(FIC) Spotting The Ocean

[ginzai]

Fic: Spotting The Ocean
Author: ginzai
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Word Count: ~500
Summary: Dean takes a moment for himself just before the end begins.
Notes: Comment fic written for traciaknows who is, as always, awesome incarnate. Thanks also to arliss for pointing out a canon fact back when it was first posted! Takes place post 5x21, but

Comments

[seesmooshrun]

Very nice. I loved the last line! Thanks.

[ginzai]

Thank you! I'm usually pretty crappy with endings, but this one I liked. And I'm glad you liked it as well!

[sistabro]

Beautiful! Loved the last line.

[ginzai]

Aw, thanks! Like I told seesmooshrun, I'm usually pretty bad with ending lines, but this one I was pretty pleased with. So I'm really happy it worked for other people, too!

That's a lovely icon, btw. Such a great smile!

[sistabro]

Thanks, I am fond if it. It is like a little instant pick me up every time I see it.

[tfwftw]

I too love that last line, and am amazed that this was written before Dark Side of the Moon.

But I also love that little callback to the djinn:
"Once in a dream he'd found his ideal woman. She'd been a nurse, practical and beautiful, and everything he'd ever secretly hoped for and nothing he'd ever expected to get."

It's such a great expression of that sad yearning Dean has, so much quieter than Sam's aggressive desire to be Normal. Plus, I always thought that she was who Dean was with when he could be with anyone was so interesting, and I rarely see it touched on.

[ginzai]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I wrote this way back in January as a commentfic for a request my sister made on a different story I'd written back then. I'm just glad that it (mostly) hasn't been Jossed to Hell and back. :)

The nurse in Dean's dream has intrigued me for a while. I love that his 'ideal woman' was someone smart, capable, and with a career of her own. That she's a nurse just made it better, because nurses are heroes in their own regard since they save so many lives (even if they typically also don't hunt things to go with that).

Dean's flirtation with normalacy isn't usually given the same attention of Sam's more determined pursuit, but there are enough references to it that I wish it would be touched on more often as well. I hope he someday gets the chance to experience it again.

[tfwftw]

I dunno, I think Dean's desire for a normal life is very present in the show - to my mind, Sam has this vague desire to Be Normal (I'll be a lawyer! Normal people are lawyers!) and he went after that, while Dean - well, Dean knows exactly what he wants, he just doesn't think he's ever, ever going to get it. That bit in the djinn episode where he realises she's a nurse and says that that's so "...respectable" is funny, but it also breaks my heart a little, because you can tell he doesn't think he deserves that, and doesn't understand what someone like that is doing with him.

...And now I've depressed myself, and probably you. Er. Whoops?