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title; rating: the woods that i've run through, pg
fandom, character; wordcount: lost, vincent, walt (rose); 239
notes: for [livejournal.com profile] gottalovev who wanted best friends forever at the luau

He's going now.

He can feel the wind through the jungle leaves and he knows this time he's ready. At last. Vincent has been fighting to stick around, to push forward even when his weakening body would not let him. He does it for them, for Rose and Bernard. They're his family now and they have been for a long time. Even now, can feel Rose at his side, kneeling beside him. She strokes his back, a comfort he has gotten used to over the years. He thinks of Walt, across the beach from him, smile wide, running towards him with his arms open. He thinks of the way he felt then -- young and able, fast and full of life. At the memory, he shifts at his spot on the ground, whines with the pain of the motion.

"It's okay Vincent," Rose tells him, her voice soothing, quiet. "You can let go now, boy."

Vincent's lids give in to their heaviness, slowly closing for the last time.

Everything is black now.

Everything is black.

When he wakes up, he's lying in soft green grass. He can smell something cooking on the air and he lifts his nose to get a good sniff. Barbecue.

He can hear music.

"Come on, boy!" Walt stands before him, ten years old again. He holds a tennis ball in his hand and he tosses it across the yard. "Fetch, Vincent! Fetch!"

Vincent does.

-fin

Date: 2010-07-11 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gottalovev.livejournal.com
you made me tear up! VINCENT! and Walt! And Rose! awww, yes, yes, best friends forever indeed. this is very moving, thank you so much darling ♥

Date: 2010-07-12 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Aw, I'm sorry! For some reason I just had to write this. I'm really glad you liked it and that it made you happy! Sorry it was late though. ♥!

Date: 2010-07-12 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] macey.livejournal.com
...VINCEEEEENNNNNNNTTT ;_____;

Oh good god, that was beautiful. My personal headcanon is that somehow Vincent drank the eternity water, because it's just too depressing to think he would die, but this is gorgeous. Great job.

Date: 2010-07-12 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Haha, aw. Maybe he did. We don't know!

Thank you!

Date: 2010-07-12 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gigglemonster.livejournal.com
So so so lovely and touching. I think Vincent was like the only character I like 100% beginning to end lol

Date: 2010-07-12 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Hahaha, that is so true but they would have had to do something pretty drastic with him to make him unlikeable, lol.

Thanks!

Date: 2010-07-12 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com
*Sniff* You slaughter me.

This was beautiful.

Date: 2010-07-12 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Aw, *hugs*

Thank you!

Date: 2010-07-12 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eponine119.livejournal.com
Awwwwwwww. This is so sad, and yet so perfect. Vincent gets his happy ending that he deserves. *tiny tear*

Date: 2010-07-12 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Oh I'm so glad this came across as a happy ending! I really tried!

Date: 2010-07-12 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slybrunette.livejournal.com
Oh god, you wrote it. And it's SAD. Not as sad as I thought it would be. Worse.

*bawls*

But it's well executed, for sure, can't leave that part out. Great job!

Date: 2010-07-12 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
I actually did write it.

Haha, aw, I'm sorry.
[I thought you didn't cry...]

Thank you hon!

Date: 2010-07-12 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slybrunette.livejournal.com
Okay, not actual tears, but whatevs. I was aware that I should be crying. In theory.

Date: 2010-07-12 02:31 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-07-12 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greedyslayer.livejournal.com
Ah man, you reminded me of something that depresses me: by all accounts, Vincent is never reunited in Walt again in life. ;_;

But this is still a sweet mix of tearjerker and heartwarming, since they are eventually reunited.

Walt & Vincent=the original BFF of Lost.

Date: 2010-07-12 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
I know, it's actually pretty sad when you think about it like that. :(

I'm glad to give him at least a somewhat sweet ending. ♥

Date: 2010-07-12 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com
I'm seriously crying right now. Good grief, woman, that's a beautiful fic.

Date: 2010-07-12 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Aw, I'm sorry!

*hands you a virtual tissue*

Thank you for reading though.

Date: 2010-07-12 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cynthia-arrow.livejournal.com
*sniffles.

Perfect.

Date: 2010-07-13 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Thank you!

*hands you a tissue*

Date: 2010-07-12 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tellshannon815.livejournal.com
Love this! I wish they had had the chance to be reunited.

Date: 2010-07-13 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Oh, me too!

Thank you. :)

Date: 2010-07-14 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] invisiblelove.livejournal.com
OMGGGGGGGG <33333333333 Seriously, I think my heart just melted. I love this so much. Vincent deserves his moment to go into the light too. Oh my goodness. LOVE. *adds to memories*

Date: 2010-07-16 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Aw, thank you. I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much. ♥!

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