Supernatural: Bad Blood, Sam/Dean
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Bad Blood (3,718 words)
Sam/Dean, explicit
"Fuck me or I'm going to die isn't the world's best pickup line."
"I've heard worse," Dean said.
"You've used worse," Sam said.
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Bad Blood (3,718 words)
Sam/Dean, explicit
"Fuck me or I'm going to die isn't the world's best pickup line."
"I've heard worse," Dean said.
"You've used worse," Sam said.
( Read the story )
I mean it was fabulously constructed in terms of plunging us straight into a situation with no tedious explainey exposition (EE) and with both guys immediately knowing the consequences of their encounter and having time be of the essence which lead to much great, snappy dialogue which wasn't weighed down with the aforesaid EE and which drove the story headlong into action, whether it be Dean's lateral fix-it thinking or, once that was abandoned as a proposition, straight into a matter of fact, let's get it done, sex scene.
Obviously (because I still have a pulse), I thought it was absolutely hilarious but I really did find it a little sad because, as I read it, Dean was grossed out at the idea of incest and homosexual sex, he just didn't swing that way but he was prepared to do it, less because his own life hung in the balance and more because Sam's did.
Not that he isn't such a hedonist that he isn't able to take pleasure when the right buttons are pushed notwithstanding his own proclivities (and I think that it would be interesting to explore the idea that, in addition to Dean plainly being a sensuous person, whether he articulates it or not, he doesn't believe he'll live to make old bones and so he's willing to squeeze as much living and sensuous experience into the time he's passing through).
Whether it was what you intended or not, the contrasts between Sam and Dean's perspectives was so marked that I just couldn’t see a way they could both be happy.
At first it just seemed that, as is consistent with the characters we know, Sam was being pragmatic when he suggested that they turn to each other to stop their cocks exploding (or whatever unspoken threat hung over them) but then as the story played out it became obvious that even if this was the logical solution to their dilemma, Sam was not just happy to make a virtue of necessity but in fact seemed, purely by accident, to be getting what he’d long wanted; Sam's reaction wasn't just physical but seemed to be the culmination of long hidden desires.
Dean, on the other hand, notwithstanding his physical reactions, seemed to be gritting his teeth, thinking of England and the clock hanging over them and urging Sammy on in order to save his life and because, by then, his brother had exposed his vulnerability to which Dean is long since programmed to respond.
To cut a long story short, as they lay there at the end, wound around each other, Dean dazed and amazed I think by what had just happened and what Sam had revealed, and Sam revelling in Dean's acquiescence and, as I saw it, misinterpreting Dean's urging him on, I imagined that Sam would want to do this again and Dean wouldn't and wondered would he anyway to make Sam happy.
However, you meant it this was just an amazing story, technically perfectly, hysterically funny, smoking hot and, for me poignant and bitter-sweet, thank you.
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Not that he isn't such a hedonist that he isn't able to take pleasure when the right buttons are pushed ... in addition to Dean plainly being a sensuous person...he's willing to squeeze as much living and sensuous experience into the time he's passing through).
I think this is absolutely true, and also that Dean doesn't reach for non-transient pleasure because he doesn't believe in it. Whereas in my head, Sam, on the other hand, really doesn't care about transient pleasure that much. Not that he doesn't like it, but he's so used to just putting up with whatever his environment throws at him that he doesn't really notice the incidentals, and what he craves is exactly the non-transient pleasures, relationships and connections and stability.
On the story specifically -- I don't really articulate this stuff to myself as I write, I go more from an amorphous cloud of gut feeling, but to ramble a bit, I think the Sam and Dean of this story univverse love each other so much that there really isn't anything they can't get past, because to them, being together is the non-negotiable part, and everything else they can deal with.
So for Dean, the sex is oh god, WRONG, but what are you gonna do, better this than watch Sam die, and then it turns out it's kind of awesome too, which is kind of disturbing, but also, woo hoo, orgasms. Whereas for Sam, it's more, whatever, it's just tab A into slot B to save their lives, doesn't matter so much in the scheme of things so let's get it over with, and then turns out it means he can get as close to Dean as physically possible and tell Dean he loves him and get reaffirmation of just how much Dean loves him and it satisfies him deeply on the non-transient level that he's deprived of a lot of the time.
(I also think that on some level, Dean really *wants* that non-transient pleasure even if he doesn't have faith in it, and having Sam turn the sex into something meaningful makes him terrified and deeply happy at the same time even as he squirms and complains and struggles.)
In my head, after this they get back on the road, and -- I had this long summary written out right here except now it has turned into an actual story, so, uh, I will go post that instead. *g*
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