Supernatural: Stages of Belief

[cityfibers]

Claire Novak disappears, one night in September, from a quiet suburb in Pontiac, Illinois. It’s a case that baffles the detectives as much as it terrifies the community, spreads unease and fear. “Who would do something like that?” people ask among themselves, and the “someone should’ve kept a closer eye on her” goes unsaid.

But they do agree-quietly

Comments

[metonomia]

CLAAAAAAAIRE! This is a delightful work of Clairestiel, with all the wonder and horror that entails. I love love love it.

KJAOIHAI IT WAS JUST A BUG. And Cas supposes he doesn't know, either!!!

gah, her certainty and that repressed fear and no she's not crazy, her imaginary angel friend says sooooo.

And I LOVE the ending. Cas really does care! He's SORRY. Weeeeeeeep!

And this! the way Castiel says “you” that sounds like “only you,”
That's pretty much everything about angels and their vessels right there, omg, this is so so fabulous.

CLAIRE, AMERICA'S MOST WANTED TEENAGE ANGEL. This is pure love.

[cityfibers]

gah, her certainty and that repressed fear and no she's not crazy, her imaginary angel friend says sooooo.

I rewatched the Rapture before writing this, and Jimmy, after hearing Castiel, was just. Wow. CASTIEL IS REAL BECAUSE HE SAYS SO isn't exactly the best logic ever. :| But he sounded so certain, and I really, really wanted to explore just what Castiel would say/do to get his vessel to have that much belief in him.

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. :D

[gabby_silang]

OMGGGGGGG WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN. DO YOU KNOW. CAN YOU POSSIBLY KNOW HOW I'VE BEEN WAITING MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR EXACTLY THIS.

God god god god I don't even know where to begin. I love so much. I was reading this like :DDDD and throwing my hands in the air and generally being a giant flailing dork about it.

I love that you begin with the spectator pov, that gruesome circus that surrounds missing children and their families. It's a key difference-- when a husband/father/grown man disappears, the assumption is that he's walked out on his family of his own free will, when a child is gone, the assumption is that she was taken. In this case, both are simultaneously true. The vessel makes a choice, the vessel is taken.

OH HEY LOOK THING THAT IS SO AWESOME I CANNOT EVEN DEAL: Hello, Jimmy, says Claire’s reflection. Four faces stare at him, different angles in different mirrors, eyes glued to his. FOUR FAAAACES, FOUR FACESSSSS! :DDDDDDDDD

[cityfibers]

I just. Basically exploded into SHEER JOY when I read this comment

[destro]

This is so. Damn. Good. Seriously, all the little resonances you play with here, the need to feel special and the cost of it too. And the voices of everyone here, oh man, from frantic Jimmy to Claire, daydreaming her own life away. And Castiel's path, from surety and faith to disappointment and fear, this was so fantastic. And man, the gut-punch of this:

(You can do great things, he once told her.

This was what she had wanted.

Right?)

So fucking good.

[cityfibers]

Jimmy just sounded so eager and proud when he said yes--he believed everything Castiel said, from being special to being chosen by God, how amazing is that--and it pretty much ended up screwing him over. It's like this journey from having absolute faith and surety in yourself and the amazing destiny you think is meant for you to realizing it's a lie and you've failed, and it happened to Jimmy. Hell, it even happened to Castiel.

Thank you. ♥

[cityfibers]

So I was writing the first half, of Castiel appearing to Claire and kind of hanging around, and when I reread it, I was like ...MAN, HE IS SUCH A CREEPER, this presence always hanging around, maybe not there in a way Claire's conscious of, but still.

Also, funny story, but I've whiled away more than one church service thinking, man, this would be so much less boring if Castiel was here. :| As for the static thing, I LOVED seeing it on SPN, the electric whine, the popping lights, all the electronic fuckery that happens. Although angels can apparently use cell phones just fine?

Ngl, the last line kind of made me D: too.

That poem is absolutely lovely. *__*

[rodlox]

>Although angels can apparently use cell phones just fine?
maybe because of analog vs digital? or it takes an immense amount of self-control?

I'm just guessing.

[cityfibers]

Now I want fic of Sam and Castiel discussing the exact frequency that angels exist on and conversion rates to different measures of energy. It would make no sense and I'd read it foreverrrr.

[dossier]

Claire's journey, and how she might perceive becoming a vessel is fantastic. The last line is a killer, given 'Dark Side of The Moon'.

[cityfibers]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the last line. Dark Side of the Moon was just... extremely depressing.