Fic: Follow Me Down

[entangled_now]

Title: Follow Me Down
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: 5x08
Warnings: Mate or die scenery, slight magical influence
Disclaimer: In no way mine, or anything to do with me, I own nothing.
Summary: "Are you actually worried about me? That's kind of funny and something I'll no doubt mock you for endlessly later."
AN: Written

Comments

[drunken_hedghog]

Fuck or die - you've managed to turn it from a cliche to something much more realistic. I'm so damned glad that you didn't have Gabriel/Sam UST beforehand. Making it a real sacrifice works just brilliantly.

[entangled_now]

Thank you very much, I'm really glad you thought it worked. I was going for something different and maybe a little messier with nothing between them beforehand. Because Sam does have that terrible self-sacrificing streak.

Thank you for reading.

[mikes_grrl]

I'm so damned glad that you didn't have Gabriel/Sam UST beforehand. Making it a real sacrifice works just brilliantly.

This was what drew me into it as a story as well. I admit a soft spot for the fuck-or-die trope, but I LOVE it when done with a high level of believability (insofar as anything SPN is believable, yah?).

Gabriel's reaction is the most interesting, and I wonder if it is born out of having to do all this "for the greater good", instead of out of whim. He's certainly done non-con before, or at least instigated it, as the Trickster, so this is hardly new territory for him, even in regards to Sam. Perhaps it was the more personal nature of it, and the loss of control, more than any actual guilt about violating Sam, that is affecting him? *ponders*

One fact springs to mind though: that for all they have lost clothes on hunts before, Sam isn't going to fool Castiel. He'll know, and I wonder as well how that will predispose Castiel to both Gabriel and Sam, not in the sense of being angry but rather of being saddened/

[entangled_now]

Thank you very much, it's a trope I really love as well and I wanted it to feel more real so I had it come out of nowhere. I'm really pleased you thought that worked.

I completely agree about Gabriel being no stranger to non-con and dub-con scenarios but yes, I think this is definitely different in that it's a personal loss of control. And hell, maybe he even liked Sam. Maybe he thinks it was somehow avoidable and he pushed for it. That's why I like to leave things on the edge. So there's that uncertainty.

Sam really won't fool Castiel and since I've been bribed into writing a sequel that's what I'm writing now. Castiel is learning what needing to help feels like too I think.

Thank you for reading and commenting!

[miya_morana]

Damn, that ending is just so bitter... you're cruel, girl, you know that? ^^

That said, it was absolutely hot. And of course Sam would feel the need to sacrifice, because he never can do anything else.

As usual, your writing is so fluid and organic, and you characterization just perfect.

[entangled_now]

Thank you, I'm terribly cruel, I originally wrote that dubious and uncomfortable ending because I had to finish it up quickly. But I grew attached to how it made the whole fic feel. I'm pleased you thought it worked.

Sam would almost certainly feel the need for terrible self-sacrifice. At the end of the day Gabriel's an Archangel and I'd don't think he'd risk anything horrible happening to him.

That's so amazing of you to say, thank you! ♥

[fredbassett]

That was fantastic :)

[entangled_now]

Thank you so much :D

[sweetsyren]

Whoa. I enjoyed this on a very visceral level. I think it's the lack of actual affection. It's necessary and greedy and desperate and that's exactly whats needed.

Awesome.

[entangled_now]

Thank you very much! I did want to try something a bit different for these two, so they got the necessary, greedy and desperate that's probably going to leave a mess in its wake.

I'm glad it worked for you.

[devon99]

Goodness, that was good my dear. You are rapidly becoming one of my favourite writers.

[entangled_now]

Thank you very much, that's really nice of you to say, I'm glad you liked it.