Comments | halfshellvenus: Supernatural Drabble: "A Journey Along An Invisible Leash" (Sam&Dean, Gen or Slash)

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Supernatural Drabble: "A Journey Along An Invisible Leash" (Sam&Dean, Gen or Slash)

Sep 15, 2009 23:52

Title: A Journey Along An Invisible Leash
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Sam and Dean (Drabble, Gen or Slash)
Rating: PG
Summary: When we are lost, some say we wander in circles…
Author's Notes: Happy birthday to maerhys, who wanted a drabble on the prompt, "ran so far that I ran right into you." I don't know why this wanted to be second person, ( Read more... )

spn_s1_fic, my_fic, sn_slash, sn_gen, birthday, drabbles

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halfshellvenus September 16 2009, 19:09:46 UTC

Yay, I'm so glad you liked it! It's definitely where your prompt led me, the notion of trying to escape something that you wanted and needed and coming back around to it again in the end.

In a Sam&Dean context, that idea is never very far away.

Many happy returns! I hope it made the birthday better. :)

nyoka September 16 2009, 13:01:53 UTC

This is lovely!

halfshellvenus September 16 2009, 19:10:38 UTC

Thank you! I can understand why Sam needed to leave (and what it cost both him and Dean), and yet I'm glad he found his way back again. ♥

tsuki_no_bara September 16 2009, 16:17:04 UTC

aw, sammy. i love how his life is defined by dean's absence as much as by dean's presence.

halfshellvenus September 16 2009, 19:12:20 UTC

That's a wonderful way of putting it- especially when Dean was really the only "sun" in the dark world Sam grew up in. We'll always need the sun, even if we have to remake it all over again, and we'll always be drawn to it in the end.

deadbeat_nymph September 16 2009, 16:26:41 UTC

Oh my god. I was not expecting this. I don't know if I'm extra emotional about these boys, or what it is exactly, but this drabble hit me in the gut. It left a lump in my throat. And normally I'm not that fond of second person narration, either, but this works perfectly. Guh.

halfshellvenus September 16 2009, 19:16:26 UTC

That whole scenario of Sam leaving is just such painful ground for me, even though I completely understand (and believe) that it was necessary. He had to be himself, and in many ways John's ultimatum was already a line in the sand long before Sam went away to college.

But god, what devastation for him and Dean both that leaving created. Sam returning, and Dean being so happy to have him back (and so forgiving) is really the crux of when this show hooked me emotionally. I'll never get tired of it, of writing it, of living it.

I'm glad it moved you so-- I think you can see why this setting matters so much to me.

And I really don't care much for second-person at all, which is why I'm always surprised on those rare occasions where a story or drabble wants to be that. Why is it so? I don't know, but I have to work with the voice that's speaking to me.

celtic_forest September 16 2009, 16:51:47 UTC

I agree with tsuki_no_bara : Sam is defined by the presence or absence of Dean. You really captured that.

halfshellvenus September 16 2009, 19:18:36 UTC

I love how she put that, because it was less his "family" that had such a hold on him than Dean himself. When that's the only happiness you know, how do you make yourself forge onward trying to find something new-- even when what you're really looking for is yourself? Yet Sam did it. But it wasn't without its price, and those ties can never really be severed.