Three Thousand Six Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit, for pyrebi (gen, PG)

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Title: Three Thousand Six Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit
Author: victoria p. [musesfool] / Sammy Hagar
Recipient: pyrebi
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: 3,910 words. Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to Kripke et al. Spoilers: Through AHBL2. Thanks to luzdeestrellas for the beta. All errors remaining are mine.
Summary: "As metaphors go, it's pretty on the nose, don't you

Comments

[iamstealthyone]

Great job using that prompt. Poor boys, having such a terrible run of luck. And poor Esme, too. Nice mix of banter and tension and angst.

Favorite lines:

The room is done up in typical old lady style--roses on the walls, roses on the bedspreads, roses on the fucking coffee mugs in the cabinets. But the lace curtains (and there are roses on those as well)

I so love the boys ending up in a room like this.

Sam says they're writing a book on abandoned mines of the Southwest, and Dean tries not to look like he's wanted by the FBI.

*snickers* Dean trying to be inconspicuous amuses me.

He opens his mouth to say something and Dean cuts him off with, "I swear to God, if you say, but it's a dry heat, I will shoot you myself."

"I think they think if they keep repeating that it's not so bad, they'll convince themselves it isn't."

*g* Good timing for this story, considering it’s freakin’ hot out here in Arizona right now. 110 degrees today in metro Phoenix. Ugh.

Now, Sam is the one who can't sit still, who always has to be in motion

[musesfool]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it.

Good timing for this story, considering it’s freakin’ hot out here in Arizona right now. 110 degrees today in metro Phoenix. Ugh.

hee! I'm glad that worked.

It has to be so frustrating for them to have to leave places where they’re wrongly accused of crimes, to know that they can’t really clear their names.

*nod nod*

And that noose just keeps getting tighter. Sigh. Poor boys.

[swanseajill]

That was great. Excellent characterisation. Poor Dean - he jst can't get a break, can he? And I don't know much about what the heat's likle in Arizona, but you did a great job of conveying it!

[musesfool]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy it worked for you, and felt true to both of them.

[lazy_neutrino]

This is marvellous. Totally marvellous.

[musesfool]

Thank you!

[laurificus]

Oh, Dean. One day that break is coming for him.

This is awesome; I really like how the heat is so present and oppressive, that the one place they can rely on isn't even a refuge anymore, because, even if Dean says it isn't, it's totally a metaphor, and it fits, everything getting tighter and more desperate around them, time and the FBI and so many things they have to run from. And I love that Sam says "We killed her," and that everything else is wrong, but they make it right between them, and that they do it without ever saying that's what they're doing.

Oh, and as horrible as it is, I really like Dean's reaction, because he does value and care about the women he sleeps with, and that he'd take it so badly feels completely right to me. Sigh.

[musesfool]

Oh, Dean. One day that break is coming for him.

It is! A nice long vacation where girls in bikinis bring him frozen fruity drinks and make sure his sunscreen is always well-applied.

that the one place they can rely on isn't even a refuge anymore

I hated doing that, you know, but that was the prompt, so. Yeah. It's just harder and harder for them to find any place to stop for a little while. Sigh.

I love that Sam says "We killed her," and that everything else is wrong, but they make it right between them, and that they do it without ever saying that's what they're doing.

*nod nod*

That's the important part, really.

I really like Dean's reaction, because he does value and care about the women he sleeps with, and that he'd take it so badly feels completely right to me.

He would! He does! This I believe.

And thanks again for all your help while I was flailing.

[erinrua]

Oh, wow. This was good. Achey and stiffling and so spot on, gorgeous use of atmosphere and voices. I liked Esme even in the brief look you gave us, a girl who knows her own mind and who she is, and it *hurts* when she's so horribly gone. Dean's anguish is so tactile, the more because he's not weeping and wailing, he's silent and only his body can manifest his reactions. And Sam is spot on. Wonderful piece, and yeah, that's the desert. I've seen Sedona and you did a great job with it. All you could add that I can think of are the Pink Jeep tours they do there. Darned pink jeeps everywhere, or at least there were several years ago. ;-)

Thanks for this, beautifully done.
Cheers ~

Erin

[musesfool]

Thank you so much! I'm so happy it worked, and that Esme felt real even in such a short sketch, so that Dean's grief felt real too.

I've seen Sedona and you did a great job with it.

Woo!

Thanks again.