Mechanics by Mari (hard R)

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Fandom: LOST
Pairing: Sawyer/Sayid
Author on LJ: ficangel
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:

While I adore this fic on so many levels, above all it's a study in how to write the perfect Sayid. Sawyer's fighting nicotine withdraw and desperately trying to hide it from everyone, but Sayid's got his number. To him, Sawyer's another complex piece of technology that he must pick apart and study. Just a fabulous character study and the dialogue all around is wonderful.

Instead, Sayid saw machinery, vast series of circuitry which might spit and spark at the first tentative touch of the human hand, but which in the end always followed a logic that could be learned and emulated. He had discovered many years ago that he had a knack for that sort of work. “Yes,” he said, coming closer still and watching as Sawyer lifted his chin, one more layer of tension added to his body. If punches were thrown this night, it would not be Sayid who landed the first blow. “And I also do not think that you are so complicated as you like to pretend.”

Mechanics