[Fic] paxlux: Artery
[ Sam/Dean ]
Title: Artery
Writer: paxlux
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Sam/Dean
Rating: R
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]public bathroom makeouts and blow jobs, jovial drinking
Length: 11,111
Summary: Eyes on the road, thought you knew how to drive this thing. Season 2, lost without a map.
Reccer's notes: Paxlux writes a great stream-of-consciousness adventure here, a hilarious, fun, happy, warm story. Her poetic sense provides rich enchanting imagery and rhythmic colloquial natural dialogue. This fic is full of these little magical moments that glow on their own, impressions that blend together richly. Artery is a strong piece of hers where Sam and Dean are at their best - when I first read this fic I wanted to live in it forever. It just blooms with all the in-between moments that we don't see as much of in the show - the quotidian travels and brotherly goodtimes.
[Short excerpt]
Sam’s waiting for the penny to drop, because, see, he can’t figure it out, he can’t figure out what is so fucking infuriating about his brother. How Dean can do something completely dopey, it shouldn’t be any big thing, watch me fit this whole thing of Twinkies in my mouth, Sam, something dumb like that, careless and reckless and free, what, oh this is Brenda, she’s a tattoo artist, whaddya think, Sammy, you want a Tweety Bird tattoo on your ass, then Dean disappears and doesn’t come back until he’s stained with lipstick, walking with a hitch in his hips and smug self-satisfaction.
And Sam wants to strangle him.
“Don’t think the gummi bears are gonna bite your head off, Sam,” Dean says, “you don’t hafta give ‘em the death glare.”