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Las ([personal profile] whynot) wrote2010-05-01 10:09 pm

"Led Zeppelin Sucks" - Sam Wesson, Dean Smith - PG

Written for the first lines meme for [livejournal.com profile] serialkarma.


Led Zeppelin Sucks
Supernatural. Sam Wesson, Dean Smith. Spoilers for 4x17. PG.
The AU of the AU where Smith & Wesson actually do take to the road and go demon-hunting. 494 words.


"Led Zeppelin sucks," says Dean.

"So change the station," Sam says, hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. And Dean does, going through talk shows and hip-hop and country ballads and the newest emo before settling on Don McLean singing "Starry, Starry Night", of all things. Dean Smith isn't his boss anymore, so Sam can freely tell him how much his taste in music is like what Sam finds on the bottom of his shoe.

Dean reponds, "Hey, I bet you knew all the words to American Pie once."

Sam says, quite truthfully, "No."

The bickering's just a lot of noise and static as they cruise up the I-95. They're just trying not to think about the werewolf they're gonna gank up in Keene. They've never ganked a werewolf before. They've been sticking to ghosts so far, the sad and easy spooks that don't know enough to leave the world they're not a part of anymore, dispelled easily with salt, fuel, and fire. Dean had said, "Sure, gotta crawl before you can walk, but we gotta walk sometime, Sammy. Let's kick this werewolf's ass."

He doesn't even mind it anymore when Dean calls him Sammy.

There are guns in the trunk. There is a rosary in his pocket. He is learning Latin; it's surprisingly easy. Sometimes when his mom calls, Sam doesn't even pick up because he's tired of repeating the same excuses, but Dean, he picks up his phone every time. "It's my dad/mom/sister," he'd say, and then he'd excuse himself, and when he comes back, he pretends like there's nothing wrong, grinning like a marionette.

Yeah, things have changed, and it's not just 'cos he's a ghostbuster now. It doesn't even feel like change, not really -- more like his vision clearing. Sam has never been to the east coast in his life, but he looks out at the landscape now and he thinks he recognizes this sky, this stretch of road.

"I'm going to have to veto this," Sam says, reaching for the radio.

"Come on, man," Dean says, "this is my favorite part."

"Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole."

Dean says, "What?"

"Huh?"

Their eyes meet in the rearview mirror, and just as quickly they look away. Something twists in Sam's chest. There's this thing. There's this thing that keeps on fluttering just beyond Sam's reach, and he thinks he almost recognizes it some days. Sometimes when Sam says Dean's name, he feels like he's not really talking to Dean. It's like Sam knows the feel of the name in his mouth better than the person in front him, the one the name belongs to.

Sam stops on a station playing AC/DC's "Back in Black" and turns up the volume, and Dean rolls his eyes.

"News flash, Sammy," he says. "The eighties died twenty years ago."

"You'll learn to love it, jerk," Sam says.

"Bitch."

And just for that, Sam turns the volume up some more.

[identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
I have so much love for this! More? God, I'd love to have them meet their AU families :D

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I'm thinking of writing a different longer fic with this premise, so yeah there might be more. ;)

[identity profile] zempasuchil.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
DID I MENTION HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS

I read it before but I don't remember if I commented? ANYWAY. in light of recent conversations I suddenly love this even more! The switched music tastes <333 and SAM delivering that shotgun-shuts-his-cakehole line! he is def. the more badass of Smith and Wesson, by merit of not being some bourgeois businessdude in this line of work. Also I think I just have a THING for AUs where they have a secret suspicion or mysterious inclination to be ~*something more*~ than friends.

AND the whole name thing! names being righter than the people! SAMMY. yessss. You know they make more jokes about them being Smith and Wesson than anyone makes in canon about Winchester. I mean, that's more than just an interesting last name, that's fate angel engineering.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
<333! thanks bb! The Dean&Sam switcheroos, right, I think how that works is that even in this alternate life, Sam is (not)remembering Dean so much that it is bleeding into Wesson. Dean is instinct and muscle memory, Dean is constant, Dean Dean Dean, and Wesson ends up kinda channeling him... if that makes any sense.

lol omg so true about the Smith & Wesson jokes. People would never take them seriously! Sam and Dean would fight over aliases because Sam absolutely does not want to be Baez and Dylan!

In the hunters!angels AU, Anna and Cas's aliases are the names of saints.

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[identity profile] not-sally.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
role reversal FTW!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed! My theory is that Wesson is ending up channeling the buried memories of Dean Winchester into Dean behavior here, because Dean is just in Sam that deep. that's what she said
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[identity profile] tieleen.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
A Smith and Wesson AU! I hope you come back to it some day. I like the there-not-there fact of their real selves all through this.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I do have plans for a longer Smith & Wesson AU in the future, exploring the there-not-there. Perhaps sometime later this summer, when my brain is not melted from thesis. ;)

[identity profile] roque-clasique.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Keene NH? EAST COAST LOVE.

Also Smith&Wesson love!

And for you: &hearts

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hell ya. CAN WE GET A WAT WAT FOR PUMPKINFEST.

Smith & Wesson are AU love! Who was giving Sam the talking-to at the end of 4x17 while Zach was chewing Dean out? Was it Cas? Was Zach going in turns?

[identity profile] amonitrate.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
omg i love it. Especially the "starry starry night" reference.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-14 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha I loooooved that song. ;)
Thanks!

[identity profile] labseraph.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome, man. Perfect premise for an AU that is not an AU. There will be moar, y/y?

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-15 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I think there might be more. I have plans to throw in Sam/Dean and Anna and a longer word count, if I do pick up this premise again.

[identity profile] lexhibition.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooohh god the differences are more stark against what's exactly the same. I love this and there needs to be more. With angels. And the way it's never as awkward as it should be to share a motel room with a man you barely know.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-15 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
YES. I sorta have concrete plans for more! It will include Anna! It will also probably include Smith/Wesson. Is Smith/Wesson still Wincest?

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[identity profile] polyonymous.livejournal.com 2010-05-15 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like Sam knows the feel of the name in his mouth better than the person in front him, the one the name belongs to.

THIS. Oh, I love it. I'd read so much more of it!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I do have some plans of writing the AU where they're already a year into hunting on the road, guest-starring Anna. With luck, I will soon have the time and attention span to do this!

[identity profile] gabby-silang.livejournal.com 2010-05-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
omgggg how did i MISS THIS I AM A DUMBASS. god god the idea of their FAKE FAMILIES nodding along the phone. ARE THEY ALL ZACHARIAH??

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
THEY MUST BE, RIGHT? Unless he recruited angel lackeys to play the roles. "Cas, you can be Dean's sister 'cos I know you like him," leading to some sordid Smithcest. To Dean saying stuff all casual like, "Hey, I got a free weekend after the Boston conference. You wanna come up?" And now Dean dreads phone calls from his sister the most. ("Must I?" Castiel says, grimacing at Zach who shoves the phone into his hand.)

The angel who plays Sam's IT friend walks off-stage wiping the blood off his vessel and is like, "Ugh, next time get some other shmuck to die the messy death."

Just another day at the office.

[identity profile] ficwriter1966.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love it! I haven't seen many Smith & Wesson fics, so this is a terrific find for the end of the weekend. Thanks for sharing. :)

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! And hey, there are oodles of Smith & Wesson fics over at [livejournal.com profile] smithwesson_spn. ;)

[identity profile] just-ruth.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
I can't help but laugh at this - and Zachariah started it! I keep seeing Dean in those suspenders.

Nice job, I so needed this laugh right now.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, glad to spread the sunshine. ;)

[identity profile] nightowl81.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow! That was SO awesome! ♥

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] openmoments.livejournal.com 2010-05-17 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! Brilliant. Love this. Especially the switch on how Dean doesn't like eighties music. And how Sam feels something that he can't quite name, perfect. :)

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-19 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! Haha, I bet Dean Smith is still a jerk about the non-eighties music that he loves. ;)

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Great little tidbit!

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Thanks!
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[personal profile] vikingprincess 2010-05-17 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
ha, the musical role reversal is so cute!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-19 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I bet Dean Smith is still a jerk about the non-rock music that he likes. ;)

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[identity profile] pat-san.livejournal.com 2010-05-18 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh boy, funny and cute and oh so Winchester, even without their usual last name, lol.
I'm looking forward for more if you don't mind :P

Very well done ^__^

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-19 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm contemplating writing more 4x17 fic in the future, so maybe! It's a fun universe to play in. Almost as fun as 5x04 XD

Thank you!

[identity profile] casiedearest.livejournal.com 2010-05-20 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
I don't even want to admit to the ridiculous noise you caused me to make. I love this SO much! Saving to mems.

I'm not sure what I love MORE: The things that are the same (as compared to the Winchesters) or the things that are different. It's all so much fun.

I love Dean calling him Sammy.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-05-24 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
:D Thanks! Sandoverse is definitely fun to play around in.

[identity profile] mortar.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhh this tugs my heart strings and I want more. Pleaseee let there be more /crosses fingers

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-07-15 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Writing more in 4x17verse is def on my list of things to write! Then again my list of things to write is miles long. So we'll see?

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[identity profile] tigerist.livejournal.com 2010-09-09 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
oh my. loved it. it's simply perfect, and with their roles reversed... *insert insane keyboard mash here*
more,please?

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2010-09-09 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I have been meaning to write more 4x17 fic for some time now, but I just haven't quite found the right inspiration perhaps.