Title: You're Still Standing There
Fandom: Lost
Character: Desmond Hume
Prompt: #1, birth
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never was. Never will.
Summary: He knows that it would take nothing for Desmond to go on the shore and take that swim. He knows that if he did, the earth would tremble and shake, that everything would probably set on fire, that he could see the ocean waves from the porch of that house, that those walls would crumble upon him in piles of dust as all the rest would.
Spoilers: general S4 and one for 4x09.
A/N: title stolen from Steve Earle. Half apocalyptic of sorts but no one dies. Desmond/Sayid and some Des/Penny.

( His body shakes violently and then he understands. It won’t let him go. The second he turned that key, he was doomed and if he tries to get away, it’s going to kill him and everyone on that ship. )