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Ganked from lozzy_babe06
The OTP Meme - Choose your current One True Pairing and list 3-5 five reasons that made you fall in love with them. Your answer can be in the form of writing, fan-art, graphics, or any kind of media (e.g. a clip of a scene with the pairing, or maybe a text excerpt). Have fun and spread the love!

Charlie/Claire from Lost had huge amounts of potential back in season one when we were first introduced to the pairing. Over time the writers have pushed them to the side in favour of the triangle/quadrangle of doom and all their lovely potential of course went down the toilet with their seperation and (more recently) Charlie's death. But I always have and always will love this pairing.

Now I could wax on lyrically but instead I'm going to give you my two pieces of media that remind me the most of my OTP. Funnily enough, they're both from season one...

Video: The Water Scene from White Rabbit
Reason: This scene still makes me squee - even after so long. The first hints towards what this ship could have become. *sigh*


Fanfiction: Learning You by literarylemming a.k.a. Mnemosyne.
Summary: Episode tag to "Outlaws." Charlie and Claire commune immediately after the end of the episode.
Reason: her fics were some of the very first Lost ones I ever read and they're all just so fucking incredible. Her fics were what inspired me to start writing my own C/C. This was my favourite of hers and it still remains my favourite Lost fanfiction of all time. Her use of language is just...guh perfect.

( Excerpt under here... )

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? )

Title: Breathing A Memory
Fandom: RPF, implied Monalilly and hints of Domilie
Words: 2,365
Rating: PG
Summary: as filming for season four of Lost begins, Emilie finds herself in the costume department, reminiscing about Dom’s untimely departure from the show.
Disclaimer: this never happened and probably never will. I am a delusional RP shipper and as such, will probably go to hell or something. Hell, I can’t help it if these two look pretty together! The lyrics in the cut are from “Breathing You In” by The Whitlams

( I’m breathing you in... )

Title: Promise
Genre: angst
Spoilers: season three and beyond
Word Count: 487
Summary: Claire Littleton had never broken a promise before in her life.
Disclaimer: Claire is the property of ABC, Bad Robot and a bunch of people who don’t write enough for her. Lyrics in the cut are from “Broken Promise” by Placebo.

( A broken promise, I was not honest... )

Title: Role Reversal 3/5
Rating: PG-13 for drug use
Authors: falafal_fiction, sapphire_child and pacejunkie
Characters: Charlie, Jack, some Claire and Kate
Summary: Post-rescue. Charlie is living in Sydney with Claire and Aaron, his music career is taking off again and due to his heroic exploits in The Looking Glass that ultimately led to everyone getting rescued he is now hailed as “The Indisputable Hero of 815”. But being a hero isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – and the dream life he’s been living is far from perfect. Then he receives an unexpected phone call from Kate, pleading him to help out an old friend and suddenly Charlie finds himself having to play the hero for the last person he would have ever expected...
Disclaimer: The characters are not ours but the story is. Yep, we made it all up. Consider it a loving tribute.
A/N: It’s funny how the principal characters in this story consist of an Aussie, a Yank and a Brit because it was written by…you guessed it…an Aussie, a Yank and a Brit. As you read, imagine this little fic travelling all over the world and back again toward its completion. We hope you enjoy it.
Links: Part One, Part Two

( Part The Third )

It nearly killed me to write this but I did do it. One writing challenge I do not think I will be repeating is definitely any RP/Fan things =P no offence Jill dear, but it's just too much of a brainkiller for my muse, she just does not like writing them at all (as you have evidenced by how long it took her to get this done). I think she's much better suited to fandom personally. I hope you enjoy it!

Title: Summer Flu
Fandom: RPS
Summary: a request from jillo_loves_dom who wanted to see herself looking after Dom when he’s sick. Unashamedly cute and fluffy piece but there is some Dom!snark in there so it's not a total squish-fest.
Disclaimer: Dom doesn’t belong to me, and neither does the basic premise for this fic. No offence is intended and no money is being made. Kthx!
Author’s Note: this is only the second RPS I’ve ever done and it’s certainly the only Dom/Fan piece I’ve ever done. Ever. PLEASE don’t shoot me for it.

( How’re you feeling? Any better? - I feel like I want to be surfing. Or maybe dying in a hole somewhere. )