Title: But I Have Promises To Keep
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: Kate/Jack, Kate/Sawyer. If they talk about it, the words will slip out, she just knows they will – playing house – and that's pressed much too far down into her heart for it not to hurt coming back up.
Spoilers: Up to 4.10 Something Nice Back Home
Notes: *deep breath* I had to write this. This is a purging of sorts. It's for lenina20, who managed the impossible, making me feel better about this episode, the only Lost episode I've ever deleted from my hard drive as soon as I finished watching it. Thank you, honey. This is for you.
Also for un_love_you #21: you'll do and for lostfichallenge #71: unfinished business.

( This is who he's supposed to be. But she barely recognizes herself, now. )

Title: Even Though It All Went Wrong
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing. I don't even own Hallelujah; that's all Leonard Cohen's.
Summary: Sawyer/Kate. Some time after the Oceanic 6 are rescued, the other survivors are rescued, as well. She places her hand on his chest then, more boldly than she's touched him since he's been back. She can feel his heart beating beneath her palm. Are you alive, Sawyer? Do you even remember being alive?
Spoilers: Up to Eggtown.
Notes: I so overuse I Do in fics. Oh, well. It's very overuseable! For un_love_you #4: I need to want you.

( it's clear that this is not how you bring someone back to life but there is something called the point of no return. )

Wow...Thanks so much to all of you who voted for Bookends over at lost_fic_awards! I'm flattered. And a major shout-out to the wonderful lenina20, for earning the much-deserved Author of the Month. Actually, congrats to all the winners on my friends list, as there's quite a few this month. March was, clearly, a great month for Lostfic!

Also thanks to the lovely janie_tangerine for making an incredible banner for The Eleventh Hour (you can see it there). Janie rocks.

Been dealing with some kid-stuff the past couple days, so I'm very much looking forward to relaxing tonight and reading all the fanfic that I haven't read yet from the past few days. I also actually have a fanfic of my own to post sometime soon; I was beginning to think I'd make it an entire month without the muse returning!

Since my muse has left me (hopefully temporarily), I figured I could use some drabbling help. This is from here, via several people on the friends list.

( If only I hadn't been so bare, Sawyer thought, pouring a smooth amount of rum into his eggnog. )

So, by now I'm sure everyone has seen Sarah Silverman's video "I'm fucking Matt Damon." (If you haven't, watch it here on youtube.) I'm sure it's been re-made all over the place for different fandoms by now, but I figured I'd re-write the song for Lost, featuring our very own Kate Austen, James Ford, and, well, the jilted Jack.

And I made icons. Under the cut, because of a plethora of f-words. I've also included the entire text of my re-written version, just for shits and giggles. Feel free to take and use the icons; just no hotlinking, and credit would be nice.

Hey, Jackie, it's me. I'm in a cage...I don't know; we've been stranded for so long, I don't even know what island I'm on anymore, to be honest. Anyway, I've been thinking about you a lot...And, ah, I've been needing to tell you something. I don't know why I haven't, but it's important. I mean, we've been flirting for so long, over five weeks, and I still haven't told you, and it's just not right, so...

( here it goes. )

x-posted to iconillusion; sorry if you see this twice

I'm way behind on replying and commenting and reading, and am planning on starting to get caught up tomorrow. Had surgery on Friday (I'm fine, no worries) and feeling a bit owie from that and being drugged up on Vicodin have kept me away from the computer.

If there's been some fic I really need to read posted in the last few days (and I'm sure there has been), feel free to link me to that. I can't guarantee I'll find everything I've missed, since ye olde friends list is bound to be quite long by now.

Anyway, just wanted to say I'm not intentionally blowing anyone off. I'll also be working on the rest of the comment!fics later this week.

I was tagged for this meme by tidbit2008 a while ago and am now just getting around to doing it:

The Writing Meme

1. How about a brief introduction?
I'm Katie (well, in real life most people call me Kate. on LJ I've always been Katie. I don't know why; I don't decide these things). 26 years old. Live in the Great White North (aka Michigan, where the snow is kind of sort of finally melting - for now). Live with my husband, three kids, and my sister. And two cats. I work as a special ed teacher for kids with severe multiple impairments. I don't sleep much, and currently my life is insanely busy, so I usually write in the middle of the night when the rest of the fam is sleeping.

( more here )

If you're on this flist and you write fanfic, consider yourself tagged. How's that for a cop-out?

Title: The Eleventh Hour
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: The world is burning, falling, flaming, swallowed in the purple sky that roars its anger down onto the innocent. She should have known. She should have known. The island would never let them leave.
Spoilers: Already-aired season 4.
Notes: For blueheronz, who requested Kate/Sawyer, “I know what it's like to be dead/I know how it feels to be sad...” I really, really apologize for the turn this story took. I did not set out to write an apocalyptic fic from this prompt, but that's what came out.
Also for lostfichallenge #69: beginnings and endings.



( When the sky over Los Angeles turns purple, Aaron screams, a high-pitched wail that chills Kate to her very bones. )

My writing muse seems to have disappeared. Pity, when it's hiatus and therefore, many lovely prompts floating around. For those of you who requested comment!fic from me, don't worry, it's coming. Soon as the muse returns. Here's one, courtesy of the muse that appeared briefly last night:

Title: Damn Near Poetic
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: She can smell it in this place, mingled with the sea air, the sand, the exotic danger of the jungle. She can smell it, the death and dying and pain, and her stomach rolls. She swallows and tries to remind herself: this is what she's always wanted. (Isn't it?)
Notes: For lenina20, who requested a Kate/Sawyer missing scene. This takes place during Tabula Rasa. Also used for un_love_you #5: you can be like me, and for lostfichallenge #68: OTP.

category: best gen fic

( Hell, sweetheart, you got the wrong Jack. He's the kind of doc who ain't never gonna go back on that Hippocratic Oath, consequences be damned. He don't know how. )

Title: Bookends
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: Try as he might, there are some faces Sayid will never forget. This is one of them.
Spoilers: Vaguely, current season 4. Nothing unaired.
Notes: For elliotsmelliot, who requested a Lost fic using my favorite Simon and Garfunkel lyric. (Well, this is one of my favorite lyrics of theirs, anyway...)

category: best future fic

( They've never been men accustomed to small talk, and maybe the years have erased any comfort they might have felt in each other's presence. )

I nabbed this meme from the lovely lenina20 - since I requested from her, I felt it only right to offer the same to others. Plus, I'm attempting to challenge myself more in my writing, and as I've never been particularly good at writing from prompts, I thought this was a good exercise. (That, and my spring break from work + my kids' annual week at their grandparents' is fast approaching and I'll need something to do, eh?)

1. Give me a pairing (or character, or the name of a show) and a prompt (a word, a phrase, a situation, an emotion, a few lines from a song or, hell, even an entire song) and I will do my best to write you a snippet based on your request.

2. Post to your own little corner of LJ offering to write snippets for people, thus spreading the joys of comment!fic.

3. Sit back, relax and enjoy the snippety goodness!

What fandoms, you ask? Most of you know I primarily write Lost; I've also written a lot of ER in the not-so-distant past. The Office and M*A*S*H are the other two fandoms I know well enough to write. tidbit2008 knows that I've just started watching Bones; I've only watched the first six twelve episodes of season one so if someone really wants to request something from that (this show is so my new crack) that's fine; just know it may be very bad.

Title: No One's Fantasy
Rating: PG-13, for themes
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: Kate and Ed Mars, on the road somewhere between arrest and arraignment. Come on, Kate. You don't get off on this, the chase?
Notes: For un_love_you #16: I want to break you, and for lostfichallenge #67: flashback characters.



( She calls him Edward and asks him, defiantly, if the United States government couldn't have sprung for two rooms. )

Title: Absolution
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Spoilers: Through Eggtown.
Summary: There are so many of her crimes for which she'll never be acquitted.
Note: For the Lost Femmeslash Fic Battle at lost_femmeslash. Prompt: Kate/Claire, remember (more friendshippy than slashy, though). Also for un_love_you #7: Prove it.

( By the time he charms them with his long lashes and big blue eyes and mischievous little boy grin, they all seem to forget, for the moment, to settle their disapproving, slightly mistrustful gazes onto her, not the real mother. )

So, gmail likes to link to ads that relate to the content of one's emails. Since all my LJ comments are sent to my gmail account, sometimes this results in amusingly fannish ad results. Below is this afternoon's; I've printscreened it for posterity:



Yes, please, Yahoo...Send me one Bookworm!Sawyer. Clothing optional.

Also, thanks to whoever nominated my fics Ursa Theodorus, When all of this around us'll fall over, and In the Woods Trilogy at lost_fic_awards. I'm surprised and flattered, so thank you! Congrats to my wonderful fellow nominees.

Title: Ursa Theodorus
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: Scene revision of sorts: Sawyer does walk Kate home in The Brig. The flirty smirk she's giving him is, he's sure, intended to make him believe that this is indeed not personal, but he can't help it. It is. With her, it always is.
Notas: ¡Cumpleaños muy feliz a mi amiga querida, lenina20! ...Y para cumplir lo que prometí. ;) (I'm not *that* late, eh? – it's still the 26th here!)

Category: Best Het Fic

( He'll be damned if this is goodnight. )

Title: Vacancy (1/3): Strange Inversion
Rating: PG-13, for themes and, erm, heavy angsting?
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Spoilers: up to Eggtown; nothing that hasn't been aired
Summary: He whines and stomps his little feet and she's glad, somehow, that maybe he'll remember this, being indignantly angry at her.
Note: This is the first in what will be a 3-part series that follows the flashforward events of Eggtown. This fic can be read as a stand-alone, but the subsequent installments will need this one to make sense.
for un_love_you #10: I'm broken.

( We're getting them home. )

First of all, thank you to all of you who voted for my fic Degrees of Separation at lostfichallenge. It's truly such an honor, and I honestly can't believe it won, among such other wonderful entries. janie_tangerine made me a beautiful banner for it, which you can see on the post containing that fic. Yay, Kate and Cassidy ♥

Also, can I just give one big hug to the entire group of Lost fandom fanfic writers? Seriously, you guys are great. I'm currently behind on my fanfic reading, but it's so refreshing to not even have to search for amazing fanfic for my favorite fandom. There are some seriously talented writers in this fandom.

I have a fic of my own that I'm going to post soon (hopefully still tonight), but the last bit of writing and editing is going slowly as I'm watching the Oscars (I clearly need to watch more movies) and drinking a few glasses of wine. I promise the fic won't be a bunch of drunken babbling or anything, though; I'm actually pretty pleased with it for a change.

I actually watched Lost in real time tonight, so feel free to talk at me about it in comments here. (NO SPOILERS FOR UPCOMING EPISODES. NONE.) I'm going to need to watch it again before I can respond in a coherent fashion, but if you talk to me I'll be able to respond.

Never mind. Since elliotsmelliot asked, ( here's my first reaction to Eggtown )

Unrelated time-waster: ABC meme nabbed from 823freckles ( aqui )

Title: When all of this around us'll fall over
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: It starts out as comfort and maybe it ends there, too. Kate/Sun, with mentions of Sun/Jin and Kate/Sawyer.
Note: AU post-rescue. My own, unspoiled, O6 speculation, or part of it. No season 4 spoilers. For the current picture prompt at lost_femmeslash, and for un_love_you #3: this cancels out the hurt. Title comes from Ray LaMontagne's “Shelter.”

Category: Best Slash Fic

( It starts out as comfort: Sun plants flowers now. )

Because I'm curious, and because I'm currently not reading any fanfic that gives a general "season 4 spoilers" warning just to be safe...answer me this, flist:

Poll #1137595
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

When a fic writer (yourself or someone else) gives a general "season 4 spoilers" warning, this usually means...

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