Aha - I found it! (think there's an error in your link from smokey_verse) So now will read this one, delaying leaving half-finished fb for Rivals, and do this in timeline order, or story order, or however you choose to term it (sorry - I can be horribly anal).
"Even if there was, spooks ain't for hidin' from. Spooks are for facin' down, lookin' straight in the eye." Oooh, grandfather is a tough old coot, isn't he?
"I ain't hidin'." James scowled. "I'm just listenin.' Bravo! I can see that mini-Sawyer glowering!
(The same kind of frogs that slithered up and down his bedroom windows after they'd had a spell of hard rain. Must ask - do they really climb up the windows?)
"Tree frogs. See what they're doin'?" *blinks* Uh oh. Am sort of bouncing for the frog-backstory, while thinking how this sets up all sorts of unpleasant connections regarding frogs in James' head. Poor future island frog.
I really like the ending of this, how you've used the grandfather's sneering words in Sawyer's memory as a sort of talisman he's invoking to psych himself up. It's good to know his papaw's gruffness helped him to grow stronger.
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"Even if there was, spooks ain't for hidin' from. Spooks are for facin' down, lookin' straight in the eye."
Oooh, grandfather is a tough old coot, isn't he?
"I ain't hidin'." James scowled. "I'm just listenin.'
Bravo! I can see that mini-Sawyer glowering!
(The same kind of frogs that slithered up and down his bedroom windows after they'd had a spell of hard rain.
Must ask - do they really climb up the windows?)
"Tree frogs. See what they're doin'?"
*blinks* Uh oh. Am sort of bouncing for the frog-backstory, while thinking how this sets up all sorts of unpleasant connections regarding frogs in James' head. Poor future island frog.
I really like the ending of this, how you've used the grandfather's sneering words in Sawyer's memory as a sort of talisman he's invoking to psych himself up. It's good to know his papaw's gruffness helped him to grow stronger.