Recs: Post-S6 Sam/Dean
The end of Season 6 and beginning of Season 7 have generated a lot of really gorgeous Wincest and Sam&Dean fic. What I've been particularly tickled by is the number of fics written over the hiatus whose ideas were then reflected more-or-less exactly in the canon. :) Here's a selection of post-S6 Sam/Dean for October.
These Things I Know Are True (Sam/Dean, post 6.22, R), by killabeez. Post 6.22, Sam's barely keeping it together, and Dean's trying to figure out where they go from here.
There always comes a point, when I'm reading killabeez, where I feel as if all my insides have seized up and there's a hook in there, twisting me up in the best way. I don't know how she does it. I wish I could learn. I read this with my mouth half-open, feeling all the love and pain fill me up. If you haven't read it, do it now.
doing something right (Sam & Dean, G), by lazy_daze. Written to the prompt 'clothes sharing'.
The expression on my face while I read this was pretty much :DDDDD from beginning to end (despite all the unhappy, nightmare-ridden Sam). I love gen h/c fics and this one is so understated and lovely.
The Only Thing That's Real (Sam/Dean, NC-17) by runedgirl, and accompanying gorgeous art by maichan808.
The destruction of the wall in Sam’s head leaves him veering dizzily back and forth between reality and vivid flashbacks of the Pit. Caught in the nightmare world, Sam’s terrified, desperate, and dangerous. Most people would walk away. But Dean Winchester’s not most people.
This was written for the Sam/Dean minibang, and I found it utterly captivating, engaging and in character and sexy. runedgirl can always be counted upon to write very accomplished Sam/Dean, but this description of how Dean puts Sam back together again after the wall falls. This is also one of those fics where the author has taken the story in a direction at times shockingly similar to where canon now seems to be heading -- even if Show is unlikely to provide the h/c sex. :)
Consider The Hairpin Turn (Sam/Dean, NC-17), by cherie_morte.
Sam's wall has shattered and the memories in his mind have splintered. When the Sam who remembers Hell tells him to go find Jess and be happy, Sam knows he can't stay while Dean needs him. But when the Sam from Hell says that Dean is already there looking for him, Sam leaves his memories of the pit behind to find him. What he finds is a life he doesn't remember: a house that he shares with his brother (and has for years), a law career he thought he'd left behind at Stanford, and a relationship with Dean he never dreamed he could have. Life is almost too good to be true, at least until Sam begins to hear his brother's voice calling to him, begging him to wake up.
This fic tore me up entirely. It's hard to read at points, the description of Sam's mental trauma is so well observed and unflinchingly presented, but the conclusion is so very rewarding. Another one that makes me think Show's writers have been stalking the samdean_otp check-in posts and taking ideas!
These Things I Know Are True (Sam/Dean, post 6.22, R), by killabeez. Post 6.22, Sam's barely keeping it together, and Dean's trying to figure out where they go from here.
There always comes a point, when I'm reading killabeez, where I feel as if all my insides have seized up and there's a hook in there, twisting me up in the best way. I don't know how she does it. I wish I could learn. I read this with my mouth half-open, feeling all the love and pain fill me up. If you haven't read it, do it now.
doing something right (Sam & Dean, G), by lazy_daze. Written to the prompt 'clothes sharing'.
The expression on my face while I read this was pretty much :DDDDD from beginning to end (despite all the unhappy, nightmare-ridden Sam). I love gen h/c fics and this one is so understated and lovely.
The Only Thing That's Real (Sam/Dean, NC-17) by runedgirl, and accompanying gorgeous art by maichan808.
The destruction of the wall in Sam’s head leaves him veering dizzily back and forth between reality and vivid flashbacks of the Pit. Caught in the nightmare world, Sam’s terrified, desperate, and dangerous. Most people would walk away. But Dean Winchester’s not most people.
This was written for the Sam/Dean minibang, and I found it utterly captivating, engaging and in character and sexy. runedgirl can always be counted upon to write very accomplished Sam/Dean, but this description of how Dean puts Sam back together again after the wall falls. This is also one of those fics where the author has taken the story in a direction at times shockingly similar to where canon now seems to be heading -- even if Show is unlikely to provide the h/c sex. :)
Consider The Hairpin Turn (Sam/Dean, NC-17), by cherie_morte.
Sam's wall has shattered and the memories in his mind have splintered. When the Sam who remembers Hell tells him to go find Jess and be happy, Sam knows he can't stay while Dean needs him. But when the Sam from Hell says that Dean is already there looking for him, Sam leaves his memories of the pit behind to find him. What he finds is a life he doesn't remember: a house that he shares with his brother (and has for years), a law career he thought he'd left behind at Stanford, and a relationship with Dean he never dreamed he could have. Life is almost too good to be true, at least until Sam begins to hear his brother's voice calling to him, begging him to wake up.
This fic tore me up entirely. It's hard to read at points, the description of Sam's mental trauma is so well observed and unflinchingly presented, but the conclusion is so very rewarding. Another one that makes me think Show's writers have been stalking the samdean_otp check-in posts and taking ideas!