Fanfic: “Shell Game” by Rivkat . [Sam/Dean, AU where Sam and Adam are Winchesters] . [N8]
24-11-12 (wow, 2 years without posting a Spn fic review...)
In this AU universe Sam and Adam are the Winchester brothers, sons of Mary and John. And Dean’s their half brother, whose mum got abandoned by John. So it was Dean got the occasional visits and baseball games. But Dean knows enough to call the number his father gave him when his mother disappears from her house and while Adam is reluctant to believe he’s John’s kid, both Winchesters are ready to help another victim.
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Dean’s mum doesn’t make it and Dean realises he’s got nothing left to lose but feels strongly drawn to his half-brothers (Sam in particular), and like canon!Dean feels that once one discovers there are monsters, the only reasonable course of action is to fight them (funny how almost nobody goes for it in canon!). He asks to join into the hunting, apocalypse-stopping included and neither of his brothers feel like they can refuse. With Adam with Castiel on his shoulder and Sam still hooked to Ruby, the addition of Dean cannot make things worse, in fact, soon Sam realises that him and Dean click in a way that cannot be explained away by years working together, the way his interactions with Adam can.
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*spoilers* I loved that Sam was still Dean's soulmate (I would go back for an episode of the damned show if it was about that!), that did sort of clue me into the fact that Dean was Michael's vessel, after all. Also really appreciated that Rivkat got them all into a group dynamic like the show never did, letting them *become* family. I’d have liked more Adam, especially his POV as only Sam and Dean get their own focalized ones. I’m being cautious and going for N8 even though I’m feeling more of an N8,5 because I’m on such a story!high I want to write all the things, which sadly probably won’t even help me finish my homework on ‘the Mayor of Casterbridge’…*
Quotes:
“Shut up,” Adam suggested. He knocked his shoulder against Sam’s, and they stared up at the night sky. When he was a kid, Sam knew all the constellations; now, they looked more like runes to him-Norse, Enochian, a couple of other traditions, scattered across the firmament: a testament to how his imagination had narrowed over the last few years as the supernatural ate away at everything else he cared about.
*fanfic-novella-2012, 2012, 2012: supernatural fic, supernatural fic, fanfic-2012, @read in english, fanfiction, supernatural fic: Sam/Dean, supernatural fic: recs, author: rivkat, n8