LOST, Jack Shepard/James "Sawyer" Ford, Set Gamma
Fandom: LOST
Pairing: Jack/Sawyer
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: G-PG13
Warning[s]: None
Author's Note: I'm sorry this took so long, to anyone who was waiting to do this claim. It's all yours now!!
#01 - Ring
Sawyer knew he should feel badly for taking Jack’s old wedding ring and hiding it, but hearing the poor bastard cry quietly while clutching it when he thought no one was listening was not only painful, but it made sleeping pretty damn hard.
#02 - Hero
Boone had been a lost cause since Locke had brought him in from the jungle drenched in blood, but Jack still thought he could’ve saved him if only he’d tried a little harder.
#03 - Memory
There isn’t any other person on the island Sawyer would rather have come into his tent at night and comfort him than Jack when he remembers the night his father killed his mother and then himself; for some reason, it’s as if Jack understands what it’s like to not have parents at all.
#04 - Box
The two of them found a box of various foods in the jungle: chips, sliced peaches, chocolate, even some wine; they looked at each other, each with a wicked smile, and hid the box for further excursions.
#05 - Run
The farther away from the Others he ran, the more he felt like he was making a huge mistake and that it still wasn’t too late to turn around and go back for him.
#06 - Hurricane
It took a lot of convincing, but with Jack there with him, Sawyer began to think that the heavy wind and rain was just another storm.
#07 - Wings
There was a bird with a hurt wing in the jungle that Sawyer found and brought to Jack, worrying like a child and asking if it would be okay, and Jack thought there could possibly be something likeable in him.
#08 - Cold
On the coldest day they’d had on the island, they ran out of coffee, and Jack begged him and he had rolled his eyes and sighed, but Sawyer didn’t actually mind sharing with Jack as much as he said he did.
#09 - Red
At first he had hated him, but when he saw blood spilling from the bullet wound in his shoulder and heard the unconscious man mutter in his sleep, distressed, he realized that they both were human.
#10 - Drink
The Others may have had taps and cleaner water, but rain water bottled by a stony-faced Southerner was sweeter than any water he’d ever tasted.
#11 - Midnight
There had been some hesitation, but like some clichéd romance movie, at midnight, Jack kissed Sawyer for the first time, and yes, it had been cheesy.
#12 - Temptation
The path Sawyer’s eyes made was an obvious one; Jack fumed silently and looked the other way, away from Kate.
#13 - View
At the top of the cliff, they watched the sunset, and the ant-sized people living on the beach, and thought maybe it all could work this way forever.
#14 - Music
Charlie had been kind enough to lend his guitar, but Sawyer knew it wouldn’t change, because Jack couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket when he hummed, let alone pluck sour chords on an unfamiliar guitar.
#15 - Silk
One of the suitcases had a silk negligee in it and Sawyer thought it would be hilarious to give it to the good doctor as a birthday present, but halfway to his tent he realized he didn’t know Jack’s birthday.
#16 - Cover
One of the other survivors had a rip in her tarp and they switched it with Sawyer’s, who had been pissed until Jack came with a blanket and a hug and suddenly the gaping hole in his tarp was just a pin hole.
#17 - Promise
He doesn’t remember ever keeping a promise, but the look in the other’s Bambi-brown eyes were full of childlike hope, so he sighed exasperatedly, held out a pinkie and said, “Sure, sure, I’ll even pinkie swear.”
#18 - Dream
Jack had to think about the question, but finally opened his mouth and said, “When I was a kid, I wanted to be a rock star… what about you?” and Sawyer didn’t answer; he couldn’t remember if he’d had any dreams at all.
#19 - Candle
In a fit of anger, Sawyer snapped a candle stick in half, and no matter how many times Kate berated him for it, the only worry he had was how disappointed he knew Jack would be in him; they only had four candles left.
#20 - Talent
Jack detested Sawyer’s impeccable talent for apathy; the cookie dough had come out better than expected, and it was Jack’s first time making it, but Sawyer didn’t even seem to care, so Jack went off down the beach and, in a quiet, spiteful way, gave the batch of dough to Juliet and stormed off without a word.
#21 - Silence
In the darkness, their silence was almost deafening, and it scared Sawyer more than anything else on the island.
#22 - Journey
Jack sat in his comfortable, temporary home in the Others’ commune and began to think that soon, this entire nightmare would be over and he’d be back in his own bed again.
#23 - Fire
He’d burned his hand badly but refused to get help; only when it blistered and split and began to look almost infected did he go to Jack, but his pride was hurt, and Jack understood.
#24 - Strength
Sawyer always thought Jack had been weak, but realized now that it wasn’t weakness at all, but compassion that the doctor had for every survivor on the island, even Sawyer.
#25 - Mask
The night Jack finally coaxed Sawyer out of his shell, he looked into the Southerner’s normally guarded eyes and saw real pain, and his first and only instinct was to hug him and never let him go.
#26 - Ice
One night while lying in the sand, Jack noticed Sawyer had a scar on his stomach; a scar that, the Southerner claimed, came from a bad date, during which he got an ice skate to the stomach.
#27 - Fall
Out of all the seasons, Jack found he missed autumn the most, mainly because he was disappointed there were no falling colorful leaves to kiss beneath.
#28 - Forgotten
There had been tears, but then kisses to follow, and together in the middle of the jungle, both of them forgot their pasts, ignored the future, and decided together to live for the present.
#29 - Dance
He learned, with help from Jack, that martial arts could also be a graceful dance, and he kept in mind the curls and waves of Jack’s beautiful body for the next time he had to fight.
#30 - Body
Lit only by a single fire in the center of the hot jungle, Sawyer kissed and touched and memorized every inch of Jack’s warm body below him.
#31 - Sacred
It surprised Jack how incredibly passionate Sawyer could be, and he treasured how he was the only one that could elicit that high, breathy sigh from the Southerner when he grazed his teeth across the sensitive area just to the side of his belly-button.
#32 - Farewells
Sawyer hadn’t known how Jack actually felt about Boone until he witnessed the doctor alone, kneeling in front of the gravestone, hands folded in his lap, head down, with flowers at his knees, and Sawyer wanted to walk away, but instead his feet carried him to the doctor’s side and he fell next to him and hugged him tight.
#33 - World
The world was huge, with over 6 billion people living in every single place, but Jack found that none of those 6 billion was as beautiful or as interesting as Sawyer.
#34 - Formal
“I found a tux in one of the suitcases,” Sawyer said casually to Jack, though he looked the opposite way like a nervous teenager, “and it’s expensive, too… I thought you’d want it, so… here.”
#35 - Fever
It was scary and nerve-wracking to watch Sawyer writhe and sweat and mumble with a worryingly-high fever; Jack had never been so scared in his entire life.
#36 - Laugh
“It’s like music,” Jack said wistfully, as Claire nodded sympathetically, “but he just doesn’t smile enough to bring it out.”
#37 - Lies
Sawyer had to lie to Jack, stretching it like tape across his lips, because he couldn’t tell him that Kate had accosted him, and that he had let her, and that he hadn’t even thought of Jack until it was over.
#38 - Forever
He hadn’t meant to say it, honestly, but Jack was getting on his nerves with this love forever bullshit, so without any warning he stood from the sand and said, “There won’t never be any ‘forever,’ Doc, not here or there.”
#39 - Overwhelmed
Sawyer didn’t know how remorseful he felt when Sayid, Jin and Bernard fell silent over the walkie-talkie, but what threw him off-balance was the shell-shocked expression on Jack’s tired face.
#40 - Whisper
It was utter chaos, confusion in all forms, as Jack tried to round the survivors up, and Sawyer’s own previous sense of authority dwindled to barely a whisper; a mosquito in everyone’s ears.
#41 - Wait
“It ain’t the idea of rescue not comin’ that bugs me,” Sawyer said finally, “but it’s the not knowin’ and jus’ assumin’, and then the waitin’ for potentially nothin’--that really pisses me off.”
#42 - Talk
Sawyer kissed forcefully, so that any words that Jack had ready died on his tongue, and soon he felt like a child, losing the ability to talk in Sawyer’s mouth.
#43 - Search
The flashlight died on him in the middle of the night, but he still tore through bushes and shrubs, looking, searching, for any sign that Sawyer was still alive.
#44 - Hope
When it got too much to bear, Sawyer would go to Jack and become a new person, a different person who, he thought, could finally see the light at the end of the darkness.
#45 - Eclipse
Sawyer hated love ballads more than anything, so when he overheard someone singing “Total Eclipse of the” GOD DAMNED “Heart,” it took all the strength he had (and Jack’s tight death grip on his hips) to keep him from head-butting that sucker halfway across the beach.
#46 - Gravity
In the moments before he hit the water, Sawyer felt like he was floating in zero-gravity, and when he landed, it felt like someone had just smashed his birthday cake into his face.
#47 - Highway
It only took five minutes for Jack to meet the ambulance halfway at the crash site, and it only took half a second for him to realize exactly what he’d just lost.
#48 - Unknown
Watching the coffin being lowered into the ground, Sawyer imagined Jack sipping dry martinis with all the greats, waving at him through the clouds.
#49 - Lock
“I changed my locks, Sawyer, so please go home.”
#50 - Breathe
Jack would know better than anyone (he is a doctor, you know) that you have to stop making out sometimes because humans need oxygen to sustain, not kisses, though Sawyer would beg to differ.
Pairing: Jack/Sawyer
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: G-PG13
Warning[s]: None
Author's Note: I'm sorry this took so long, to anyone who was waiting to do this claim. It's all yours now!!
#01 - Ring
Sawyer knew he should feel badly for taking Jack’s old wedding ring and hiding it, but hearing the poor bastard cry quietly while clutching it when he thought no one was listening was not only painful, but it made sleeping pretty damn hard.
#02 - Hero
Boone had been a lost cause since Locke had brought him in from the jungle drenched in blood, but Jack still thought he could’ve saved him if only he’d tried a little harder.
#03 - Memory
There isn’t any other person on the island Sawyer would rather have come into his tent at night and comfort him than Jack when he remembers the night his father killed his mother and then himself; for some reason, it’s as if Jack understands what it’s like to not have parents at all.
#04 - Box
The two of them found a box of various foods in the jungle: chips, sliced peaches, chocolate, even some wine; they looked at each other, each with a wicked smile, and hid the box for further excursions.
#05 - Run
The farther away from the Others he ran, the more he felt like he was making a huge mistake and that it still wasn’t too late to turn around and go back for him.
#06 - Hurricane
It took a lot of convincing, but with Jack there with him, Sawyer began to think that the heavy wind and rain was just another storm.
#07 - Wings
There was a bird with a hurt wing in the jungle that Sawyer found and brought to Jack, worrying like a child and asking if it would be okay, and Jack thought there could possibly be something likeable in him.
#08 - Cold
On the coldest day they’d had on the island, they ran out of coffee, and Jack begged him and he had rolled his eyes and sighed, but Sawyer didn’t actually mind sharing with Jack as much as he said he did.
#09 - Red
At first he had hated him, but when he saw blood spilling from the bullet wound in his shoulder and heard the unconscious man mutter in his sleep, distressed, he realized that they both were human.
#10 - Drink
The Others may have had taps and cleaner water, but rain water bottled by a stony-faced Southerner was sweeter than any water he’d ever tasted.
#11 - Midnight
There had been some hesitation, but like some clichéd romance movie, at midnight, Jack kissed Sawyer for the first time, and yes, it had been cheesy.
#12 - Temptation
The path Sawyer’s eyes made was an obvious one; Jack fumed silently and looked the other way, away from Kate.
#13 - View
At the top of the cliff, they watched the sunset, and the ant-sized people living on the beach, and thought maybe it all could work this way forever.
#14 - Music
Charlie had been kind enough to lend his guitar, but Sawyer knew it wouldn’t change, because Jack couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket when he hummed, let alone pluck sour chords on an unfamiliar guitar.
#15 - Silk
One of the suitcases had a silk negligee in it and Sawyer thought it would be hilarious to give it to the good doctor as a birthday present, but halfway to his tent he realized he didn’t know Jack’s birthday.
#16 - Cover
One of the other survivors had a rip in her tarp and they switched it with Sawyer’s, who had been pissed until Jack came with a blanket and a hug and suddenly the gaping hole in his tarp was just a pin hole.
#17 - Promise
He doesn’t remember ever keeping a promise, but the look in the other’s Bambi-brown eyes were full of childlike hope, so he sighed exasperatedly, held out a pinkie and said, “Sure, sure, I’ll even pinkie swear.”
#18 - Dream
Jack had to think about the question, but finally opened his mouth and said, “When I was a kid, I wanted to be a rock star… what about you?” and Sawyer didn’t answer; he couldn’t remember if he’d had any dreams at all.
#19 - Candle
In a fit of anger, Sawyer snapped a candle stick in half, and no matter how many times Kate berated him for it, the only worry he had was how disappointed he knew Jack would be in him; they only had four candles left.
#20 - Talent
Jack detested Sawyer’s impeccable talent for apathy; the cookie dough had come out better than expected, and it was Jack’s first time making it, but Sawyer didn’t even seem to care, so Jack went off down the beach and, in a quiet, spiteful way, gave the batch of dough to Juliet and stormed off without a word.
#21 - Silence
In the darkness, their silence was almost deafening, and it scared Sawyer more than anything else on the island.
#22 - Journey
Jack sat in his comfortable, temporary home in the Others’ commune and began to think that soon, this entire nightmare would be over and he’d be back in his own bed again.
#23 - Fire
He’d burned his hand badly but refused to get help; only when it blistered and split and began to look almost infected did he go to Jack, but his pride was hurt, and Jack understood.
#24 - Strength
Sawyer always thought Jack had been weak, but realized now that it wasn’t weakness at all, but compassion that the doctor had for every survivor on the island, even Sawyer.
#25 - Mask
The night Jack finally coaxed Sawyer out of his shell, he looked into the Southerner’s normally guarded eyes and saw real pain, and his first and only instinct was to hug him and never let him go.
#26 - Ice
One night while lying in the sand, Jack noticed Sawyer had a scar on his stomach; a scar that, the Southerner claimed, came from a bad date, during which he got an ice skate to the stomach.
#27 - Fall
Out of all the seasons, Jack found he missed autumn the most, mainly because he was disappointed there were no falling colorful leaves to kiss beneath.
#28 - Forgotten
There had been tears, but then kisses to follow, and together in the middle of the jungle, both of them forgot their pasts, ignored the future, and decided together to live for the present.
#29 - Dance
He learned, with help from Jack, that martial arts could also be a graceful dance, and he kept in mind the curls and waves of Jack’s beautiful body for the next time he had to fight.
#30 - Body
Lit only by a single fire in the center of the hot jungle, Sawyer kissed and touched and memorized every inch of Jack’s warm body below him.
#31 - Sacred
It surprised Jack how incredibly passionate Sawyer could be, and he treasured how he was the only one that could elicit that high, breathy sigh from the Southerner when he grazed his teeth across the sensitive area just to the side of his belly-button.
#32 - Farewells
Sawyer hadn’t known how Jack actually felt about Boone until he witnessed the doctor alone, kneeling in front of the gravestone, hands folded in his lap, head down, with flowers at his knees, and Sawyer wanted to walk away, but instead his feet carried him to the doctor’s side and he fell next to him and hugged him tight.
#33 - World
The world was huge, with over 6 billion people living in every single place, but Jack found that none of those 6 billion was as beautiful or as interesting as Sawyer.
#34 - Formal
“I found a tux in one of the suitcases,” Sawyer said casually to Jack, though he looked the opposite way like a nervous teenager, “and it’s expensive, too… I thought you’d want it, so… here.”
#35 - Fever
It was scary and nerve-wracking to watch Sawyer writhe and sweat and mumble with a worryingly-high fever; Jack had never been so scared in his entire life.
#36 - Laugh
“It’s like music,” Jack said wistfully, as Claire nodded sympathetically, “but he just doesn’t smile enough to bring it out.”
#37 - Lies
Sawyer had to lie to Jack, stretching it like tape across his lips, because he couldn’t tell him that Kate had accosted him, and that he had let her, and that he hadn’t even thought of Jack until it was over.
#38 - Forever
He hadn’t meant to say it, honestly, but Jack was getting on his nerves with this love forever bullshit, so without any warning he stood from the sand and said, “There won’t never be any ‘forever,’ Doc, not here or there.”
#39 - Overwhelmed
Sawyer didn’t know how remorseful he felt when Sayid, Jin and Bernard fell silent over the walkie-talkie, but what threw him off-balance was the shell-shocked expression on Jack’s tired face.
#40 - Whisper
It was utter chaos, confusion in all forms, as Jack tried to round the survivors up, and Sawyer’s own previous sense of authority dwindled to barely a whisper; a mosquito in everyone’s ears.
#41 - Wait
“It ain’t the idea of rescue not comin’ that bugs me,” Sawyer said finally, “but it’s the not knowin’ and jus’ assumin’, and then the waitin’ for potentially nothin’--that really pisses me off.”
#42 - Talk
Sawyer kissed forcefully, so that any words that Jack had ready died on his tongue, and soon he felt like a child, losing the ability to talk in Sawyer’s mouth.
#43 - Search
The flashlight died on him in the middle of the night, but he still tore through bushes and shrubs, looking, searching, for any sign that Sawyer was still alive.
#44 - Hope
When it got too much to bear, Sawyer would go to Jack and become a new person, a different person who, he thought, could finally see the light at the end of the darkness.
#45 - Eclipse
Sawyer hated love ballads more than anything, so when he overheard someone singing “Total Eclipse of the” GOD DAMNED “Heart,” it took all the strength he had (and Jack’s tight death grip on his hips) to keep him from head-butting that sucker halfway across the beach.
#46 - Gravity
In the moments before he hit the water, Sawyer felt like he was floating in zero-gravity, and when he landed, it felt like someone had just smashed his birthday cake into his face.
#47 - Highway
It only took five minutes for Jack to meet the ambulance halfway at the crash site, and it only took half a second for him to realize exactly what he’d just lost.
#48 - Unknown
Watching the coffin being lowered into the ground, Sawyer imagined Jack sipping dry martinis with all the greats, waving at him through the clouds.
#49 - Lock
“I changed my locks, Sawyer, so please go home.”
#50 - Breathe
Jack would know better than anyone (he is a doctor, you know) that you have to stop making out sometimes because humans need oxygen to sustain, not kisses, though Sawyer would beg to differ.