[fic] electricskeptic: Through a Mirror, Dimly
[ gen ]
Title: Through a Mirror, Dimly
Writer: electricskeptic
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Dean, Meg
Rating: R
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]language, violence, allusions to non-con and torture
Length: ~1300 words
Summary: Sam isn't Sam anymore, Cas isn't Cas anymore, Lisa doesn't even want to know him, and even though he's got back everything he thought he'd never have again, Dean's never been more alone.
Reccer's notes: Snapshot that offers a harsh and brutal look at Dean's headspace in S6, and also a brief exploration of a theme that keeps reoccuring in the show: Dean seeing himself as a monster.
[Short excerpt]Still he keeps going back in his darkest moments, again and again, like a moth to a fucking flame. It was pure instinct that had him tearing into this room and knifing one of the few relatives he has left, even though the cackle that rose from Meg’s throat at the sight of him was pure demon, belying the frailness and neat, compact curves of her pretty human host. The demon he just stabbed might have been one of Crowley’s lackeys, but in his mind’s eye he saw nothing but Alastair himself, and the feral thing inside of him that still resents Sam for taking that satisfaction away from him rears up in victory.