FIC: Empty Spaces

[mariahlee]

Title: Empty Spaces
Genre: gen
Word Count: 4300
Warnings: some sad hell stuff.
Summary: Hell? Consistent. He knew what to expect. Now, topside, everything is different. The world he used to know forty years ago is almost completely unfamiliar. AKA, the adjustment period in season four that we never got.
Notes: For jaimeykay. Ali, I was going to write you

Comments

[borgmama1of5]

This gave me the chills! It's awesome in how it shows how seriously Dean has been mind-f***ed by Alistair. Truly made me hurt inside!

[mariahlee]

Thank you! That really means a lot! :)

[belatress]

DUDE. This is so amazing. What a horrifically sad (realistic) picture of what probably should have happened instead. Sam's bewilderment and then frustration was devastating, and Dean's blase attitude about it all. :( Well done, bb.

[belatress]

ALSO I WANT A SEQUEL

[jaimeykay]

THIS

[mariahlee]

THIS IS THE SEQUEL

[mad_server]

HOLY CRAP SO GOOOOOD

Amazing job with the culture shock of returning to his old life, and amaaazing job with his awareness and sensitivities, like he can tell how Sam is feeling and he wants to please him but there's so much he doesn't get, and and the Alastair voice, that other reality still being so much with him, and MAN his having known Alastair longer than he's known Sam. No wonder he doesn't want to betray his time in hell to Sam, no wonder his strongest loyalty is to Alastair. It's been his reality for SO LONG. His marvelling at how young he and Sam both are, augh my HEART. And the hope in it too, like his ultimately pledging allegiance to Sam and this world and shifting toward wanting to be there more than he wants to be back in familiar hell. Like. Just yes.

Ramble ramble. Very well done dude, and so much more credible than the way they handled this in the show. ♥

[mariahlee]

:D :D :D

Have you seen the latest ep? Because that one scene with the Dean and creepy dude was like. INSPIRING. I love the idea of Dean being sadly (ugh wrong word choice, I dunno) loyal to Alastair, like, he kind of realizes it's messed up but not really, because it's all he really remembers and it's SCARY to be taken from that. I was also really bummed out that we didn't get anything with Dean being surprised that nobody has aged, because I believe that he remembered hell all along (which makes the reaction so much more unrealistic ARGH) so this was pretty much idfic for me, haha. I feel like I had to be careful and not steal too much from another fic, though, because it's ~seeped into my brain.

Thank you for the rambles, I looooove them!

[caithream]

Perfect. This is exactly the sort of thing I was wishing from post 4.01. How can a man go to hell, come back, and still understand the basic day-to-day functions of living? And I love that this is from Dean's POV. Definitely makes it feel more uneasy. Great work!

[mariahlee]

I knowwww. I was super bummed we didn't get that, what an excellent character study that would have been. Thank you so much; I appreciate your comment! :D

[sw0rdy]

Really enjoyed this and massively second the comment about a sequel. :)

[mariahlee]

Hee, it is tempting! Thank you so much :)