fic, Lost: Miracle Drug (Desmond/Charlie), R, for philosophy_20

[janie_tangerine]

I swear I'm done writing entries for today, really.

Title: Miracle Drug
Characters/Pairing: Desmond/Charlie aka smack to the future?
Rating: R
Disclaimer: So not mine. The end of S3 wouldn't have been the end of S3 if they were.
Word count: 3601
Spoilers: Up to Flashes Before Your Eyes. Set more or less around Par Avion time.
Summary: If he only

Comments

[falafel_musings]

YAY!! You wrote my OTP!! I'm sorry I didn't get around to betaing this, but honestly I was only picking over little fiddly errors. All I wanted to do was gush over this fic and it is better to save gushing for your LJ comments.

First off I love the way you have structured this, using the inertia prompt. At first it is like Charlie and Desmond are trapped in their own isolated bubbles and then they become locked together in their private secluded ordeal. There is a twitchy scatterbrained quality to the writing in the Charlie sections which nicely constrasted the brooding and foreboding of the Desmond parts. Seriously, you expressed the two characters with the prose itself! It made this fic very evocative and tangible, so when you got to the slashy parts it really got under my skin!

Some details that I particularly loved...
- Charlie's rampant curiousity and frustration that Desmond isn't much of a talker.
- Charlie's period of Almighty Brooding Over Himself, so called by Hurley.
- The Pace brothers being Python fans!! I can so picture them watching 'Life of Brian' together.
- Desmond's agony in between flashes waiting for the next one to strike.
- Desmond worrying that Charlie hates him and feeling so relieved that he doesn't.
- The drug symbolism which is fitting since they are both substance abusers!
- Desmond/Charlie quite literally making their own kind of music with their fantastic sex sessions. Rock on.

Thank you so much for writing this!! You've given me renewed love for my Lost OTP after I was tearing my hair out over them the other day. I think the trick is for me to forget S4 and live my Charlielives/Chesmond wins! happy fanonlands.

Oh, I'll try to get your Boone/Charlie/Alex fic finished soon, maybe next week!

[janie_tangerine]

Oh don't worry, knowing you were liking it was more than enough! And gushing over fic is the best thing ever so I'm mighty glad you gushed on this one!

Uhm, now I'm kind of blushing. Yeah, I finally did and it was about time! I mean, I spend three months brainstorming and then it comes alone. Oh well, not complaining here.

It's great to hear you liked the structure and the style, I was hoping for it to work. Oh, and of course that the Charlie part sounded Charlie-ish, while at this point Desmond's brooding and me are good old friends Charlie is one I still have to get a firm hand on. I was hoping for them to do their job before the slash and it's great to hear they did!

I'll admit the Monty Python was a... let's say that I was echoing the Dean brothers there but I can't get the image of Charlie and Liam watching Python together out of my head. Life of Brian is a genius thing. I love MP too much for my own good. Oh, and great to know that the sex was good! Making your own kind of music while doing sex is always the best way to go. *nods eagerly*.

You're much welcome and thank you for such a great comment! If they decide to strike again I'll sure let them have their way. And yeah, denial is the way to go *nods eagerly*. At least I have my Further Instruction afterlife to live in denial in! ;)

♥

*waits excitedly for Boone/Charlie/Alex meanwhile*

[falafel_musings]

I think you write Charlie better than you think you do *winks reassuringly* And you certainly have a great handle on Desmond. Since pace mentioned it I will also say that I loved the bit about Desmond dividing time into 108 minutes. Poor guy. I guess he would do that.

I was so thinking of the Dean brothers too! I do think that junkie!brothers relationship was another Stephen King steal by the Lost writers.

I'm quite keen to get the Boone fic written up neatly now, but I've promised myself I'll get through some other work first. But I know you're gonna love the Boone zen and I'm also finding this fic a great way to vent frustrations about Lost deaths in general.

[janie_tangerine]

Well, means I'll try to get in my thick head the idea that I'm better with him that it seems to me ;) it's probably because he's much wittier than me, even if he's actually the one that on paper I should grasp sooner, seeing my pattern with characters.

I don't know what's with me, Desmond and the 108 minutes. It's probably my personal Desmond canon but it seems like something he'd do.

I do think that junkie!brothers relationship was another Stephen King steal by the Lost writers.

Exactly. The Charlie/Liam was a total Eddie/Henry parallel, not taking into account that Charlie and Eddie were addicted because of their brothers in the first place. With me particularly working since neither Henry nor Liam score many points with me.

Great to hear, I'll definitely be waiting! Oh, he is zen. Hell, I (sort of) got (somewhat) over his death writing him, I guess he has some sort of venting death power. You've got to love him.

[falafel_musings]

Exactly. The Charlie/Liam was a total Eddie/Henry parallel, not taking into account that Charlie and Eddie were addicted because of their brothers in the first place. With me particularly working since neither Henry nor Liam score many points with me.

Same! I only warmed to Liam in his 2 Greatest Hits scenes, when he was really a rather sweet and affectionate big brother. It made me wish that there could have been a Pace brothers reunion scene in the FFs. Now I bet we'll never learn how Liam reacted to losing Charlie *slaps canon*

Another DT fan mentioned to me that the Charlie/Locke relationship of S1 was very Eddie/Roland. Now I sometimes picture Dom and Terry in the roles when I'm reading and I'm not picturing my usual mental casting of Joseph Gordon Levitt as Eddie and Viggo Mortensen as Roland.

[janie_tangerine]

I liked him in GI, too. But how did I hate him before! There's a reason for which Fire + Water has to be one of the episodes in which I cursed more at practically everyone in the show's history, both on island and off island.

Now Liam is one that'd have been interesting to see in a FF. *sighs* It wouldn't be impossible for his polished self to turn up now after all, but yeah, canon sucks.

That's a point! Though since I'm fairly partial to R/E slashing myself (I've got an habit of slashing married/engaged people, do I?) picturing Dom and Terry there would make it sort of awkward. But that's right, the Charlie/Locke had much of the Roland/Eddie of the beginning. Especially with the drugs and everything. If the Charlie airplane scene wasn't let's say inspired by the Eddie airplane scene... not to mention the polar bear ;)

[falafel_musings]

I guess Liam could still appear in the FFs. It would be awesome if Hurley visited him. But when it comes to Charlie's story it seems like after S1 the writers stopped making an effort (unless they were killing him repeatedly of course).

Oh yeah, the airplane toilet scene too! I hadn't even thought of that one. I know Damon said they based Charlie slightly on Larry Underwood, since he is a young one-hit-wonder musician, but there is definitely a lot of Eddie Dean parallels.

[janie_tangerine]

Hurley visiting Liam! That'd make a wonderful AU. Mmmmh... *wheels turning* meh, I have to agree. Apart from the flashes, the best they did with Charlie was in S1. *sighs*

LOL funny that they based him on my two favorite King characters to date. Because after Eddie, there's Larry, oh yes. One day I'll just write all the similarities down and then King could sue them for plagiarism! ;)