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tifaching

Downtime

Jan 22, 2011 20:07

Title: Downtime
Character: Sam
Genre: Gen, preseries
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Summary: Hunting doesn't come with vacation time.
A/N: For the prompt: "a day off" at supernatural100 .
#14 for 365 drabbles.

( The family business, Dean calls it. )

gen, pre-series, sam, drabble

Comments 24

keerawa January 23 2011, 01:20:19 UTC

This one really makes me feel for Sam. Gah, who would choose a life filled with danger, and terror, where any mistake WILL get people killed?

tifaching January 23 2011, 02:15:58 UTC

Every once in a while I get a burst of Sam empathy. I guess the obsessed (and certain of their children) choose hunting. And they try to keep the mistakes to a minimum. It's impossible to not make any though, and I can certainly see why Sam headed for the hills. Of Palo Alto.

Thanks!

dante_s_hell January 23 2011, 02:04:26 UTC

If he’s five minutes late here, his brother won’t end up comatose for three days. Such a telling statement. It's a heady responsibility to be your brother's back up, to save lives. His "downtime" at Stanford was what Sam needed very badly.

Loved this. Thanks!

tifaching January 23 2011, 02:16:45 UTC

Thanks! Too bad(for him, not for us), that his downtime couldn't have been permanent.

harrigan January 23 2011, 03:48:31 UTC

I don't often read stuff so short - but this was SO worth it! Thank you for sharing it.

tifaching January 23 2011, 14:49:23 UTC

Wheee! Thank you, I'm always glad when I can get someone to read a drabble!

Hunting's not for everyone and Sam tried so hard to make another life for himself. He was never going to be allowed to have it though, sooner or later it all had to come crashing down.

borgmama1of5 January 23 2011, 05:02:51 UTC

Oh, Sam. I'm sorry this isn't going to last.

tifaching January 23 2011, 14:50:16 UTC

Poor Sam. :(

abeautifullie3 January 23 2011, 05:40:49 UTC

Damn. So much pain, in so few words that on the surface don't even combine in a hurtful manner.
But I feel it, for Sam - and for Dean (being left alone with John and that life).
Young Sammy, all that weight of the Hunter's Life on his shoulders, when all he wanted was "normal". For future Sam, that he wasn't destined to have that.

Very nicely done.

tifaching January 23 2011, 14:52:06 UTC

Thank you. Hunting's a life for someone who's been devastated by evil, and even though Sam was, he really has no idea what he'd lost. All he knew was that he was in a life that he hated and he needed to get out.

Too bad he only made it out for a little while. :(

abeautifullie3 January 23 2011, 19:39:38 UTC

That is an absolutely perfect way to put it! Incredibly insightful perspective there. Wow.