[Fic] icanhazpie: The Greatest Man I Never Knew
[ Invited Reccer: Gen ]
Title: The Greatest Man I Never Knew
Writer: icanhazpie
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Dean, Adult!Ben, Lisa, Sam, OMC
Rating: R
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]Violence, language, character death
Length: 6030
Summary: Ben convinces Dean he didn't need to be perfect. It was enough that he was Dean.
Reccer's notes: This is a beautifully bittersweet story that ties up some of the lose ends left at the end of S6 and gives a strong sense of peace in the end. Dean gets to hear what he's needed to hear his whole life, and it's a wonderful way to pull things together.
[Short excrpt]
There's a bar off I-170, and it's so in the middle of no where that the directions say to take a left where the old Yates barn used to be. It's shabby enough to be comfortable and it hasn't been painted since the Carter administration, but it's got the owner behind the bar, the best jukebox in two hundred miles and the beer is as cold as the devil's heart. A sleek car, old and well-cared for, pulled into the dirt parking lot. There ought to be more cars here even at this time of night, and he checked the address written on a scrap of paper just to be sure. Yep. Right place.
Dean looked up from his cards when the door opened, checked the new guy out and dismissed him in a glance. Just as he was about to call, he looked back with the nagging feeling that the guy looked… familiar. Or as if he ought to be familiar. Young, maybe a few years younger than Dean himself, dark hair, dark eyes, pale freckled face. If clothes were a fashion statement, his would be saying 'redneck hard at work'; the shotgun loosely held under one elbow was merely an exclamation point. Since this was a hunter's bar, he fit right in.