Title: This Time
Fandom: Lost
Pairing: Kate Austen/Sun Kwon
Rating: PG
Word Count: 215
Prompt: #1-Beginnings
Disclaimer: I don't own Lost.
Of all the parts of a relationship, Kate loves the beginning the most. Things are new and fresh, the connection hadn’t had time to atrophy yet. You were just starting to feel each other out, testing boundaries and establishing a foundation for what was to come. It was beyond this point that things always screwed themselves up for Kate. Nothing seemed to come out right, she always said the wrong thing and the relationship got… messy. But maybe it wouldn’t turn out that way this time.
In all her relationships, she had seen her boyfriend as a person from her past. Jack is like her father; protective, riddled to the core with good intentions and he always, someway or another, makes her feel inferior and unworthy. Sawyer is like Wayne; the same blunt, almost greasy humor and a voice she could practically swim in. And the look he gives her when he says something particularly crude, the same one Wayne threw her way when he was too drunk to stand and sometimes when he wasn’t. It made her sick. But Sun, she was a blank slate.
She could start over with her. Yes, Kate promises herself as Sun winks at her and starts toward her across the beach. Yes, this time it will be different.
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