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[slybrunette]

Title: And This Is How Accidents Happen
Fandom: Lost
Characters/Pairings: Kate/Sayid, sort of.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 189
Author's Note: I owe this to raisingirl99  from like October, so here it is. You wanted happy fic, this is not it, let that be a warning. I tried.
Summary: AU, post-island. Kate has a selfish streak; this is it. 

Sayid handles it calmly.

 

At least, he handles it calmly for a man who walks into a grocery store and finds out he has a three year old.

 

She hadn’t ever meant to tell him. She hadn’t even meant to see him.

 

Then again Kate hadn’t meant to sleep with him either.

 

She doesn’t give him the chance to start talking about taking responsibility for his actions and helping her in any way he can. It’s automatic for him, otherwise he wouldn’t be saying it. It would never work. If there’s anyone who could figure that out, anyone who thinks like her, then it would be him.

 

She’s still on the run. And he’s smart and he’s forgiving and he’s also never going with her. She wouldn’t want him to. This isn’t Jack and it isn’t Sawyer and it isn’t the same relationship she had with them. This was an ill-timed accident.

 

She loves her son, every mother loves their child, it’s innate and you can’t avoid it, but not enough for her to stick around so he can know his father. Not with her freedom on the line.

Comments

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

I love this! I love this approach to future Kate, you know? Still on the run, loving her son but not enough to risk her freedom. Because that's so complex, so difficult, bot so Kate.

She’s still on the run. And he’s smart and he’s forgiving and he’s also never going with her. She wouldn’t want him to. This isn’t Jack and it isn’t Sawyer and it isn’t the same relationship she had with them. This was an ill-timed accident.

I love that.

And I have a thing for Kate/Sayid, not to mention that other thing I have for Kate & baby! This really worked for me. Very good job! :D

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Kate is that kind of person IMO.

I'm glad you like Kate/Sayid, since I tend to write that. Kate and a baby...not so much, which is why this is darker and not fluffy like the prompt I got intended it to be.

I'm glad you like this! Thanks for reading!

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

I'm always written Kate with a baby, is a sick deviation of mine. I've never, however, written a Kate that was happy with that baby. Poor thing Kate, I tend to make her suffer too much at times.

This was the perfect Kate and baby fic for me, dark, and unhappy, and so much Kate. Have I mentiones how I love that she's still running in this? That is something so not common in Kate fics! I loved it!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Well Kate runs. That is the way she is. She's not going to settle down and be domestic and if she is there needs to be a valid reason. At least, that's how I am starting to look at it. Sometimes, I break that rule though.

[bachlava.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Of course Sayid would need to love and care for his child, and of course Kate wouldn't let him (or anyone else). Sad and lovely.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Sayid seems like the kind of person who would need to take responsibility and Kate would be totally against that.

I'm glad you liked this!

[raisingirl99.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for writing this! I can see all of it happening... every last bit of it. I also thought it was just a really interesting post-island look at how things could be.

She loves her son, every mother loves their child, it’s innate and you can’t avoid it, but not enough for her to stick around so he can know his father. Not with her freedom on the line.

This makes me sad, both for Kate and for the child, but I can certainly see it. Like you said in the summary, she has a selfish streak. A stubborn streak, too.

Anyway, thanks again for writing this. It might not have been a happy fic, but I definitely enjoyed reading it. :)

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Aw, hon, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I was really kind of worried about that.

Stubborn works too :) I can definitely see that.

Thanks for the great prompt!

[bebitched.livejournal.com]

Heh. This makes me laugh really hard for some reason :D

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

That was SO not the point of writing this. So I don't know if that is good or bad.

[bebitched.livejournal.com]

I know it wasn't the point but it was the undesired effect on me when I'm in a weird mood. But it was good thing. It's just the whole idea of Sayid in the scene cracked me up for some reason.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

It's cause it's a total WS for him to be in.

[bebitched.livejournal.com]

A total what?

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

WS = weird scene.

[bebitched.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's probably it. I'm just imagining him going "Umm... huh?" and Kate going "See, yeah, forgot to mention this, didn't I? Whoopsies." It's funny in my head.

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Interesting thought, Kate with a child.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I've seen it done. I on the other hand have never written it. Figured I'd give it a shot.

Thanks for reading!

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

I love the first and last lines. They're so in character. I also like the line where she thinks Sayid is the only one that thinks like her which I think at least for Kate's perspective is right. Well done!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Sayid and Kate do think along the same lines, that's why they sort of had something going in the first season. I like to go back to that every now and then.

I'm glad you thought it was in character. Thanks for reading!

[lil-orli.livejournal.com]

i like this feels very kate to me she'll love but her freedom has to come first, how can she be a mum if she's in jail.

I'm a skater as you know but i like sayid/kate he gets her there different sides of the same coin and i always loved how when he left he kissed her hand. made me squee hehe

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Exactly. She wants her freedom, sometimes I think more than anything when you look at what she's done to some people in her past.

I love the ending of that episode with the hand kissing though. That was perfect!

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading!

[uhzoomzip.livejournal.com]

so kate to run with the kid - and just spot-on sayid to be calm about it. love it!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Kate runs -- we all know it. It would be weird if that changed. And Sayid...that's one of the things I love about him. He's calm and levelheaded.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing!

[aboutbunnies.livejournal.com]

This is lovely. Sad and lovely. Very in character, too, for both of them. Well done!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's very hard for me to really write Sayid, so that means a lot to me :) I'm glad you liked it!