Esau Have I Hated

[faye_dartmouth]

Summary: Don't worry. I'm going to make you all better. A missing scene from Asylum

Rating: PG, gen

A/N: This would be one of those plot bunnies that literally attacked me and made me sit down and write. A half hour later, this came out. About a half hour after that, it's been beta'ed and I'm posting. I HAD to write this fic. Asylum has always

Comments

[relativity1953]

Wow - never felt so sorry for Sam in that episode until this! I think the writers could take a page from your book. Most of the episodes seem to be one-sided: Dean OR Sam. If this scene was filmed, I think we would have felt for both of the boys.

[geminigrl11]

LOVE your icon!!!

[relativity1953]

hee hee... thanks

[faye_dartmouth]

Dude, now I have to comment on your icon...I loved the first one, too, but T.S. Eliot rocks!!!

And I'm glad this fic helped show Sam's POV. The post-Asylum fics in general frustrate me. I get Dean's position at the end and how it must be hard to deal with the fact that Sam *shot* him, but Sam wouldn't shoot him if he could help it.

[maygra]

This is amazing and wonderfully creepy. and yes, a really good look at how minor and petty sibling rivalries and feelings of favoritism could be twisted. Excellent work.

[faye_dartmouth]

Thanks! I've never felt that the boys hate each other, but there is a lot that is unresolved between them, and Ellicott had to have some ammunition to turn Sam against his brother. And if the brothers don't ever talk about the tension between them, it could end up a lot worse than Asylum did.

[geminigrl11]

Faye, you know I love everything you write, but this was yor best take on Asylum yet. We never got to see what Sam went through - what could have been so bad as to push him to shoot his brother. This? Is probably exactly how bad it was. And "Jacob have I loved, Esaus have I hated" has always given me chills, but never moreso than in this context. BRAVO!!!

[faye_dartmouth]

My best take yet....remember, I just got out of school for the summer which opens my time up to the plot bunnies that keep nipping at my attention.

And this fic HAD to be written. The bunny MADE me and I didn't fight.

WHEEEEE!!

What was I talking about? I can't remember... :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh, this is good. it makes SENSE.

(wasn't esau older, tho? that would make him dean.)

[faye_dartmouth]

Indeed it would...but I figure that when a psycho ghost of a deranged murdered doctor is trying too mess with someone's mind, they're thinking more wholistically and not so focused on the detail. The parallel that Jacob was simply loved because he was "chosen" and Esau was hated because he wasn't chosen to Sam's likely belief that Dean was the favored child still holds true. The idea of the birthright doesn't completely apply in this context, but both boys were likely vying for John's approval. Dean got it. Sam got kicked out.

But I'm glad it makes sense! Thanks!

[tsuki_no_bara]

part of me was being nitpicky and part of me honestly couldn't remember if esau was older or not. >.< the analogy still works, tho - favored son, less-favored son, resentment like whoa.... i'm occasionally stupidly anal, don't mind me. i still really really enjoyed it.

[faye_dartmouth]

I understand stupidly anal--I really do :)

I actually thought about that before I posted this. So my reply was partially my response to myself and my own doubts.

Thanks again!

[mellaithwen]

DUDE excellent excellent excellent :D and then bringing in Jacob and Esau made it so detailed with more depth...wow

[faye_dartmouth]

Thanks! It's kind of cool when you look at the whole story of Jacob and Esau and see how it ultimately ends in reconciliation.