ozmissage: (Lost. Sawyer/Claire. We rob banks.)
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Title: beneath the moon, tonight, we’re the sea
Pairing: Sawyer/Claire
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine. Title from Iron and Wine “The Sea and the Rhythm”.
Summary: He comes and goes, she’s just trying to stand still.
A/N: Written for [livejournal.com profile] lost_in_108 challenge #39 “linger”.

It doesn’t fade.

The urge to hide, to run, to fight---she keeps a gun in her closet, bullets on the top shelf far from tiny hands.

She’ll never be free.

She’s not the only one.

He comes and goes; slinks into her room in the middle of the night, the stench of whiskey on his breath, never asks before he crawls into her bed.

They fuck too roughly, each trying to leave a mark, proof that they’re still alive (proof that they’re moving on.)

He leaves before the sun comes up:

See ya around, Mamacita.

She watches him go, always wishes she was the one walking away.

Date: 7/2/10 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cloudytea.livejournal.com
:333 I love it. Sawyer/Claire always had an adorableness to it, but this really kicks it up a notch and shows them in a whole new (realistic) light. Awesome job, this was...Awesome.

Date: 7/2/10 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! :)

Date: 7/2/10 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mollivanders.livejournal.com
I love they both got off the island so we can have fics like this :D This is rough and hard and desperate - my favorite things!

The urge to hide, to run, to fight---she keeps a gun in her closet, bullets on the top shelf far from tiny hands.

She’ll never be free.

She’s not the only one.


And love <3

Date: 7/2/10 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! :)

I have such a soft spot for this pairing and I imagine they'd be pretty bleak post-series which is so much fun to play around with.

Date: 7/2/10 06:22 am (UTC)
ext_438634: purple photo of a doe, in the woods (LTM | cal&em; she's got you high)
From: [identity profile] weatheredlaw.livejournal.com
Well, I love this pairing. I wrote them last challenge - omg they're so good together off island. Excellent job my dear. I like the recognition of Aaron here, too.

Date: 7/2/10 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

I loved your drabble last week. This pairing is so much fun, especially post-series. :)

Date: 7/2/10 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valhalla37.livejournal.com
I think maybe part of the reason I never really liked Charlie/Claire is because I love Claire/Sawyer (made weirder by the fact I don't really like either character individually ...), and this is so, so, so hot, times a million. And there's something about their unhappiness that just feels so perfect, like I wouldn't want it any other way, and the last few lines and the part about the bullets -- WOW. Just killer.

Date: 7/2/10 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

I didn't know you liked this pairing, I've had a soft spot for them for awhile now. They're so interesting together, especially post-finale. :D

Date: 7/3/10 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] colourmayfade.livejournal.com
I don't know what it is about these two that is so appealing, I suspect it's the way everyone writes them - kind of screwed up and violent and AWESOME. lol. I love this, you manage to create so much of a world with it.

She’ll never be free.

She’s not the only one.


Oh, break me why don't you.

Date: 7/3/10 01:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

I suspect it's the way everyone writes them.

Heh. I know that's what did me in. I never thought twice about the pairing until I found [livejournal.com profile] crickets and [livejournal.com profile] gigglemonster's fics and now I'm obsessed with them (and Jack/Claire.) :D

Date: 7/3/10 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Heh. Thank you! <3

Date: 7/3/10 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gigglemonster.livejournal.com
This is wonderful! You say so much with so few words. Love this :)

Date: 7/3/10 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! :)

Date: 7/3/10 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hopelessfangirl.livejournal.com
This is absolute PERFECTION. I have a soft spot for these two. You totally nailed this. ♥

Date: 7/3/10 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Aww, thank you! I've fallen pretty hard for them lately. Sad Blondes post-finale fic is too much fun to write. ;)

Date: 7/4/10 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] knopflergroupie.livejournal.com
This is just fantastic. I never liked Claire until season 6, and especially never liked this pairing, but somehow they snuck into a drabble I wrote a few weeks ago and I have been unable to stop thinking about why since then. I can't put my finger on what is so appealing about post-finale Sawyer/Claire, but whatever it is you captured it here. Just how damaged Claire is, and how moving on would I think be more difficult for these two characters than for Kate and (my OT3) Frank/Miles/Richard. My favorite bit is that Sawyer never asks, he just takes, and that she's maybe okay with that.

Date: 7/4/10 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

I didn't warm up to Claire until last season either, but I've fallen hard for her now. There is something so interesting about pairing her with Sawyer. I think you're right, out of the group that made it out of the finale they're the two that would have the hardest time readjusting. :)

Date: 7/4/10 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glass-radical.livejournal.com

Not one of my usual ships, but I think you capture it greatly and with awesome realism. Good work. :D

Date: 7/4/10 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! :)

Date: 7/5/10 01:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gottalovev.livejournal.com
what a fantastic drabble, I love it!

Date: 7/5/10 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! :)

Date: 7/7/10 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pann-cake.livejournal.com
Mamacita! Tha did it for me. I may have to start shipping them now. :)

Date: 7/8/10 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Heh. Thank you! They're very shippable. :)

Date: 7/13/10 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
Thank you! :)

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