i don't think we're in kansas anymore

[youcallitwinter]

who's a bandwagon-jumper? me! me!

I am kind of confused by what this is, but it involves writing fic, as far as I can tell? After making the shiny masterlist, I am mostly cringing at half the stuff on the aforementioned shiny masterlist, but I am a masochist, why do think I love Logan. okay, so.

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as a second language | lost | jack/claire | 1/3

[youcallitwinter]

Living with a woman in the house again is a step- forward or back- he’s not quite sure after Juliet, but it’s something

as a second language | lost | jack/claire | 2/3

[youcallitwinter]

He's not quite sure when he first realizes he makes her nervous. But he thinks it's when he puts his hand on her stomach to feel the baby kick, holding her other hand reassuringly as he assumes a brother would, and her pulse skyrockets.

And when he looks up after, she's staring straight at him, her eyes liquid, and his head trips over something clumsy like, ohHe doesn't know if its transference issues; being abandoned by the man she'd loved, with a definitive, permanent trace of that love. But he's still pretty sure some medical journal somewhere has a name for the condition, even though he'd always found the psychology lectures to be the most useless in med school. If wounds were existed, they showed, and they could be fixed; that was the golden rule. Abstract talks about nothing in particular bored him. They were mostly just excuses to make people feel better about being spectacularly messed up

as a second language | lost | jack/claire | 3/3

[youcallitwinter]

That could be reflex, he knows. Not a physical reflex, but a psychological reflex. A genetic model for sympathy ingrained in the human race as a whole, if not him personally.

Kissing someone, even your half-sister, doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s a way of reaching out, trying to touch someone.

He’s not a man of faith, he doesn’t look for deeper meanings, but your head between your half-sister’s thighs, that, that probably means-

- something.

She's crushing on him, he knows, like his son is crushing on her, and they're both too young to know better. He's not. He's too old to not know better, goddammit.

She clutches too hard when he moves up, and he can feel her nails digging into his back, probably drawing out blood. Her movements are rough, and it’s too fast, much too fast, and there are times when he thinks he’s hurting her.

Slow down, he says, Claire, slow downShe looks at him, eyes clouded over with lust and grief and he’s not just fucking his half-sister, he’s taking advantage of a gi-woman incapable of knowing better

Re: as a second language | lost | jack/claire | 3/3

[crickets]

Wow, holy... I don't even. *composes self* This is amazing. I don't really know how many "sideways verse" fics I've read of them but it feels like very few. And this? I LOVE this. You have no idea. I don't think I'll ever get over these two. Really, and now I have one more reason not to. Thank you so much. And ugh, that scene where David's in the next room, probably shouldn't strike me as incredibly hot, but it does anyway.

She tastes like the ocean; he realizes, suddenly, inexplicably; part water, part salt, part thirst. LOVE THIS LINE. Like you have no idea.

I feel very very ashamed of my fic now, because this is gorgeous and eloquent in ways I can't comprehend.

Thank you!

Re: as a second language | lost | jack/claire | 3/3

[youcallitwinter]

Oh man, I'd totally forgotten that it was called "sideways verse", but seriously that timeline was rife with so many possibilities since she was just literally living with Jack, and I used to get excited everytime they were in his house together (with David!) because issues, clearly.

Also, your fic was gorgeouser, CLEARLY WE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES ;) Thanks so much, really glad it worked for you, I was kinda worried!

(Also lol@you picking that line, I stole it from a fic I was writing- Logan surfs, and I'm nothing if not predictable- and agonized over using it, because it fit so much, SO I DID. I'll probably steal it and use it there too though, because I'm a terrible person.)