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Supernatural Gen Fiction: Always Too Soon Gone (PG)

May 04, 2008 11:30

Title: Always Too Soon Gone (Five Friends Sam Left Behind)
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Sam and Dean (Gen)
Rating: PG
Summary: Pre-series, these are five friends Sam left behind.
Author's Notes: I started this back in November for mini_nanowrimo, but it didn't want to finish until much later. For my switch25 table, this is "Forget."

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( Sam was always the new kid, some years even more than once. )

mini_nanowrimo, my_fic, sn_gen, switch_25

Comments 51

acostilow May 4 2008, 19:09:02 UTC

Oh, boys.

♥

halfshellvenus May 4 2008, 22:16:04 UTC

What a life, huh? *sighs*

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halfshellvenus May 4 2008, 22:17:05 UTC

That is such a hard way to live, when you care about people outside your family. I don't think John ever really understood that. :(

tahirire May 4 2008, 20:10:06 UTC

Oh, oh *ouch*

Really good job, it's sometimes hard to remember how sheltered Sam was, people blame him for not understanding John, but he wasn't raised a hunter from 4 like Dean was, it just isn't in him the same.

Hopefully SamnDean won't have to part ways again any time soon ....

halfshellvenus May 4 2008, 22:20:11 UTC

it just isn't in him the same.
Well also, HE isn't the same as either Dean or John. We don't know how Dean would have been if Mary hadn't died, but once she did he had to cling to the family he had left. And being the oldest, he was somewhat trapped into trying to win his father's love all the time through obedience. Sam, on the other hand, would probablyl eventually notice that even though Dean did virtually everything their father said it still wasn't enough. So why even try, especially if you're not that good at it?

In general, though, Sam was less emotionally insular than John or Dean. I don't think he could help making friends everywhere he went-- or hurting at the loss of them over and over again. *sniffle*

brigid_tanner May 4 2008, 21:24:41 UTC

That's beautiful and it hurts. Wonderful job capturing Sam's longing for "normal" and not wanting to hurt Dean, but just not being able to stay.

halfshellvenus May 4 2008, 23:19:24 UTC

and not wanting to hurt Dean, but just not being able to stay.
That was such an impossible situation. He really did have to leave, for so many reasons, and the only reason NOT to was Dean. But there was no compromise that would have made any of those choices work. :(

tabaqui May 4 2008, 21:32:11 UTC

Ah.
*sniffle*

I love him with his bunny, with his friends that he wants to keep *so* bad. With hating being the new kid, and starting over so often...

Good stuff.

halfshellvenus May 4 2008, 23:23:21 UTC

with his friends that he wants to keep *so* bad.
John and Dean never seemed to understand that it wasn't just Sam wanting to be "normal"- it's that WANTING all the things he did was also normal. To not care about those things (or not care enough), was the aberration.

And after all of that, it turned out leaving Dean was the most devastating of all. :(