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Title: Fade Together
Fandom: Lost
Pairing: Kate Austen/Sun Kwon
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 383
Prompt: #76 - Secrets
Progress: 22/100

There are many things Kate Austen hides. She avoids talk of her family, she never tells people about what she did to warrant being chased after by the law. In fact, she never discussed her past with anyone, that is, except Sun.

 

There was a gentleness to the other woman that Kate had picked up on at first meeting her, an open trustworthiness, a natural softness. And when they had gotten to know each other more deeply, the friendship was like butter; each truth slipping out easier than the last, falsities flopping around to reveal the dark side of Kate’s life. Maybe it was because Kate was one of the first to know that Sun spoke English, and that coaxed her into revealing her own big fat elephants that sat in the room. Or maybe it just started out that way.

 

However it began, as time passed Kate realized that she was getting dangerously close to having an honest relationship for once. It surprised Kate that Sun didn’t judge her for her past, and didn’t use that as an indicator for what her future would be.

 

Perhaps that was why their friendship so effortlessly transformed to a romantic entanglement. Sun was already so immersed into her façade, she held the strings of her past; if she chose to she could tug once and Kate’s whole disguise would unravel, revealed to the world. So Kate made the decision to trust Sun, fully and unabashedly. Sun could choose any second, at the drop of a hat, to hand over Kate’s exposed self to anyone, whether that be about her criminal past or their relationship. Yet there was something oddly comforting about Sun having all of her, the good and the bad. It meant that not only did Sun hold the key to unlocking Kate’s secrets; Sun was one of those secrets.

 

Like stirring cake batter or a tangled string of outdoor lights, they had faded into each other, become so wrapped in trust, love and each other that it would be impossible to pull apart again. And Kate liked that, liked the feeling that she wasn’t as alone as she had been. Now she wasn’t the only one to carry the burden of her secrets. She had Sun. Sun had her. And Kate liked that.