Don't make it last very long. Ladies don't like that.
So, I’m trying to get back into the swing of writing again and am having some issues getting into it because every sentence I write looks cheesy/stupid/blah/insert-your-own-word-for-my-neuroses-here. My normal solution to this angst is 1) re-reading fic from other people that is awesome and therefore inspiring or 2) watching lots of LOST to get the
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I am SO with you on Jack/Juliet. Out of all four couples in the quad, when that was all happening between them I was probably the least interested in them, and I had a nice big lack of interest for all of them really til S/J. The kisses in particular were just so...dull? For me anyway, and so unmemorable I was never convinced they would ever really have it be serious. It makes no sense to me since Elizabeth freaking Mitchell is a part of the pair, so I'm just going to blame Matthew Fox for all of it :D
For the game! "The Long Way to You is Still Tied to Me"
He’s almost to the elevator when she calls his name. He turns around, and watches as she walks down the hall towards him.
She’s got this look on her face like she wants to tell him something, and he hopes like hell it’s gonna be something about where she knows him from. He’s not sure why he’s so fixated on this damn idea, but he just can’t shake this feeling. Like when he finds out, something really big is going to fall into place, which he knows is ridiculous but, well, there you go.
She gets to where he’s standing and just looks at him for a few beats. “Maybe we could get coffee sometime,” she finally says and it’s definitely not what he was expecting, but he feels himself smiling all the same.
“Well,” he says, “seein’ as how I just got fired and all, I ain’t sure I can afford that.”
She laughs a little and he has to clench his fist to keep from reaching out and touching her. “I never said you had to buy.”
“Well, Blondie, what do you suggest?” he asks.
“We could go Dutch,” she says and she’s smiling at him and her eyes are blue and clear and he’s pretty sure he’s figured out where he knows her from.
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Oh, it is FOR SURE MF's fault. All of his kisses are terrible. Even the one in the finale with Kate (on the cliff) I thought was embarrassingly awkward. He kind of just stands there and turns his head. Get into it, man! These are some sexy ladies! I just don't understand it.
Okay, the commentary: Haha, I feel like my thought process for this could be summed up as: I WANT TO SEE SAWYER AND JULIET GET COFFEE IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE BECAUSE THEY ARE SOULMATES IN LOVE.
I mean, that was my whole motivation for writing this, post-LA X. My little Juliet-loving heart was broken and those “We should get coffee sometime” / “We could go dutch” lines were so OBVIOUSLY a nod to the sideways and I couldn’t resist playing with that. I remember feeling kind of at a loss writing this end-of-the-story scene, because I couldn’t figure out how I wanted to end it, if I wanted to show the coffee date, if I wanted either one of them to remember, how far I wanted to go with it.
So I went the cop-out route and ended with the lines from the show and only hinted towards them remembering. But, they do, in my mind. Sawyer remembers first (because of Juliet’s super-blue eyes apparently? Haha, I don’t know. I do know that I have to mention her eyes at least once per fic. I mean, come on. THEY ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY BLUE) and then Juliet remembers, right after that. And then they live happily ever after in a non-afterlife alternate timeline where no one is dead and everyone is alive.
Mostly, this fic was about me making myself feel better after Juliet died. And I was just (and still am, tbh) completely enamored with the idea that they could be soulmates and recognize each other and click in any timeline. I was honestly kind of embarrassed to write this whole scenario because I HATE the soulmates concept in most shows, but here I just didn’t care because I was so invested in them finding each other again. There’s kind of an over-emphasis on the spark of remembrance here, but that’s because I was ALSO fixated on the idea of them being just like, drawn to each other and not understanding why (other than the whole “we’re both super-hot” thing, obvs), because I felt that was true of their on-island relationship as well.
But those coffee lines were actually kind of hard to fit in because they were a little awkward just hanging out there with no context. Especially the "we could go dutch" thing, which made sense once the vending machine scene happened but before that it was kind of like why would Juliet want to go dutch? Coffee isn't exactly super-expensive. WHY DOESN'T SHE WANT HIM TO PAY FOR HER COFFEE? So I had Sawyer lose his job right before the coffee invite so the line might make a little more sense.
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