I've Got My Hands Up So Take Your Aim

Title: After All It Was You and Me
Words: 1,840
Rating/Warning: R/language
Summary: Sam's falling, when he's not tortured, until a hand reaches out.
NotesL 5.22 coda, so all those spoilers pertain to this. I wrote this soon after the one or two Dean-centric codas, back in May, then thought I lost it. Finally! I think it kind of works as a companion to 6.01 in a way, almost explaining bits of that ep? IDK. You tell me. And HUGE thanks to standing_fic for reading through this and giving me bits to work through <333

( There was falling. )

1. There are new Post Secret fics over here. Just look at the master list in the post and the last four or five are the new ones :-D

2. I was bored yesterday and today and wrote a few timestamps. There's a trainfic, soccerfic: bedtime routines, and ad ex/security guard: first Valentine's Day!. I still owe one more Nathan fic sometime today.

3. m2_homegoods has some great fics up from the exchange, in case you're up for some Mike/Misha/

4. ( OMG SHOW! )

But This is Where We Shine by queenklu

Queenie has a great voice for the narration and in covering what the boys are thinking in addition to what they're saying. They're always fun and playful and it's never too angsty, but you can feel the underlying tension here. Most of all, it's playful Christmas fun! Bundling up for massive snows! Snow fights! Caroling (yes! caroling!)! And best of all, my FAVORITE JENSEN EVER ... Oblivious, stupidly-in-denial, cranky-with-Jared Jensen. I love this Jensen so much I'll forgive her for stealing caroling off my 12 Days of Christmas idea list. (okay, fine so she told me I should do it then she took it back when I wasn't sold on it. She does it ten times better than I would have, so be thankful it turned out this way)

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In other news, I convinced my mother to watch A Very Supernatural Christmas. It didn't dawn on me until minutes before I hit play that she miiiiiight not appreciate the fingernail pulling and the wrench in the mouth. And of course she didn't, but she laughed in all the appropriate parts and then asked about gag reels. So we watched them. All four. Again. We did this a few months ago, so either my mother really loves the gag reels or she has the memory of a fish (both are quite possible).

I would, however, like to draw your attention to the scene where the boys finally talk about why Sam doesn't want Christmas and Dean does. I freaking love how quick the responses are, when they both get the red, teary eyes. But I think my new favorite moment is when Dean looks over for a second, then looks forward and asks in a forcibly flat (but aching) voice "Why?" And then he continues to look forward but you can see his eyes coursing the room and getting wet and I just want to reach out and hug Dean, you have no idea.

Also? The more I see Colin being Sam, the more I love the kid. There are little moments with his face or his pacing of words or even just the way he watches Dean that I'm like 'yes, this is little Sam, I believe it is.' I'm still not sold on Ridge as Dean, entirely, but it's growing on me. Especially all the stalling and the way he presses his lips together and then his tongue presses out just a tiny bit, the way Dean has before. Maybe it's a testament to how well Jensen does Dean that I can't buy either Brock or Ridge as his younger version? I don't know.

This is the second time in a week that I've watched this episode, and I'm pretty sure I'll watch it again before Christmas. Ohhhh boys.