SPN FIC - Presenting... The Lincoln Bedroom

[ficwriter1966]

A whole bunch of you wanted this, in follow-up to Transient -- so here you go.  Sam's room, courtesy of his brother.

Today, though, Dean's fidgeting is completely out of control.  And he's wearing a frigging tuxedo.

CHARACTERS:  Sam and Dean
GENRE:  Gen
RATING:  PG
SPOILERS:  8.12 - 8.14
LENGTH:  1524 words

Comments

[pinkphoenix1985]

Oh this is perfect and so telling in the fact that Dean doesn't know what Sam likes really nor does Sam so the fact that it is barren doesn't matter but I think that the little touches (fixing the plugs and the ipod dock, etc) says much more and matters!

[ficwriter1966]

When you guys were all asking about Sam's room, I thought, "But I can't do it - I have no clue what Dean would put in there!"

Then I just decided to roll with it - that Dean didn't know what to put in there, either! Glad you liked the results. :)

[pinkphoenix1985]

I really do and you know what? This is one of the reasons why I am unhappy with the show in general. There is so much little things that we know about Dean and we don't know about Sam. But in your fic it does work because when you think about it--Sam probably didn't have his own anything or interests that were constant and could be defined as his.

So while Dean knows Sam inside out, he doesn't know him fully because SAM doesn't know what are his likes and dislikes if that makes sense

[ficwriter1966]

Hmm - I don't think it's so much that Sam doesn't have interests - I'm thinking they're just not as tangible as Dean's are. (Cars, vintage rock, anime, burgers and pie, chasing pretty girls, that sort of thing.) Sam seems to have found his Nirvana in that giant collection of books, particularly since studying them will accomplish something enormous, much more so than studying law at Stanford would have.

That's less satisfying to an outsider, but no less valid than Dean's interests, I think.

[pinkphoenix1985]

Yeah, I agree that the MOL and the library is Sam's Nirvana :) As for his interests-- we will have to agree to disagree about that LOL I feel like his interests are more general and not as personal as Dean's. I think that Sam himself doesn't really know what are his interests are actually.

I so WISH that show would give us a good answer about it but I don't think that we will ever know for sure what actually interests Sam beyond the library and studying.

[ficwriter1966]

With any luck, having a little downtime in the Batcave will let Sam zero in on what he enjoys! (I can imagine Jessica quizzing him, when they started going together, about what he liked to do, did he collect anything, favorite authors, all that stuff.)

[pinkphoenix1985]

I really hope so! (I can too but I still feel that he would have kept his true self hidden and possibly given her general interests ones that he must have thought were acceptable. But maybe he did open up a little to her later on...there are some lovely fanfics about it floating around).