Title: Empty
Genre: Drabble
Spoilers: post season one, pre season two
Summary: Charlie is finally at breaking point, but what if Mary lied?
Original post date: 9th September 2005
Disclaimer: Lost, the characters within it and the situations they are in don't belong to me. Bad Robot, ABC, Disney, JJ Abrams and a bunch of other people own all the copyright to it. I promise I'm not writing this fanfiction to make any money and I don't mean to infringe on copyright – the plot bunnies simply attack and I relent.

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He had to get inside of it.

Charlie picked up the statuette, scrutinising Mary's mocking smile. It would be so easy to break her, one quick flick of the wrist and she would hit the ground and then he would have what he wanted and be damned to anyone who might try to stop him. He saw it in his minds eye, the small bags falling out of the shattered ceramic, him reaching down to take one, opening it…

He drew his arm back and threw her.

Mary's gentle smile shattered.

And Charlie froze in shock.

She was completely empty.