Comments | ariadnes_string: Another Hug Coda: "Coming Untied" (spoilers for 4.22)

ariadnes_string

Another Hug Coda: "Coming Untied" (spoilers for 4.22)

May 26, 2009 11:12

I posted a few prompts to thehighwaywoman's wonderful "Hug-It-Out" meme, and I got some lovely stories in response, here , here , and here . But then I was dogged by my own prompts, as one is, I guess, and I ended up writing my own hugging coda to 4.22.

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fic, spn, 4.22, s4

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ariadnes_string May 27 2009, 02:52:59 UTC

You are so sweet to read this! I don't really write fic, and I don't really believe in hugging it out, but something about the idea of a big, sloppy Dean breakdown just grabbed me...

janissa11 May 27 2009, 02:47:31 UTC

God, this just made me well up like crazy. DEAN. ::swallows really, really hard:: Oh Sam, thank you for that hug.

::wibbles quite a bit more::

ariadnes_string May 27 2009, 03:16:09 UTC

Thanks for reading--though I'm sorry (I guess?) it make you cry! I don't know how much one hug can help, but I was taken with the idea of barriers just falling away, and at least in that one moment, they're together...

paleogymnast May 27 2009, 07:39:05 UTC

I really, really loved: Nevertheless, Sam pulls Dean closer, holding onto the messy, smelly weight and heat and humanity of his brother, and ducks his head under a wave of pure gratitude.

Emphasizing their humanity in all its ingloriousness really gives this fic a punch of juxtaposition to the events of the season that makes it really ring true. Great!!

ariadnes_string May 28 2009, 02:12:36 UTC

Thanks so much for this comment! A sense that their "inglorious humanity" might be that much more precious too them now, after dealing with the literal in-humanity of the un-human on both sides, was exactly what I was trying to describe. Thanks for reading!

paleogymnast May 28 2009, 03:52:51 UTC

That came through really clearly, and I completely agree about the preciousness of their humanity now. :) Loved this fic! :)

ariadnes_string May 29 2009, 02:45:02 UTC

*g*

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orehime May 27 2009, 15:58:19 UTC

*Sob* Oh Dean ;_;

ariadnes_string May 28 2009, 02:14:22 UTC

oh, I know! but Dean's kinda crying in happiness, too--or at least letting go of some pent up unhappiness--or...no, you're right ::sob::

i_speak_tongue May 28 2009, 01:47:05 UTC

Oh. My. Boys.

You handled that with such care and eloquence. The boys are so human here, so awkward and fragile.

He looks as far from dignified as possible-caught in the impossible pain of childhood, the anguish children give way to over a skinned knee or a lost toy, but that adults learn to hide.

Great description. Love the idea of being "caught" in the pain, and the reference to the way adults and kids express pain differently. It is visually so very different.

Maybe he's made some kind of vow of forthrightness after all their mutual evasions landed them in so much trouble.

Oh, please. I do hope so, with all my heart. This is the foot they need to start out on next season.

Lovely ficlet. Just lovely.

ariadnes_string May 28 2009, 02:19:28 UTC

Thank you so much for this comment--you made my day! That awkwardness and fragility is exactly what I was trying to describe, and the sense of a childlike breakdown in the face of a completely un-childlike pain (though I guess Dean's grief over Sam abandoning him is really the re-activation of a not very deeply buried childhood fear).

And yeah, I hope some barriers between them come down next season!