The Way to a Man’s Heart (Or: Part Six - Fanboy Sam Has a Lot of Feelings About Interior Decorating)

[adams_ransom]

Title: The Way to a Man’s Heart (Or: Part Six - Fanboy Sam Has a Lot of Feelings About Interior Decorating)
Author: tawg
Word count: ~8,000
Rating: M
Pairings/characters: Sam/Castiel, mentions of Sam/Balthazar and Balthazar/Castiel
Notes: This chapter is dedicated to wing-hugs, who put up me being a pest at him while I procrastinated my heart out, and princess_aleera

Comments

[whit_merule]

Awww, poor Sam. The problems you face. Both of them looking all interested at you. However will you cope with your sad, sad existence?

... and I just realised there is more to this verse. -eyes it-

[tawg]

I know, right? Sam just has THE WORST problems to deal with. Baby.

Be careful. I'm sure reading it all will only put you on the path to madness. Or threesomes. One of the two.

[whit_merule]

Oh dear. Madness and threesomes.

... hey, I just realised that, despite my general preference for OT4, I've never written a threesome. Or, technically, a foursome, just the lead-up to one. Hm. Sometime I ought to rectify that.

[tawg]

This sounds like good homework to have.

[tawg]

You will like the next chapter. It is filled with Sam being a dork about his bi-crushing.

Cas likes his home! Even if you think he is weird and lonely! He can just sit at the table and knit and no one expects him to be anyone but himself.

[tawg]

That is true. But Cas is also passively anti-social and lazy. Getting to know people and stuff? Hnnng, he'll just sit in the corner with his crosswords kk.

[tawg]

This installment just turned into 100% fluff, didn't it? And poor, poor Sam. What hardships he faces. What trials and tribulations. What I wouldn't give to swap places with him.

[whit_merule]

This fic makes a lot more sense now that I have read the rest. And Cas' deadpan is beautiful.

... Gabriel totally ships OT3, doesn't he? GABRIEL KNOWS ALL. Heed him, for he is the Messenger.

Also, yay Daphne! This is the first non-7x17 fic that I have seen her in. :)

Poor Cas and his trust issues. Every Cas incarnation should have trust issues. It makes so much sense. And then poor Dean (or whoever) keeps stumbling into them accidentally (brashly, in Dean's case) then going WHAT WHY IS HE REACTING LIKE THAT. And then Cas does not get a hug.

[tawg]

Gabriel is just the best character for catalysing or enabling. And I hope that Daphne does crop up in more fics. I really liked what little we saw of her.

[whit_merule]

Well, the trouble is she got about one line. Which means that pretty much everything we know/think about her is relative to Cas, rather than to herself. I do hope the show gives us a BIT more than that at some point.

On the other hand, I managed to do an entire chapter of one fic from the point of view of Cathy Randolph, so obviously meagre material doesn't mean we can't make something of small canon characters!

[tawg]

We didn't get much more than that from Claire Novak or Jess, and I have read some wonderful fics about them both. We need more passengers on the Daphne train. And I certainly think that Castiel's time as Emmanuel and Daphne's part in that is worth exploring. (I have all kinds of 7x17 feels.)

Fallen part 6

[auroramama]

trying to hold the phone and stuff his hand in a mitten at the same time, and ending up with a mobile phone where his fingers should be.

I'm not the only one! No, wait. I may still be the only one, but at least someone was able to imagine it happening.

Oh, I remember some of Sam's thoughts and feelings from my first real romance -- that wondering what the hell I'd been doing with my life when I could have been kissing this person...

Re: Fallen part 6

[tawg]

I'm not a big wearer of mittens, but I have used the finger section to store loose change and stuff in the past. And yes, I had fun casting back to the 'just barely dating, amazing first kiss' moments in my life when writing this.