SPN: "Misericordia"

[tolakasa]

Category: Supernatural
Title: Misericordia
Word Count: 4300
Rating: PG-13 (language)

Summary: Post-finale. Three generations of Winchester madness stop here.

Note: Okay, I should have never said never about post-10.03 fic. Mea culpa. Fucking traitorous plotbunnies.

And before you get riled, this is me doing what I do: Taking something I noticed

Comments

[borgmama1of5]

Wow, what a twist to the Winchester story! I think it's a very valid alternative to all the 'happy family stories' circulating, and it works because there aren't any villains in this story. Bobby is an amazingly real character.

[roxymissrose]

Well, it was painful and I’m feeling a mix of sad and angry, so you definitely wrote an effective story.

What makes me angry is I don’t like seeing Sam like this. On the other hand, this is such a valid take for everything we know about the Winchester life. Sam had more real life horrors put on him than Dean or any of the characters and that stuff has to come out, especially without his brother as a cushion. I can see Sam faking healthy life and thinking he’s doing a good job because what does he really know about it? And Bobby making Sam think everything is fine out of fear. I’m not sure I’m willing to believe Sam disappeared his wife, but kids will come up with answers if you don’t give them the truth.

There’s a lot here to think about, and these are only my first impressions. I’m impressed, flavored with ‘how dare you’ and nodding along,’yeah, that could happen.’ Bit this is so well done and It’s a fascinating look into what might have been.

[candygramme]

There are physical consequences to being possessed by demons, up to and including the devil himself. There are consequences to being choked regularly and having your head bashed in repeatedly. Being thrown against a wall 150 times will have an effect on you. Using whiskey as an anaesthetic is possibly not going to help your liver either. Poor Sam, and then poor Bobby. I can see how this story would play out. I can cry for Sam and yet understand where his son is coming from. I'm sad that he was never able to build the relationship with his father that would have been positive for both of them. On the other hand, I'm glad that he's built his life so that he can cope and excel with those amazing Sam Winchester genes.

The bit that really hit me hard was this:

He looked up at the big picture over the fireplace, the one he really hated, Sam and three dead strangers looming over the place like they lived here, too. Sometimes, when he was younger, they'd seemed more welcome here than he did. Especially Uncle Dean.See, that photo was

[meus_venator]

You know the thing I found saddest out of this whole messed up situation? Bobby never called Sam Dad, not once. I'm not sure Sam had enough ties with traditional culture to value it as much a most Dad's would, but I'm sure it still hurt.

A super bleak, but compelling view of post 15.20 Sam and Bobby. It makes me wonder if Bobby had stood up for himself sooner, like Sam did with his dad, that things might have turned out better. It's sad to see Sam so rigid and inflexible, so obviously damaged. Maybe he thought as long as Bobby was safe, and a good hunter, that was all that mattered.

[supernutjapan]

"I can do this by myself