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SPN Fic: Rosary

May 23, 2012 00:34

Title: Rosary
Characters: Lisa, Dean, Ben
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG-13, for a dash of language and the warning below.
Word-count: 2559
Spoilers: Set in the missing year between S5 and S6; no real spoilers, but you'd need to have finished S5.
WARNING: Implied suicidal ideation.
Summary: It's not like she thought everything was normal again. She just wasn't ( Read more... )

dean, lisa, supernatural, gen, the human mind is a fragile thing, fanfic, missing year, sunlight, lisa pov, guns

Comments 32

borgmama1of5 May 23 2012, 04:49:55 UTC

Powerful. Lisa was a strong, secure woman which is why she could handle Dean's damaged soul.

prufrock_26 May 23 2012, 22:06:19 UTC

Amen. I didn't like Lisa much at first, but after the fifth season I warmed to her quite a bit. She's an interesting character, I think -- and her role in Dean's life is so important and so complicated; it's fun to explore.

honeylocusttree May 23 2012, 11:48:40 UTC

Ooo, I love the subtlety of this, how quiet it is. The way Dean's distress is palpable and silent, and how delicately Lisa holds his entire fate in the palm of her hand and still tries to meet him halfway. Very human, very lovely. She could destroy him with a word and ye, she tries not to. She wants to be the kind of person most of us can barely imagine being. Amazing.

(EDIT: Feel like I've been reading a lot of your fic lately and in order to cut out the middleman, am friending. Hope that's okay!)

prufrock_26 May 23 2012, 22:36:07 UTC

Oh, it's more than okay. I may or may not have been lurking through your fic list and absolutely adoring the gorgeousness of your writing. Particularly your beautiful, quiet, hurty, Perfect S4 AU. Those stories afforded me a very teary and enjoyable Sunday afternoon, indeed.

So glad you like this -- I hadn't even picked up on that idea of Lisa's power over Dean, but now that you point it out....yeah. It's a weird relationship, and really frustrating to write, because nothing can ever be easy about their situation. The whole way through, I was trying desperately not to force too much responsibility onto either party and wondering how the hell I was going to get them out of that agonizing confrontation without totally crushing one or the other. (But then there was pizza and a caterpillar hunt and everything was good again...:)

antrazi May 23 2012, 12:07:12 UTC

A very well written Lisa, understanding and careful, knowing that she has to tread the minefield of Dean very carefully

prufrock_26 May 23 2012, 22:37:07 UTC

Thanks! She turned out to be both a challenge and a joy to write.

embroiderama May 23 2012, 12:50:15 UTC

I love the way you wrote Lisa here, and I also really like that you mix some lightness in with the angst.

prufrock_26 May 23 2012, 22:39:37 UTC

The lightness was totally unplanned -- this was going to be full-on angst all the way through. And then it just seemed like pizza was required. And silly biology projects. I'm very much of the Angst-Hurts-Better-With-Schmoop-On-Top school. :)

downjune May 23 2012, 15:26:35 UTC

This is really great! I don't often seek out Dean and Lisa fic, and I don't know why, because I think their relationship is so interesting and has so much potential in that it's so normal and so very not at the same time. Thank you for sharing this!

prufrock_26 May 23 2012, 22:42:33 UTC

I'm not necessarily a huge Dean/Lisa fan myself, but I totally agree with you -- that tension between the Normal and the Very Not is so rewarding to work with. It's the idea at the core of the show, in some ways, but their relationship brings it into special focus, I think. Very glad this fic brought that out for you!