Lost Fic: "Photograph" (implied Jack/Sawyer/Claire, PG)
Title: Photograph
Pairing: implied Jack/Sawyer/Claire
Rating: PG for implications
Length: 530 words
Notes: More Luau catch-up. AUish Jack/Sawyer/Claire for superduperkc and also using fosfomifira's prompt of "go visual". The last time I wrote 2nd person was, oh, let's see, I believe it was the third of never. So...yes.
Summary: The picture hangs in the alcove just above the staircase.
The picture hangs in the alcove just above the staircase. You see it as you’re on your way back from the bathroom to rejoin the party.
You stop and study it, curious. It has the warmth of a personal photograph but you don’t know the people. Then again, you suppose it’s possible it could be a framed print the house’s owner picked up at a boutique somewhere. There’s no way to easily know for sure.
There are three people in the picture. There’s a man, tall with close-cropped dark hair, a woman, petite with pale hair and eyes, and another man, also tall and sandy blond with stubble.
They’re posed together intimately, the men on either side, the woman in the middle, all smiling warm and bright. That’s part of what makes you suspect it’s a picture taken by a friend and not an impersonal work of art: their body language is too cozy, too natural for them to simply be posed models. There is a relationship of some sort. It’s just hard to determine what.
The dark-haired man has an earnest smile, a face that seems somewhat familiar though you cannot place it. The cut of his white sleeveless shirt shows an arm inscribed with tattoos. The blond man is grinning, appearance rumpled in a way that almost looks purposefully (and artfully) done, bending slightly to rest his face against the woman’s head. She has her back pressed close to him but also hugs the other man’s arm; the blond man has a hand on his far shoulder to encircle them both. Her face is slightly crinkled, head thrown back a little, mouth parted and eyes shining, as if in the middle of laughing.
The others are waiting for you, you know, and you should really be getting back but instead you linger, studying the framed photo. The way the three are posed intrigues you. You want to look a little longer, see if you can piece them out.
The most obvious answer is that the woman is dating one of the two men, but which? She seems equally close to both, in a way that doesn’t seem likely for a couple posing with a mutual friend. Perhaps she is related to one man, dating the other? Both she and the man on the right are fair, but of different shades, their eyes completely different colors of blue, and none of their features match. Oddly, you think if you look closely you see a similarity between her face and that of the other man, but not nearly enough to be conclusive.
The whole thing is a mystery, no matter which way you look at it.
All you can know for sure, looking at their body language and facial expressions, is that the three are close. Truly close: caring deeply for one another, and taking obvious enjoyment from each other’s company.
Each of the three loves the other two deeply, all of them together forming a tight-knit bond.
In the end, you decide that’s a satisfactory enough answer. You’re content to leave the rest unknown.
You leave the three friends in their photograph alone together, and go back to yours.
Pairing: implied Jack/Sawyer/Claire
Rating: PG for implications
Length: 530 words
Notes: More Luau catch-up. AUish Jack/Sawyer/Claire for superduperkc and also using fosfomifira's prompt of "go visual". The last time I wrote 2nd person was, oh, let's see, I believe it was the third of never. So...yes.
Summary: The picture hangs in the alcove just above the staircase.
The picture hangs in the alcove just above the staircase. You see it as you’re on your way back from the bathroom to rejoin the party.
You stop and study it, curious. It has the warmth of a personal photograph but you don’t know the people. Then again, you suppose it’s possible it could be a framed print the house’s owner picked up at a boutique somewhere. There’s no way to easily know for sure.
There are three people in the picture. There’s a man, tall with close-cropped dark hair, a woman, petite with pale hair and eyes, and another man, also tall and sandy blond with stubble.
They’re posed together intimately, the men on either side, the woman in the middle, all smiling warm and bright. That’s part of what makes you suspect it’s a picture taken by a friend and not an impersonal work of art: their body language is too cozy, too natural for them to simply be posed models. There is a relationship of some sort. It’s just hard to determine what.
The dark-haired man has an earnest smile, a face that seems somewhat familiar though you cannot place it. The cut of his white sleeveless shirt shows an arm inscribed with tattoos. The blond man is grinning, appearance rumpled in a way that almost looks purposefully (and artfully) done, bending slightly to rest his face against the woman’s head. She has her back pressed close to him but also hugs the other man’s arm; the blond man has a hand on his far shoulder to encircle them both. Her face is slightly crinkled, head thrown back a little, mouth parted and eyes shining, as if in the middle of laughing.
The others are waiting for you, you know, and you should really be getting back but instead you linger, studying the framed photo. The way the three are posed intrigues you. You want to look a little longer, see if you can piece them out.
The most obvious answer is that the woman is dating one of the two men, but which? She seems equally close to both, in a way that doesn’t seem likely for a couple posing with a mutual friend. Perhaps she is related to one man, dating the other? Both she and the man on the right are fair, but of different shades, their eyes completely different colors of blue, and none of their features match. Oddly, you think if you look closely you see a similarity between her face and that of the other man, but not nearly enough to be conclusive.
The whole thing is a mystery, no matter which way you look at it.
All you can know for sure, looking at their body language and facial expressions, is that the three are close. Truly close: caring deeply for one another, and taking obvious enjoyment from each other’s company.
Each of the three loves the other two deeply, all of them together forming a tight-knit bond.
In the end, you decide that’s a satisfactory enough answer. You’re content to leave the rest unknown.
You leave the three friends in their photograph alone together, and go back to yours.