Title: Doesn't Make Us Together
Prompt: comic
Words: 108
Summary: Their roles have always been reversed.
Spoilers: 4.10 – Something Nice Back Home and 5.06 - 316
A/N: What's this, I'm actually updating? Surprise surprise. I guess I have a few small tidbits left in me after all. One of these days I would love to get back into writing drabbles on a regular basis, so if anyone has a request or two, feel free to let me know.

She builds him a tree-house, pirate sails and comic book tales work wonders to repair the empty voids and aches. Jack teaches him to cook, a talent he'll never let her forget. She's his practice for every soccer game (they're both in the stands cheering).

It's a long-standing joke of role-reversal, each filling holes the other would have left gaping.

Kate leaves her son because she has to (tears in her eyes as her heart slowly crumbles to dust). Jack leaves them both by choice; without shedding a drop.

Finally we play by the rules, she thinks, the plane lurching steadily upward, tinted glasses hiding fresh salt trails.