[fic] smilla02: Hard Won Homecomings
[ het ]
Title: Hard Won Homecomings
Writer: smilla02
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Dean/Lisa, Bobby
Rating: PG
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]None.
Length: ~3000 words
Summary: Lisa hadn't needed Dean, not the three times she'd opened her door and invited him in. She didn't need him this last year, and she isn't going to need him now.
Reccer's notes: An interesting and well thought out take on exactly what it was these two meant to each other. Achey but beautiful.
[Short excerpt]Lisa takes another sip of coffee. She's not going to judge Dean's family, no. But she's thinking of that night Dean woke her up, eyes bright with hope, and said, I found a way, Lisa, I found a way. She's thinking of the state he came back in, two days later, out of his mind with pain and fever and fresh grief, hating himself for coming back empty-handed and maybe for coming back at all and needing her.
She'd questioned, after each futile attempt, if she would have seen him again had he been successful, and then hated herself for those traitorous thoughts faced with the depth of his desperation. Part of her still wants to know.
Bobby looks poised on the verge of saying something else when Lisa finally speaks.
"I'm not sorry," she says. "I'm just angry that you kept the best parts of Dean with you."