Degrees of Separation

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I wanted to post this yesterday, but life got in the way and I ended up using tonight's commercial breaks to finish it up and edit and such (which means I'll need to watch the episode a few more times before being able to properly process it, I'm sure). Anyway.

Title: Degrees of Separation
Rating: PG-ish, I guess.
Summary: They'd warned them about

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Wow, thank you so much...You know how much I've wanted to write Kate/Cassidy, so it means a lot that you enjoyed this.

Your fic leaves unsaid where Sawyer is, if he is alive
I didn't kill Sawyer in this, I promise! No, in my mind for this fic, he is very much alive, just back on the island.

Then, there is also what Cassidy doesn't say. Sawyer knew.
Someday Kate's going to have to find out about Clementine and that Sawyer knew. That I don't think will be a pretty scene (especially depending on how the pregnancy storyline goes, if anywhere). But I so want to see it.

And I'm glad the Jack bits worked, too. I do really like the contrast between those two relationships. So, thank you, so much!

(One day, we'll discuss this further)
I'm guessing that day will come once spoilers are no longer spoilers ;) I can't wait!

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You say that like that is okay. Only the thought petrifies me, really.
Well, of course you know I want him to be one of the Oceanic Six, but...At least with him back on the island, there can be the hope that he'll survive and get rescued or that she'll come back for him. That's my hope.

The question is, can Sawyer live without Kate, back on the island?
Poor Sawyer. I think he can live without Kate, back on the island...but will he want to? I don't know. My poor Sawyer.

if we ever see something like this in canon, I want to see Kate caving in, telling the truth.
Well, both in this fic and in canon, I don't think she could tell the truth, not yet. It seems (especially from Hurley's mysterious visitor and what Jack said to Hurley) that if they do tell, bad bad things might happen to those who are left. In this fic, Kate can't tell because although she wants to, she has to try and protect them, as much as she can. But yes. It would be nice to see.

Thank you again, hon!

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Did I say years? No, not years. Of course, I don't know anything, even when the rescue of the O6 is in relation to on-island action now, let alone when or if the rest will be rescued. But I wasn't thinking in terms of years, no. That would horrify me, because yeah, like you said, Sawyer would be nativized and not who he is now. He couldn't go back. And that would completely break my heart.

I don't think they are protecting those who were left, right the other way around, they are protecting themselves.
I think it's both. I tend to think that while it was a choice, it was the only choice they had (or, so they thought at the time). Maybe I'm being too forgiving towards them. I'm not usually this optimistic and trusting. But I can't see them - especially Jack - choosing of their own completely free will to just leave them to die like that. I don't know. The "we made a mistake" I take to mean something they believed and shouldn't have. Not a deliberate choice to leave them for dead, more of a bad judgment, something they did that they

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According to Lospedia, TTLG was in April 2007
Oh, god. Really? I really, really don't like that. That means it's been more than two years. No, I don't like that at all.

I can really see that they would take 90 eps to tell us what happens in 100 days or so, and then 10 eps to make the story move years into the future, the present-time-on-island story.
That would make sense. But argh! How frustrating to us, who want to know what's happened! I don't like thinking that far into the future of this show. It's too stressful!

I think they did something very bad, probably choosing once we were rescued, that they were not going back.
That would make more sense to me. I don't like to think that, when they were being rescued, they'd already decided not to go back. Unless they didn't have a choice.

Jack's transformation. It can't happen in two days.
Well, that's true. It has to take him a long time to grow that hideous beard, for one :/

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No, splitting the cast for seasons would be terrible, and I really don't see them doing that. Do you think they'll be split at the end? Some on the island, some home? Oi.

Yeah, I didn't know what to think about the last ep as far as leaving went. Yeah, Hippie Guy did tell Sayid he'd fly them out, but, well, he also talked about making several trips. So maybe they're thinking they'll all just eventually get a ride? Who knows.

I saw the preview but didn't really process any of it. I never do; they go too fast. But I haven't watched it again.

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No, I won't watch again. I didn't even catch the first time around that Kate and Sawyer were in the promo together! Ooh, yay! But yes, I was not pleased that the only "spoiler" I'd had for the premiere was the promo, and that ended up being the *only* K/S interaction. Boo!

14 eps now? Ooh, that's so much better than 7, at least! All in a row, yes. Pleeeeease. I could even do with a short hiatus, like a month or something. That would be okay. Anything but years. Ugh!