Title: Leaving Reno
Characters: Sam, Dean, Nevada
Tags/spoilers/warnings: outsider POV/weird POV; chains/cuffs, suggestion of; sin, suggestion of, conflation of sex/trauma; Wincest
Notes: for
milly_gal 's
fabulous art prompt!
Not much could contain their mischief. And I was built for sin. Pleasure dome. Prison-castle. Dun-geon. Whatever the passing-throughs wanted, these gamblers and their girls and their ghosts. But they weren't just passing-throughs, these. Not like the others, and there were some, that wanted--bloods and spoils, these chances, and each other.
*
Once I was more, more wanted. Made of desert--Ne-va-da, or hell, sage and silver and snow; said out loud, these, as reasons for being, for names. I was a place and then another place, over bones, animal, human; and bloods, human and earth, glittering. So the mirrors say, and that's sky.
*
Demons have been here. Miners and traders and law; cuffs.
But they chased a gambler's ghost through my skins, Sammy Sammy Sammy whose jangling was a coin, charged; unluck. The other gripped, callus-to-frame, bowed; ripped-blind and shredded-up-shag--and made me, made me again. A bed.
I think this place knows us, he said.
Dean!
*
Canyons of slots.
They ended in one of my basements.
Sex dungeon, the Dean said, knocked my brick, do ya want to?
I was closed. But what I was built for: proposition. After-palace-before-condo: sin. Pawn. And the passing-throughs; this.
Sam!
Coin-and-iron through skin, spike and heel; railroad, hell, this past. They chased a gambler’s ghost, six and a killer, black and jack, through my skins, torn-down-and-after-
not killed.
*
I was hell.
They built a fire. Put it out quick.
Shit, the Dean said, but this was a suite, freaking murderer's ghost.
After all the hells, the Sam said, and that was a quake, like a gasp.
They were cut-up, dripped; demolition. Whispering, water-than-dust.
Don't...
…hurt me.
Never.
Sounds, keys ; tongues and boards. Fingers fit, the ceiling said. And pulled.
*
Once I was more, more wanted.
Feed me, they said.
I don't know bodies as well--slot and tongue and arch; good bones. But they were painted, in the places they bound each other up. In hair.
Strip, said the Sammy-one, me.
Mirror: mouth to mark and wrist and unchained. Binding and unbinding is, I’ve heard,
cage and prison and mark. Said out loud, these, as reasons for being,
for names.
*
Not much can contain, maybe mountains. Those around.
Buildings do not. Or vaults. My next-doors, though, with people and passing-throughs; I have eyes. A safe. For once it was soft out and demons weren't, you’d think, or angels or killers or gambler's ghosts. Just bloody bed and Washoe wind their car kicked up, but--
brothers, silver and sage and what I was built for--
you'd be wrong.