worn for sleeping, for TammyRenH

[summergen_mod]

Title: worn for sleeping
Recipient: TammyRenH
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1300 words
Warnings: mention of show-level violence
Author's Notes: TammyRenH, I suspect this is not quite the direction you were expecting this prompt to go, but once it occurred to me I couldn’t not write it. I hope you enjoy it. :)

Summary: It takes three tubes of paint -

Comments

[septembers_coda]

HOLY. SMOKES. Wow, I loved every word of this, from the perfect title, to the repeated worry, the tiny, niggling idea that is something wrong, from something so small as the fact that Jess doesn't wear nightgowns. A good observation about the show, actually-- why would a sporty, modern type of girl who normally sleeps in boy shorts and a (albeit artfully/sexily) torn Smurfs T-shirt suddenly have a 50s-style, lacy white satin nightgown?

I LOVE THE EXPLANATION YOU CREATED FOR THAT, but that's a small part of what I loved about this fic. I don't even have words. Just-- WOW. DAMN THIS WAS GOOD. Just... a perfect flow, perfect build of tension and wonderful narration-- poor, wonderful Jess. And oh, when Sam comes back and is weeping for her (such a perfect bit of dialogue, somehow telling us all we need to know about how this is in the past for Sam, but still present for the ghost of Jess, when Sam says, "I thought it was new"-- gah!) and we know he has to salt and burn the ghost of the woman he loves-- you must be trying to kill me! In the best possible way. Just... what a lovely, perfectly whole gem of a fic this is, old school Supernatural and chilling and heartbreaking. FANTASTIC JOB. This might be my favorite Summergen fic so far.

[snickfic]

I can't tell you how happy this comment made me. The fic isn't very long, but I had a lot I wanted it to mean, and I am absolutely ecstatic to find out that so much of it came through to you.

I actually didn't sit down with the idea of deconstructing that white nightie from the pilot; the first line about Jess not having a nightgown basically wrote itself. But then I liked it and wanted to develop it, because the show's use of the white nightgown, innocent-lamb-to-the-slaughter imagery has always bugged the heck out of me.

Anyway, thank you SO MUCH for all your thoughts. I seriously kept this comment in my inbox for a week or more just so I could go back and read it again. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :)