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[slybrunette]

Title: I Just Want You To Know Who I Am
Fandom: Lost
Characters/Pairings: Kate, Jack.
Word Count: 601
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: Tabula Rasa through House Of The Rising Sun
Prompt: Day 6: An uncharacteristic urge to confide for  

Comments

[aboutbunnies]

A great insight into Kate! I love how you've not only gone into the nuances of her relationship with Jack here, but also her relationship with Diane. I've never understood why she all of a sudden wanted Jack to know what she'd done, but it's always bugged me to no end how he just dismisses it like he doesn't care anymore. Great expansion on those scenes.

[slybrunette]

Thank you! I don't really understand it either. I think they're just never in the same place emotionally. Which is rather unfortunate.

I'm glad you liked this!

(Also, I know I keep missing your fics since I haven't looked at the comm part of my flist in forever, I was wondering if you would mind me friending you?)

[aboutbunnies]

You're right, they just miss each other emotionally every time. I'm not sure that's something they'll ever be able to reconcile (but I am aware I'm fairly biased, not being a Kate/Jack fan). They're just so different.

I don't mind at all - I'd be honored! I actually keep meaning to ask you the same thing. I so enjoy your writing.

[slybrunette]

I know, there are problems there. I believe they will, but I'm also very biased.

Shiny! Friending you then :)

[inluv4evr]

Loved it! You nailed Kate's character right on the head; it made perfect sense and sounds like something that could happen. The little twist at the end... ahh! Again, right on target. Jack and Kate are never on the same wavelength, it seems, and that line just sums it up.

[slybrunette]

They never are, and it makes me sad because if they were they would be so right for each other.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading!

[elise_509]

I love this so much it hurts. You perfectly captured that moment when Kate so wants to tell him and is ready to be an open book - yet Jack doesn't yet understand how rare this opportunity is, how he'll never get another chance. He thinks he's giving her a blank slate and being understanding, not pressuring her to tell him things she doesn't want to, not realizing that her telling him was the only way that maybe she really could've had a blank slate. She needed to get it out.

Instead, the things unspoken and kept hidden between them only build walls, because Kate can't let it go and Jack can't get any firm footing on understanding her. It's so perfectly Jack and Kate, always being at cross-purposes and communication failing. It makes you wonder how different life things would've been between them if Kate had told him. Things would've been a lot better, I think.

[slybrunette]

It would've been much different if she had. I don't think there would be such a loss of trust between them if she had been honest from the start, if he had taken advantage of the opportunity.

It's really too bad that this didn't occur later in the show, after he knew her better, maybe then he would've let her tell him.

I'm glad you liked this hun! Thanks for reading!

[alemyrddin]

You know, I love Jack. But he has a gift for telling the wrong thing at the wrong moment. As I was watching that episode for the first time, I thought", NO! You should listen to her". Then, the "tabula rasa" speech, and I was ok. And then, a few days after, he wants to know? Well, Jack, I'm sorry but it doesn't work that way with people. Chances like that happen only once in a while.

I loved this, how you wrote that scene from Kate's POV and how the miscommunications and misunderstandings played such an important part in their life and relationship on the island.

Great fic. Sorry for the long rambling but, as you can see, it made me think. :)

[slybrunette]

It's not rambling. It's sensical babbling. That's different. And it's a good sign because I like making people think.

When that scene we happened we just didn't know Kate enough that we could look at her backstory, what we know about her, and say and she did this for this reason and this reason. Same with Jack. And I really wanted to revist that here.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing!

[gottalovev]

great view of those moments, what motivates that girl to do (or not do) the things she does. I swear I'd need a manual sometimes.

I really liked this

Maybe then she would understand. Maybe then she could have a reason, a real reason, why she stayed with Wayne, why she turned Kate in. Her mother always called it love. It’s one of the reasons Kate refuses to let herself love, to be loved. It makes you do stupid things. It’s not worth it. Not if it turns out like that.

I see her being very weary of love from a very early age. could explain why she never really lets go. this sums it really well!

[slybrunette]

Kate is so beyond complicated. She does need to come with an instruction manual, I agree.

I'm really glad you liked this! Thanks for reading!