rec50 | "Delicate" and "The Deep End"

Claim: Lost, Sawyer
Title: "Delicate"
Author:

foxxcub
Characters: Jack, James (Sawyer)
Prompt: 31, Discovery
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This is one of an ongoing series of fics set in the "Jack/James 'verse" in which the teenage Jack and Sawyer attend the same high school and start a secret relationship. In this fic, James tries to find out how Jack got a mysterious bruise on his face and Jack clams up. We know that James still has his own terrible secrets (which is dealt with in a later fic), so he doesn't want to push, but when they're forced to spend the night together on a school trip, the truth comes out. Lovely and lump-in-the-throat sad, as these two try to navigate between trust and fear and longing.
Link to the story: Delicate

Claim: Lost, Sawyer
Title:"The Deep End"
Author:

eponine119
Characters: Jack, James (Sawyer)
Prompt: 38, Betrayal
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Set after the above fic: when James sees Jack with a girl, he lashes out, which is all the more terrifying since he's gone from wanting to protect Jack to wanting to hurt him himself. Their trying to give each other up here is so amazingly, heartbreakingly rendered. This fic is a real turning point in the 'verse; it raises the stakes to an intense new level and shows how much they really do mean to each other.
Link to the story: The Deep End

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