Rosetta Stone by uberaeryn (NC-17)

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Hi, I'm eponine119 and I'll be driving the Lost van this month. While I tend to favor Jack/Sawyer slash, I will do my best to feature a variety of pairings and ratings.

Fandom: LOST
Pairing: Jack/Sawyer
Author on LJ: uberaeryn
Author website:: N/A
Why this must be read: Stories that remove Jack and Sawyer from the island and instead feature them meeting in some other time and circumstance are both popular and common. The trick to them is to use the new setting to showcase sides of the characters we would never see on the island, while retaining the essence of the characters from the show. uberaeryn does a fantastic job in this story, which transmutes Sawyer into a tattoo artist and Jack into the dark, masochistic customer who intrigues him enough to make him break all his rules. What I love about this story is that it doesn't pull back from pain. It eroticizes it for the reader through the characters' own experiences and reactions, culminating in an incredibly hot sex scene.

Sawyer wondered if Jack considered his own body a sort of Rosetta stone and the key to deciphering the man himself, cryptic definitions of who Jack was.

Or so Jack must tell himself, Sawyer thought, as once more he found himself laying open the skin and filling it with color. Attempting to read Jack’s body revealed only that he was a man confused, conflicted.

And in pain, of all sorts.

Rosetta Stone