confidenceman: (with a taste of your lips i'm on a ride)
Even though there's an apartment waiting for him a few blocks down, secure and safe and sound, Sawyer never spends very long in the space. After months of living on an island with the open air constantly above and around him, an apartment feels too enclosed, traps him in a way that he only ever associates with danger these days, so he leaves as often as he can, sparing only a few hours each evening to recharge with fitful, restless sleep.

He avoids practically every one of them at first, the individuals who happened across him at the site of the plane crash, their eyes too knowing and tones too soft to be a coincidence. A new city isn't terribly much to take in, but trying to find the line between friend and enemy is too much of a task when Sawyer sometimes feels like he's never been a good enough judge of character in the first place. Eventually, however, the questions gnaw at him, unwilling to leave as he tosses and turns in his sheets, and unless he wants to gradually let himself drain of all energy, it needs to be addressed.

Which his why he shrugs on a jacket, stalks into the street. He's done some odd jobs here and there, but nothing requiring regular hours, so instead he walks by some of the major living establishments, trying to find her. Kara Thrace, callsign Starbuck.

Something about the way she had approached him felt safe.

With enough nosing around, he managed to lock on a likely residence, and having a free day on his hands, Sawyer sat himself down near the entrance of Chelsea Cloisters with a book in his hands to ward off any suspicion.

Hopefully she was around.
confidenceman: (edginess is a rush)
The sun had drawn lines of fire across the floor, peeking through cracks widened and some jagged edges splintered by uncertain force— now, they finally faded, and the distant cries of children slipped away for the evening to make way for the uncertain spray of noise in the distance.

There wasn't a trace of her in the hut. He wouldn't have been able to stay, had there been. No, all of her belongings remained in a place he couldn't remember how to find, even though he'd been there less than a day prior. He'd crossed by her hut with the aim of dropping off a bundle of fruit, like it was nothing. Mangoes, so she wouldn't find herself forced to climb up trees, drop the weight on the unsuspecting passerby. Every quip was prepared, every step in place for the uncertain routine they'd fallen into, if only as a stopgap for them to finally breathe and decide, with more clarity, where they wanted to progress. Some part of him knew, as soon as that knock sounded hollow, that she'd ran.

And the only question which remained, burying itself into his chest, was this: had she chosen to?

No one knew how other people came to leave the island. For all that arriving wasn't a choice, no one knew if the same held true for departures. There was no wavelength to tap into, no seance to hold, no way to break through the barrier and run a thumb along a familiar cheek. None of it. Denial could only last so long, eyes roving as he peeked into her usual haunts, gave up patrol to sit on her step, but as the sun had fallen that first night, that was all the confirmation he needed.

Each crack in the wall felt satisfying under his hand, knuckles ripped raw until they bled into the grain. And in the early evening, the wine that spilled dark didn't look much different.

The clip was thrown clear across the room hours ago, but the second Sawyer heard someone pushing in through the door, he raised his pistol to point at the unwanted visitor.

"Turn around," he muttered hoarsely from his corner, smelling heavily of liquor and seated on the ground. "And get the fuck out."

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James "Sawyer" Ford

January 2020

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