Dr. Burke to you.

Pet names. James's pet names.

((status: open.))

Juliet is LESS than 100 votes away from taking the lead away from Adam Lambert. So let's show everyone who the ultimate HBIC is! Vote for Juliet! There are so many of you here, and it would make this mun one happy chick :D

She was pushing her way through the jungle, cheeks flushed with anger as she tried to get away from him. He was an ass and she was sick of him assuming that he knew her. Just because he’d been a goddamned con-man didn’t mean that he knew the ins and outs of her heart. She could hear him calling after her but she didn’t stop as she wiped at her face. Sometimes she absolutely hated being stuck here with him, hated that even if she hadn’t finished out those two weeks three months ago she wouldn’t have had anything to go home to anyway. It was while she was lost in her thoughts that she tripped over an exposed root and fell flat on her face onto the jungle floor.
( Continued )

((For justprompts))

So, I know that this is a HUGE GIGANTIC conflict of interest for me, but go here and PLEASE vote for Juliet! She's losing to Adam Lambert in an HBIC (head bitch in charge) contest and I CANNOT HAVE THAT.

And as you can see once you vote, Laura Roslin is on the list too. Trust me, I've had some sleepless nights over this. I voted my ass off for Laura in the pre-lims but I just REALLY want Juliet to win this! Laura will make it to the top ten, so don't worry! (It is kind of shitty that she's losing to Lisa Cuddy - wtf.)

SO IN CONCLUSION, yes, please got for Juliet. She saved the world. Thank you :)

Title: Disconnect the Pain
Author: propernice (RP journal island_juliet
Rating: G
Word Count: 322
Disclaimer: If they were mine they'd have babies by now.
Author's notes: Definite spoilers for The Incident Part 2. This is for the prompt writing community themuseswithin. The prompt was a quote from The Terminator: "Pain can be controlled - you just disconnect it." - Kyle Reese The result is a depressing ficlet. Thank you SO much to my two very awesome betas allagainst and falco_conlon. You rock ♥

( She mourned because their time was up. )

The notion that everyone had someone was lost on Juliet the moment she signed her divorce papers. What did you do when the person you were supposed to be with for the rest of your life wanted nothing to do with you? If he had been the one person she was destined to always love, what would she do for the rest of her life? Edmund had been The One, and she'd had her fairy tale wedding with her sister as maid of honor and her father walking her down the aisle. She'd been deliriously and foolishly head over heels because she'd finally done it. She'd found the man of her dreams and she could repair the hole that had been made in her heart when her parents divorced. She would prove them wrong; people didn't just stop loving each other.

And then her husband left and she was alone. It was a notion that shook her to her very core, and she realized that it was easier to maintain an icy facade than recover from a broken heart. Soulmates didn't exist; they were a farce or a myth made up to justify the stupid things one did when smitten.

She believed that for years until she met James. She thought he was an ass; a suave ass, but one none the less who could con a woman out of her life savings with one flash of his dimples. She'd read everything Ben had on the man down to the murder of someone he'd thought destroyed his family. She read that and pitied him when she supposed he should disgust her. She didn't understand the betrayal on his level, but she knew the horror of realizing life was full of demons and terrible surprises. She felt compelled to meet him then, even if she was still the Other and he didn't trust her as far as he could have thrown her. She wanted to know more about him and she wanted to hear it in his Southern accent that seemed to drip charm. Even when he was upset.

When they'd worked together the trust was a fine wire pulled tight until the day she helped him take down Tom's crew on the beach. She'd seen his eyes when he shot Tom. I'm doin' this and you're either with me or you ain't. All spoken in a glance before he killed their prisoner and she didn't even blink an eye. It was a statement, and she was with him, even then. It felt like months before she saw him again; until he was swimming back to the island against a backdrop of smoke, and even in her sorrow she made a mental note of what he looked like halfway naked. "I'm not celebrating," she said simply before he sat next to her heavily and they finished the bottle of rum.

It was time traveling hell from there, the two of them more lost than they ever had been before. Outside of their time where hope of rescue was a distant memory and now; now they had to survive. The run from the beach, away from the flaming arrows was her first clue that he cared. If she were still just an Other he'd have left her there but he went back. He grabbed her away from the fire and forced her to run to safety; caring about her above all the rest. Nothing after that could convince her that Jack had always been the rightful leader. It should have been Sawyer; he was the rational one, the hot-headed yet logical thinker. They all under estimated him, but she always knew.

She couldn't pin point when she felt the initial pull to him to be more and share more, but the familiar urge to share with him and talk to him fueled her decision to stay.

Two more weeks.

At the end of those two weeks, she said nothing about the sub and neither did he. Two more weeks and he moved in. Two more weeks and she was his. Two more weeks and she believed in soul mates for the first time in years.

((for the community justprompts))

Do you view life as a glass that is half-full, or half-empty?

I've never considered myself to be an overly optimistic person. I stopped seeing life as glass half-full when my parents divorced. At that point, everything that I thought I knew about the world (at the wise old age of nine) was shattered. Mothers and fathers didn't always want to be together and those fairy tale princess stories never came true. I view life as a learning opportunity rather than something to expect happiness from. If I live my life expecting nothing, then I stand less of a chance of being disappointed. Sometimes I get lucky and I'm surprised.

There hasn't been a moment when I haven't met interesting people, whether they're in my life to help me down the right path or will eventually betray me. Everyone who has come into my life significantly changed it in some way from my ex-husband to Ben Linus.

A few years ago there was a time when I contemplated the tragedy of my name sake. Juliet: A woman who loved a man so deeply that she laid down her own life when her love was dead. When I fully realized her story, I stopped living my life for others and decided that I was better off staying guarded and keeping hidden. I never wanted to love someone that deeply again.

My life view has changed since then; since being on the island and stuck in the seventies. For now, I'm letting myself see the glass as half full and possibly over flowing for the first time in decades. I hate being afraid that there could be a day I regret that decision.

((for community charloft))

1. My favorite book is Carrie.
2. My favorite song is 'Downtown'. The original.
3. I once let my hair get so long I could sit on it. (I'd like to get it that long again.)
4. My favorite color is blue.
5. I haven't had it in a while, but my favorite soda is Welch's strawberry soda.
6. I don't like reading sitting straight up in a chair. I prefer to be in bed, but curled up on the couch is fine.
7. I can sit and think for hours and never move.
8. I smoked once in high school and never could do it again.
9. I was Cinderella for Halloween 3 years in a row when I was five, six, and seven.
10. I haven't worn a full on dress since my wedding.
11. I hate wearing heels, but if I have to I will.
12. I prefer paperback books over hardback.
13. I can't stand eating cornbread unless it's heavily buttered.

1. I have power on the island and I'm not afraid to wield it. But instead of making my power known, I sit quietly and get things done.

2. Although I ache to see my sister Rachel and the nephew (Julian) I've never met, I would always pick the island and leaving my family behind if it means keeping my sister cancer free.

3. My marriage was happy one day and dissolved the next. I will never know what happened to make both of us so damn unhappy, but we were closer apart than we ever were together.

4. I wanted children. He did not.

5. The first time I slept with a married man was the first time I realized that I was stuck on this island and I wasn't going home. I didn't love Goodwin. I liked him, even cared for him, but I never let myself love him.

6. When I feel like I can't breathe anymore; when everything is caving in around me, I turn on music and drink a bottle of wine. I need the escape; sometimes it's in the bathtub but often I'm curled on the couch; crying, singing and drinking.

7. When 815 crashed I knew that Ben was going to involve me in something I would hate. I had nothing to validate that feeling, but as it turns out, days later I was right.

8. I didn't want Jack. I never wanted Jack but his emotions make him easy to manipulate. I used him to gain the trust of everyone else, but found myself caring too much for that group of survivors to betray them.

9. Being taken back to the 1970s and playing house with James, I was afraid that's all it was. We went through the motions, we said the words, but I was terrified that he didn't love me. I never would have questioned it if Kate hadn't come back to the island.

10. As I gripped his hand, watching his face as he tried to pull me up, I realized in startling clarity that James loved me. He loved me, and if I loved him I would let go. So I did. I would always let go if it means keeping him alive.

11. I saw the bomb and I knew what I had to do. There was no hesitation.

12. Before the island I was weak; I was a person that no one would recognize. My husband was sleeping with other women, I let the men in my field walk over me, and I never would have spoken up to defend myself.

13. I have never loved someone the way that I love him.
((prompt response to the_lucky13))

Title: Just a Glimpse. (3 of ? Read parts one and two here and here.)
Meme: Write ten drabbles peeking into the life of the ship of your choice. They must all be the same ship.
Author: island_juliet (personal journal: propernice)
Pairing: Sawyer/Juliet
Fandom: LOST
Spoilers: None for the finale; nothing that's even canon other than their relationship.
Rating: We have entered into PG-13 territory for allusions to sexual situations!

( Ten drabbles under here )

Title: Just a Glimpse. (2 of ? Read part one right over here)
Meme: Write ten drabbles peeking into the life of the ship of your choice. They must all be the same ship.
Author: island_juliet (non rp journal: propernice)
Pairing: Sawyer/Juliet
Fandom: LOST
Spoilers: None for the finale; nothing that's even canon other than their relationship.
Rating: PG
Author's Note: This was such a big hit (posted at my other journal) and so many people asked for more that I thought I would continue. Many, MANY thanks to my beta katayla. I love you ♥ and thank you for everything.

011.
She's never cried when something was given to her. She didn't cry when her husband gave her a wedding ring; she didn't cry when she was given a diploma from medical school. And she didn't cry when the judge gave her divorce papers. But now, as she stops to look back at that yellow flower, she sits at the dining room table and cries.

He loves her.

( Nine more under here. )

Title: Just a Glimpse.
Meme: Write ten drabbles peeking into the life of the ship of your choice. They must all be the same ship.
Author: island_juliet (non rp journal: propernice)
Pairing: Sawyer/Juliet
Fandom: LOST
Spoilers: None for the finale; nothing that's even canon other than their relationship.
Rating: PG


001.
She doesn't think that she's slept this well in a long time. Curled up in a bed that's warm from edge to edge, and she smiles when she realizes why. Rolling into him, she underestimates where his head is, or how far down the bed she's moved, and she knocks heads with him. Now he was awake. "Son of a bitch!" His reaction makes her laugh, and when he realizes that it was only her, he grabs her around the waist with a growl and pins her down. "Well I guess I'm awake."

( Nine more. )

1. Yourself:
Quietly graceful.

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend:
James Ford.

3. Your hair?
Usually straight.

4. Your mother:
Cautiously optimistic.

5. Your Father:
Left us.

6. Your Favorite Item:
Photo album.

( The rest under here )