Just Add Fire -- 1/1

[vanillafluffy]

Title: Just Add Fire 1/1
Authored by: vanillafluffy
Pairing: Gen
Rating/Work-safeness: PG
Approximate word count: 200 (Double drabble)
Disclaimer: Spoilers for All Hell Breaks Loose and In My Time of Dying. I own only the neurons and electrons I composed it with.
Summary: Bobby's observations after the events of All Hell Breaks Loose.



Just Add Fire

There was enough dry tinder in the old buildings and dead-fall trees to build a fine pyre for Sam's remains. Dean's face was a mask of suffering; I couldn't begin to imagine his inner turmoil. First John, then Sam, their deaths scarcely a year apart.

With our preparations concluded, he stood looking at his brother's face for the last time. Then he unfastened the talisman he wore for most of his life. I've never known where John acquired it, and Dean would never take it off long enough for me to get a good look. Some kind of ancient Persian, near as I could tell.

He placed it gently around Sam's neck, murmuring, "I was supposed to save you, Sammy, and I failed. I don't deserve protection." He leaned forward to kiss Sam's forehead, then consecrated the body with salt and stepped back. I handed him the gas can so he could anoint the bier.

Old, dry wood and gasoline. A spark would've been enough to ignite it. The torch shook in his hand. Small wonder, considering...

That talisman was ancient Persian, we found out. It invoked the healing power of the mystical phoenix. One resurrection; just add fire.




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Author's note: I watched AHBL at work, and I "knew" what was going to happen next before I even left the building to drive home. (Of course, whether I'm right or massively misguided remains to be seen....)

Comments

[embroiderama]

Wow, you're fast! This would be a lovely way for things to work out--and Bobby's POV! :)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Fast? Hee! Driving home took 45 minutes...so about an hour for 200 words.

They can NOT leave things that way. Kripke mentioned in an interview months ago that Dean's amulet was going to be significant, and somehow that fact regurgitated itself as I was staring at the closing credits in disbelief. Hence, this.

And yeah, I *heart* Bobby.

[erinrua.livejournal.com]

Just ... damn, it's gotta be something like this. Dean is beyond broken, now.

Dean is pissed. And there's nothing deadlier than a man with nothing left to lose. *whimpers*

Cudos for fastest fic in the west, LOL! It's only 30 minutes since the episode ended, here. *G*

~ Erin

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

there's nothing deadlier than a man with nothing left to lose

Absofuckinglutely.

I'm on Eastern Standard Time. SPN ended at 10 PM, I drove home from work (45 minutes), sat my ass down and said several unprintable things about Kripke as my computer booted up. And then I wrote this.

Thanks for the kind words. Let's hope I'm right! (Or at least close.)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

I don't watch the show, but this is beautiful, whether I know the characters or not. And your icon totally rocks.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

You're totally invited to snag my icon! I made it with Paint, from a shareware drawing of a screw from Wikipedia. Same with this one: homegrown.

Thanks for the kind words!

Monkey socks---hee!

[ultraviolet9a.livejournal.com]

Right now? I really love you. Your fic made my whimpering state somehow better. And Kripke'd better find a way to fix it too.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

In my perfect world, Kripke is glaring at his computer and muttering, "Damn that Vanillafluffy---how did she know what I was going to do?!"

*hugs* They'll fix it. If they know what's good for their ratings....

[ultraviolet9a.livejournal.com]

Ah, bless you, you made me smile. And yes. They'll fix it. They got to fix it.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the hell of it is, they probably won't---until September. It's gonna be a long, hot, angsty summer!

[ultraviolet9a.livejournal.com]

Surely it won't be worse than last year's cliffhanger...hmm...

[sixxsixxsixx23.livejournal.com]

Dude! That is so cool!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[xphoenixrising.livejournal.com]

*ponders the likelihood of this*

You pwn.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Dude! Awesome end.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I love this idea...that Sam is somehow resurrected.

*lols at your 'tag' name*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Come on, they can't kill Sam off permenantly. I refuse to believe it. (And considering how I'm carrying a torch for John, I think my Mutant Powers of Denial are equal to the task.)

Yup. Paradise Lost, Book IV, Line 918. From a speech by the Archangel Gabriel to Satan. The truth will out: I am a closet Milton slut.

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

Come on, they can't kill Sam off permenantly. I refuse to believe it.

Oh, I agree. It'd be like killing off HOUSE, yet trying to continue the show. This show works because of Sam and Dean, together...it CAN'T become the Dean show.

The only real question is HOW will Sam be saved?

(And considering how I'm carrying a torch for John, I think my Mutant Powers of Denial are equal to the task.

*lol* Tell me about it!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Wow!! Loved this!!

And it certainly explains in many ways how Dean has survived all this time!

*hugs*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Of course, it's completely NOT what happened...which still begs the question of what the deal is with the amulet.

Glad you enjoyed!