Fool's Hope
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tellshannon815Title: Fool's Hope
Fandom: Lost
Characters: Rose, Bernard, Charlie, Juliet. Mentions of Shannon, Sun, Ana, Claire, Hurley, Sawyer.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up to LaFleur.
Pairings: Rose/Bernard, implied Juliet/Sawyer and Charlie/Claire.
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lostfichallenge #91, The Seven Heavenly Virtues. Rose, Bernard, Charlie and Juliet think about the times when they had hope, even when it seemed like fool's hope.
They tell her it's a fool's hope. Bernard had been in the tail section when they had crashed. There was no way he could have survived the impact, not when the tail section had been ripped away from the fuselage the way it was.
But Rose is sure it isn't true. For all any of them know, the rest of the tail section survivors are telling Bernard the same thing about her. She'd know if Bernard had died in the crash. She'd have felt it at the time, she's convinced.
She sits and watches the other survivors at the beach camp; Charlie laughing with Claire as the two of them play with Aaron. Rose remembers the way Charlie had been acting right after Ethan had taken Claire, withdrawing from the rest of the survivors, blaming himself for what had happened. And she remembers the way they'd talked at the time, how she'd been the one to get Charlie to open up.
Charlie's hope had paid off, for Claire had returned to him.
Rose watches Sun, sitting at the water's edge, seemingly staring at nothing although Rose knows she's scanning the ocean for any sign of Jin. It's not common knowledge at the time, but Claire's confided in Rose that she found the bottle full of messages on the beach and took it to Sun. No one knows yet whether the people in the raft have survived, and Rose wonders whether Sun still retains any hope of ever seeing Jin again.
Shannon is not far away, playing with Vincent. Rose knows there's no hope there; Boone's gone, and he isn't coming back. It can't be easy for Shannon, having lost the one person she loved on the island. Rose wonders if she should talk to her, but isn't sure what to say.
As Rose watches, Sayid walks over and says something to Shannon. Rose can't hear what he says, but whatever it is makes her smile for the first time in days.
And Rose realises she was wrong. Shannon has hope after all.
Rose reaches down for the stash of Apollo bars she's been keeping for Bernard ever since they discovered the hatch. Soon, she'll be able to give them to him.
She has faith, and she has hope, that they'll be together soon.
To Bernard, it had seemed that everyone else had lost hope.
Take the day with the radio. He'd been sure, when he'd heard the transmission, claiming to be a survivor of Flight 815, that it was genuine and he would be reunited with Rose. Eko had pulled the bodies out of the water, and he'd said he hadn't seen an African-American woman.
And Bernard was sure in his heart that Rose was still alive. He'd had everything fixed, for God's sake. Bernard had taken Rose to the faith healer, and she'd come back saying she was cured. God couldn't possibly have allowed Rose to be cured of cancer by the faith healer and then taken her away like this.
But Ana Lucia had been convinced that there was no hope. The transmission had to be Them, they'd known the flight number because Goodwin did, this was a trap. And then she'd started crying, the first time they had seen their leader cry.
Bernard was right to hope that Rose was still alive, and he'd been reunited with her again.
But even now, at the other camp, Bernard still thinks everyone's lost hope. No one's trying to get them off this island any more. They've got the hatch, the stores of food - anyone would think they didn't want to be rescued.
They all might have lost hope, but Bernard hasn't. He's determined get them all out of here, to bring Rose home.
It's only after everyone's refused to help with the S.O.S. sign that Bernard understands why Rose was so reluctant. She hadn't been cured by the faith healer, after all, but by landing on the island. And she's clearly scared that if she ever leaves, her cancer will return.
For Rose, this is the place where she still has hope. And now it's the same for Bernard, too. Because as long as he has Rose, that's all he needs.
Charlie doesn't see the point of hope. How can he, when Desmond's just told him he's going to die?
It would have been so easy to dismiss it all as bollocks. But he can't explain how Desmond could have known that the lightning was going to strike Claire's shelter, or that Claire was going to get into difficulties at sea.
He could disengage from his friends, spend all his time in his tent in the hope that somehow he'll escape But even then, something will probably happen. It's a fool's hope; there is no hope for him, from what Desmond had said. "No matter what I try and do, you're going to die, Charlie."
And even Hurley, bloody happy-go-lucky Hurley, Hurley with the morale-boosting golf course and the constant jokes to cheer him up, even his best friend thought there was no hope. "I'm kind of cursed. Death finds me, dude." Even he thought Desmond was right.
And Claire, so excited about her plans to get hold of a tagged seagull and send it with a message. The hope's radiating from her as she prepares the bait with Sun and Jin. Charlie hates himself for crushing her spirit as he points out the flaws in her plan, tells her it's a fool's hope. The seagull might not have been tagged after all. Hell, maybe it'll just end up back on this sodding island again. Des had said he'd been aiming for Fiji, but hadn't been able to get to anywhere other than here. What had he called it? "Bloody snowglobe", that was it.
But he should have known Claire and Hurley wouldn't give up on him. Hurley had dragged Charlie to that beat-up old DHARMA van with Jin and Sawyer. When they'd gone for the ride, and Charlie had been sure they were heading for the rocks, Hurley had had hope that they'd be fine, and he was right.
And Claire had come to him when Desmond had told her of Charlie's fate, had said that they would face it together, no matter what. She wasn't giving up on him. She still had hope, and that was enough for him.
Maybe what Desmond said would come true, maybe it wouldn't. But he's got Claire, and he's got Hurley, and he knows they'll face it together. As long as he has them, Charlie has hope after all.
Juliet could barely remember a time when she still had hope.
They'd all seemed so confident in her when she'd first arrived on the island. Juliet would be the answer to their prayers. She'd find the reason why nobody could carry a pregnancy to term on the island, she'd solve the problem. Then she could return home to Rachel.
The mothers had still all had hope in their eyes the first few times. No one had expected her to cure it straight away, they said. She'd find out soon, she would fix them.
After the fourth mother, Stephanie, died, Juliet began to notice the lack of hope, the confidence being replaced by mistrust, the whispering that she wasn't the best person for the job after all but had been chosen merely for her resemblance to someone from Ben's past (she still didn't know who that was).
But Juliet was no longer sure she cared. She was losing hope herself. Ben had told her Rachel's cancer had returned. He'd claimed that Jacob was taking care of it personally, but it was fool's hope to place her trust in some being she barely believed in.
She didn't even dare let herself hope the day Ben and Mikhail had showed her the first glimpse of Rachel for three years. Rachel was alive, but Juliet couldn't talk to her. And she no longer believed Ben would ever let her go.
She'd begun to hope once more when the freighter people had arrived on the island. She'd happily waved off Sun and Jin in the Zodiac raft, confident in the belief that Daniel would come back for her, that she would return to Miami, to Rachel.
But that hope had vanished into ashes along with the Kahana.
She no longer has any hope of making it off the island. She's abandoned that dream. She's still there, stuck in 1977 and working among the DHARMA Initiative.
But not all hope has gone. She has Sawyer now, someone on the island who truly believes in her, something she doesn't think she ever really had since Rachel. "You're gonna do great. I know you are."
And she's managed to successfully deliver the first baby on the island for a long time. Amy looks at her with a trust in her eyes that she's never seen on this island, a trust that even Sun had never quite managed.
As there is new life on this island, so there is hope. Not the fool's hope of her past, but a real hope for her future.
Fandom: Lost
Characters: Rose, Bernard, Charlie, Juliet. Mentions of Shannon, Sun, Ana, Claire, Hurley, Sawyer.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers up to LaFleur.
Pairings: Rose/Bernard, implied Juliet/Sawyer and Charlie/Claire.
Summary: Written for
lostfichallenge #91, The Seven Heavenly Virtues. Rose, Bernard, Charlie and Juliet think about the times when they had hope, even when it seemed like fool's hope.They tell her it's a fool's hope. Bernard had been in the tail section when they had crashed. There was no way he could have survived the impact, not when the tail section had been ripped away from the fuselage the way it was.
But Rose is sure it isn't true. For all any of them know, the rest of the tail section survivors are telling Bernard the same thing about her. She'd know if Bernard had died in the crash. She'd have felt it at the time, she's convinced.
She sits and watches the other survivors at the beach camp; Charlie laughing with Claire as the two of them play with Aaron. Rose remembers the way Charlie had been acting right after Ethan had taken Claire, withdrawing from the rest of the survivors, blaming himself for what had happened. And she remembers the way they'd talked at the time, how she'd been the one to get Charlie to open up.
Charlie's hope had paid off, for Claire had returned to him.
Rose watches Sun, sitting at the water's edge, seemingly staring at nothing although Rose knows she's scanning the ocean for any sign of Jin. It's not common knowledge at the time, but Claire's confided in Rose that she found the bottle full of messages on the beach and took it to Sun. No one knows yet whether the people in the raft have survived, and Rose wonders whether Sun still retains any hope of ever seeing Jin again.
Shannon is not far away, playing with Vincent. Rose knows there's no hope there; Boone's gone, and he isn't coming back. It can't be easy for Shannon, having lost the one person she loved on the island. Rose wonders if she should talk to her, but isn't sure what to say.
As Rose watches, Sayid walks over and says something to Shannon. Rose can't hear what he says, but whatever it is makes her smile for the first time in days.
And Rose realises she was wrong. Shannon has hope after all.
Rose reaches down for the stash of Apollo bars she's been keeping for Bernard ever since they discovered the hatch. Soon, she'll be able to give them to him.
She has faith, and she has hope, that they'll be together soon.
To Bernard, it had seemed that everyone else had lost hope.
Take the day with the radio. He'd been sure, when he'd heard the transmission, claiming to be a survivor of Flight 815, that it was genuine and he would be reunited with Rose. Eko had pulled the bodies out of the water, and he'd said he hadn't seen an African-American woman.
And Bernard was sure in his heart that Rose was still alive. He'd had everything fixed, for God's sake. Bernard had taken Rose to the faith healer, and she'd come back saying she was cured. God couldn't possibly have allowed Rose to be cured of cancer by the faith healer and then taken her away like this.
But Ana Lucia had been convinced that there was no hope. The transmission had to be Them, they'd known the flight number because Goodwin did, this was a trap. And then she'd started crying, the first time they had seen their leader cry.
Bernard was right to hope that Rose was still alive, and he'd been reunited with her again.
But even now, at the other camp, Bernard still thinks everyone's lost hope. No one's trying to get them off this island any more. They've got the hatch, the stores of food - anyone would think they didn't want to be rescued.
They all might have lost hope, but Bernard hasn't. He's determined get them all out of here, to bring Rose home.
It's only after everyone's refused to help with the S.O.S. sign that Bernard understands why Rose was so reluctant. She hadn't been cured by the faith healer, after all, but by landing on the island. And she's clearly scared that if she ever leaves, her cancer will return.
For Rose, this is the place where she still has hope. And now it's the same for Bernard, too. Because as long as he has Rose, that's all he needs.
Charlie doesn't see the point of hope. How can he, when Desmond's just told him he's going to die?
It would have been so easy to dismiss it all as bollocks. But he can't explain how Desmond could have known that the lightning was going to strike Claire's shelter, or that Claire was going to get into difficulties at sea.
He could disengage from his friends, spend all his time in his tent in the hope that somehow he'll escape But even then, something will probably happen. It's a fool's hope; there is no hope for him, from what Desmond had said. "No matter what I try and do, you're going to die, Charlie."
And even Hurley, bloody happy-go-lucky Hurley, Hurley with the morale-boosting golf course and the constant jokes to cheer him up, even his best friend thought there was no hope. "I'm kind of cursed. Death finds me, dude." Even he thought Desmond was right.
And Claire, so excited about her plans to get hold of a tagged seagull and send it with a message. The hope's radiating from her as she prepares the bait with Sun and Jin. Charlie hates himself for crushing her spirit as he points out the flaws in her plan, tells her it's a fool's hope. The seagull might not have been tagged after all. Hell, maybe it'll just end up back on this sodding island again. Des had said he'd been aiming for Fiji, but hadn't been able to get to anywhere other than here. What had he called it? "Bloody snowglobe", that was it.
But he should have known Claire and Hurley wouldn't give up on him. Hurley had dragged Charlie to that beat-up old DHARMA van with Jin and Sawyer. When they'd gone for the ride, and Charlie had been sure they were heading for the rocks, Hurley had had hope that they'd be fine, and he was right.
And Claire had come to him when Desmond had told her of Charlie's fate, had said that they would face it together, no matter what. She wasn't giving up on him. She still had hope, and that was enough for him.
Maybe what Desmond said would come true, maybe it wouldn't. But he's got Claire, and he's got Hurley, and he knows they'll face it together. As long as he has them, Charlie has hope after all.
Juliet could barely remember a time when she still had hope.
They'd all seemed so confident in her when she'd first arrived on the island. Juliet would be the answer to their prayers. She'd find the reason why nobody could carry a pregnancy to term on the island, she'd solve the problem. Then she could return home to Rachel.
The mothers had still all had hope in their eyes the first few times. No one had expected her to cure it straight away, they said. She'd find out soon, she would fix them.
After the fourth mother, Stephanie, died, Juliet began to notice the lack of hope, the confidence being replaced by mistrust, the whispering that she wasn't the best person for the job after all but had been chosen merely for her resemblance to someone from Ben's past (she still didn't know who that was).
But Juliet was no longer sure she cared. She was losing hope herself. Ben had told her Rachel's cancer had returned. He'd claimed that Jacob was taking care of it personally, but it was fool's hope to place her trust in some being she barely believed in.
She didn't even dare let herself hope the day Ben and Mikhail had showed her the first glimpse of Rachel for three years. Rachel was alive, but Juliet couldn't talk to her. And she no longer believed Ben would ever let her go.
She'd begun to hope once more when the freighter people had arrived on the island. She'd happily waved off Sun and Jin in the Zodiac raft, confident in the belief that Daniel would come back for her, that she would return to Miami, to Rachel.
But that hope had vanished into ashes along with the Kahana.
She no longer has any hope of making it off the island. She's abandoned that dream. She's still there, stuck in 1977 and working among the DHARMA Initiative.
But not all hope has gone. She has Sawyer now, someone on the island who truly believes in her, something she doesn't think she ever really had since Rachel. "You're gonna do great. I know you are."
And she's managed to successfully deliver the first baby on the island for a long time. Amy looks at her with a trust in her eyes that she's never seen on this island, a trust that even Sun had never quite managed.
As there is new life on this island, so there is hope. Not the fool's hope of her past, but a real hope for her future.