knew that he never would.

Comments

[birch-tree.livejournal.com]

That's very good!!

I don't know if you meant it that way too, but this bit here:
nothing else, not his life or the lives of his companions, mattered nearly so much as getting his son back
links perfectly also to these last two episodes (if things are how they look like, that is...)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

That's interesting because I haven't watched any of the new episodes for the past couple of months at least. I'm hoping to get caught up over the summer.

[fell-beast2.livejournal.com]

Oooh, lovely angst! Nice.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. :)