the record you used to play, for ozmissage

[janie_tangerine]

Title: the record you used to play
Author: aurilly
Recipient: ozmissage
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: Hurley and Sayid keep planning trips to save other people, but it turns out they’re the ones who need saving. Charlie and Shannon to the rescue… sort of.
Author notes: A crossover cameo wrote itself in here before I even realized it.

Comments

[ozmissage]

I've been trying to leave my reply for this for three days now (*shakes fist at family*), but I'm here now and I have to say: YOU ARE AMAZING AND THIS IS THE LOST FIC OF MY DREAMS. The way you structured the story like an episode with on/off-island action was brilliant and the dueling trips worked together beautifully with the quiet angst of Hurley and Sayid's road trip (!!!) to Vegas juxtaposing against the happy camping trip with Shannon and Charlie. It created this wonderful, bittersweet feeling that just blew me away.

The buddy aspect of it was so lovely as well. There is never enough friendship fic in this fandom and the fact that this is Sayid/Hurley friendship fic makes it all the more special. The little details like Hurley getting Sayid hooked on Combos just hit me right in the chestal region. My heart felt very warm, is what I'm saying.

Then you went and added another layer with the mythology. You have no idea how much it irritated me that no one found that ladder until s6! I mean come on, people, you're on an island--- go explore. Suffice it to say, I was flailing when I got to that bit. And the ghosts! Having Shannon appear to Sayid was a stroke of genius. Seriously, this fic is flawless and it's everything I could have hoped for and so much more.

THANK YOU! <333

ETA: OMG, NATHAN!!! I'm a little slow today. Ah, I totally know who wrote this and I LOVE YOU, DUDE.

[aurilly]

Yay! So glad you liked this. I was so nervous that you really wanted one of the ships, but I saw that you listed Hurley and Sayid as characters and I was really in the mood to write something about Carmen and Sayid interacting, and this just fell out from that. The first two episodes of S5 were so good that it made me want an entire season of Hurley & Sayid funtimes. Because my two favorite lines from the ENTIRE SERIES are "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?" and "If you ate more comfort food maybe you wouldn't have to go around shooting people." Hence the Combos. I love them the most. And your "two characters have a history we don't know about" led to the Shannon/Charlie, who had a really fun dynamic that I wanted a lot more of. But then again, I want more Shannon/everyone.

I feel like even though they switched powers, maybe Nathan's dead-seeing thing might have stayed? Like, it's tied to the fact that he HAS died, and is not necessarily only possible when he's immortal?

Thank you for leaving such wonderful prompts!