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icanhazpie

The Greatest Man I Never Knew

Jun 23, 2011 23:42

Title: The Greatest Man I Never Knew
Rating: R
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Gen
Characters: Dean, Adult!Ben, Lisa, Sam, OMC
Wordcount: 6030
Warnings: Violence, language, character death
Disclaimer: Kripke has pretty toys and was nice enough to let me play with them. Not mine, not mine, not mine.
Summary: Ben convinces Dean he didn't need to be perfect ( Read more... )

hurt/comfort, fic, spn_rambleon, h/c bingo, dean

Comments 65

greeneyes_fan June 24 2011, 05:32:34 UTC

Oh, Dean. Hunting a bar. Now, that's humiliation. And Ben is awesome.

But Alone!Sam. No fair!

icanhazpie June 24 2011, 05:38:59 UTC

I gave him an Italian, what?

Yeah, this one kicked my ass. I knew as soon as I open Word that this was going to be a ghost!Dean and Adult!Ben convincing him that Dean isn't quite the guy who has to save the whole world and can never do it right. But Ghost!Dean means Alone!Sam.

It was either kill Sammy or marry him off and make him happy. Does it say something that I had to think about it a long time?

Thanks!

rince1wind June 24 2011, 06:09:14 UTC

Wow. Really sad, but really good. Thank you.

icanhazpie June 24 2011, 06:12:21 UTC

I don't envy the show writers trying to come up with a good series finale. Tying everything up in a satisfactory manner? It's like handling fifty pounds of dynamite near an open flame.

Cheers!

faithburke June 24 2011, 10:01:26 UTC

This was awesome. I think I might make this my own personal canon.

icanhazpie June 25 2011, 00:29:33 UTC

*nods* My first attempt at a fix-it fic. I'm not buying that Ben and Lisa will be left alone just because they don't remember Dean.

Thanks for the comment!

faithburke June 25 2011, 00:42:07 UTC

Yeah, me either. And there's just so much physical evidence that simply has to be there, stuff that Castiel simply wouldn't consider.

icanhazpie June 25 2011, 00:53:41 UTC

No kidding. At first I was all, "Angel of the Lord" and then I thought that one over again and edited it to, "Angel of the Lord who cannot set up his voicemail and is learning to define "normal human behavior" from hunters." Wiping memories and healing Lisa was the easy part.

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liliaeth June 24 2011, 10:50:22 UTC

I loved this, thank you so much for writing it.

icanhazpie June 25 2011, 00:29:51 UTC

Thanks for the comment!

notsodamaged June 24 2011, 13:50:36 UTC

I LOVE LOVE the style of narration here, bb. It was very end of S5-esque for me. Lovely pacing and the way all the people in Dean's life tied in at the end, with him asking...Ben all grown up and independant and actually a fleshed-out character, yes please. I didn't like Lisa, Ben near the end at ALL. So, this? This, I love! Thank you for a lovely read! *mems*

icanhazpie June 24 2011, 15:20:52 UTC

*fistpump* YES. YES. EXACTLY. I was going for that feel that this was Chuck narrating like in Swan Song. Without copying his "writing is hard" stuff, because that would be too obvious, I didn't know if I'd conveyed it properly. Whooo, you rock. Thanks for saying that, you just made my day.

I had to fix Ben. He's a cool kid who thinks it's pussy to have adults fix your problems! He likes classic rock! I'm not listening to you, Show! *fingers in ears*

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment!