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( It's last call and you gotta drink up while you still can )

The truth can bring people together, but it can also tear them apart. What will it do to John and Claire?




( Truth Will Out )

Every chapter brings John and Claire closer together, and subsequently brings us closer to the truth behind what happened on the night they broke up. But remember, as a great Jedi once said, "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."



( Going Through the Motions )

In which we get some answers, but also raise more questions...



( Ghosts of the Past, part 2 )

Title: Rain Keeps Falling
Rating: T
Pairing: John/Claire
Summary: No amount of wishing could stop the sun from rising or the rain from falling. Their story may have ended, but life continued on. Sequel to Look My Way.

Did Claire and John really live happily ever after? Who was right that time in the diner about fairytales? Set nine years after the events in Look My Way, but could probably be read as a stand alone.


( Ghosts of the Past, Part 1 )

Still working on the LMW sequel, hope to have something post-worthy by Thanksgiving at the latest. I also started writing on a fairly dark, pre-detention Bender fic. Not sure where that's going to end up yet, though. In the mean time, here's another installment of the John/Claire drabble series I've been working on.




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The sequel to Look My Way is forthcoming...




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Title: New Schedule
Rating: T
Pairing: John/Claire
Summary: When his boss switched him to the weekend, John thought his life had taken a turn for the worse. Turns out he was wrong and working the weekends came with unforeseen benefits.


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Title: New Schedule
Rating: T
Pairing: John/Claire
Summary: When his boss switched him to the weekend, John thought his life had taken a turn for the worse. Turns out he was wrong and working the weekends came with unforeseen benefits.


( Part II )

Title: New Schedule
Rating: T
Pairing: John/Claire
Summary: When his boss switched him to the weekend, John thought his life had taken a turn for the worse. Turns out he was wrong and working the weekends came with unforeseen benefits.
Status: Ongoing

A/N: The idea behind this is a series of glimpses into John’s life, broken into weekly segments according to his work schedule. Depending on how it turns out, I might post it on FF.net when I'm done.

( He fell slowly, almost effortlessly, into a relationship with the one person he thought he could never have. )

Ugh. This one took me forever to get to the point where I was done with it.  I had posted a rough draft of it on here earlier, but I wasn't happy enough with it to post to FF.net.  Anyway, here's part 2, the final version (probably).


( In the locker, things are not always what they seem... )

Title: A Kiss for the New Year
Rating: T
Pairing: John/Claire
Summary: On December 31, 1983, Claire and John find themselves at the same New Year’s Eve party, searching for the same thing.
Status: Oneshot. 2,651 words


Just a little fluff that takes place a few months before the movie. Happy Holidays!


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Title: Up is Down
Rating: T
Pairing: Jack/Elizabeth
Summary: What if the only way to save everyone from the Kraken was to sacrifice Elizabeth and doom her to an eternity in the locker? Goes into AU territory during the events of Dead Man's Chest.
Status: Ongoing

A/N: The idea for this story came to me while I was watching DMC. I wondered how it would be if Jack and Elizabeth's roles were reversed. What would Elizabeth’s stint in the locker be like? How would Jack deal with his actions? Could Elizabeth forgive him? The story picks up towards the end of DMC, although obviously some of the timeline and events have been tweaked to fit the story.

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A Safe Haven

Elizabeth looked around as Jack led her through the twists and turns of the settlement in Shipwreck Cove. She hadn’t had the chance to investigate the city’s core the last two times she was there, but by the effortless way Jack wandered down corridors, it appeared he was intimately familiar with every ship’s hull and walkway that made up their path. Occasionally, a dirty face peered out through a porthole and glared at them. Elizabeth thought they would surely get shot sooner or later, but Jack didn’t look worried at all.

They climbed a flight of stairs and turned down a hallway that looked to be a dead end. Jack stopped in front of the intricately carved wooden door at the end of the hall and raised his fist to knock. He hesitated for the briefest of seconds before pounding on the door. Captain Teague opened the door. If he was surprised by their presence, he hid it well. He gave them a half-grin.

“You in some kind of trouble?”

“How did you know?” Elizabeth asked curiously.

“Jack only comes to visit when he’s in trouble,” Captain Teague explained.

“Or coerced,” Jack added.

“Aye,” Captain Teague agreed moving aside to let them in, “He’s a terrible son, leaving his old father here to languish away on land.”

Jack snorted an incredulous laugh as he entered his childhood home.



TBC...

Series Title: Taking Flight
Pairing: Jack/Elizabeth
Rating:  K+
Summary:  A series of ficlets presented in chronological order that offers glimpses into what has happened since the events of Spreading Her Wings (a post-AWE, very slighty AU, Sparrabeth tale about the journey Elizabeth takes after losing Will).
Status: Ongoing

I'm having trouble deciding on what I want to work on next. I have a bunch of half-finished stories and barely fledged out ideas that I simultaneously want to work on all at once and not at all. I was feeling pretty burned out after finishing Look My Way and as a result, had put fanfic writing on a back burner. But I miss it. It's time to pick it up again. I've started looking through my stuff, contemplating what to do...
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...and the John/Claire relationship:

You may have noticed that fairytales were one of the big, reoccurring themes within Look My Way. You may also notice, that I ended the story right after the prom, essentially giving John and Claire the fairytale ending that John said they wouldn't get. This was completely intentional.

I'm a romantic at heart, so it's just like John said, who wants to read about a stormy relationship that eventually ends in misery? Everyone likes a happy ending, right?

John's comment was written for the purpose of foreshadowing. An especially astute reader (possibly one with psychic powers?) will notice that I set the stage for... get ready for it... a sequel. *Gasp* Oh my god, I must be crazy, what am I thinking, I just finished this huge story, how can I think about continuing it?

Well, the truth is, I've had this idea for a sequel for a while now. The beginning is all outlined and I have a rough draft of what's going to happen. The only problem (huge problem) is that it has no end. And as long as it continues to have no end, I can't post it. I'm somewhat quirky, in that way. I don't like posting works-in-progress until I have an ending in mind. I think that makes me a bit of an anomaly these days, but that's how I write. I figure if I have an ending in sight then I have something real to work towards and have less chance of abandoning the story and disappointing readers.

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Unfortunately, I don’t have enough material on each of the remaining characters to give them each their own entry. If I had tried to follow all five main characters with the degree of detail that I did with John and Claire, not only would Look My Way have been twice as long, but also I probably would’ve lost my mind (or just abandoned the story).

Instead I chose to make Brian, Andy, and Allison important secondary characters whose stories mostly paralleled John and Claire’s, only occasionally overlapping. I tried to allude to the fact that the story was still moving for Andy and Allison and that maybe it wasn’t picture perfect either. That was the purpose for Claire’s comment to John about Andy and Allison’s fight over the prom. So, I guess the main thing to take away from this is that just because I didn’t write about them, doesn’t mean things aren’t happening in between the pages.

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The second part of my behind the scenes look at the characters in LMW covers everyone's favorite criminal, John Bender.




The Bender Family
I really felt like the Bender family needed some kind of motivation or reason for acting the way they did. It would be easy to make his parents into stereotypes or to over-exaggerate them because that's how John portrays them in the movie. But realistically I don't think they would have been like that 24/7 or John would've been seriously, completely, messed up. And he's not. He's actually a fairly good guy when he finally lets his guard down, and he seemed pretty vulnerable when he was in the closet with Mr. Vernon. It's for those reasons that I think John's parents are not quite the monsters they are frequently written as. John did say his father gave him a Christmas present (even though it was nothing extravagant), so I don't think he's beating John up every single day within an inch of his life for absolutely no reason.

David Bender - Was three years younger than John. Died at the age of 3, when he ran out into the street and was hit by a car. His death marks a huge change in John's home life. Up until the accident, John had a normal, happy family.

Mr. Bender - Has a traditional 50's/military mentality. Works as a supervisor in a factory. Served in the Vietnam War. He came home from the war more reserved than he had been as a teenager (he saw a lot of stuff in Vietnam that he wanted to forget), but was still a decent guy. After David's accident, however, he started drinking more and became very strict around the house. He is especially hard on John when he disobeys him, because in his mind, the rules and discipline are there to keep order and ensure John's safety. Sometimes it gets carried too far, though, and his punishments are pretty harsh. Because he's very traditionally minded, he feels like he has to support his wife (doesn't consider divorce an option). Also, he doesn't believe in hitting women. He does have some decent moments when he tries to connect with his son.

Mrs. Bender - Housewife. She blames herself for David's accident, although sometimes she also blames John for distracting her. The guilt and grief from David's death has caused her to seek out something that will take the pain away. She has been prescribed a number of different pills over the years to help her sleep and to help with her depression, but abuses them when it all gets to be too much for her. She does have some sober moments, though, and generally does an okay job at keeping the house in order and even cooks occasionally.

( The Friends )