One Saved Message

[ratherastory]

Title: One Saved Message
Summary: After a hunting accident puts Sam out of commission for a couple of days, Dean decides to surprise his brother with a new phone, since his old one is toast. Even better is when he finds that he’s been able to save all of Sam’s old information and restore it to his cell. That’s when he discovers an old voicemail

Comments

[de_nugis]

Ahhhhhh. Sam these days is so quiet and subdued (and, yes, all strong and stoic, which has its appeal) that I have an absolute passion for post-resouling breakdown fics where he loses it and sobs his eyes out, as well as for fics in which Dean notices one of the fashionable hairshirts Sam has been wearing, and you gave me both.

I love how much lingering hesitation and damage there is here, but how little it matters when it comes down to the bare bones of Sam and Dean together in their lives. And I totally believe that Sam's run against Lilith was just as suicidal in 4.22 as the one Ruby prevented in 4.9, and that Dean might not have fully realized that until much later.

[ratherastory]

I think Sam is entitled to at least one major breakdown after everything. I like strong and stoic as much as the next girl, but come on!

I remain convinced as well that Sam's run against Lilith was a kamikaze attack too, even if can be boiled down to a weird kind of adolescent reasoning of "Dean will realize I was right and he'll be sorry when I'm dead!" among other things. *pets Sam* I think by then, also, he was pretty much convinced that he was beyond redemption: between the five days of detox (in which all his hallucinations told him how much he sucked), the argument with Bobby, the epic fight with Dean in which he was told never to come back, it's no wonder he went in there. The voicemail is just what tipped him over the edge, whereas Dean's original message might have brought him back a step. Fucking angels.

[jennytork]

I adore this.....this needs to be canon like NOW.

[ratherastory]

Aw, thank you! I'm so pleased it rang true!

[marziebarz]

AWWWWW SAMMYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you for filling one of the biggest plot holes in the history of television, and doing it so beautifully. This was so so sweet, between Dean's "emo girly moment" and Sam's complete breakdown. The show never addressing this is probably my single biggest pet peeve EVER, tied with forgetting both Adam and the Samulet. THIS WAS SO BEYOND TOTALLY AMAZING =D

[ratherastory]

It is a pretty big loose end, isn't it? I mean, there's no reason for Sam to bring it up, poor self-loathing creature that he is, and Dean doesn't know about it, but GAH, how I wish it would be acknowledged!

I'm glad you liked my little attempt at fix-it fic! :)

[obuletfury302]

Awww... This totally made me think of my own brother! Emotionally inept until I need him, and then a complete sap.

This was very much needed in this season.

Wonderful fic, hun.

*Smishes you*

[ratherastory]

Thank you! I'm so pleased you liked it.

Your brother sounds sweet.:)

[fifimom]

Very nice.

[ratherastory]

Thank you. :)