Title: By Any Other Name (1/6)
Author:
strangevisitor7Beta:
Pen37 Rated: PG - 13
spoilers: For the movie Serenity: The series goes AU from the end of the movie
Prompt: #43 Square for
crossovers100 my table is
hereFandom: Firefly, Highlander, Supernatural & Smallville. The rest of the Immortal!Dean Universe can be found
here.
Characters: From FF: Mal, Zoe, Wash, River, Jayne, Simon, Inara, Kaylee. From I!D 'Verse: Dean Winchester, Duncan MacLeod, Richie Ryan, Chloe Sullivan and Sam Winchester. Dean/Chloe, Richie/River
Disclaimer: The characters you know and love all belong to their respective creators.
Summary: The Immortal!Hunters and Mal's crew stop on Persephone where they run into some Alliance trouble. Sam's abilities continue to evolve leading to more questions.
A/N: This is the forth story in the "Immortal!Dean in the Firefly 'verse" which started with:
Since I Found Serenity;
The World as We Know It;
Into the Coming Storm Chapter List:
Chapter 1;
Chapter 2;
Chapter 3;
Chapter 4;
Chapter 5;
Chapter 6 Chapter 1
Dean found Sam sitting in front of the Reaver’s cell.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“Meditating,” Sam replied as he leaned back against the wall.
“Communing with your feminine side?” Dean slipped down the wall to rest next to his brother.
Sam rolled his eyes. “Five hundred years and that’s the best you can come up with?”
Dean shrugged and then indicated the prison behind them. “Any new insight from leatherface?”
“He’s not exactly a chatty fellow,” Sam said. “I’m just practicing my control.”
“Not sure how comfortable I am with you yakking it up with the dark side.”
“I’m not that comfortable with it myself.”
“Then don’t.”
“It’s not that simple Dean. I was given this,” he waved a hand distractedly at his head, “ability and it’s already saved Zoe. It’s a way to control Reavers. You know I can’t just ignore it.”
“Remember those powers you had before?” When Sam nodded he continued, “Well you did a pretty good job ignoring them and everything turned out all right.”
“Did I?” The younger Winchester hung his head. “I wouldn’t know.”
Dean sighed. Of course not. This Sam hadn’t lived the year leading up to the discovery of Dean’s Immortality; how that had changed the playing field when Immortals entered the fight against demons and scary monsters. This Sam had never met Duncan, Chloe or Richie but had died on the mud covered street in that shithole in South Dakota. Dean still didn’t understand how the deal he’d made to bring Sam back from the dead all those years ago had led to his brother’s resurrection on Miranda but it didn’t really matter. Sam was really here and Dean didn’t mind filling in the blanks. He suspected that Sam had trouble dealing with the details of a history he’d never remember and it didn’t help that Dean kept forgetting he’d never lived those years.
“Well trust me. What ever mojo ol’ yellow eyes gave you, you never tapped into again. And we did just fine without any freaky mind powers.”
“You think these new abilities come from -” Sam gestured toward the ground.
“No!”
He eyed Dean suspiciously.
“I mean that we have a ship with six Immortals on board and a hell of a lot of fire power, I don’t know that you need to play at being the Great Kreske, if it makes you uncomfortable.”
When Sam didn’t respond, Dean added, “Even more so, if you’re not uncomfortable.”
“I just think I should be prepared. I promise if I start to feel evil, I’ll let you know.” Sam laughed ruefully.
Dean tensed. “Don’t even joke about that. We’re Immortal. That makes us the good guys. Got it?”
Sam nodded as he smiled at his brother. “Yeah, I got it.”
“Good!” Dean smacked Sam’s leg for emphasis. He paused tilting his head trying to catch a wayward sound.
“What?”
“Engines are shifting. We must be approaching Persephone.”
“You can hear that?”
Dean rolled his eyes. “And you wonder why I hated letting you drive Impala I.”
Sam chuckled. “What ever happened to that heap?”
“Don’t,” he pointed a finger at his brother, “ever, ever disrespect the car, dude.”
Rising to his feet, Sam backed away. “All these centuries and you’re still missing that hunk o’ junk. That’s just sad.”
“Hey, what did I just say?” Dean growled as he stood. Sam continued to back away, a huge grin on his face
“Come on, Dean, it was just a car.”
“That’s it!” Dean charged. Laughing, Sam met the attack head on grabbing Dean and spinning him in a big hug.
Dean shifted and tossed Sam over his shoulder. Both men hit the ground where the wrestling match continued for a few more minutes before Dean straddled his brother effectively pinning Sam beneath him.
“Out of practice, Tiger,” he grinned as he gave Sam’s face a pat before standing and offering his brother a hand up.
Sam returned the grin as he took the offered assistance. “Two out of three?” he quipped.
“You two about done?” A laughing female voice caught their attention.
Throwing Sam a knowing smirk, Dean strode over to Chloe. Sweeping her into his arms and off her feet, he planted a passionate kiss on her lips. Setting her back down, he replied, “Just teaching junior a lesson about disrespecting the car.”
Chloe laughed as she looked passed Dean. “It’s sad isn’t it; how much he misses that thing?”
Sam nodded, matching the twinkle in her eye.
“Am I gonna have to teach you a lesson, too?” Dean leered, waggling his eyebrows.
“I don’t know, teach. What’s the topic of this lesson?” She leaned into him, tilting her head up waiting for the next kiss.
“Ok, that’s enough!” Sam pleaded. “Either get a room or cut it out.”
“You could leave.” Dean pointed to the stairwell without taking his eyes off Chloe.
“Dean, you’re in the cargo bay.”
“So?” they said in unison as they looked toward him.
Sam threw his arms up, shaking his head. “I do not want to know.”
Any further amorous intent was interrupted by Richie’s voice over the com informing them of the impending landing on Persephone.
“Raincheck?” Dean leaned down to give Chloe a quick kiss.
She nodded as they broke their embrace. “I’ll be waiting.”
Dean smiled and turned to his brother. “Come on, Sammy. We’re on escort duty.”