Thursday: Counterparts

[nevcolleil]

Happy Thursday morning to you all, dears! This is nevcolleil, posting for a final time this week as your guest host :( It's been a lot of fun! For our final prompt, I am throwing out: Counterparts. A Counterpart is "a thing that fits perfectly with another", "something that completes", and also "one remarkably similar to another". Soulmates, twins,

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Fill: Worlds of Terror (& Beauty) 1/2

[nevcolleil]

Eames doesn’t like it… He hasn’t liked it from the beginning. Talk of demons and demons’ wars.

“So, you’re going to do it, then… Kill this bloke and take home the pot, as it were.” Not that Eames sees a pot of any kind in this “game”. Just killing, followed by more killing, with the payoff being you get to be in charge of the next wave of killing, whenever that begins. Made less horrific (yes, less) only by the fact that Arthur’s gotten this neat ability to bend people’s perceptions in reality - outside of the dreamworld - out of the deal.

No, Eames doesn’t like this at all.

“No,” Arthur says firmly, honestly - Eames can tell - which is something. “Not if I don’t have to,” he adds. “But if he comes looking for me… Eames, you know I’ve got to.”

Eames knows. His heart pounds and adrenaline races through his blood with the knowing. It’s reassuring that Arthur has still kept himself, somehow, through all of this madness; that he doesn’t want to hunt down and kill his “competitors” in the demon Azazel’s little pony pageant. But he

Fill: Worlds of Terror (& Beauty) 2/2

[nevcolleil]

Of course Arthur knows what Eames is thinking. Neither of them has thought of much else since that one kid threw a car through their living room. What if Winchester has an even greater power than the others who have come before him? Others whose powers got progressively harder to combat. A man who could kill with a touch; a girl who could make demons do whatever she wanted… A Superman with unbelievable strength.

What if Winchester can, like… kill with his brain? Or bend reality instead of just the perception of it? (Is that even possible? Eames can’t say no for sure; so much of his world now is what he would have once called impossible.)

"I've told you, darling, f-"

"Eames, I mean it!" Arthur all but growls, eyes as wild as any demon's, Eames imagines. But full of so much human emotion, Eames is humbled seeing it.

Yes, he knows that Arthur cares for him. But it doesn't hurt to be reminded once in a while.

"He doesn't have to kill me," Arthur says, voice wrecked. "Don't you get that! All he has to do is kill you and I'm as good as

Re: Fill: Worlds of Terror (& Beauty) 2/2

[tigriswolf]

Aww, boys; I can't decide who I'd want to win!

Re: Fill: Worlds of Terror (& Beauty) 2/2

[nevcolleil]

I'd like to think that they could work things out, like Sam tried to do with Jake although Jake wouldn't listen. Then again, if they didn't, that could explain the craziness of the last few seasons... If Sam battled Arthur and ever since, Sam and Dean and Bobby are caught in some series of illusions Arthur keeps up to keep them out of the way :p

Re: Fill: Worlds of Terror (& Beauty) 2/2

[tigriswolf]

Sam and Dean and Bobby are caught in some series of illusions Arthur keeps up to keep them out of the way

That is perfect! Total headcanon now.