On the banks of the Tiber

[hope]

Supernatural, Sam(/)Dean, R (for violence/horror), AUish

Note: marked as slash for the faint of (wincest) heart. The author would like it known that she prefers to consider this a gen story.

Read the sequel: Field of Mars.


This story was nominated in the 'Best Horror' and 'Slash: Best Alternate Universe' categories of The Lawrence Awards. Thank you!

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Comments

[ginnytonnick.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this, though I wonder what Dean would have done had Sam been the one bit first.

[jubilancy.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, this ruled.

[almostpretty.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. You are clearly made of awesome.

[sharpest_rose.livejournal.com]

It's totally not fair that you're able to make a vid and write a fic while sick, dude.

This is utterly amazing. I think the thing which punches hardest is how their worldviews slip and shift as the story progresses. I have a deep love for unreliable narrators/viewpoints, and Dean is that here from the word go. The way things are revealed, and then how they turn on a pin, and the things that stay the same even as the rest changes is all just fantastic. I want to say more, but I don't know how to say it. You are an incredibly accomplished storyteller, and I love this example of your work.

[hope]

Something slightly different, methinks :)

I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for the feedback :)

[hope]

hee, your icon is kinda appropriate.

I'm real glad you liked it :D ♥

[hope]

\o/ my favourite!

thanks, honey :)

[zortified.livejournal.com]

This was fantastic. Amazing, loved seeing the changing from Dean's point of view, and how Sam dealt with it - becoming one as well, to help keep Dean out of trouble. ;-)

I would so love to see the coda when dad finds them, heartbreaking as it might be.

[tabaqui]

Oh, very cool. Had me all confused and fooled until about the middle there and then - very cool.
:)

[tangledaria.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was really wonderful! I like how smooth and flowing the story and the writing are, and about halfway through I thought to myself, 'This isn't going where I think it is, is it?' and it was! I think most authors wouldn't write this the way you did, you know? Carry the idea all the way through like that, and well, I really, really like how you finished it.

And just in case my rambling didn't make the point clear: I really like this story. :D

[hope]

aw, shucks. I still want to reply to this with "my cat's breath smells like cat food", but uh.

Your icon is funny, because I know your ulterior motives, Miz. And I can only vid and fic while sick because I have a valid reason for not doing homework, thus all the fandom ideas that have compounded in my head for the past... several months can actually have an outlet.

I'm really glad it worked. The 'What Would Dean Do?' clause is a Very Important Thing for me when reading fic, so I'm glad my messing with it came through in my own stuff :D

Also, I totally got sidetracked typing this by making an icon to reply with. hah!

[hope]

Heartbreaking indeed! Thus I'll leave it to speculation, methinks, as tempting as a coda is.

Thank you for the feedback :) I'm glad you liked it.

[hope]

phew! I'm glad it started making sense at some point, then (hopefully when it started making sense for Dean, which was my intention).

I'm glad you liked it :D thanks for feedbacking :)

[hope]

Hee! thank you. Yeah. It seems to be my writing style to 'go there' (so to speak), more often than not. And why the hell not?

And thank you, again. I'm really glad you really like it! thanks for feedbacking :D

[tabaqui]

Yeah, that was probably when.
But then, i confuse easily.
:)

[crimsonsenya.livejournal.com]

Where should I begin... This has to be one of the coolest fics I've read in this fandom. The whole metamorphosis was so well-written with a language both descriptive and sensorial matching the change of the brothers into primal beings.

So very Sam to make such a detailed plan of action and then put it in motion step by step. IMHO it was perfectly in character for him to turn everything in their lives around to adapt to the new situation. I loved how there was no question that Sam wouldn't follow Dean down the path and protect Dean from himself, as I have no doubt, if free, Dean would have killed himself as soon as he'd realized what he'd become.

He leans down and swipes the flat of his tongue against it and Sam swears and kicks – “Shit, Dean—!” – and it’s gritty in Dean’s mouth and the bullet is warm from Sam’s flesh when he tongues it, urges it out, then cleans the skin around it.

There’s an edge of humour in Sam’s voice when Dean sits up to look down into his face again. “You’re not going to pee all over my stuff now, are you?” The hint of a smirk, the curl of his lip, bared teeth for an instant.

“Pee,” Dean scoffs. “You’re such a girl.”

“You wish,” Sam laughs outright this time, but he’s licking at the corners of Dean’s mouth, seeking out the residue of the kill.
Sweet Lord of the Rings, just had to copy this whole part here! I'm a perverted freak I know, but that scene was hot as hell, and you even spiked it with humour. Simply wow.

In conclusion: you left the readers both satiated and hungry for more. YOU WIN at Winchester fics! :D

[ratcreature]

Great story, I liked figuring out what was going on alongside with Dean.

[hope]

YOU WIN at Winchester fics! :D

best.feedback.ever! thank you so much :D

I figured that Sam would be a brat about it, and manipulate the fact that he knew exactly what Dean would and wouldn't do... heh, yeah. brat.

tee hee! uh, yeah, I think on the scale of perverted freaks I get a special notch for writing that scene, so yeah. *halo*

In conclusion, yay :D thanks for the lovely feedback, I have a big silly grin on my face, now. I'm real glad you liked it :)

[hope]

I'm glad it worked! Thanks for the feedback :) :)

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Gah, this was beautiful... and oh man, AFTER, the boys and their pack of two. Even between the moons, the touches of wolf in Dean's bared teeth, when Sam tells Dean about the Impala, the bullet scene... gives me shivers in the bestest way.

[willowanderer.livejournal.com]

Rrr. Werewolf fic. Supernartual-fic. Mmm. yay!
There are not enogh writers out there who write werwolves. And you did it well. thanks!

[apieceofcake.livejournal.com]

I was a bit slow and it took me a while to figure it out..lol! Creepy , thought provoking and well written. :-)

[hope]

Hee, it's all good, I'm deliberately obtuse more often than not ;)

I'm glad you liked it, though. Thank you for the feedback!

[hope]

I agree! there definitely needs to be more :D Thanks for the feedback :) :)

[hope]

gives me shivers in the bestest way.

Me too, o holy yes. :D I'm glad it worked for you too.

Thanks for feedbacking :)