Fic: Number Games (Sam/Dean, past Jared/Dean, R)

[tryfanstone]

Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Dean, past Jared/Dean
Rating: R
Wordcount: 3000
Summary: A sequel to Lot 607. Sam/Dean, past Jared/Dean. Written for shoofus. Look, guys, I have to tell you. When I wrote this, I thought, okay, yeah, I can do this, and I thought hm, hang on, isn't this familiar... ? It was. I have inadvertently borrowed an idea from fleshflutter's

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[maraceles]

WHAT IS ALL THIS AWESOMENESS ALL AT ONCE?

:D :D :D

I am so excited to read all of these!

[tryfanstone]

Oh, don't, not for this one: I feel awful about it. I truly dislike using other people's ideas at all, ever, and to realise what I'd done... ouch. Which sounds horrible in itself, because shoofus mentioned this ages ago and I really had to think around what to do, and then thought I was clear.

- eh, I'll shut up now! But I could have done with realising, you know, last week. However, yes, more to come, and all my own ideas too. :)

[maraceles]

Oh my god, is this an inadvertent sequel to Fleshflutter's fic as well as to Lot 607? I just got to the part where Jared meets *spoilers*, and I...I...oh, damn, I'm sorry for the awful feelings it's causing you, I really am--

--BUT MY LIFE, IT IS NOW COMPLETE.

[tryfanstone]

No, is the short answer. (I rather think you jolly well ask first about something like that?)

I am glad your life is complete, though!

[fedaykin_here]

I was wondering if there was a problem with the link? I tried to open it and there wasn't a page for it, just gave me a blank page. I also tried to use the pdf link and I got redirected to a page that said it doesn't exist? :-(

I'm actually really excited to read this sequel since I really loved Lot 607.

[tryfanstone]

Eh sorry! Edited. You should be fine with the fic link, but the .pdf link won't work until 22nd July, when the whole lot - these ten stories, plus the two bonus stories - get uploaded as a single file. :)

[fedaykin_here]

Thanks so much! I just read it and I found it very haunting.... I also read flesh flutter and the only similarities that I found in the fics was the wormhole/portal but overall I think your story was very original!

I love how the boys are finally back together and although we know what happens with Jared, I really would like to know what your Jensen would have done. Would he too, also leave? I wasn't sure if he could survive by himself. Could you tell me where you would have envision him? And thanks so much for sharing! I thought it was a great story and lovely sequel!! :-)

[tryfanstone]

Hey. :)

I love that Sam and Dean are together, too. But this Jensen? I'm not sure. Hm. I'm hoping Sam finds him some small town somewhere to be happy in? I can see him, careful and exact, as a librarian, very much, shyly, part of the community? And every so often Sam and Dean stop by, just to say hello, go out for a few drinks, fix the Impala, remodel Jensen's deck, check up after the winter storms, hand over the puppy Sam found by the side of the road and the wide-screen TV that Dean liberated...

Glad you liked this. Although, eh, it wasn't the portal thing, it was the prison thing...

Good luck with your own writing!

[shoofus]

brilliant reference to fleshflutter's story, and wow, how they fit...

[shoofus]

its like watching two of my favorite authors playing catch, or really singing a duet, more like...both stories enriched by the resonance between them...

also...what happened to the jensen from jared's world, and the jared from the one sam was stuck in? and do sam and dean only exist in one reality themselves?

[tryfanstone]

Oh now there's an interesting thought. I wonder what did happen to that other Jensen and other Jared? If it's possible that there can only be one of each in any one world at a time, if Prime!world's Jared was flung back into Slave!world's Jared reality? Eh.

- the Winchesters, hm. While it's absolutely obvious that there are any number of Winchesters in all different varieties, in this reality, I rather think I like the idea of just one Sam and Dean, the centre around which the stories revolve. But I don't know, you may prefer other!

I am so sorry to be late replying - one of these stories, tomorrow's, is still in edits and I am tearing my ahir out. Pretty sure you know how that goes!

[deirdre_c]

It's then that Jared knows, of the two of them, it's Sam he needs to fear.

YES. INDEED. I love the sense of Sam's barely-restrained violence, his stillness and his menace. YUM. I do believe Jared had better run away and never once look back.

[tryfanstone]

That's a smashing icon. Thank you for leaving it here, appreciated.

- I meant to start by saying, apologies for the late reply - one of these stories, tomorrow's, is still in edits. But about this one, yes! I really wanted that sense of Sam's restrained violence, too - a deliberate hong-over from the first story. I'd like to think this Jared would take your advice, too, but I don't think he will. I also think he should have done!

Very glad you liked this story. Thank you for mentioning, too.

[novakev]

Fantastic! Even if it's not a completely original idea it is still wonderfully written and I wanted to read so much more of this verse.

[tryfanstone]

Aw, novakev, thank you! But... yeah, I would have preferred something truly original.

Very glad you liked it, though - and glad to have you on f-list, too. :)

[novakev]

Happy to be your friend. *Hug*