"You Only Hurt the One You Love" Meme!

[ohsam_mod]

Alright, everyone, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day! You know what this means? It’s the perfect opportunity to show our love for our favorite Winchester by doing what we do best - hurting him, maiming him, making him sick, putting him through emotional torture. Y’know, the usual.

Welcome to ohsam’s “You Only Hurt the One You Love” meme!

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Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 1/2)

[indiachick]

You cast the net into the black and wait.

It haloes when it hits the water, cold white light coruscating along the tinsel spreads of rope, and luminescent water splashes against your palms. You think of clowns and glitter, and how your heart beat then, and wonder if that is a measurable fear against the fear of this, the fear of now. You don’t dare look at the sky-flat and depthless and full of bright, cold, dark-future predicting stars. You keep your eyes on the sea-flat and depthless, and full of bright, cold life.

Your feet are bare against the bottom of the boat, and so, so cold. When you look down at them through the glistering water they appear strange, impersonal, a lattice of flesh and space for the water to seep through. The water sparkles everywhere-your hands, your nails, your fingers all twinkle. She laughs at you from the captain’s cabin and revs the motor warningly.

Haul it in, she says. What are you waiting for?Your fingers drag wet against the net, freezing, tangled and strained by the haul of the waves. You pull

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[indiachick]

The unreal shore shines weak in the light of an unreal sun. You weave your way among other strangers looking for boats and lovers, feet bare on crusty sand, watching the black waves come in. There is no horizon; only the luminescent darkness of the Empty, stretching as far as the eye can see and then upward, curving, the sky-dome churning with waves. The boats are long and slim and bright, painted pagan colors for the sake of superstition. The harbor rattles and groans under the assault of the sea, an enormous sound

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[quickreaver]

OH MY GOD. This is so beautifully sad! With bonus Billie.

GORGEOUS.

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[madebyme_x]

So perfectly sad, tragic and Winchester! I love all your rich imagery, with the seas of souls and Sam trying to find just one precious one. Surprise Billie was heart breaking too, given the premise of the fic and Empty sea.

Thank you for sharing, this was hauntingly beautiful. Take care, :)

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[crowroad3]

When I saw you'd filled my prompt I got this jolt of writerly joy, because I know you can take a word, a phrase, an image, an idea... and sail far, far out with it, into fantastic seascapes, mindscapes, soulscapes still populated by Winchesters, or the souls thereof. And this, oh this. Sam Winchester purse-seining for souls in the Empty, sleeping sorrowfully in the sand, the voice of Billie giving him Dream and Delirium; boat-asphodels and steep seas, glowing souls of lost daughters; all the lost and the one he can't find (that moment of despair when the soul whispers up out of the underclass, from No-Tell to charity auction.) Sam's hope and sorrow, his net-mending and cold comfort, his promise to look

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[lauehime]

This is beautifully heartbreaking..!

RE: Filled: Empty (spoilers for season 11; gen, 2/2)

[amberdreams]

You and your words, you and your words. You suck me in with all the sad-beautiful descriptions then rip my heart out at the end. Absurd, indeed.