rec50 | Not So Lost, Desert Island Picks

Pieces focusing on the Lostaways as a group for this entry.

Claim: Lost: General Series
Prompt: 15 – Crack!Fic
Title: Not So Lost
Author: IslandPalm, Morganagain, MrsTater
Rating: PG
Length: Long
Brief summary: Sheer crack!fic, but crack!fic of the highest order, with deleted scenes, poor characterization, and plot holes forming the basis for the castaways' grudges against the head writers. And when they get the chance, they take revenge…
Excerpt:"Maybe Charlie can help," Jack suggested. "We could get him to pretend he's back on heroin, and—"

"Charlie's a heroin addict?" cried Sayid in alarm.

Jack slowly nodded. "Yeah. You didn't know?"

"No, and when we went out to rescue Claire's child from Rousseau, I led him straight to the Nigerian drug smugglers' plane. Damn."

"Wait," said Jack. "What drug smugglers' plane?"

"The plane that killed Boone," said Sayid.

"So Boone was lucid." Jack stroked his stubbly chin. "What about Rousseau kidnapping Claire's baby? When did that happen?"

"While you were getting Arzt blown up."

Jack grimaced, but whether because he felt badly about Arzt or didn't like taking the blame, Sayid could not tell.

"What else don't I know about?" Jack asked.

Sayid thought for a moment. "Did anyone ever tell you Sawyer killed a polar bear in the jungle?"

"Yeah. Heard about that."

Thoughts returning to the revelation of Charlie's drug addiction, Sayid shook his head in disbelief and self-recrimination. "The smugglers – Locke showed me one of the skeletons – were disguised as priests, and they hid the drugs in Virgin Mary statues. Six hundred twenty-three statues, to be exact, each containing at least four six-gram bags of—"

"Okay, enough with the exposition," Jack said. "Charlie's clean now. He'll be fine if we just get rid of the heroin."

"But Charlie sneaked one of the Madonnas when I wasn't looking." Sayid cursed himself again. "When we returned to the caves with Aaron, I saw him showing it to Claire. I assumed he took it because he is Catholic."

"Charlie's Catholic?"
Link: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

Claim: Lost: General Series
Prompt: 31 - Discovery
Title: Desert Island Picks
Author:

piratequeen27
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Shortly after the crash, a group of survivors start talking about the 'what one item you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with' game. Bonding ensues. Sweet and well-characterized, with a good strong group dynamic.
Excerpt:Shannon turned to her brother, “Well of course. If you’re lucky, half of a normal CD will have songs you like and the other half will be stuff you skip over unless you’re lazy or driving too fast to hit the skip button on your CD player. With a greatest hits CD the chances of having a full CD you can listen to while stranded goes up.”

Jack nodded in approval, “That was some excellent thinking, Shannon.”

“Don’t sound so surprised.”

Jack was about to respond when Charlie interrupted.

“Why listen to anything if you don’t listen to all of it? It’s people like you who let the record industry fill CDs with good singles instead of good music.”

“What do you know about it?” Shannon retorted.

“Because three of the best songs I ever wrote for Drive Shaft ended up being cut at the last minute for bad songs that sounded good on the radio.”

“Wait, you were in Drive Shaft? Holy shit, my roommate in college was obsessed with you guys.”

Charlie smiled at her, “Yeah? Hey wait, what about you?”

Shannon shrugged, “I thought you guys were all right. That one song they used to play a lot was pretty good, I guess.”
Link: Desert Island Picks