fic: remember, who we are

[skiing_pelican]

Title: remember, who we are
Author: skiing_pelican
Rating: PG-13
Genre: hurt/comfort
Characters: Sam, Dean, Castiel
Spoilers: spoilers through 7.23
Warnings: malnutrition, old age, scars, implied violence, language
Word Count: 7500
Summary:
Sam finds Dean and Cas a day after their fight against Dick Roman. But it seems they stayed much longer in purgatory than that. Sam

Comments

[mad_server]

Poor Dean! I love that he's too traumatized to sleep anymore unless somebody's keeping watch, and that Sam can tell. I love too what you did with language, and especially Dean with an Enochian accent!! I think the Enochian hits my smart!Dean kink while at the same time doing an amazing job conveying the amount of time Dean's been gone. Dean's loyalty to Cas over Sam, and the language, together with the physical details really slammed that home.

And sleepy happy full-of-pie-and-soup Dean! Adoooorable.

[skiing_pelican]

Thank you SO MUCH! This is the most constructive review I've gotten in a while, and I love you for it!

*nods* Dean isn't dumb. He's got the practical smarts. Hey, he built an emf out of a walkman!
And yeah, I'm totally comvinced he'd learn enochian if he has a good reason!

LOL, I guess it shows I'm a Destiel shipper. But I didn't want to put a romance in this one, it would have railed the story off the point. But, I never said there isn't one hidden between the lines... XD

[etoile444]

OMG! The idea of old Dean and Cas having nothing but each other for 30 years. How horrifying. Yet, I think your story has a positive and hopeful tone!

[skiing_pelican]

Thank you!

Part of me think the thirty years must have been a romantic time... XD

Yeah... I'm mentaly unable to write pure angst... even my character!death fic has hopeful tones at the end. Let's just say... I don't believe in a no win scenario.

[etoile444]

No doubt it was romantic! I like the subtly of Dean telling Sam he'd share the bed with Cas. I ship those two anyhow, so I saw it that way as I read it.

[skiing_pelican]

Lol, and there I was trying to keep it gen. XD

[4422shini]

This is a real mix of hilarity and tragedy. I love Dean's complete fucked-up-ness and Sam's ability to take it in stride. Awesome story!

[skiing_pelican]

Thank you! :D

[skiing_pelican]

Thank you! Awesome Sam is awesome. ;) I really enjoy writing Sam!pov from time to time.

[hevyyd]

Interesting.

Dean's constant paranoia was well written without being overbearing, and it was nice to have Sam cast in such a positive light. The use of the word 'underarm' struck me as very odd, are you sure you didn't mean 'forearm'?

The pie scene was adorable.

All in all 'twas a good read, and the fact that you mix hopeful overtones with your angst shows that your a far kinder writer than I, then again we all know I'm a heartless jackass. Well done.

[skiing_pelican]

OH, I know you are! I read one of your stories - the one with mute Dean - and fell totally in love with it! And then you brutally murdered Dean. ;_; You broke my heart. And I really give you kudos for NOT writing a happy end... but I was so broken after that I didn't dare to touch any of your other stories. Don't get me wrong, I still love it! And I'm not one who easily sheds tears! So that's an achivement, kinda!

But, thank you for your review!

I considered a few days where to go with this, I planned it more angsty at first, but I didn't know where to end and it just didn't feel right. There's so much angst on the show, and the characters are on a constant downward spiral - I don't need to have any more of this in my fics. Even Angst gets redundant with time, and they're completely broken anyway. So yeah... I wanna see them heal again.

And thanks for pointing out the underarm! I'm a german speaker, and Unterarm means forearm. Stupid mistake, lol. I'll correct it immediately.

[hevyyd]

Aw, I feel sad now. Did you ever read the epilogue? I kinda made up for it, kind of. Okay maybe not really but at least I tried. It's not that I intentionally write angst, it's more that I have a very intimate relationship with the darkness of the human heart and so it comes easily to me.

That being said you can also find moments of great joy and love in the things I write, but listen to me trying to deny my dastardly nature. :3

I think a recovery!fic would be a beautiful thing to read, and one i've wanted to try writing myself for quite some time. You get to explore the angst and the pain, but for every hurdle cleared the characters come out just a little bit stronger, and that leaves a warm and fuzzy feeling in the reader, kinda like this fic right here.

[skiing_pelican]

Honestly, I don't know... but I think I did