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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: 2008-05-16 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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