Supernatural Fic: Swan Song

[xaara]

Title: Swan Song
Author: xaara
Rating: PG, gen
Timeline: Pre-series
Characters: Dean, Sam
Summary: The road just before Christmas, just before Stanford. Just before.

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

i love the quiet contemplativeness of dean driving, sam and dad both asleep, dean thinking about sam's college application essays. Who do you look up to and Who was your childhood hero. and then sam buys him a christmas present - a dreamcatcher! i love it ^_^ - and dean can't really tell him thank you, and really can't tell him that he knows. i hope you get in. it's a little fraught and a little calm and i just really like it.

[xaara]

Oh, silly boys and not being able to say anything because they are all about teh repression.

Side Note: I don't know what brought about the sudden urge to write Christmas!fic in the middle of the summer, but I was just thinking about how the show's timeline clearly passed the holidays without giving them even a passing nod, which is just kind of depressing. (Also passed Dean's birthday without any mention. Which was kind of sad as well. I mean, come on, even Buffy got an annual birthday party.)

But I veer from the subject.

Thanks. :)

[tabaqui]

Ah, neat. I like this cocooned feeling of the car, all quiet, bad weather outside but warm and safe within... Nice little moment.

[xaara]

Thank you--I love that feeling, that sense that you're the only living things for miles, but that it's somehow okay.

[quellefromage]

Oh...lovely. The descriptions of Dean driving, his thoughts, perfect. And Sammy, getting Dean a present, cause it's Christmas, and then it's a dreamcatcher...sigh of happiness. Damn, I love your stories.

[xaara]

Thanks. :) I loved writing this one--I'm usually all about the long and plotty, but it was fun to write short and...non-plotty for a change.

[vaznetti]

This is really lovely -- quiet, but a sort of deep look at their relationship, and how much they can say by not really saying anything at all. Thanks.

[xaara]

Yes, they are truly the masters of the Silent Conversation (TM). Thanks for reading and commenting. :)

[missyjack]

Lovely quiet sadness here - just knowing what they are about to lose. Love the shoutout to the dreamcatcher. great work.

[xaara]

Hee, the dreamcatcher. I'd like to say that seeing that made me fall in love with the show, but I was already head over heels at that point. It made me fall more in love with the show.

Thank you.