fic, Lost: There's a Distance I Can't Close (Boone/Nicole), for un_love_you

[janie_tangerine]

Well, this is weird. Really weird. But I have been wanting to try this thing for a while and yesterday I was at university an hour before needed, so why not? If you know who is my POV without looking at Lostpedia first you earn a cookie ;)

Title: There's a Distance I Can't Close
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairing: Boone/Nicole
Word counting: 1345

Comments

[slybrunette]

I always love outsider POV's, and what's even better about this is it isn't some random OC. She exists in the Lost universe, if briefly, and here you've gone, created a sympathetic character, and then did a brillant job of giving some more background, more depth, to Boone and Shannon and their messed up relationship.

This is fantastic hun! Great work!

[janie_tangerine]

Thank you so much, I'm really glad that you liked it and gave it a shot ;) I love myself the outsider's POV and don't mind your regular well-written OC, but I always had sort of an odd interest for Nicole (well, she was Boone backstory after all and I wouldn't have minded more of it) and thought she could be a good POV to go for. Thanks again! ♥

[janie_tangerine]

Woah, you are just too good to me. And go you for knowing who she was, I'll get you a fish biscuit instead of the cookie ;)

And I'm really, really go glad you liked this and I totally was smiling reading this because you said exactly what I was wanting to show here. I'm sure he would have been the perfect boyfriend even if fucked up as he was and yeah, he was all of that IMHO.

Sabrina makes me want to strangle her and just thinking about her makes me feel for Shannon really, and yeah, that was it. I just wanted the picture cutting scene to have that feeling. And well, I figured that she wouldn't have really resented him, one really couldn't when the intentions were good ;)

Thanks so much again, this comment will definitely make my night. ♥ ♥

[elliotsmelliot]

What a neat idea! Even though Nicole is a real character she is nothing more than a face and a name (and a woman of excellent taste). You gave her a character and persona that was worthy of Boone. You could almost have seen it working out, had he not been so distracted. I loved the idea of the talk show of angry moms. I pity the host having to deal with Margo and Sabrina. Hopefully the more level headed Mrs. Cortez kept this from getting out of control.

[janie_tangerine]

Thank you so much! Yeah, the fact that she does indeed have excellent taste was what had me brainstorming on her in the first place and since from what I gathered (and from an interview with the actress I read someplace) it was suggested that she was aware of his family issues I thought I could go for it. And in the end I was sort of thinking she might have been really good for him, but that's getting carried off I guess ;)

The angry moms talkshow is something that sadly airs here more often than not and yeah, poor host indeed! And I guess that Mrs. Cortez ended up arresting everyone at one point.

[janie_tangerine]

It was totally my dream to write one day a fic which needed a link to Lostpedia to explain ;) seriously, thank you so much, I'm really glad you liked it! *takes the gold star eagerly*

I had always wondered how it would be like to write the girl, but I have to say that this went farther than I had previously pictured. Not that I complain since I'm pretty satisfied with out this came out, but writing her came just easy. I'd have loved to have one more flashback and I wouldn't really have minded seeing more of her.

I couldn't resist the donating blood thing, though it really was cruel. I'm sure she would have known her type! And now you make me want to write the triangle indeed ;)

It's stuff like that that makes it really hit home to you about a loss.

Isn't it just? At least that's how it has always felt for me. I thought that if Margo was to give one picture of Jack to the press she would have given a wedding one ;)

seems to share a few self-centred traits with Shannon. Maybe that helps to explain why/how Nicole could understand

[gottalovev]

I got to be honest that I didn't even remember Nicole, but I always love outsider POV. You make her really likable, a no nonsense girl who knew where to stand and didn't mind so much what she knew she could not have.

[janie_tangerine]

Don't worry about not remembering the girl ;) hey, with all the flashback characters that show has it's perfectly normal, considering that she had barely one line. But it really was fun to write it and I'm glad she worked as a character here. Thanks!