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Fic - Locke - Rousseau - Smoke Signals

Jan 01, 2008 13:58

Title: Smoke Signals
Author: tinkerbell99
Disclaimer: Lost doesn't belong to me.
Rating: PG
Characters: Locke, Rousseau
Summary: Rescue came. They stayed behind.

( Three days after the last of the boats dissolved from sight and the final hum of a plane was lost to the breeze, he returned to the beach. )

fic, lost, rousseau, locke

Comments 21

bachlava January 1 2008, 20:13:35 UTC

Oh. My. God.

This is a perfect, sad, chilling look into how things could go so right for Locke and so wrong-yet-fittingly for Danielle... I wish I could say something specific, but this whole thing absolutely floored me. You are brilliant. Wow.

tinkerbell99 January 1 2008, 20:20:04 UTC

Such a perfect icon for this!

Thanks for reading and for your feedback! I just don't see a happy ending for Danielle - at least not as things stand now. Part of it is the fact that Alex doesn't even know her. Part of it is what sixteen years on the island alone must have done to her.

Again, thanks for reading :-)

bachlava January 1 2008, 20:35:14 UTC

Oh, I agree it could go either way with Alex and Danielle... and I'm glad that there's good fic for the less happy options, too. ;) Thanks for writing.

katje0711 January 1 2008, 20:14:24 UTC

Wow. Very well done.

tinkerbell99 January 1 2008, 20:20:20 UTC

Thanks!

stolen_kisses87 January 1 2008, 20:31:11 UTC

This is lovely and completely in character and a little heartbreaking even though neither of those two are really my favorites, if that makes any sense. Great job.

tinkerbell99 January 1 2008, 20:34:39 UTC

Thanks for reading! I think people either tend to really like or really, really dislike those characters. I'm drawn to them, but I know that putting them together in a fic will probably send people screaming in the other direction!

Again, thanks for reading and for the feedback!

slybrunette January 1 2008, 20:38:30 UTC

This is so unfortunately perfect I don't even know where to start. I love Danielle staying, and the reasons behind that. I love the mention of the wooden cradle at the beginning and later at the end.

I loved this! Awesome fic!

tinkerbell99 January 1 2008, 20:41:28 UTC

Thank you so much!

I'm a sucker for that cradle, and I'm finding I have a tendency to do that beginning and end thing when I write. Thanks for reading!

elliotsmelliot January 2 2008, 00:59:24 UTC

I absolutely adored this. I'm so glad you're home and writing! This is such a fitting story for Danielle and John. I had considered that neither would leave and they might form some sort of bond but I hadn't considered the details of post-rescue life for them. Everything you've created here feels so right for both characters' frame of minds, such as Danielle being unable to connect with a grown Alex and John appreciating the challenge that comes with declining technology. This piece also had lovely imagery with the smoke and the cradle.

He'll hear Boone scream until he dies.

(This has nothing to do with the island.)

Chilling.

What a lovely story and so needed. No one else write Locke like you.

tinkerbell99 January 2 2008, 17:15:42 UTC

I'm so glad you're home and writing!

Me too! I was going to do one of those end of the year fic memes for 2007, but then I realized I only wrote about ten stories. That kind of kicked me into gear, I suppose.

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback!