fic: Requiem (Supernatural; Sam and Dean; pg)

[musesfool]

Requiem
Supernatural; Sam and Dean; pg; spoilers through 4.14; 2,065 words
While hunting a gorgon, Sam and Dean find something else altogether.

Happy birthday, dotfic! ♥ Thanks to luzdeestrellas for looking it over.
(also part of the West Wing title project.)

Comments

[estei]

I wish this would happen on the show, but I am more than willing to settle for seeing it on my flist. This is lovely and such a wonderful use of mythology. I love that Dean gives her M&M's.

[musesfool]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it. And Dean giving her M&Ms just seemed really right, so I'm glad that worked for you.

[livrelibre]

I always do like the idea of Sam and Dean stumbling over the old gods, all Gaiman-like:)

[musesfool]

Me, too! I wish they'd do it more often on the show, in that creepy/melancholy Gaimanesque way.

[norwich36]

I love Dean's quiet sympathy for the Pythia.

[musesfool]

Thank you! I think he would totally feel bad for her, being abandoned like that.

[melayneseahawk]

M&Ms! Perfect!

[musesfool]

Thank you!

[chemm80]

Nice. I wouldn't be surprised if this...

"You have been touched by your gods, Dean. You have been broken and made whole again to be their instrument, but you are wise to mistrust their regard. Gods are fickle and cruel, and their ends are not always clear to us. But to survive, to win, you must regain your faith."

"I never had any faith to begin with," he says.

"Not in the gods," she says. "Believe, so that he may believe." She gasps and slumps. Dean catches her before she topples off her tripod. Her pulse is thready under his fingertips, and her paper-thin skin is clammy.

...turns out to be the key to the whole thing right here, that the angels can't be trusted any more than the demons and that's why they have to trust each other like they always have. I'd like that, anyway. Thanks for this.

[howarethosenuts]

I agree.

[dangomango]

I also agree with this.

Sam never was any good at believing in himself, so Dean does it for him.

And vice versa, of course. *g*

It's a lovely story, musesfool.

[musesfool]

Thanks so much. I'm so glad you liked it.