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Lost fic: Carrion Comfort [Jack/Sawyer]

Sep 07, 2006 23:10

Disclaimer: Lost is not mine. Title borrowed. Skymall quoted without permission.
Summary: Distraction at thirty-three thousand feet. Jack/Sawyer. Future fic. Vague spoilers for season two.
Notes: Using for psych_30 #28, free association. Also fanfic100 #60, drink.

Carrion Comfort
by eponine119
September 7, 2006

( I'm going to die if you don't keep talking to me. )

[lost_fanfic]-jack/sawyer, [lost_fanfic]-future_fics, [lost_fanfic]-psych30, [lost_fanfic]-all, [lost_fanfic]-fanfic100

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alliecat8 September 9 2006, 01:10:15 UTC

Look what you did, you made me study! I decided to read the Hopkins poem before I feedbacked, and (naturally) I didn't understand it but it fascinated me, so I studied up on it, and now I can't believe you got the title AFTER you wrote the fic! The fic really does parallel mood of the poem, the way that it starts with a hint of despair and from there goes into a kind of half-panicked questioning of everything, and yet that process allows Sawyer to finally find a sense of hope and peace.

"Love," Sawyer choked out roughly, because he couldn't stand to hear Jack talk about him.

"Hate," Jack said, and it meant something from a man who hated him yet was holding his hand.

I loved that part. It showed that Sawyer knows, somewhere deep down, that though Jack so often seems to push him away, he needs him and wants him close, as well.

You painted a perfect picture of the uncertainty that they'll feel when (if) they get rescued. Will the island try to pull them back? Will the real world be better or worse than the island? Will they still need each other there? (I liked Sawyer's question about the best friend...I got the feeling that he was yearning for Jack to say that he, Sawyer, was his best friend. And of course Jack didn't, but he came back shortly afterward with the line about Sawyer's voice, which was so poignant and beautiful.) I didn't leave fb for a long time after I read this because I needed to turn it over in my mind for a while, but the fics that make me do that are always the ones I like best. Thanks so much for writing this. :)

eponine119 September 9 2006, 01:37:43 UTC

Thank you! Sorry I made you study, but maybe it was worth it? As much as I hate trying to find a title, I love the happy accidents where something leads me to just the right one.

Of course Sawyer wanted Jack to say he was his friend. But Jack never would; Jack doesn't think that way.

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