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Title: I'm Headed Nowhere But Downhill
Characters: Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Jack
Rating: PG13, but sort of deals with drug use. What's with me and drugs?
Disclaimer: If they were mine they wouldn't have been in the FFs situations to begin with...
Word count: 400
Spoilers: Up to 4x10.
Summary: Jack isn't the only one with Oxycodone related issues.
A/N: so I wrote more than half of this in the interval between two lectures today. Drabbles again and yeah, Steve Earle stolen title and everything again. What's with me, Steve and drabbles? Inspired by his Oxycontin Blues. And I checked, Oxycontin and Oxycodone are more or less the same thing. How would I have had the idea otherwise? ;) Massive angst alert, hell yes. Entering for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lostfichallenge #72: the Oceanic Six (and yes, I spared Sun all the drama) and using also for 10_shakespeare, “True is it that we have seen better days.”
Oxycodone was in his meds; a small dose every three days.
Charlie shows up the first time he doesn’t take it; then he doesn’t forget and Charlie disappears.
It should have been easy. As long as he took it, Charlie wouldn’t come back.
Hurley tries to convince himself it’s for the best, then has to admit he misses him.
Reason says Charlie is an hallucination; giving in would just make things worse.
One day he doesn’t take it and speaks with Charlie all afternoon. It’s really not different from before. Stopping to take the meds isn’t hard, all things considered.
--
Ben doesn’t know that Sayid has a fake Oxycodone prescription.
He doesn’t really need it, but it makes it easier. In the beginning, sleeping wasn’t hard.
As the rage fades away, things change. At night Nadia isn’t in his dreams anymore, replaced by the last name he was given.
He takes only one each night. Enough to grant him a dreamless sleep, not enough to get addicted.
One day, he gets a name at ten in the morning. Penelope Widmore.
Sayid runs for a restroom, takes the small package out of his pocket; his hands shaking, he swallows three pills.
--
Kate thinks for a year that Jack is crazy.
She knows the patterns, has seen them all. Bottles, pills, attitude. She knew he was gone the second she read Oxycodone.
She had wanted nothing to do with him, after.
He said he saw his father. She hadn’t believed him.
Now she sees Sawyer every day. He reads on her bed, flashes dimples every time and tells her they have to go back.
She starts calling Jack; he doesn’t answer anymore.
When she swallows the first pill and hears What’s up, Freckles?, she understands how Jack felt. Too late, as always.
--
In retrospective, Jack knows he should have taken something lighter than that.
He knows he gets addicted easily.
Whiskey was more of his father’s thing, not his; but it had happened already and more than once. He had been addicted to fixing people. He had been somewhat addicted to Sarah – he had been addicted to his life with Kate.
He can’t escape the Oxycodone and it’s one pill after another.
The bitter irony of it, is that he started taking it in order not to see his father anymore; he always shows up as soon as he swallows one down.
End.
Title: I'm Headed Nowhere But Downhill
Characters: Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Jack
Rating: PG13, but sort of deals with drug use. What's with me and drugs?
Disclaimer: If they were mine they wouldn't have been in the FFs situations to begin with...
Word count: 400
Spoilers: Up to 4x10.
Summary: Jack isn't the only one with Oxycodone related issues.
A/N: so I wrote more than half of this in the interval between two lectures today. Drabbles again and yeah, Steve Earle stolen title and everything again. What's with me, Steve and drabbles? Inspired by his Oxycontin Blues. And I checked, Oxycontin and Oxycodone are more or less the same thing. How would I have had the idea otherwise? ;) Massive angst alert, hell yes. Entering for
lostfichallenge #72: the Oceanic Six (and yes, I spared Sun all the drama) and using also for 10_shakespeare, “True is it that we have seen better days.”Oxycodone was in his meds; a small dose every three days.
Charlie shows up the first time he doesn’t take it; then he doesn’t forget and Charlie disappears.
It should have been easy. As long as he took it, Charlie wouldn’t come back.
Hurley tries to convince himself it’s for the best, then has to admit he misses him.
Reason says Charlie is an hallucination; giving in would just make things worse.
One day he doesn’t take it and speaks with Charlie all afternoon. It’s really not different from before. Stopping to take the meds isn’t hard, all things considered.
--
Ben doesn’t know that Sayid has a fake Oxycodone prescription.
He doesn’t really need it, but it makes it easier. In the beginning, sleeping wasn’t hard.
As the rage fades away, things change. At night Nadia isn’t in his dreams anymore, replaced by the last name he was given.
He takes only one each night. Enough to grant him a dreamless sleep, not enough to get addicted.
One day, he gets a name at ten in the morning. Penelope Widmore.
Sayid runs for a restroom, takes the small package out of his pocket; his hands shaking, he swallows three pills.
--
Kate thinks for a year that Jack is crazy.
She knows the patterns, has seen them all. Bottles, pills, attitude. She knew he was gone the second she read Oxycodone.
She had wanted nothing to do with him, after.
He said he saw his father. She hadn’t believed him.
Now she sees Sawyer every day. He reads on her bed, flashes dimples every time and tells her they have to go back.
She starts calling Jack; he doesn’t answer anymore.
When she swallows the first pill and hears What’s up, Freckles?, she understands how Jack felt. Too late, as always.
--
In retrospective, Jack knows he should have taken something lighter than that.
He knows he gets addicted easily.
Whiskey was more of his father’s thing, not his; but it had happened already and more than once. He had been addicted to fixing people. He had been somewhat addicted to Sarah – he had been addicted to his life with Kate.
He can’t escape the Oxycodone and it’s one pill after another.
The bitter irony of it, is that he started taking it in order not to see his father anymore; he always shows up as soon as he swallows one down.
End.
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Date: 2008-05-14 07:18 pm (UTC)That line gave me chills.
Wow, this is a real great idea. And they are all taking the same drug^^
Aww, poor Jack. Very ironic.
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Date: 2008-05-14 07:24 pm (UTC)And yeah, everyone is on Oxy. I realize I may have stretched a bit but it looked plausible. Thanks so much again, really glad you liked it!
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Date: 2008-05-14 07:44 pm (UTC)When she swallows the first pill and hears What’s up, Freckles?, she understands how Jack felt. Too late, as always.
It is going to be interesting when Kate starts being haunted by the island the way that Jack and Hurley are and she realizes what Jack was going through. Having the drug be a link between all of them was an interesting idea. Nice work!
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Date: 2008-05-14 07:49 pm (UTC)I'm living to see that, methinks. Or at least, I'd love to see S3 flashforward Kate in that situation. *eyes her not too kindly*
I really don't know where the idea came from but I thought it'd be interesting to link them that way. Thank you so much, glad you liked it!
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:04 pm (UTC)(did taking the pill mean he is actually contemplating that job? Eek!)
Hell no! I mean, it probably means that he realized that he reached his lowest point. If I ever write him doing that job, he's never going to finish it. I'm not that masochistic!
About Kate and Sawyer, uhm, I leave liberty of choice. I had a bunny since Eggtown where she saw him and then found out it was happening because on the island they were all dead but at the time there weren't kids and promises in between and I never had the guts to go through with it (especially because I still didn't know you-know-what), so let's say I don't want to know what's up with him. I'd say one doesn't need to be dead though ;)
Sun surely didn't need me torturing her, at this point!
Clearly Oxycodone (and possibly your brain!) is manufactured by Widmore pharmaceuticals.
That's a likely possibility!
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:37 pm (UTC)Funny that Jack sees Christian when he takes the drugs and Hurley sees Charlie when he stops taking them.
Hurley is one that I like to stay clean ;) and I still think that the Charlie he sees has good intentions. About Jack's dad I couldn't say the same though... and glad you liked the creepy!Sawyer! I was going to do a full thing on that once. But it would have required a massacre and I'm nowhere near ready to go that way. And canon 90% ditched it anyway ;)
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:42 pm (UTC)This was great - I'm so happy Hurley quits to keep Charlie, when the others taken them and still keep their ghosts. Poor Sayid. Poor, poor Sayid.
Great drabbles! You need to write more of them! :D ♥
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:47 pm (UTC)And btw that was more or less the concept of that twisted Sawyer/Kate I was sure I could do until 4x10 sent me back to square one... because it would've worked if there weren't promises and stuff hanging between *sighs*.
I needed to have Hurley out of the hole. And never to get Sun into it, for that matter.
Poor Sayid. Poor, poor Sayid.
After the finale I have more than a plan to make up to him. *cuddles her poor man*
Thank you so much! Maybe I do but they're hard, damnit! Though I'll admit that Jack's one at the first draft was 99 words. If only they all came like that ;) ♥
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Date: 2008-05-14 09:50 pm (UTC)I know about drabbles being hard to write - but they are really fun too! And you did great! ;)
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Date: 2008-05-15 07:04 am (UTC)I'm choosing to believe they can see people who aren't dead, too ;)
I'm with you on that, I think ;)
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Date: 2008-05-16 04:49 pm (UTC)This was fantastic, loved the way you wove all of them together, not just with the drug use, but the visions and confusion and tragedy. Brilliant. For a short piece, this had a lot of punch. Kudos. : )
My favorite line:
Sayid runs for a restroom, takes the small package out of his pocket; his hands shaking, he swallows three pills.
Odd choice of favorite lines, I suppose ... but to me Sayid, out of all of them, is the strongest, the least likely to fall - and this shows so wonderfully how easy it is, even for a strong person, to take that plunge. Happens in the blink of an eye, out of the blue and into the black, and there's no going back.
(as a sidenote, do we happen to be sharing a brain, or something? lol Just checking ... first we had that weird Desmond-slumping idea at almost the same time, and now I'm chuckling again because I wrote, a couple of days ago, about Dan {who else? - he's all I seem to know how to write anymore *snorts*} visiting Jack after the appendectomy and offering him a little something for the pain. Betcha can't guess what it was. ; ) )
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Date: 2008-05-16 04:54 pm (UTC)the entire band of characters is flying on Oxy. That explains a helluva lot, actually.
Wow. Yeah. Makes sense. *plans to explain that they found Oxy in the first days of the crash and everyone has used it up to now*
Thank you so much, I'm really so glad that you liked it! And well, always for the brains colliding issue, the Sayid part is actually my favorite of the whole bunch. Not that it's because I've got a ridiculous Sayid crush but well, yeah, that's my favorite, too. And that's exactly what I was trying to do ;)
♥
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