Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

Okay, second-to-last of the ficlet reposting dumps I'll inflict on you. The first three are random het, the last two are SPN/Lost crossovers. Next is coming the Dean/Castiel in five hours or so and then I'll be done.

Lost het:

Cages
Jack/Juliet; mid S3 spoilers; 321 words; hard R; not mine.
This is not what you should be doing.
A/N: originally written for lenina20 for the five acts meme; the prompts were Stockholm syndrome, quick/rushed and angst. Second person POV. Sucky title sucks, but I have no imagination.
You’re losing your mind.

Keep Your Eyes On The Road And Your Hands Upon The Wheel
Kate/Sayid; S4 spoilers, then goes AU; 500 words: PG13; not mine.
It’s almost like a weird vacation. (Until they get caught, but who says that they will be? They’re both professionals, after all.)
A/N: originally written for the fic battle at lostsquee for the prompt road trip. This is, uh, weird. I guess. Title from The Doors.
The car is stolen.

Get It While You Can
Boone/Kate; S1 spoilers; 716 words: R; not mine.
He’s probably here just to prove to himself that he can be with someone who is everything Shannon isn’t and since there’s nothing else he wants, Kate will let him have it.
A/N: originally written for the fic battle at lostsquee for the prompt nothing good ever happens past midnight. Title from Janis Joplin.
They should know better, and they probably do, but it doesn’t stop them anyway.

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Lost/SPN crossovers:

And You Could Smell The Whiskey Burning
Ellen/Sayid; S2 spoilers (SPN) + S4 spoilers (Lost); 940 words; R; not mine.
What stands out to her isn’t his clothing (too refined, too pricey, too new) and it isn’t his features either (dark skin, definitely Arab, foreign accent, a better grammar than most people Ellen usually talks to); what stands out, is that he orders MacClutcheon’s.
A/N: originally written for the fic battle at lostsquee for the prompt whiskey. Title from Steve Earle.
Ellen hasn’t seen someone looking so dead since Dean the day after he sold his soul, and who knows if this guy hasn’t sold his, too?

Sympathy For The Devil
Lucifer/Man In Black (-> Lucifer/War, implies also Jacob/MIB); 5x02 spoilers (SPN), general S5/S6 spoilers (Lost); 1280 words; hard R; not mine.
“I was waiting for you,” the real devil says as you finally stand in front of him again.
A/N: originally written for toestastegood for the five acts meme; the prompts were rough sex, holding hands and reunion. Title from the Rolling Stones.
You snort and try not to pay attention; after all, it’s just a vessel. And even if it has the face of the person who kept you there since Lucifer first fell, you can let a grudge go.

Title: Cages
Rating: hard R
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Words: 321
Summary: This is not what you should be doing.
Spoilers: mid S3.
Disclaimer: Lost isn't mine, duh.
A/N: originally written for lenina20 for the five acts meme; the prompts were Stockholm syndrome, quick/rushed and angst. Second person POV. Sucky title sucks, but I have no imagination.

( You’re losing your mind. )

Title: Keep Your Eyes On The Road And Your Hands Upon The Wheel
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Kate/Sayid
Words: 500
Summary: It’s almost like a weird vacation. (Until they get caught, but who says that they will be? They’re both professionals, after all.)
Spoilers: goes AU from S4.
Disclaimer: Lost isn't mine, duh.
A/N: originally written for the fic battle at lostsquee for the prompt road trip. This is, uh, weird. I guess. Title from The Doors.

( The car is stolen. )

Title: Get It While You Can
Rating: R
Pairing: Boone/Kate
Words: 716
Summary: He’s probably here just to prove to himself that he can be with someone who is everything Shannon isn’t and since there’s nothing else he wants, Kate will let him have it.
Spoilers: for S1? It's set then.
Disclaimer: Lost isn't mine, duh.
A/N: originally written for for the fic battle at lostsquee, the prompt was nothing good ever happens past midnight. Er, well, Kate was missing in my write-Boone/everyone-quest. Title from Janis Joplin.

( They should know better, and they probably do, but it doesn’t stop them anyway. )

Oh dear. I'm so nervous about this one.

Title: It's Fun To Lose And To Pretend
Fandom: Lost
Character: Nirvana!Jack (plus light Jack/Sawyer and Jack/Juliet implied)
Rating: er, does hard PG-13 exist? Look at the warnings.
Warnings: Heavy spoilers for the S3/S4 finales. Anndd.. there's drug use, alcohol, abundance of grunge music, ghosts, delusional fantasies and musings about dead grunge singers which aren't necessarily of the sane kind.
Summary: It starts just because he needs something loud enough.
Tracks/Words: 13 tracks, 4850 words.
Notes: for Queen alliecat8 at lostsquee, who asked for Jack love. Errrr. This is so not happy or fluffy or anything else but when you commented somewhere that you used to like Nirvana a lot and then you asked for Jack I had to dust this off. Because I had like three sections written since ages and I never brought myself to go forward, but I always wanted to actually write something regarding why the hell does Jack like grunge music so much and I swear it was done out of pure love. I ♥ Jack like, a lot. And I have a bit of Jack/Sawyer in there too, even if sorry again, nothing of the HAPPY! sort.
Notes #2: if I ever wrote something music-inspired where the music is an integral part of the whole thing, this is it. So I used box.net because it should give you the possibility to hear stuff without downloading if you open the link in another window, either from the direct one on the song or from the widget I put in the bottom. And I sincerely hope it didn't end up being cryptic or something. I'm so nervous about this really. Also, the Uncut copy really exists. I own it. And I know that Janis Joplin isn't grunge, it's just that IMHO her song fits. ;) Uh, and Scentless Apprentice and Gouge Away were the ones in the actual show. Okay. I'm shutting up.



( He might try with pills and alcohol, but they won't shut his father up anymore; after a couple of weeks, he realizes how much of a hopeless cause it is. He'll appear anyway; Jack will have to listen to him anyway.  )

Title: Hunger Strike
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Words: 329
Summary: Jack’s lips are thin and forceful upon hers, the opposite of that first time which was also the last until a minute ago; he kisses her like he’s starving for it and she can’t not meet it, not when she has hoped for this for… three or thirty years. Doesn’t matter.
Spoilers: for 5x13, Some Like It Hoth.
Disclaimer: not mine. I wish. I wish..
A/N: for prettybutt who wanted kiss. Title blatantly stolen from Temple Of The Dog.

( She wants for him to suffer because he left and allowed her to fall for someone else when she never had the chance to be with him before moving on. )

Title: The Week Before Moving Day
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Words: 339
Summary: She gives a good tip to both the workers who brought the bed up to the sixth floor; when it’s set, even if bare of everything except the mattress, she looks at it fondly, as it stands alone in what will be their bedroom in a short while.
Spoilers: meh, this is a total AU where they were all rescued in S3. Or something. Just pretend S4/5/the 3 finale never happened.
Disclaimer: not mine, this would happen.
A/N: for coffeecrisp7, who wanted empty and I promptly used an angst prompt for shameless romance. But I couldn't do angst anymore.

( Jack is at work when the bed arrives; she takes the afternoon off to be there. )

Title: Eighteen-Hour Drive
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Words: 505
Summary: I wanted to ask you to take the rest of the day off and go with me to Seattle.
Spoilers: argh. This implies that Nirvana!Jack happened but that S5 never happened. Just let's pretend they rescued them normally and go as AU as possible.
Disclaimer: not mine, this would have happened already-
A/N: for jate92, who wanted notice. This is definitely not what you were expecting probably. *hides* By the way, if the reference was obscure, Sub Pop is was Nirvana's first record company (and well, actually the first record company of every serious grunge group I guess, or almost).

( “Fine. Who are you and what have you done with Jack Shephard?” )

Title: You'll Be A Lover In My Bed And A Gun To My Head
Rating: argh, something like hard PG13?
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Words: 3176
Summary: Juliet becomes metaphorically a lover in his bed and literally a gun to his head. She’s a gun to his head because he cares and she knows and they all know and so much for trying to stay detached and clear of weak points. And she’s a lover in his bed but isn’t at the same time because sure as hell they never even kissed and if he thinks about Kate it still hurts all over.
Spoilers: goes AU for the last episode but I'd be safe to say general S5 until now. Goes AU for 5x08.
Warning: features a lot of Nirvana!Jack.
Disclaimer: Lost is not mine. There wouldn't be a quadrangle.
A/N: jate92 my dearest, this be your belated birthday fic. I don't know if it fills the denial fic request 100% but I did try. On general notes: this goes AU from LaFleur in the sense that the final scene never happened. I couldn't deal with canon directly. Also, this was heavily inspired by the Smashing Pumpkins' Ava Adore, from which I also stole the title (but I think it isn't half as morbid). Okay, I'm stopping the blathering.
A/N 2: if as for last time I gave Jack a definite age someone has something to say, I'll gracefully ignore it.

( Fun, that remembering Juliet is pretty much the only thing that will really feel painful for him these days. )

So, do you remember the last time yours truly decided to take advantage of the fact they sometimes use opera as a soundtrack in Lost? Well, it happened again and I didn't even use the actual piece in the show because it was too depressing. Sue me. Except that last time it was something I was way more familiar with but hey, after all La Traviata is the only opera that makes me cry. Figure it out. And I still don't know what to think of this one, but it's been sitting there for three days and I figured I should just post it.

Title: Torment And Delight of My Heart
Characters/Pairing: Juliet, Jack/Juliet, some Goodwin/Juliet references
Rating: PG13 I guess?
Disclaimer: Lost is not mine, La Traviata belongs to Verdi's nephews I guess. Surely not mine anyway.
Word count: around 4000
Spoilers: until the S4 finale? Deliberately ignores any spoiler around from then, including stuff we know for certain.
Summary: Looking at Goodwin for a second as he passes in front of her house, heading to his, while Juliet is trying to find the exact balance in mixing the ingredients for the muffins she’s about to bake, is all it takes to make her realize how much this place has changed her.
A/N: for lenina20 as the first of my Christmas things (I just wish I could have written you something I actually knew what to think of) and using also for lostfichallenge #84, a different point of view (hey, I wrote Juliet once or something). Blame half of this on whoever chooses the soundtrack who had her listening to La Traviata with Goodwin in One of Us. All the italics (plus the title) are from the opera. And no, it doesn't end like that, I am already masochistic enough.

( Then Jack Shephard falls from a plane crash into her life and everything changes. )

Since the Des/Claire confrontation is kind of ditched right now and nothing else I should do wants to cooperate, I'll go with exorcising the last episode.

Title: Solitude Standing
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: ppfff. If Lost was mine I wouldn't have needed to write this because what happened in episode 4x10 wouldn't have happened.
Word count: 1908
Spoilers: Up to 4x10.
Summary: Six months after a submarine took her away from home and to another place she came to hate with all of herself, she realized that it was either living by three rules and sticking to them or renounce definitely to the idea of going back.
A/N: for 12_stories #3, rules. And because I needed to exorcise last episode for real. The ending is probably never going to happen but well, I said I wanted to exorcise. And Juliet is better for him than Kate is anyway. Title stolen from a Suzanne Vega song after one hour trying to find one.

( Juliet, when accepting Ben's offer, didn’t realize that she would have broken all of those three rules because of Jack. )

So I went for the Great Mix Up of the century, in the end. Thanks to lenina20 who made me realize that it was actually possible to mix both of my ideas up ;) now I hope it's not too off.

Title: Wedding Day
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairing: Sarah, Kate, Jack/Juliet
Word counting: 3736
Disclaimer: knowing Darlton, this will never happen.
Spoilers: For Eggtown, the Sarah episodes and general S4.
Summary: They look so happy and pleased with each other that Kate can’t refrain from thinking about her own wedding and a sudden feeling of sadness rushes all over her. Because she knows that if she had caught the ball when it was in her court, it may have been her on that aisle.
A/N: for lostfichallenge #69, beginnings and endings; also for 10_shakespeare, "How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!". I seriously hope that I've not jumped the shark and that I've done a decent thing with Kate & Sarah, who are definitely not my favorite characters to date. Heavily inspired by Bon Jovi's Wedding Day since I had the idea listening to it; it's a demo from ten years ago or such but it's nonetheless an awesome song, IMHO. Oh, and the courthouse really exists and the number is the real one with two numbers changed. I googled it ;)

( Sarah takes the card again, turning it in her hands over and over, trying to figure out what this means. Jack is getting married. )

Title: Come As You Are
Characters/Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Rating: PG really
Disclaimer: Not mine, never were, never will.
Word count: around 2900
Summary: for 12_stories #1, colour.You don’t understand why and how you ended here in the first place; the only thing you can be sure of is that hers is some of the worst cooking you ever tasted in your life, but strangely, you find it comforting. Because it’s the proof that she isn’t just as perfect as she seems and that her facade is just as fake as you thought.
Spoilers: General S3 and The Other Woman.
A/N: This is my (very) belated birthday fic for lenina20, who wanted Jack/Juliet and I gladly comply ;) I realize there isn't nothing new really but I hope you like it nonetheless! Uhm, apart from the fact that I've gone with the dreaded second person POV, nothing that interesting to say and nothing that wasn't in canon. With which I hope I didn't mess involuntarily. Title stolen from Nirvana, but that song has nothing at all to do with this whatsoever. And now I'll stop and just post the thing.

( The first time, you see her through green lens, though they're not properly lens; it’s a glass wall between you and her and a green, artificial, fake light which is the only proper source of illumination in the room. To you, she looks as fake as that light is. )