one little elephant balancing

Title: Everybody's Got Daddy Issues
Rating: PG
Characters: Charlie, Jack, Claire
Spoilers: season one
Summary: On the way back from the golf game in Solitary, Charlie discovers a multitude of parallels between a man he met in a bar in Sydney and Jack’s father. Written for the charlielives challenge #5: fanon as canon using pacejunkie’s fic Life In Hell as the basis. It’s recommended that you read it first to understand my fic btw.
Disclaimer: Charlie and Claire are mine. Jack however is not. And neither is Lost.

( And that’s why the Red Sox will never win the series. )

Title: Shadow of a Girl
Rating: PG
Characters: Charlotte, Claire
Spoilers: up to The Economist
Summary: On the trek to the barracks, Charlotte finds herself watching Claire and surprises even herself when she steps up to start a conversation with the young mother.
Disclaimer: Lost belongs to ABC, Bad Robot, JJ, Damon and a whole bunch of other people.

( She’s too determined and stubborn to let her weaknesses show and if none of these poor sods are in need of a break then she doesn’t need one either. )

Title: Something Unexpected
Character/s: Sawyer/Claire friendship, mentions of Charlie
Spoilers: set just after Eggtown
Summary: The morning that Kate leaves the barracks, Claire comes to Sawyer to ask if he knows where she’s gone.
Disclaimer: Lost isn’t mine. Deal with it.
Author’s Note: I feel so WEIRD writing Conmama! I’ve only written it once before so hopefully I’ve got a fairly decent grasp on the characters, please let me know what you think!

( Claire looks at him with an unfathomable expression then. She doesn’t really look sad but Sawyer’s seen her when she’s happy and smiling and she’s certainly not happy now. She’s not busting out in tears or anything but he can tell that she’s melancholy by the flatness of her manner, the forced quality in her smile. )

Title: Insight
Genre: fluff, hurt/comfort, angst
Rating: PG
Spoilers: set during 1x05, White Rabbit but contains spoilers up to 1x08 Confidence Man
Summary: When Claire faints from the heat, Charlie is the first one to her side. At first she seems grateful for his help but as the day goes on, she starts to get a little wary of his constant attention and he begins to realise that there’s a lot more to her than first meets the eye.
Disclaimer: Lost belongs to ABC, Bad Robot etc. and I stake no claim at all to it save for my DVD’s and my 127 Lost fanfictions that I have written.

( Charlie smiled back, feeling unbelievably giddy. HE had made her smile like that – Charlie Pace, a no good, worthless heroin junkie had made someone feel better about themselves, like they belonged. Like they had a friend. )

Title: Fight for You 5/7
Rating: PG/PG-13
Genre: angst, action/adventure, romance
Characters: Claire, Charlie, Desmond
Summary: AU. Claire is suspicious enough when Desmond comes and asks Charlie to help him with a project but when she discovers that Desmond nearly let Charlie get killed by Rousseau’s arrow trap, she realises that they’re both still keeping secrets from her. When she discovers that Charlie is actually planning to die in the Looking Glass so that she might be rescued, Claire insists that the decision be taken out of his hands and puts the other survivors to a vote. From there, it’s all AU fun and games!
Disclaimer: If Lost was mine, this is what would have happened instead of the season finale. The lyrics used in the title and in the cut are from “The Special Two” by Missy Higgins.

Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

( Nothing cures the hurt you, you bring on by yourself. )

NEXT CHAPTER

Title: Fight for You 3/7
Rating: PG/PG-13
Genre: angst, action/adventure, romance
Characters: Claire, Charlie, Desmond
Summary: AU. Claire is suspicious enough when Desmond comes and asks Charlie to help him with a project but when she discovers that Desmond nearly let Charlie get killed by Rousseau’s arrow trap, she realises that they’re both still keeping secrets from her. When she discovers that Charlie is actually planning to die in the Looking Glass so that she might be rescued, Claire insists that the decision be taken out of his hands and puts the other survivors to a vote. From there, it’s all AU fun and games!
Disclaimer: If Lost was mine, this is what would have happened instead of the season finale. The lyrics in the cut and used in the title are from “The Special Two” by Missy Higgins.

Part One, Part Two

( And we will only need each other, we'll breathe together... )

NEXT CHAPTER

Title: Fight for You 1/7
Rating: PG/PG-13
Genre: angst, action/adventure, romance
Characters: Claire, Charlie, Desmond
Summary: AU. Claire is suspicious enough when Desmond comes and asks Charlie to help him with a project but when she discovers that Desmond nearly let Charlie get killed by Rousseau’s arrow trap, she realises that they’re both still keeping secrets from her. When she discovers that Charlie is actually planning to die in the Looking Glass so that she might be rescued, Claire insists that the decision be taken out of his hands and puts the other survivors to a vote. From there, it’s all AU fun and games!
Disclaimer: If Lost was mine, this is what would have happened instead of the season finale. The lyrics in the cut and used in the title are from “The Special Two” by Missy Higgins.
Authors Note: this one is dedicated to falafel_fiction who gave me her original plot bunny for this fic (she wanted to see Claire fighting to keep Charlie alive) and allowed me to splice it with a bunny of my own and create a new, more involved storyline

( I will fight for you – be sure that I will fight… )

NEXT CHAPTER

Title: Save One, Lose Another
Character/s: Desmond, Charlie
Spoilers: up to Flashes Before Your Eyes
Summary: AU. Desmond saved Claire from drowning so that Charlie wouldn’t go in. What he didn’t bank on was what happened next...
Disclaimer: Clearly this never happened on the show – thus why FANfiction! Cheers.

( You can’t change fate. )

Title: Fractured Lullaby
Rating: PG
Genre: angst, hurt/comfort
Summary: Aaron has a nightmare and comes to his mother for comfort. Future fic.
Disclaimer: Aaron and Claire belong to Lost and it’s respective writers (unfortunately). Golden Slumbers/The End is a song performed by KD Lang for the Happy Feet soundtrack, originally written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and I have used the lyrics herein.

( Once there was a way to get back homeward. Once there was a way, to get back home… )

Title: Foe and Friend
Spoilers: an episode tag to Maternity Leave
Summary: Claire muses on Ethan and Charlie and tries to decide which of them is the real monster.
Disclaimer: Lost is by other people and the lyrics in the cut are also by other people (The Fray).
Author’s Note: written for lostfichallenge #58: good and evil

( I found a friend or should I say a foe? )