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"Led Zeppelin Sucks" - Sam Wesson, Dean Smith - PG
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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.
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.
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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
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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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Dean is instinct and muscle memory, Dean is constant, Dean Dean Dean
YES, GUH <3333
BAEZ AND DYLAN AHAHAHAHA
they really would do McCartney and Lennon a la The Real Ghostbusters, wouldn't they XD
I really really like that!! Agents Aquinas and Augustine! :D
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Yes! Maybe the names of religious figures in general. AGENTS JACOB AND ESAU OH SHIT. lol that would be too obvious. Agents Elijah and Jude. I'm thinking I want their real last names to be a St. name, maybe. Like Anna St. John. Anna St. Jude? St. Ange is an option but that's too easy. St. James, St. Claire, St. Amant. *ponderssss*
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someday I just want to write the epic adventures of Sam and Dean in bible land - Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, David and Jonathan, Mary and Martha, Ruth and Naomi. Um, other pairs I cannot think of. And Christ's three temptations in the desert of COURSE.
I like the sound of Anna Saint John. or James. I like the J sound basically :))
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I was leaning to St. James or St. John too! I kind of like the sound of St. James more, but I've been googling to see how one would pluralize this and I am not sure. The St. Jameses, the St. James', the St. James?
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OFFTOPIC BUT
See, you just have to come visit! the city might explode with critical awesome mass but oh well :D
(Also I do recall that about X2. HE WAS MY FAVE. I picked up a novelization and fell even more in love with him too, lol.)
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HAVE YA'LL MET. DOES SHE KNOW WYRM.
omg I read the novelization too! The one by Chris Claremont? It totally Kripked one of my ficlets, yo. Pyro was my fave too! I wrote so much fic about him. The Bobby/John, the Rogue/John subtext, oh yeeaaaahhhhh. oh high school!
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YES SHE DOES KNOW WYRM OMG XD They live in the same house in the same dorm. SMALL WORLD. I have not met her yet though, this is silly, mayhap we shall all meet for coffee someday and blither about hopes and dreams for Season 6.
coooool! you can come visit me in my new empty apartment then! I would say you could come stay but I doubt it will be remotely furnished because everyone else is moving in in September, poo on them.
I don't remember! I only picked it up at the library briefly and I think skimmed all the parts about the kids and skipped the parts about the grownups because they were boring. I was in it for the subtext! XD though, win for subtext, there's a famous Smallville book in the spinoff YA novella series called City, reputed to be the gayest of the gay (which was pretty gay if you know anything about Clark/Lex hoyay as it existed in the show.) OH FANDOM NOSTALGIA <3
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I think we're gonna try to stay at a hostel near Lincoln Park (like the band). You can come watch the Neofuturist comedy show with us. I HEAR THERE IS A ZOO SOMEWHERE IN CHICAGO? Perhaps we can watch some JAAZZZ? PERHAPS WE CAN DO 'EXQUISITE CORPSE' FIC-WRITIIIIIING. Perhaps I can stop being creepily overexcited haha. (but omg! eeee)
Ah, I was never into Smallville but I was made known of how gay it was. The Claremont X-Men book was surprisingly good for a novelization. I picked up the Spiderman novelization that summer too, and that one was hilariously terrible terrible oh my.
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Ooh, Lincoln Park, hip! I would love to go see the comedy show with you! YES THERE IS A ZOO it is a free one, it is the lincoln park zoo! there's the brookfield one too which is way nicer but like an hour out on the train and costs money, pshh. I AM SAYING YES TO ALL THESE ACTIVITIES sklfsdkd I am creepily overexcited too, I'm just gonna be like shoving you guys at Chicago things, and they're gonna be kinda dumb things too like the old library building that is now a "cultural center" with a weird art gallery, and Board of Trade building with the Rookery, and the abandoned postoffice building that the freeway goes through/under, the role of landfill in Chicagoland - etc etc. Ooh, I do know where there's jazz in my neighborhood, though I've never been elsewhere.
I do remember the X2 novelization being pretty darn good, much much better than those smallville books. Once upon a time I was totally into Star Wars Ep III - that was a fun novelization, I'll tell you. It just seeped with joy, I loved it so much.
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MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A PICNIC.
Shit, man, SPN should hire us to write novelizations, geeeeeez. Haha WE PROMISE TO KEEP THE SUBTEXT TO A MINIMUM. Show sets the subtext floor pretty high anyway. XD
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I remembered the other day that my friend totally did a ghost tour of campus last halloween. If you came to campus I would totally do as much of it as I could, or ask him about it because it was awesome.
They should! They have novelizations already. I want to read reviews/recs/whatever of them. because you KNOW at least one of them was written by a shipper, it's GOT to be. OH SHOW I LOVE YOUR HIGH SUBTEXT FLOOR XD
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I have PDFs of some of the novelizations but I haven't gotten around to reading them yet. I am so curious, but apparently not curious enough hahaha. I also have a PDF of John's journal?!? And like an encyclopedia of monsters?!? Kind of like the SuperWiki.
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!! awesoooome. I would totally love for the novelizations to be my useless insipid reading for the summer. it's way better than last summer's, which was twilight.
WAIT PDF OF JOHN'S JOURNAL OMG
OMG
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MONSTERS
ADLFKFDS
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YOU = BESTESTEST