Coda

[valhalla37]

Title: Coda
Characters/Pairings: Charlotte, Jack, Daniel (Charlotte/Dan; slight hints of Jack/Kate, Jack/Juliet)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "His mind reels, skips and catching like a broken cassette. There's flames and blood and a white light that seems to burn through every cell in his body." The reset works, but only some of them remember.
Spoilers: Up

Comments

[inpeopleshapes]

Oh this is just perfect. Really rather sad, but so in character and, honestly, I'd rather it turned out like this than a happily ever after thing, for sure. This is probably the best reset fic I've read (well, I'm not surprised, it is you writing after all *bg*)! <3

[valhalla37]

Thank you so, so much!

I actually debated taking a way angstier route with this, but I wanted both Jack and Charlotte to find some kind of peace by the end, even if everything wasn't neatly resolved for them. They just can't catch a break. ;P

Oh wow -- THANK YOU, again! What a fantastic compliment. *blushes*

[valhalla37]

LOL, thanks ... ? ;D

I will take that as positive, unless otherwise corrected. :)

[colourmayfade]

This is gorgeous, I must say. Neither Jack nor Charlotte do much for me individually but I just love what you did with them here, their interactions felt very real and true to the characters. The idea that the memories from the island are arbitrary and not always complete is intriguing. But THE SADNESS. Even though the end was in a happy note, I still can't even deal with the sadness of remembering things and realizing that the world just moved on from that. Sigh. Sometimes I do not like this bomb plot, but other times, like when it produces this, I love it.

[valhalla37]

Wow, thank you so, so much! I can't even explain where the desire to put Charlotte and Jack together came from, especially considering they had zero interaction in S5 and not even a whole lot in S4. I guess I see a lot of commonalities between them, even still, which is why I could picture them dealing with this together.

Yeah, I toyed with the idea of actually making them being the only ones remembering purposeful (and I suppose, from some points of view, it was) but I prefer to have them never really understand why and try to grapple with that. Guess because it's the what now? that interests me more than the why.

Thank you, again, for all the lovely feedback! It's much appreciated. :D

[phelipa]

This is incredible. I love it, love, love, LOVE it! It's a very strange thing to have only Charlotte and Jack remember but it is so (excuse me, it's late and I can't find a more appropriate word to use) cool that it's just them. My heart broke for Charlotte when she found Daniel (btw...I desperately want to know whose kid that is ;)) and it's so strange to see him as anything other than a physicist. Pregnant!Claire was one of my favourite characters (they kind of forgot about her once she had the baby...) so I loved that you worked her into Jack's story as well. Really beautifully written, this has to be my favourite reset fic yet - it is just so different! Between you and ozmissage (and rewatching season 4!) I am falling in love with Charlotte even more than before, she is an awesome character.

[valhalla37]

Awww, thanks so much; you're too sweet.

Yeah, like I said to someone else, I don't know why it popped into my head to have these two above anyone else (in my plotting, I was actually going to have memories slowly returning to everyone, but this is what came out instead, lol). I guess just because they both had so much to lose, and would maybe feel the guiltiest (aside from Daniel) if things didn't work out.

Hahaha, it's funny you mention the wife, because I purposely left her kind of a blank slate. I debated making her Theresa, but that just seemed a little ... cliche, and I wanted to illustrate how much the bomb going off impacting Daniel's route through life and how drastically it changed his circumstances.

Thank you! Wow, I'm so incredibly flattered by that! :D

[franza]

Wow seriously heart breaking, Poor Charlotte :(
I prefer her loved, adored and dead rather than alive and living a Faraday lite existence :'(, poor thing I really do love both characters so much, but better dead and together than alive and apart, which just adds to the tradegy.
nicely writtern, but just too sad for my emotional unstable mind today lol

[valhalla37]

Thank you so much for reading and commenting, especially if this fic didn't exactly appeal to your frame of mind. ;D

Honestly, I'm kind of the fence about which I'd rather see; alive but apart is definitely more tragic in a sense, but the fact they (in my mind) could connect regardless of circumstances -- and with the results of their meeting open-ended -- I think is encouraging.

[franza]

Yeah I dunno wots up with my mind at the moment, the tiniest thing will set me off and the bang I'm sobbing like Faraday in Confirmed Dead...or This Place is Death...or Lafluer...lol

my opinion on this ship is that its already been tradgic enough lol. I mean the first death after the love confession, It was so sad, and then Faraday gets murdered by his own mum,
I mean one of the things that really made me love Lost these last seasons (4 and 5) was this pairing because i never really cared about any of the other couples (cept maybe des/pen cos who doesn't love the constant :D) I wasn't really into it before then
They are two characters most in need of love and/or a happy ending and i would want them to get that together, Some ships I don't think should be messed with (on the show) like this one and Des/Pen Jin/Sun and if they did that on the show i'd be well annoyed, I'd rather have had them just left dead on the island rather than apart

[valhalla37]

Hahaha, he is a man who's not afraid to cry, isn't he? ;P

Oh absolutely, and I totally see where you're coming from -- out of everyone (save maybe Locke) they've had the most screwed-up lives, doomed lives, right? Daniel's mom knew she'd killed him before he was even born, and Charlotte was told as a child that she would die if she came back to the island. I'm actually hoping the opposite of this fic actually happens in the show -- or at the very least, they get some kind of happy resolution -- but it was also a set-up that was too tempting not to explore, whether Charlotte would sacrifice for Daniel like he did for her.