Heart Knows Calm (Sawyer/Juliet)

[dollsome]

Title: Heart Knows Calm
Pairing: Sawyer/Juliet, Sawyer/Kate
Spoilers: Through 5x08 - "LaFleur"
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,500
Summary: They shack up together, him and Juliet, and soon he memorizes the way her footsteps sound against the floor.
Author's Note: There are two weeks 'til the next episode. Two weeks in which the chronic force of shippy

Comments

[weehobbit]

Oh my GOD, they are talking about books. That whole exchange about books that haven't been written/published yet. I love them.

“For a little while there,” he says, hating himself even as he does it, “I really thought she chose me.”
Ouch D:

Although the Suliet has been gradually building this season I think it happened too fast (one episode spanning three years, srsly) so it's nice to see these moments between them. That although they may still care for Kate and Jack they've also formed something here that doesn't touch that. That the con is not so much a con anymore. Lovely.

[dollsome]

Thank you very much! :) It's funny, the three-years-in-one-episode thing didn't throw me at all. I was still really wary about Sawyer/Juliet happening before this episode, but then once it was actually happening, and they were so warm and happy and supportive, I was immediately all, "My heart is yours now, dear ship! Kate/Sawyer will punch me in the grief bone no longer!" (... of course, knowing this show, that seems improbable.) It would be really awesome if they did a few more flashbacks to the three years and showed stuff blossoming between ol' James and Jules, though.

[thisisironic]

Wow, this is possibly the most perfect fic I've read in a long while. I truly mean that. You've captured these two so well, especially how Sawyer sees Juliet with his own eyes. You don't glaze over Kate, because you can't just glaze over how he feels about her, that's impossible. But you manage to create a realistic shift from him missing her so much it hurts to him realizing that, yeah, he misses her, but he's also happy now, and he's happy with Juliet.

The conversation with the books melted me a little, haha. The second I found out they were going to be living under Dharma roofs, I thought "James and Juliet book club!"

Seriously, this makes my heart ache in its perfection. You need to write more of this two. I'd quote passages but damn, every bit of it was just lovely. J'adore.

[dollsome]

Aw, yay, thank you so much! :D I'm really happy you enjoyed it. And, hee, I liked sort of hashing out Sawyer's Kate issues, because I'm pretty sure my Kate/Sawyer issues are giving me the exact same feelings. (My love for them was epic and faithful and lasting, and I've clung to them so long, but gosh darnit, it was painful and it's been a really long time since they were properly awesome and sometimes, you just have to move on to something awesomer, especially when that awesome is in the form of JULIET BURKE. Ya know. Stuff like that.)

They should so found the Dharma bookclub!

[vega_ofthe_lyre]

Oh, this was very well-done. Great job.

[dollsome]

Aw, thanks, homie! :D

[navras_rheya]

This was written perfectly. So in character.

[dollsome]

Thank you very much! :)

[irishmizzy]

I may have spent all day yesterday searching for this fic, which didn't exist ANYWHERE, and then you wrote it and ahhhhhhhh it's so great, how it starts as something fake and time takes it and turns it into something real. God, and how they're both HAPPY and kind of shocked by how happy they can actually be, when it's been so long since they've been happy at all, augh. A++, dude.

[dollsome]

Oh, gosh, as soon as this episode got over, I knew this fic needed to exist, even if it meant me having to write it. GOD, I just want them to be in their happy stable loving relationship forever!!!! Maybe the show will be so happy that it can finally let Jate take over (sidenote: BLECHHHH, it's like the plague but nastier and less upbeat. More detrimental to mankind.) that it will just leave these guys in peace?

RIGHTO, DARLTON.

Thank youuuuuu for reading, pal! :D