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gigglingkat

Going Under (You can read this one!)

Feb 08, 2006 19:54

Title: Going Under
Supernatural Fandom, GenFic, Episode Filler.
This is meta, disguised as fic. It's how I see Sam during 114 Nightmare
Suggested "Mood Music": Coldplay's Don't Panic or Evanessence's Save Me

GOING UNDER

It's said when a person drowns, they come up 3 times. A divine number. If the person drowning can defeat three waves, the universe ( Read more... )

fanfic: storytelling

Comments 37

gigglingkat February 9 2006, 01:01:33 UTC

My apologies to reprint and weesta. I post my fic so I remember to edit it. I clicked the wrong thing and instead of Private, it said Friends. So they got to see the WIP.

For those interested: the general idea was there, but it was only the last 2 visions. Then I realized the first vision is the first wave. As the entire story takes place in Sam's head. I adopted the short stacato sentences and that was not consistent in the first draft either.

I also think my spell check is broke. Please let me know if there are any typos! (I do fix things based on comments. This Is Not The Pit.)

weesta February 9 2006, 01:38:44 UTC

No worries, Kat! I like the finised version even better. The ending still kills me. Love how Sam's familiarity with Dean, the comfort he gets from Dean's solid presence calms him - makes him better, stronger. Can't beat those Winchesters when they're working as a team :-)

gigglingkat February 9 2006, 01:53:35 UTC

It's the great thing about family. They have to be there for you. Dean being there for Sam is such a fact of life, Sam doesn't see it. The look on his face when Dean says "Me." is priceless.

You can see the "of course I have you. The sun still rises in the east, right" look in Sam's eyes. His belief that Dean can protect him from anything. You don't question that family loves you.

dubiously February 9 2006, 02:03:35 UTC

This doesn't freak me out.
He's lying. He must be lying. Sam watched Dean's face for a moment. Maybe he wasn't.
Sam watched Dean until the chaos, fear and anger subsided.

It's about that damned thing that did this to our family.The thing that we're gonna find and the thing that we're going to kill and that's all.
The faith is his brother's voice was calming. But Sam knew more.

He watched Dean process it. And brush it off. Didn't he get it ( ... )

gigglingkat February 9 2006, 02:07:30 UTC

Are you sure you liked it? There's about 3 paragraphs you didn't quote... ;P

dubiously February 9 2006, 02:09:36 UTC

Well, I would have thrown those in, too, but I didn't want the my comment to take up the entire page. I really liked this. Truly insightful. Thank you for sharing it.

staceey February 9 2006, 02:04:37 UTC

I really REALLY liked this. Its exactly what I seen going on inside of them.

gigglingkat February 9 2006, 03:14:12 UTC

I actually liked that we don't see what is going on in Dean. We see him through Sam's eyes. Until the end. He doesn't let himself reveal ANYTHING except calm and control. "Because [he's] an awesome big brother".

I want one.

staceey February 9 2006, 04:24:11 UTC

=D I have one. And he's very Dean like (Except the monster hunting business) His version of 'I'm glad you're ok, I was worried.' is 'You ever pull a stunt like that again, I'm gonna kick your ass'

magickly February 9 2006, 02:42:16 UTC

*sigh*

Thank you.

gigglingkat February 9 2006, 02:58:28 UTC

You're welcome... always like unexpected reactions.

It really is only a reflection of what was on the screen. I didn't do that much.

gigglingkat February 10 2006, 00:04:56 UTC

*poke*

Ok... why "thank you"??? LOL. What'd I'd do?

magickly February 10 2006, 00:19:26 UTC

Hee. Sorry I didn't reply earlier! What I left wasn't really real feedback anyway and I always try to at least leave something of worth in my fb comments, sorry.

The fear began to churn.
All we see on the screen is how they deal. The "no chick flick moments" rule is fantastic because it keeps the integrity of the characters, but it's also horrible at the same time because we all end up inserting our own context, what we imagine the reactions and feelings are. (As I saw over all the wank over the Scarecrow episode, when each person finished Dean's "I wish I'd..." sentence with something completely different from everybody else.)

You're giving it context, giving it emotion. It's a reinterpretation. It makes the story more concrete, gives it more weight.

Hollow reassurances. I could die the next time and all he has are hollow reassurances. Sam looked away.
We never really get to see thought processes or points of view on the screen, so it's great to have the undercurrents elucidated and interpreted like this.

You can't have ( ... )

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