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[slybrunette]

Title: Losing Direction
Fandom: Lost
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Claire/Sawyer, not explicit.
Prompt: #27 - Author's Choice (I Miss You) for

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[crickets]

I have no words. This is so much better than I could have ever imagined. I am just. SPEECHLESS. I will be back with a real review later. There are tears, TEARS, in my eyes right now. I am not joking!

*dies*

I'll be back when I'm coherent.

*goes to read again*

[slybrunette]

Aw! *hugs*

It was your request so I had to make it special. I'm glad you enjoyed it, though I'm sorry if I made you sad. You said you wanted angsty.

[crickets]

Let me clarify! They were tears of joy! JOY, I say.

I loved the entire tone of this. I loved how you sorta jumped back and forth in time. I loved Jack driving for Kate without realizing it. I LOVED CASSIE! (That was Cassie and Sawyer's little girl right?) That was the best touch ever. So unexpected and a really really beautiful moment between them. *sigh* I loved it.

I loved Claire! She was so strong! I loved Jack listening to them argue. I loved the enough.

And this paragraph?

“Are you back?” Sawyer asks, with his jaw set. He doesn’t mean the obvious, since he isn’t blind, and he can damn well see Jack is standing right there, which would mean he’s back. What Sawyer means is he back in this eternally fucked up relationship they’ve got going, this thing with the three of them that worked until a few months ago when Jack started to over-think everything (and thinking really is overrated), or is he just here to catch up, only to leave in a few days. Is this only temporary.It so summed up everything so perfectly and I loved it. And

[slybrunette]

Well, then in that case: YAY!

Thank you for picking up on the part with Cass. I thought no one would get it. I came up with that last night while talking to you because I was so STUCK on this, and then there it was, my saving grace.

You know I don't like wimpy, whiny Claire. But Claire who has those two whipped? I love her.

That switching back and forth thing? Each section corresponds with the different verses of that song you gave me. So it's technically the songs fault.

I'm so relieved that you like it, and I'm so glad that you prompted me, because I swear I would not be coming up with these things on my own. So thank you for that.

[caffrey]

hooooooooooooooooly shit.

*jaw drops*

You. Win.

[slybrunette]

So I take it you liked it ;)

I'm glad the angst overload got such a good reception. Thanks for reading!

[pellamerethiel]

Oh My God. Oh. My. Seriously. Totally.
I'm overwhelmed by this fic, so I totally don't know what to say, as usual. *sighs*
Firstly, I have to say that I'm totally in love with your Claire. She's such a strong character in here - she's not bursting in tears while seeing Jack, she doesn't let him into the house - not before he won't somehow explain his behavious. She kicks asses, she totally does!
And Sawyer... It's not that he's greeting Jack with his arms wide open - he's angry and hurt and he has the right to feel so, because Jack left them without a single word of explanation and that was his choice. Therefore Claire's and Sawyer's decision is to not to talk with him until he explains himself. They seem so real here, so canon, every single word could be easily spoken in the real show. And Jack's behaviour while he was gone - having sex with unnamed girl, but calling Claire and Sawyer who obviously didn't want to pick up the phone... Gorgeous. And very Jack-ish.

That’s when Sawyer gets involved. He doesn’t even need to be told what

[slybrunette]

Apparently this is why I have people prompt me, because without the song that super_kc sent me playing on repeat I don't think I would've ever come up with this.

I don't like pushover Claire. Claire has guts, she isn't necessarily going to whimper and burst into tears. I can't stand weak Claire. So here she is, this is the woman that I wished we saw more on the show.

Sawyer...I just don't seem him being too welcoming. He got fucked over, he's not going to be jumping up and down just because Jack came back. People don't do that. There's too many trust issues at that point.

The second girl Jack slept with, the one with the kid, if you don't know who that is you probably should.

Jack/Sawyer do have the best chemistry on the show, I tend to agree with you there.

I'm glad you enjoyed this, and I thank you for such a lengthy review. I appreciate it.

Thanks for reading!

[pellamerethiel]

*facepalm*
Now when I've read super_kc comment I understand who the second girl was. How stupid of me. ;P

[slybrunette]

No dear, not stupid. I was intentionally vague, trying to catch people off guard.

[gigglemonster]

Oh my GOD!
KC was NOT lying when she said this was like the best Jawyercita fic ever!
For real, this was just...I have no words!
But because it was made of awesome, I will find some in order to tell you.

Fingers moving over perfectly printed numbers, as good as new from lack of use, dialing a number his mind no longer remembered yet his hands seemed to, and then the wait.I looove that line. That he doesn't even have to think, his fingers just dial the number. It really defines the fact that, yeah, that was his real home no matter how messed up it was, they're a part of him and they're the only home he's got. Yeah, definitely one of my favorite lines..because, oh yes, there's plenty more where that came from

[slybrunette]

She really said that? YAY!

I like to think it would be second nature. I practically live at my bff's house, and when I go to put in my home phone I sometimes put hers. Your brain doesn't neccessarily register what you're done, but it's instinct.

What's Lost fic without flashbacks right.

I like Claire strong. I know I say that a lot but I really do.

I'm glad you liked the ending, as I wasn't really sure how to finish it.

Friended you back! I honestly don't know how we haven't friended each other yet.

Thanks for reading!

[bebitched]

Soooo fucked up. But in a good way. In the way that really makes me believe that the three of them have been so screwed up by their families and their pasts that they associate this orderly dysfunction with home. It's something I hadn't really thought of before now and I'm a little pissed you came up with it before me.

And that was Cass, right? The second one-night-stand. I'm pretty sure.

[slybrunette]

You know as well as I do that people who have fucked up family life in their youth end up carrying that over to adulthood. They just know nothing else. It's kind of sad, but it works well for them.

Yep, it was Cass. Bet you didn't see that coming.

Thanks for reading!

[bebitched]

Well I guessed it, didn't I?

[slybrunette]

Yeah, but still. Who the hell has ever written Cass/Jack?