Fic idea
So this SPN AU struck me, and I can't get it out of my head. I've been scribbling bits and scenes and ideas and plot points for a week now. I've been doing it on my break and lunches and works and in between calls.
And I'm really loving it. But I have no coherent thread, no story to really tell with it. It's just a totally, "Ooh, wouldn't it be interesting if?" and that's it. It's sort of like that story idea I had about Dean Thomas. Neat scenario, but...?
The idea is basically a Bobby-raises-Sam thing. It's sort of based of my ramblings about what Bobby could maybe possibly know about Mary's deal. The fic has the premise that Mary called Bobby in to get an expert opinion about demons and if Sam could possibly be some sort of human/demon hybrid thing. They both come to the same conclusion that Sam is a human baby, but that there must be something about him a demon wants. So...Mary decides that Bobby should take Sam away. It kills her to do it, of course, but she can't keep Sam safe if he stays in the house with her. She can't keep John and Dean safe if the demon comes after Sam. Bobby is the demon expert. And the deal didn't allow the YED to come to Bobby's house. Sam will be safe with Bobby is the logic here. So Bobby takes him and Mary concocts some story that Sammy was snatched while they were at the park. (I'm pretty sure snatching kids out of strollers was big in the '80s.)
Of course, Mary dies anyway (Mary's death is kind of like trying to kill Hitler in a way ;P). Bobby hasn't had Sam very long at this point, maybe three months. And he could give Sam back, but he decides that Sam will be safest with him and keeps him.
And, yeah, okay, that could just be a story and it could work. That has a place to end. But I am greedy. I want more. I want John and Dean to meet Bobby anyway and meet Sam and not know it's their Sam. I want someone to figure out that it is their Sam and I want the angst of Bobby feeling horrible for taking Sam but also being really glad he did because he loves Sam and the angst of Sam loving Bobby, too, but upset that he missed out on his "real" father and his brother. And the angst of John and Bobby having a falling out because, hello, kinda kidnapped his son here?
But those things? I have no reason for that story. Why does he find out? What's the point? I have no story, just deliciously angsty scenes. And I've been writing them, hoping something would come together, but no. Just snippets. I could make it a 'verse, I guess, but that seems like cheating somehow. As I understand it, you're not supposed to plan for a 'verse to happen, it just does.
I should really just get back to my epic Supernatural/So Weird crossover.
And I'm really loving it. But I have no coherent thread, no story to really tell with it. It's just a totally, "Ooh, wouldn't it be interesting if?" and that's it. It's sort of like that story idea I had about Dean Thomas. Neat scenario, but...?
The idea is basically a Bobby-raises-Sam thing. It's sort of based of my ramblings about what Bobby could maybe possibly know about Mary's deal. The fic has the premise that Mary called Bobby in to get an expert opinion about demons and if Sam could possibly be some sort of human/demon hybrid thing. They both come to the same conclusion that Sam is a human baby, but that there must be something about him a demon wants. So...Mary decides that Bobby should take Sam away. It kills her to do it, of course, but she can't keep Sam safe if he stays in the house with her. She can't keep John and Dean safe if the demon comes after Sam. Bobby is the demon expert. And the deal didn't allow the YED to come to Bobby's house. Sam will be safe with Bobby is the logic here. So Bobby takes him and Mary concocts some story that Sammy was snatched while they were at the park. (I'm pretty sure snatching kids out of strollers was big in the '80s.)
Of course, Mary dies anyway (Mary's death is kind of like trying to kill Hitler in a way ;P). Bobby hasn't had Sam very long at this point, maybe three months. And he could give Sam back, but he decides that Sam will be safest with him and keeps him.
And, yeah, okay, that could just be a story and it could work. That has a place to end. But I am greedy. I want more. I want John and Dean to meet Bobby anyway and meet Sam and not know it's their Sam. I want someone to figure out that it is their Sam and I want the angst of Bobby feeling horrible for taking Sam but also being really glad he did because he loves Sam and the angst of Sam loving Bobby, too, but upset that he missed out on his "real" father and his brother. And the angst of John and Bobby having a falling out because, hello, kinda kidnapped his son here?
But those things? I have no reason for that story. Why does he find out? What's the point? I have no story, just deliciously angsty scenes. And I've been writing them, hoping something would come together, but no. Just snippets. I could make it a 'verse, I guess, but that seems like cheating somehow. As I understand it, you're not supposed to plan for a 'verse to happen, it just does.
I should really just get back to my epic Supernatural/So Weird crossover.