Beautiful Stranger, for tekuates

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Title: Beautiful Stranger
Recipient: spn_summergen
Rating: PG:13
Word Count: ~2,700
Warnings: Hints of violence, hurt Dean. Outsider P.O.V
Author's Notes: The recipient gave three prompts and I used two of them which were Darkfic dealing with Sam or Dean (or both!) coming back from Hell/the Cage changed or somehow "wrong" & The Winchesters from an outsider POV

Comments

[kalliel]

This is sort of tangential, but what this fic really made me think about was how the Winchesters must sort of flag people and locations in their minds whenever they walk into something--like an unconscious casing of the joint, so to speak. Because they must have seen something in this woman and her diner that kept them coming back (outside of convenience of location, aha), and made it the place they figured they'd be able to crash into if need be. And it makes me wonder what kind of person they must have seen in her, to make her restaurant a 'base' of sorts in that fashion--a place to return to, a place where it would be (kinda sorta) okay to come after disasters. Because whatever they saw, it was certainly true! Someone more given to curiosity and narration than panic, someone no-nonsense. I really like the way that undercurrent feeds back onto your outsider POV and helps to characterize her from the outside, even as her narration does the same

[zelda_addict]

It makes sense that there are places the brothers revisit as the crisscross the country, especially if this diner is somewhere near Bobby's house. This was a very interesting outsider perspective on the events, and that kind woman will never know how right she was about the soul! Nice work.

[ratherastory]

Aw, Season 6 Sam was a hell of a heartbreaker while he was soulless, wasn't he? I'm glad he got to go back and apologize, at least.

I wonder what the narrator would make of Dean now? :(

Poor boys. At least they got to be together and whole, just for a little while.

Great outside POV, author!

[madebyme_x]

There's nothing better than an outsider POV and I loved how your oc made a connection with the boys and Bobby.

I liked too the distinction she saw between soulless Sam and Sam, you tackled that perfectly.

Thanks for sharing! :)

[anactoria]

I love outsider POV on the boys, and how your narrator tries to piece together what's going on here. I'm glad she got to see the 'real' Sam at the end there. :)