Demons of Her Own

[x_strangeangels]

Demons of Her Own

Word Count:  1513
Characters:  An OFC, more OMCs than you can shake a stick at and appearances by Agents Ford and Hamill (Gen)
Overall Rating:  R (Adult themes, Language, Angst)
Feedback: Absolutely. Concrit is always welcome.
Disclaimer:  The Winchester boys aren't mine, but I'd make Dean wear boots all the time if they were.

Comments

[pheebs1]

I love the double level of helping her that happens here. It is a good teaser piece, but stands on its own so well too. Thank you so much for writing it for the challenge!

[elanurel]

Thank you! ;-P

I did try to show the less "supernatural" side of Dean and Sam. I know I've addressed her reaction "after the fact" but it was fun to show the "softer" side of Penny.

And thank you so much for sponsoring the challenge. I love the idea behind spn_xx, so I always try to participate in challenges there because it's something I want to support.

[halfshellvenus]

Finally, something short and Gen that I can read!

I liked the background of Penny's story-- very vivid apart from her overlap with the boys.

And I also liked that their Ford and Hamill gambit didn't fool her for a minute (I can't imagine it fooling anyone-- they're just asking for trouble when they pull those really obvious ones out).

Now I'm kind of tempted by the idea of this challenge. :D

[elanurel]

*heh*

A lot of my gen has been Firefly related. ;-P

Thank you so much for your feedback! I was hoping to show how Penny's life used to be versus what it was by the time she met Dean and Sam, so I hoped the descriptive nature of that helped - the light versus the gray, so to speak.

The Ford and Hamill gambit should never work. Ever. And Penny was my answer to it. During the course of the series, she refers to Dean and Sam as "Agent Han" and "Agent Luke" - so you actually picked up on a long-standing joke.

And you should so do the challenge. I know that Supernatural is a show about brothers, so the focus isn't on female characters, but I love that spn_xx was created to highlight them. If you haven't checked out the stories from last summer's challenge, you should - the stories were of all genres and all were excellent.

[starpixie16]

This was just fantastic. Your characterizations always blow me away, and I loved this look at Penny's life up to her chance meeting with the Winchesters. The way she went from having her life all laid out before her to nearly throwing everything away after the loss of her mother was absolutely heartbreaking.

[elanurel]

Thank you!

I was a little worried that it wasn't going to work out how I wanted it to. It was originally a het piece, meant to address how out of her depth Dean made her from more of a relationship perspective, but I liked the idea of them helping her without any of them knowing it do much - and it having nothing to do with demons or the pouka or anything else - that I changed the ending.

So I am quite happy that it worked.

And it does divulge a little of Penny's past, although nothing I haven't said over the course of the series. There's more coming, too. ;-P

[eesia]

Penny! I love her.
She is great girl for Dean, she has demos of her own, as you said in the tittle, so she understand him very well.
Besides, seems like they both need each others.

I love your fic
*hugs*

[elanurel]

*is blushing*

I do like to think, with Penny, that I created a viable love interest who would get Kripke's ass kicked. It's a fine line, though, so I try to give Kripke some slack - making a character sympathetic with enough of an emotional hook to touch one of the boys without interfering with their dynamic as Sam and Dean and without being carbon copies of them.

One of my personal challenges this year is to actually write a story that features a female hunter, which I have never done. "She can't be a hunter" is my rule number one for creating OFCs of the love interest variety. But that's probably more than you expected as a result of your comment. ;-P

And there is a new Dean/Penny story coming soon - my muse has been hijacked and I'm finishing up my Dean in college AU but I do have the next GS story blocked out in my head.

That pink umbrella has a lot of life in her yet!

[eesia]

Yep, it's hard to create character which will be loved and accepted. Kripke, as you said, hasn't been able so far with a girl for Dean

[elanurel]

Well, one wants the character to be Dean's equal. I don't think Jo was given a particularly fair shake in that regard, as she was written as a girl with a crush. I won't belabor people with my opinions on Bela, whom I think is shoe-horned into the show and I can't imagine Dean having sex - let alone a relationship - with someone who put Sam into so much danger. He's gone after Gordon for doing it once

demons of her own

[quirkies]

Above all, I find this comforting. And not in a linear - she can find her way out of the darkness, we all can - kind of way. Though that too. There's just that hopeful quality I find in all your fic that's fascinating to me, and resonant. I can't really pinpoint it, but I can say that it wouldn't exist if you didn't make me fall in love with your characters. This makes me alternately want to cheer Penny on, and hold her hand, and slap her dad, and cheer again. And this bit changes my breathing a little bit because it's so right for her character, and for a lot of humans too: "the blustery voice that bellowed ‘your mother would die all over again if she saw you now’ and a personal Greek chorus of ‘we want our little sister back’ all blown away by her own voice."
Thank you!

Re: demons of her own

[elanurel]

There's just that hopeful quality I find in all your fic that's fascinating to me, and resonant. I can't really pinpoint it, but I can say that it wouldn't exist if you didn't make me fall in love with your characters.

Thank you!

That little bit of hope is what gets me through life, so I try to spread that message as much as I can - both Charlotte and Penny are different parts of that message but...I apply it a lot to Dean and Sam. Maybe most especially Sam...

But you're not supposed to make me cry with your comments, you know. ;-P

And this bit changes my breathing a little bit because it's so right for her character, and for a lot of humans too: "the blustery voice that bellowed ‘your mother would die all over again if she saw you now’ and a personal Greek chorus of ‘we want our little sister back’ all blown away by her own voice."I was hoping to illustrate the moment when she picked herself up from the asphalt, so to speak. She still struggles with it, obviously, because that's the nature of life and healing but putting that

Re: demons of her own

[quirkies]

But you're not supposed to make me cry with your comments, you know.
D'oh! I always get that part wrong.

I was hoping to illustrate the moment when she picked herself up from the asphalt
You succeeded beautifully.

Re: demons of her own

[elanurel]

D'oh! I always get that part wrong.

Well, to be fair, it's been an emotional couple of days for reasons I'd rather not disclose. I probably still would have gotten weepy, though. ;-P

You succeeded beautifully.

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