I dream of a circle

[x_strangeangels]

I dream of a circle

Word Count:  ~1700
Characters:  Dean, Sam, OFC (Gen)
Rating:  R (Adult themes)
Feedback: Absolutely. Concrit is always welcome.
Disclaimer:  The Winchester boys aren't mine but I'd make Dean wear his boots all of the time if they were.
Spoilers/Warnings:  None for the series. Non-con.
A/N: Written for the Women of

Comments

[elanurel]

*twirls you*

Although, in all fairness, Phantasmagoria wasn't exactly the classiest choice I could come up with - although the reference to taking up sorrow, given how much an incubus caused Tessa personally and how much the one the Winchesters were hunting could also cause, seemed like a nice refrain.

dream

[quirkies]

tessa is haunted and strong, well-armed and eating dean's cheese fries. have i mentioned that i like her.
the repeated line grows from ominous to powerful. perfect.

Re: dream

[elanurel]

Thank you so much!

Tessa is a character that we'll definitely see more of when I need to take a break from a longer project - she's my character for the occhallenge. She's the only hunter I have ever written, so I worked hard to give her reasonable skills commensurate with her age and experience. You've probably already figured out that she's the girl in So much for all the prayers you've learned.

I'm actually sneaking in snippets of a gen case file story where she and Dean meet for the first time.

So I'm glad that you like her!

[pheebs1]

Very nice take on the prompt, thanks so for writing it. I esp liked "when Lily’s husky voice is the rope she holds onto. ".

[elanurel]

Thanks, V! ;-P

I confess that I tried to use a more experimental style with this story, so I'm thrilled that you thought it was a good take on the prompts. I actually called it "My Weirdy McWeird" story when talking to folks about it. ;-P

[dotfic]

I really like how vivid this is, the way it slides between time periods. Tessa's an intriguing character, and I felt that she fit unobtrusively with Sam and Dean, co-existing in that 'verse (as if Sam and Dean are doing epic WInchester things and Tessa is...the exit that's an entrance somewhere else, a story running parallel). The repeated phrases about how a woman has to perform this ritual was effective.

[elanurel]

Thank you so much!

The one thing I have been trying to do with the challenges is focus on characters whose lives may intertwine in some way with Dean and Sam but don't necessarily impact what we know about the show. Tessa has a history with Dean in particular, so I was hoping to show that with detracting from her story or theirs. ;-P

[halfshellvenus]

Argh-- LJ ate my comments. I hate that.

I'm amazed at the titles you find in song lyrics-- most of the lyrics I've heard just aren't that evocative.

the tiny pricks that smolder when Lily’s knives dance silver in the night; when Lily’s husky voice is the rope she holds onto.
I also like that line very much-- the poetry, the meaning of it.

The boys almost intrude on the story for me, which is so much about Lily and Tessa, and how Tessa has to make herself go forward now that Lily's gone.

The intensity of the flashbacks was wonderful-- such a feeling of helplessness, brought on in part by having something so unbelievable (impossible) happening right in front of your eyes.

And I like the decision that you noted, to have a woman be required to bind the incubus. That makes sense of the two refrains woven through the story that bring it all together.

Very nicely done!

[elanurel]

Livejournal is the bane of our existence and yet we still remain... ;-P

I'm amazed at the titles you find in song lyrics

Never underestimate the power of a misspent youth, i.e., hours spent at the college radio station. I do tend to gravitate towards the more poetic side of the musical spectrum when I'm writing.

The boys almost intrude on the story for me, which is so much about Lily and Tessa, and how Tessa has to make herself go forward now that Lily's gone.

I wasn't sure how to frame the story - and it would probably make more sense for Dean to contact her if I had finished the story of how they met before I posted this - but I figured I'd try to see how it worked if they were there. I'm not sure they needed to be in retrospect; any hunter in that situation would have worked. But knowing the history of Tessa and Dean and wanting to write something with them both in it, I tried to do it in a natural way.

And the story of how they met is also Gen. Pre-series in New Orleans. With a really scary big bad, IMHO. ;-P

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