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zannes

Then Janus Flips His Coin

Mar 23, 2009 17:39

Title: Then Janus Flips His Coin
Author: ZanneS
Genre: gen/MBV crossover
Rating: G
Characters: Tom Hanniger, Sam Winchester, mention of Dean and Harry Warden
Summary: Tom woke one cold day in March, the scent of ash and salt strong in the frigid air.
Author's Notes: Thanks to yasminke for beta-ing! All mistakes remaining are mine. This is a sequel to ( Read more... )

tom hanniger, mbv, sam

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zannes March 24 2009, 04:26:20 UTC

Tom did what he could, but it didn't seem to be enough. He was a patch over the Dean-shaped hole in Sam.

That sounds dirty.

brigid_tanner March 24 2009, 03:28:09 UTC

Damn. Creepy and scary thinking of the trouble those two can get into with their broken memories. Several lines I really liked:
He wondered if brimstone was really just the scent of failure, of forgotten hopes and a dubious future.

He pressed his hands flat against the side window and the dash - two meaty butterflies, wide-winged and panicked.

Tom feared Sam might crumble to the ground like the Colossus of Rhodes - the great giant felled by its own internal weaknesses.

And of course the last line, with Tom trying to sound like Dean. Waiting to see where this goes and if they can heal each other before the cops find the.

zannes March 24 2009, 04:29:29 UTC

Now I'm scared. You're making it sound like an on-going story!

brigid_tanner March 24 2009, 09:53:09 UTC

Doesn't two stories mean it's going to be on-going? Cause it just wouldn't be polite to leave them this strung out. :)

squashedrosie March 24 2009, 10:21:10 UTC

Ooo! This is very good! I like crazy!Sam, because of all the reasons for him to go crazy, we totally know it would be Dean. The clingyness of him is wonderful, as are Tom's reactions. I love how he just goes along with Sam. Given how much he has sacrificed for Sam, he really is like Dean, isn't he?

zannes March 24 2009, 23:30:15 UTC

Thanks! Tom's Dean really saves him just as much as it does Sam, so it benefits them both. That's why it works so well!

jya_bd_cp_ttgb March 24 2009, 13:13:21 UTC

*purrs contently and waits for more*

zannes March 24 2009, 23:31:17 UTC

I'm glad it pleased you.

roseincognitus March 24 2009, 14:42:53 UTC

Uh oh. You've done it now...gotten us hooked and hoping for more. :o)
he pitched his voice lower, rubbing the edges with sandpaper to add texture to his words
I love how it takes Tom a bit to figure it out, but then he knows if being Dean is what will save Sam, then he'll be Dean.
The only thing I'm unsure of is...at the end of the last installment, you hinted Dean had been mistaken for Tom and had survived the attacks in the mine. Or did Dean's spirit just take over Tom? Is Dean really dead? Or are they totally unrelated?

zannes March 24 2009, 23:43:16 UTC

The end of the last installment was kind of a take-it-as-you-will, particularly since I hadn't planned on writing more. But I always saw it as Tom adopting Dean's personality because he couldn't survive with his own. He learned about Dean through Sam's stories, backed by Sam's utter belief that he was Dean somehow. Sam believed so hard that Tom began to hope it might be true. Tom wanted to be the guy that was the protector, that could take care of himself and those he cared for. Tom felt he wasn't capable of that.

Dean is dead and gone, in Hell for about three years by the time we see Sam and Tom in the first installment, and this one takes place a couple of years later. In MBV, Tom had a kind of dissociative disorder, and Dean became the dominant personality in the mine, excising (hopefully) Harry from Tom's psyche. So it's all really just Tom with Dean's persona.