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puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote2006-11-20 01:09 am

Perennial

Supernatural; Winchesters (+ OFC), pre-series (circa 1987), PG-13. Spawned by some throwaway lines in the first of Three times the Winchesters grew older. by [livejournal.com profile] angstslashhope.

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[identity profile] maharetr.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
“We’ll see,” John says, but he already knows. After all, the less he loves, the less he has to lose. Oh, god, John. There is such a sense of... love, and family, here. Of coming home and touching base for a while. I love Jude, and that last line makes me want to smack John, but Dean'll remember, and they can come back when they need to.

Um, maybe a tad too invested. It's just... lovely. *saves for re-reading*

[identity profile] weesta.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
This...

The couch is more than wide enough for the three of them, and narrow enough for John to reach out in the dark, feel the now-cooler flush of Dean’s skin, hear the soft sound of Dean’s breathing. Sammy grips his thumb, wordless again, and drags John’s hand away from Dean and onto his own belly. John smiles, soft in the dark, and rubs gently until Sammy’s a boneless sprawl of unconsciousness.

Works like a charm every time.


...killed me totally dead! LOVED it! I love your Wee!Chesters!

[identity profile] weesta.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
May I friend you?
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[identity profile] phantomas.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the errand, wild sister...:)

So many loving moments in here, especially Sammy holding on to John.
Beautiful. Sad, a little, in places, but serenely so.
thanks!

[identity profile] lcsbanana.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
omg sammy sammy SAMMY. i appear to be having an entirely ovary-based response to this story. SAMMY WEE TINY SHY SAMMY RUNNING AROUND OMG SAMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

[identity profile] ggreenapple.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam goes around the long way, clambering into John’s lap instead of sliding off the couch and onto the floor. He doesn’t release his hold on John’s shirt, doesn’t even turn around to face Jude.

“Sorry,” John says. “He gets a little shy.” As if to prove his words, Sammy presses his face into John’s chest as if he can burrow right in, pulling the edges of John’s flannel over his head again. “Sam,” John pulls the shirt away, but wraps an arm around Sammy nonetheless.

I love the way you totally pinpoint body language. Oh, Sammy! :)

Sammy tilts his head to the side, pressing his ear against John’s chest and letting his shoulders slump inward. It’s been a long few days for them all, and Sammy always tends to get clingier rather than irritable when he’s tired, like he’s reverting to a younger age when he could just give up all autonomy and have John be the provider of absolutely everything.

oh sammy!!

Sammy grips his thumb, wordless again, and drags John’s hand away from Dean and onto his own belly. John smiles, soft in the dark, and rubs gently until Sammy’s a boneless sprawl of unconsciousness.

you're still working on that oedipal Sam thing, right. RIGHT?
that's just aww. so sweet. and you just know all those feelings of comfort and pleasure will get all tangled up with dreamshapes and urgent sexuality when he gets older.

She seems entirely unfazed by the strangers in her home, smiling politely at Dean and John, narrowing her eyes when she gets to Sammy. Sammy glances up from below his brows and growls, honest-to-god growls, and Jude gives a burst of startled laughter.

“The hell, John?” she says, highly amused. “You raise these boys with a pack of dogs?”

John’s just as baffled, shakes his head; but Aster’s gone tense-still, not breaking eye contact with Sammy until she suddenly jerks, bolts across the room and out of the sliding door. Before John can blink, Sammy’s bounded off the bed and after her, feet thumping loudly on the wooden floor.

“Well,” Jude says at length. “That went well.”

So. Awesome.

John sweeps Sammy up on his next loop around, arms and legs still kicking until John throws him over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift.

So perfect. I wouldn't exactly describe your writing as physical, because I think it's more cerebral than not. But in the way you can describe the exact right physical action.. I really love that. It's sharp. Wish I could do that. :)

oh ouch.. the end.
and it's just perfectly right.
i really like this.

[identity profile] squee1123.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
i really want the boys to meet some of their relatives on the show. whether theyre John's family or Mary's doenst matter. I just want them to meet.

I mean itll still always be the SamnDean show but...right.

[identity profile] julia-brose.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you expanded this from the Three Things story. John and June do feel like siblings the way you write them, with that deep history resonating after all those years. And Sam and Aster are fabulous, the instinct cousins can have, that unconscious recognition of family.

I hope we get to see a relative or two on the show, sometime, no matter how estranged. I like the Sam-and-Dean-against-the-world universe, but I'm curious to know if anyone else impacted their lives, or John's.

Um. Rambling now. Bye.

[identity profile] nasus221.livejournal.com 2006-11-19 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sammy clutches fingers into the shirttails at John's hip." Awwwwww! And Sammy not being able to sleep was so sad and cute.

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2006-11-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
oh, john. get with the fucking program. her name is JUNE. JUNE, JUNE, JUNE. repeat after me: HER NAME IS JUNE.

ok, now we've got that out of the way... SAMMMMMMMYYYYYYY!!! shy!sammy. bellyrub!sammy (oh my god, dude, you know where this is headed, don't you?). growling!sammy... and, um, GROWLING!SAMMY. grrr.

it breaks my heart to know it's all gonna come crashing down in a pile of hormones and arrogance.

i want sam to growl in the show. at whoever it is that's getting too close to dean.

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2006-11-20 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

moreficyay!
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[personal profile] embroiderama 2006-11-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, I love John having a sister and going to her when he's out of other options. It's great to think of the boys getting a chance to run around with a cousin for a while and of John getting to talk to an adult who cares about him. And little Sammy is just too cute for words. *g*

[identity profile] gelasius.livejournal.com 2006-11-20 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
“Anyway,” Jude says. “Where’s momma? Or did you make those boys all on your own?”

I... I think I love you.

*clears throat*

There's more I could say in response to this, but I'd end up getting all mushy and emotionally demonstrative, and who wants that?

*punches your arm*

[identity profile] impertinence.livejournal.com 2006-11-20 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, man. This is such a perfect little snapshot. There's so many things that're right about this--but I think what I love the most is John's slight ineptness, his not quite knowing the right thing to do with either boy. His love and his (for wont of a better word) helplessness shine through, and it's incredible. Thanks for this!

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