[Fic] cherie_morte: Mind's Eye
[ Invited Reccer: Sam/Dean ]
Title: Mind's Eye
Writer: cherie-morte
Status of work: Complete
Characters and/or pairings: Sam/Dean, Lucifer
Rating: NC-17
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]Sexual Content, Alcohol Use, Mild Violence, and Language. Spoilers up to 7x10: Death's Door
Length: 7,362
Summary: Everything is just about as bad as it can possibly get. And then one day, completely out of nowhere, Dean disappears.
Reccer's notes: I have a weakness for unraveling!Sam, and this fic scratches that itch in so many ways. There's the aforementioned disappearing Dean as well as Hallucifer haunting Sam, so in essence for most of this fic Sam is alone and talking to two separate ghosts, and it's heartbreaking. Both the Sam and Dean voices are lovely, and to read them talking past each other (sometimes with Sam's asides to Lucifer thrown in) is surreal. I'm also a sucker for a happy ending, and this one delivers!
[Short excerpt]Sam looks quickly to his left and then away just as fast. Dean knows what's there, what Sam's trying to ignore looking at. Lucifer almost always sits to his left.
"Sam, come on. He's not there, remember? Just you and me."
"Shut up," Sam mutters. Then he shakes his head and pushes his thumb into his injured palm, wincing a little as he does it. "I'm talking to myself. There's no one here."
"I'm here," Dean tries, though he's already pretty sure it won't work.
Sam fixes his eyes back on his screen, and Dean moves until he's standing behind him, pressing in so close his face is almost on Sam's shoulder. Sam has a few windows open: their current bank accounts with no new charges, Dean's rarely-used email, a map of the town they're in with all the bars and diners highlighted. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Sam is looking for him.