When You Try Your Best, But You Don't Succeed

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ecipient: ciaimpala
Title: When You Try Your Best, But You Don’t Succeed
Author: tellshannon815
Fandoms: Lost, Once Upon A Time
Fandom 1 Characters Jack, Sawyer
Fandom 2 Characters August, Emma, Ruby, Granny, Dr Whale, Henry Mills. Mentions of Neal Cassidy and other Storybrooke residents.
Pairings: Jack/Sawyer, August/Emma
Rating: PG
Word count: 5057
Spoilers: Up to the finale of Lost generally but specifically Stranger In A Strange Land and A Tale of Two Cities. Up to 2x06 for OUAT.
Warnings: None apart from being slightly AU.
Disclaimer: Lost and Once Upon A Time belong to their respective creators
A/N: Thanks to aurilly for the beta! Also, I hope you don’t mind that August is the main OUAT character here. I know you didn’t mention him in your sign up but this idea’s appealed to me for a while – he was kind of the obvious person for a reunion with Jack.

Summary: Jack is surprised to receive a letter from an old friend summoning him to his sickbed. He hasn’t seen August Booth since they spent a few days together in Phuket, and can’t understand why he’s contacting him now. But he wouldn’t believe August even if he told him. Desperate to convince Emma to believe in the curse, August needs help from the one person he knows who’s always determined to fix things: Jack Shephard.


When You Try Your Best, But You Don't Succeed