Comments | blueiris08: "The Woods Are Lonely, Dark and Deep"

blueiris08

"The Woods Are Lonely, Dark and Deep"

Oct 05, 2006 18:19

Rating: PG for disturbing content.
Characters: Sam and Dean. Genfic.
Word Count: 8000
Summary: A psychic encounter, fear, and a lot of angst. Sam POV.
Author's notes: This 'verse is set in an off-canon Season Two, and incorporates none of the events from "Devil's Trap" onward. The story continues from Dean's POV in " Promises to Keep," which is then ( Read more... )

gen, long, dean, sam pov, woods 'verse, author's favorite, sam

Comments 35

mrscutedean October 6 2006, 00:18:52 UTC

“Then what do you need, Sammy?”

“I need…” Sam walked cautiously; even this was ground Dean didn’t want to cover. “I need to be the man you raised me to be.”

*bawls and bawls*

I would pay SO much money to see this line on SPN, but I will take it in this awesome fanfic instead.

Lovely job, it felt rich and lyrical and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done~!

dc_longwing October 6 2006, 00:43:12 UTC

Wow. I didn't know she was a ghost until Sam told Dean. This was fabulous. So ... layered and complex, yet it moved along very quietly and. what? Cleanly. Simply. Not slowly, because it wasn't boring at all. Measured. Clear. And, like water, kinda dark. But real.
Awesome fic. Thanks so much, and I hope to read more of your stuff in this fandom,
DC

blueiris08 October 9 2006, 12:12:11 UTC

There are general comments below, including on whether there will be subsequent stories in this 'verse. But if you're just looking for more Spn fic: pop in at my journal's main page, where there are a few more. Thanks!

tabaqui October 6 2006, 00:51:48 UTC

Honestly? Didn't know until Sam got the shovel out. I have no clue what 'trance channeling' is, anyway, beyond the obviousness of having someone else speak through you.

I love, love, love Sam's feeling Dean desperately not *wanting* to feel him but needing him way, too, far too much to ever totally disengage.

I love their talk on the bridge, Sam pointing out a target and Dean hitting it, 'old game', and Dean wanting to see the girl one more time...

Just lovely.
*has small, happy vision of more episodes in this 'verse*
:)

blueiris08 October 9 2006, 12:30:17 UTC

I have no clue what 'trance channeling' is,

When I hear "channeling," I usually think of mediums channeling spirits, and figured most people did the same. Somewhere in Wikipedia's discussion of ESP things, there are references to "trance channeling," which simply indicates that the person doing the channeling isn't conscious of what is being said through him/her. Wikipedia doesn't distinguish explicitly between channeling of the living and the dead, but I figured that it was a phrase most people hadn't heard (I never had), and so while people who automatically thought "channeling = spirit" wouldn't necessarily think "trance channeling = the living," their unfamiliarity with the phrase might lead them to think, "This is different from what 'channeling' usually is."

I don't think "channeling" was what Sam actually ended up doing, because of the place-switching, but given what Dean had observed, it was a logical conclusion for him to reach.

tabaqui October 9 2006, 12:40:22 UTC

Ahhhhh, interesting.
The things you learn!
:)

anonymous October 6 2006, 01:32:14 UTC

Damn. That's awesome. Seriously spooky and twisty and wonderful.

Your empathy/psyche stuff is well thought out and makes sense with what we've seen in canon.

And I didn't realize she was a ghost until the car either. :) Very cool.

I'd like to see more depending on your muse.

Brambles

iamthedirtgirl October 6 2006, 06:34:47 UTC

i really enjoyed this a lot. Really nice writing and great sense of urgency. Then it was so tragic. I actually thought she was a ghost until you had the boys saying she wasn't and then I went back into realizing she really was when you told us because you had made me think I was wrong to assume she was a ghost at the beginning. I liked it, a nice double fake kinda. great work.