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caranfindel ([personal profile] caranfindel) wrote2016-10-29 08:41 am

Single sentence fic: 12.03 coda

This is wildly AU but it got stuck in my head and wouldn't go away. Spoilery for 12.03.



She comes back and she tries, no one can accuse her of not trying, but it's not enough, it's never enough, these two grown men are not the babies she left behind, are broken in ways she cannot mend, and she herself is broken, ripped in two, half of her feeling she must stay here, she owes it to them, and the other half desperately straining toward her Sammy, her Dean, her John, and if she examines her own heart closely enough she might say the more and more dangerous hunts are almost deliberate, because when it finally happens, when she's clawed open and bleeding out, she's mostly just relieved it's over, because this isn't her life and she can't bear to live it any more, so when Sam finds her and starts the familiar litany of it's okay, we'll get help, you'll be okay, she grasps his hand weakly and says please, no and he understands, she watches some dark memory flash across his face and he understands, and he wraps his arms around her and kisses her forehead and says I know, it's okay, I love you and it's okay, and her last thought is someone raised you well and I'm sorry it wasn't me, but she has other boys who she does get to raise, and they're waiting for her.
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[personal profile] fanspired 2016-10-29 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so poignant. And so Sam ♥

You know, it's occurred to me that show's vision of Heaven isn't a lot different from the Djinn induced hallucination in "What is and what should never be".

[identity profile] caranfindel.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. And now that Mary knows the John, Sam, and Dean she had in heaven aren't the real ones, I wonder how that will affect her when she gets back.

[identity profile] z-publicizes.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I could see this happening. Mary torn between the needs of others, not seeing any other way out. Sam understanding and accepting, which is both sweet and so fucked up.

[identity profile] caranfindel.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet and fucked up, that's Sam!

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[identity profile] gingersnap1224.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
This is exactly what should happen.

[identity profile] caranfindel.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're as messed up as I am? :)

[identity profile] elwarre.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
oh my God why did you do that to me

I can absolutely see it going down this way (maybe not in the show, but if the story was allowed to play out naturally, you know?), and aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

these poor, poor fucked up people

[identity profile] caranfindel.livejournal.com 2016-10-29 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I'm a bad, bad person. Sorry.

[identity profile] frankie98.livejournal.com 2016-10-30 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ow. And Yep.

[identity profile] cuddyclothes.livejournal.com 2016-10-31 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
I just watched the episode this afternoon--excellent coda!

One thing that upset me when Mary left is that she talks to the boys, then hugs Sam and says "I love you," while Dean's standing there looking more hurt than I would have thought possible. She says, "I love you both" and leaves without hugging him. Damn!

[identity profile] caranfindel.livejournal.com 2016-10-31 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but she did try, remember? She came toward him and he took a step back and turned away, so she went to Sam.

[identity profile] madebyme-x.livejournal.com 2016-10-31 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh the perfect pain!!! Of course Sam will understand, but she wouldn't know why, and I can completely understand her struggling to deal with her babies and the grown men in front of her *Sniff sniff* (We know Sam would her her the peace she wants, but I wonder if Dean could let this happen?)

[identity profile] borgmama1of5.livejournal.com 2017-10-14 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
This is devastating...