time in a bottle 18 "Diamonds and Rust"

[pengyn]

Title: Time in a Bottle
Chapter: 18. "Diamonds and Rust" 
Author: pengyn
Rating: Teen
Spoilers: Through to "The End"
Summary: James returns to the real world, trying to deal with his grief and still hold on to his memories of Juliet. Meanwhile, thirty years earlier, a series of sabotages in Dharmaville leads him to suspect the one person he doesn't want

Comments

[mfirefly10]

James/Juliet fluff will never not make me grin from ear to ear! And their make-out sessions will never not be smokin hot!!!

Hmm...You've really got me confused as to whether or not Willie is our bad guy. Lots of signs point that way but maybe you're just trying to trick us...Very crafty writing there, Constant :)

[pengyn]

I had SUCH a hard time with this chapter. I wasn't going to be all dramatic and write an A/N about just how much I hated pulling this chapter together - that's what LJ entries are for :p - but man, this gave me grief.

Plus, it irritated me that I had to interrupt their hotness LOL - but I really couldn't have it go any further while they were out in the jungle.

[mfirefly10]

Well, I think it turned out really well, interrupted sexy!timez and all :)

[lormats]

and you were not sure about this chapter??? it's a wonderful chapter... and I like sherlock Juliet... and all the fluff before that it was I can't even girl... *sighs* GREAT GREAT GREAT chapter... I knew it...

[pengyn]

Thanks hun :-) And I was mostly unsure because it's essentially three different scenes wrapped up into one. I could've broken the chapter up but I didn't want to drag it out and I was just having trouble bringing it all together.

[lormats]

well all the trouble you went through had a beautiful result... it's an amazing chapter, how you mix the fluff the ugh i hate old stuart how dare him interrupting them, all their rambling was super cute... You know the other day you said you were sorry for breaking my heart over and over? if you're gonna pull out chapters like this one from time to time... keep it breaking it, it heels with this hot scenes :) lol...

amazing chapter and I love the end ;)

[realist_romance]

[pengyn]

Thanks!! I actually find writing the post-Island chapters a lot easier right now. I think it's because they're largely emotive - I don't really have to think too carefully about plot. And because they're 'present tense' the words just literally flow from my head to the page. Dharma times requires me to think a little more LOL!!

[realist_romance]

[afishwithawish]

You mean mean person... Interrupting them and their hotness like that.. *shakes head in disappointment*

James wasn’t sure if it was something he’d always wanted - he’d made too many mistakes to start idealizing.
I LOVED this part. I's one of those things that I love in your writing: how you keep the characters real.
Beautiful update, hun! <3

[pengyn]

Thanks sweetie :-)
And I know I'm mean - so very mean - and not that I wouldn't let James and Jules get it on in the jungle some other time but just not the first time lol.

[siobeehan]

Guh, that scene with the two of them in the jungle *draws hearts around it* I love the way you write them in moments like that, especially James realizing how happy he is to be with her <3

Ooh, and intrigue with the rest of the plot! I can't wait to see what Willie's story really is.

[pengyn]

LOL look at you... vandalizing my fic :p Thanks hun :D