[Fic] I've been living on the edge so long (where the winds of limbo roar)

[clex_monkie89]

Title: I've been living on the edge so long (where the winds of limbo roar)
Rating: PG-13
Fandom(s): Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Wordcount: 2,070
Summary: Sam's never really been alone before, and maybe he isn't now.
Notes/Acknowledgments: Betad by waterofthemoon. Starts at the S7 finale, ends during the S8 premiere. AU, clearly. Title credits to Blue Öyster

Comments

[elliemurasaki]

So was Sam doing it himself? Can't have been Dean, Dean wasn't anywhere near there.

[ash48]

Oh god. That made me cry.

and Sam is nothing but a disappointment again

Oh god...:((

and sticks a smile on his face and everything real in a box under a lock in a closet in a room in a cave in the depths of the places his ragged excuse for a soul clings onto .

That's beautiful, but...*weeps some more*

This is as painful as I imagine Sam's time was without Dean.

I'm just going to be over here weeping. (I loved it though I've needed to feel this depth of emotion from Sam's year. I love the idea that Sam might have created ghost Dean to help him through or maybe it was really Dean... *sniff*)

[cmsserenity]

This.

I have read many, and I do mean many, versions of Sam's thoughts/actions/reasons during Dean's time in Purgatory, but never have I been so instantly transfixed by both the style and the absolute mastery of character voice. Yes, voice. Even though it is entirely an internal monologue - it is stunning in its simplistic complexity.

Thank you for writing, and for sharing your talent with us.

Friend request to follow.

(I would have added a quote - but it is rude to cut and paste, with comments, an author's entire post. Right?!)

[arliss]

This is what I wanted from show. Thank you for making it so.

It had to be this awful, this intense, this devastating, this limping, wounded thing. And of course Sam has to have his happy reunion only to rediscover what a failure and a disappointment he is and has always been. Painfully well-written. Good work.

[galwithglasses]

Sammy....such a heartache. I wish the show would have let us see something like this at the beginning of the season. It just makes so much sense. Great (very sad) writing.