Speeches Of Motorcycle Safety

[Lost] Tempus fugit

Titolo: Tempus fugit
Fandom: Lost
Personaggi: Benjamin Linus
Challenge: Momento sbagliato @ it100  
Rating: G
Word Count: 181 (W)
Warnings: SPOILER S5: somewhere in The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (05x07).
Disclaimer: Lost (c) ABC et alia.
Notes: written to fill a piece of 'unspoken' in that episode.

'berths, please.'

not have time for a break, now that he has not counted the minutes, and yet paradoxically it is precisely now that he needs a break.

'No I can, it is dangerous to stop on the bridge, so ...'

The driver has a heavy accent, and grammar is not his forte. An immigrant who every day, with his wife and children, always use their mother tongue.

Ben is convinced that the English Jarrah is perfect for exactly that. Why has no family, no roots to keep alive.

'Even if the meter keeps running?'

man mumbles something, and Ben begins to repeat, slowly this time. Instead, the taxi slowed down and then stands still, right in the middle of the bridge.

falls, the balustrade and watch the lights of Los Angeles to float on the water.

closes his eyes. The hotel is still far away from John.

The possibility of getting stuck in a present with no alternative becomes more real every minute.

From the car comes a beep.

The meter runs, and the time with him.

It's never been a problem.

It should never have been.