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[slybrunette]

Title: They Say She's A Beautiful Girl
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Characters/Pairings: Callie. Callie/Erica, implied Callie/Mark
Word Count: 518
Rating: PG
Author's Notes/Warnings: Based on possible spoiler speculation. bebitched made me write this one.
Summary: Post finale. The ties that bind, she thinks, every time her thoughts wander back to when they were all just friends.

Supposedly, and she’s been told this by people before, this situation is kind of funny. Funny like hey, this could be a sitcom, except it’s her life so she has trouble finding anything to laugh about.

 

Like, for instance, when they’re out, pretty much anywhere that isn’t the hospital, someone will inevitably say, “what a beautiful little girl” and, faced with two women, will eventually ask, “Which one of you is her mother?”

 

See, that question would be fine if she could answer it for herself. She is her technical, biological mother, so it isn’t like she’s lying. But when you’re dealing with a talkative five year old who doesn’t exactly understand the implications of what she’s saying, it’s a whole other story. A story that usually ends with said child blurting, “They both are.”

 

The person, a woman more than likely, frowns, assuming the child is mistaken, and looks back up at them, at her and Erica, at which point her daughter will generally elaborate to include, “I have two mommies and a daddy.”

 

Yeah, that usually brings an end to the conversation.

 

Clearly, she has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, which Callie is going to guess she got from her father. Mark Sloane has never been one for tact of timing, she knew that before, while, and after she slept with him, which is what led to this.

 

The ties that bind, she thinks, with a shake of her head, every time she thinks back to when the three of them were just friends, before on-call room sex and lesbian affairs and people who try to be the better man for once.

 

So they have a daughter, her and Mark, and her and Erica are together and they manage. They’re all still friends, in one way or another, they all get along fine, and Mark’s a better dad than most would ever give him credit for.

 

Of course, with three parents taking care of her, it’s like she’s decided to be three times the trouble, which is what makes moments like that not uncommon. She likes the attention and she gets it quite often, a striking little girl with dark waves and green eyes, some colorful mix of her mother’s brown ones and her father’s light blue ones. The nurse had mumbled something about recessive genes and “they’ll change when she gets older, probably darken” but they didn’t, Callie isn’t surprised, and thus she acquired the first name of Jade, which was just unique enough without being – well, without being as complicated as her own name. No one had said a word because after thirty two hours of labor the least they could do was let her pick the name.

 

There are days when she regrets it all, wonders what she was thinking during that two week bout of insanity. There are also days where she looks at her daughter and she smiles and it’s all worth it. She guesses as long as those days outnumber the others than sleeping with Mark Sloane was the best thing she ever did.

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Title: It's Far Too Late To Turn Back Now
Fandom: Lost
Characters/Pairings: Charlotte. Implied Charlotte/Daniel.
Word Count: 263
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Second attempt at the freighties -- and yet another character I'm not particularly fond of (or sure of). Feedback is appreciated on this one.
Summary: Post finale. She almost believes these things she tells herself.

He was gone in a flash.

 

She guesses if she was a poet, if she liked metaphors and double meanings, she’d think herself clever. Instead she’s just disillusioned and regretful.

 

The island moved, they’ll say, years later, with a shrug of their shoulders that insists they just informed her ‘it rained, no big deal’. The island moved and his bearing was wrong and for all she knows the raft still circles the ocean around wherever the island used to be, and it makes her wish he hadn’t tried to be so damn helpful.

 

“He was probably trying to impress you,” Miles mutters, on topic, and Rose has her eye on the both of them – she’s never liked that woman but she admires how ballsy she is – so she looks down, where the wood that holds up the shelves of food meets the sand, studying all the imperfections in it and her and Daniel, all without meaning to.

 

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” she says, breezily, even so, because Miles does not get to her, no one gets to her, this is the person she is and she’s fine with that. Just like Daniel would’ve been shuttling people to that doomed boat even if she wasn’t there, because he is his own person, and maybe being helpful is just in his blood.

 

She almost believes these things she tells herself.

 

Mostly she just believes that although she’ll probably one day see that raft again, washed ashore by the current and the rising tide, he’ll be long gone in more ways than one.

Comments

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Aw I really love that Charlotte and Dan fic. Especially that last line. ♥!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

*huge sigh of relief*

I've never written her. Frankly the prospect scares me, but since I have to do a larger fic with her in it, I figured this was like getting my toes wet in the shallow end of the pool. So I'm glad you liked hun, that really means a lot to me!

Thanks for reading and reviewing!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Well I think you did a great job. I really like Charlotte. There are very few characters in lost that I will write, for some reason, and she's definitely one I hope to add to the list sometime this summer. Along with Daniel.

I even love your little insertion of Miles. It fits perfectly.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Well I'd love to see your take on the two of them, so I'm totally excited for that :)

And again, thank you!

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

Well - it's perfect. I don't like Charlotte at all but I've been feeling curious about exploring her in fic, and I believe you did great hear. She sounded enough cold and detached for us to realize that she is not that cold or detached. It also had an interesting sense of loss and guilt. I really enjoyed it! Don't doubt yourself. You are amazing!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I don't like her either -- but my friend has talked me into writing her in an...interesting pairing, so I best get used to her.

She is...I don't think I really understand her very well and that's why the prospect of writing her terrifies me. She's detached and distant and yet I'm not sure that's really true or why she's like that. It's definitely interesting to write.

I'm glad you liked this hun! Thanks so much for reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it.

[elise-509.livejournal.com]

This is a really great look at Charlotte, babe, and Daniel too. I like how she see Daniel as this good person always trying to do the right thing, and by implication it seems like she doesn't see that goodness in herself somehow. That seems very true with how they've both behaved since coming to the island and how Daniel's been the more understanding and selfless of the pair. The last line is heartbreaking and perfect.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I really did end up writing Daniel in a way too, didn't I? It would figure, since I really do like him. I don't like her but I like their interaction, I think, and that's where this comes from. And you're exactly right -- how he is overshadows the goodness in her, it's kind of social living in a way, where she doesn't have to be the understanding one, because she is. In a way.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it.

[mrslinus17.livejournal.com]

I like how you brought Miles and Rose into the fic- very good!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Hee, I've never even mentioned Rose I don't think, so it's kind of funny that she ended up here of all places.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it.

[citron-presse.livejournal.com]

I like the Callie/Mark story. It's a nice sketch and it would be a good way for the show to go if the speculative spoilers are correct. (I can't comment on the Lost story because I've never seen it!)

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I think it's an interesting angle -- though I have no idea if it will go here. It would be nice though.

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

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

I think any child of Mark Sloane is probably going to be good looking. Add in Callie's good looks and she's probably a heartbreaker. Very good fic.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yeah, that kid will have excellent genes ;)

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

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

The question reminds what last name is the kid going to have? Because I see at least 3 possibilities. Well, unless they bring Erica into the mix, which as a couple different options.

I can see Callie going to tradditional route and having the kid use Sloan as a last name, but I can also see her using her own name, or a hyphen of the two names. So its up in the air.

And I just realised I spent 5 minutes pondering this. *sigh* I wonder if they have therapy for this.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

*is not thinking that far ahead*

*starts looking for therapy for you*

I honestly would have NO idea. At all.

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Hehe. :)

[siluria]

I don't watch Grey's I'm afraid, but I think your Lost fic is really poignant. What happened to Daniel was the biggest question I had left after the finale, I can't believe we have to wait so long to find out!!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Grey's I'm afraid

Yeah, sometimes I want to be able to say that, lol.

On topic: Daniel's whereabouts has been and still is my biggest concern about that finale and so there's this in reaction to that because I don't do happy. Unfortunately.

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

[jenthegypsy.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike Charlotte so much as I find her cold and distant - maybe it's her upbringing, I don't know. For me the freight people landed into three groups: those that I loved right off the bat and love even more now (Daniel, Frank & *sobs* dear, departed Gault) - those I didn't take to but am now kinda intrigued with (Miles & Charlotte) - and the one I mistrusted from first sight and ended up hating maybe more than the Murdering Rat Bastard (who finally died in the explosion of the freighter) Keamy. Man, that guy was bad to the bone!

Sorry! All's to say that I like this ficlet very much. You've got a good feel for Charlotte - tough to do when we really haven't seen much of her other than as background and Miss Snark. As others have already said, that last line is killer - and I hope very far from the truth! *please let the raft have been caught in the fringes of the island relocation program*

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

She just has always rubbed me the wrong way -- which is weird because cold and distant is something I kind of identify with. And yeah, those are my same groups, lol, so at least we see eye to eye on that (also, fyi, I'm still bitter over MRB's demise, and will be AU-ing him, so he may be dead but not gone, just a warning)

And yeah, the last line's probably the highlight of the story but if it's true I'm taking the writers out back to be shot because that is completely unacceptable.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing! You have no idea how much it means to me that you do :)

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

Lost never managed to make me care about Charlotte but you, in so little words, totally made her sympathetic and intriguing. I love it, congrats because frankly, she must be HARD to write :)

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Lost never did that for me either, but I find writing someone you do not like is very therapeutic because maybe you can start to understand them that way. At least in my experience.

I'm glad you liked this hun! Thanks for reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it.

[hollysamantha.livejournal.com]

oh the grey's fic is so touching. x

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you thought so!

[neated.livejournal.com]

Aww, that Grey´s fic is absolutly great. It´s a really nice idea. And you captured the situation very good.

Much love for Charlotte/Dan. ♥

“You don’t know what you’re talking about,” she says, breezily, even so, because Miles does not get to her, no one gets to her, this is the person she is and she’s fine with that. Just like Daniel would’ve been shuttling people to that doomed boat even if she wasn’t there, because he is his own person, and maybe being helpful is just in his blood.

That part is amazing.

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've been dying to write that Grey's fic for a week now, so I'm glad it's done and that people like it :)

And you know, writing Charlotte/Daniel, at least to a degree, makes me like the idea of them a little bit more.

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

[bebitched.livejournal.com]

Very nice - both of them. The Callie/Mark/Erica made me giggle (*prays that this is what happens on the show*) and the Charlotte I found very interesting, if not just from a psychological standpoint. Well done!

[slybrunette.livejournal.com]

Well the C/M/E thing was your idea, so I'm glad it made you laugh.

As for Charlotte, that's how I approached it. Psychologically. It just made more sense that way.

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

[dariclone.livejournal.com]

Heh, your Callie/Erica fic was precious. And your Lost fanfic was so good, but sad.