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slashthedrabble challenge #61 - Cards
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darkhavensAuthor: darkhavens
Title: Choices 1/1
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Words: 500
Spoilers: Character name spoiler for Ep 1x09 'Home'
Feedback/Concrit: darkhavens @ slashverse.com
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made
Warnings/Squicks: Budding Wincest
Summary: Sam has a choice to make
Notes: Written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
slashthedrabble challenge #61 - Cards
Choices
The motorcycle courier arriving at the door of their motel room, less than an hour after they'd chosen the place at random, was unexpected, but discovering the man had been entrusted with a parcel by Missouri somehow explained the inexplicable.
"How did she…?"
Dean rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Dude, think about what you're saying. Now, open it already and see what she sent us."
"Us?"
Sam dropped onto Dean's bed and slid a hand under the pillow, fingers carefully searching out the razor-sharp hunting knife.
"It's addressed to me, Dean."
Supremely aware of his brother leaning over his shoulder, hot breath gusting across the nape of his neck, Sam sliced away the tape, lifted the lid and blinked.
"Tarot cards?"
Dean's phone rang, and Sam's eyes fluttered shut as Dean leaned across him, chest plastered along Sam's back, to snatch the offending article off the bedside table.
"Hello?"
Dean stayed pressed against Sam, so that Sam could hear Missouri's voice.
"Hey, Sweetcheeks, put your brother on the line, and don't be messing with anything in that box unless I tell you to."
Pouting, Dean slapped the tiny phone into Sam's open hand and settled in close to 'overhear'.
"Strictly speaking, Sugar, you're not supposed to read for yourself, so you're gonna pick a card and I'll read it for you, okay?"
Sam stared at the battered deck of cards in the bottom of the box and said nothing.
"Sammy? Sweetheart, do what Missouri tells you, hon. Open the pack, shuffle, and pick one. I'll do the rest."
Hardly noticing that Dean had taken the phone from his suddenly unsteady fingers, Sam slid the cards from their frayed cardboard box and shuffled them, the laminated squares feeling slick and somehow alive in his hands.
"Cut them, Sugar, and tell me what you see."
Sam twitched at the sound of Missouri's voice, only then realising that Dean was holding the phone to his ear with one hand while the other was resting on his shoulder. Too close!
He watched, nerveless, as his hands cut the deck, turning up the chosen card.
Missouri sighed in his ear before he had a chance to say a word.
"I thought that might be it." The words were muffled, a thought mistakenly voiced aloud. "You have a choice to make, Sam, a big one. You have to choose between the sacred and the profane. Life or death, him or her, forward or back. It's down to you, Sam. It's time to choose."
Sam stared at the card in his hand, eyes tracing the entwined limbs of the very naked, very male Lovers. The rest of the deck slid from numb fingers as Sam finally saw. And chose.
A turn of his head brought his lips into contact with Dean's. A shared, shuddering breath hung for a second between them before they both groaned and pressed in closer.
Missouri hung up before Dean's cell phone hit the floor. Her part in this was done now.
Title: Choices 1/1
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Words: 500
Spoilers: Character name spoiler for Ep 1x09 'Home'
Feedback/Concrit: darkhavens @ slashverse.com
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made
Warnings/Squicks: Budding Wincest
Summary: Sam has a choice to make
Notes: Written for
slashthedrabble challenge #61 - CardsChoices
The motorcycle courier arriving at the door of their motel room, less than an hour after they'd chosen the place at random, was unexpected, but discovering the man had been entrusted with a parcel by Missouri somehow explained the inexplicable.
"How did she…?"
Dean rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Dude, think about what you're saying. Now, open it already and see what she sent us."
"Us?"
Sam dropped onto Dean's bed and slid a hand under the pillow, fingers carefully searching out the razor-sharp hunting knife.
"It's addressed to me, Dean."
Supremely aware of his brother leaning over his shoulder, hot breath gusting across the nape of his neck, Sam sliced away the tape, lifted the lid and blinked.
"Tarot cards?"
Dean's phone rang, and Sam's eyes fluttered shut as Dean leaned across him, chest plastered along Sam's back, to snatch the offending article off the bedside table.
"Hello?"
Dean stayed pressed against Sam, so that Sam could hear Missouri's voice.
"Hey, Sweetcheeks, put your brother on the line, and don't be messing with anything in that box unless I tell you to."
Pouting, Dean slapped the tiny phone into Sam's open hand and settled in close to 'overhear'.
"Strictly speaking, Sugar, you're not supposed to read for yourself, so you're gonna pick a card and I'll read it for you, okay?"
Sam stared at the battered deck of cards in the bottom of the box and said nothing.
"Sammy? Sweetheart, do what Missouri tells you, hon. Open the pack, shuffle, and pick one. I'll do the rest."
Hardly noticing that Dean had taken the phone from his suddenly unsteady fingers, Sam slid the cards from their frayed cardboard box and shuffled them, the laminated squares feeling slick and somehow alive in his hands.
"Cut them, Sugar, and tell me what you see."
Sam twitched at the sound of Missouri's voice, only then realising that Dean was holding the phone to his ear with one hand while the other was resting on his shoulder. Too close!
He watched, nerveless, as his hands cut the deck, turning up the chosen card.
Missouri sighed in his ear before he had a chance to say a word.
"I thought that might be it." The words were muffled, a thought mistakenly voiced aloud. "You have a choice to make, Sam, a big one. You have to choose between the sacred and the profane. Life or death, him or her, forward or back. It's down to you, Sam. It's time to choose."
Sam stared at the card in his hand, eyes tracing the entwined limbs of the very naked, very male Lovers. The rest of the deck slid from numb fingers as Sam finally saw. And chose.
A turn of his head brought his lips into contact with Dean's. A shared, shuddering breath hung for a second between them before they both groaned and pressed in closer.
Missouri hung up before Dean's cell phone hit the floor. Her part in this was done now.
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on 2006-01-29 03:30 am (UTC)This was quite interesting. I would have preferred a little more background, to be honest, but this was still enjoyable.
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on 2006-01-29 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 03:40 am (UTC)Thanks! I have been known to be explicit too, but this called for a more subtle approach.
As for the background, the comm it was written for only allows drabbles and ficlets of 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500 words exactly, so I couldn't expand on it the way it wanted to be expanded.
I guess it's my own fault, really -
I might come back to this and expand it. Once I started writing, there was suddenly so much detail there I had to cut 250 words and could easily have taken the piece to 1000 without even reaching the explicit bits. *g*
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on 2006-01-29 03:40 am (UTC)I loved the story!I'd love to know more about Missouri, or perhaps, you could gift us with a sequel...that was really nice ^^
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on 2006-01-29 03:43 am (UTC)I think Dean being that close would put anyone in the moment. ;)
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on 2006-01-29 03:43 am (UTC)I might come back to this and expand it.
That would be really cool. I would definitely read it. Especially if there were explicit bits to come. :D
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on 2006-01-29 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 03:48 am (UTC)This is so full & Sam's emotions so clear. I really like his panic/want of Dean that close to him, and Dean's comfort with being that close. Sometimes the best heat comes from the subtle. :)
I <3 Missouri. It's always a pleasure to see her show up, and you made good work of her. How great that is what she thought, that she gave Sam the choice (the push!) and what came next. Way to go, Missouri (heh, you ;} ).
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on 2006-01-29 03:52 am (UTC)I'm not sure Missouri approves, but she understood that Sam had to make the choice. The deck of tarot cards she sent seem to be developing their own little backstory in my head, which is a tiny bit unnerving. I'll have to see what comes of that. *g*
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on 2006-01-29 03:55 am (UTC)The tarot deck seems determined to have a backstory of its own - it's growing in my head, snippet by snippet - so I'm thinking that expansion will be sooner rather than later.
And if this doesn't end up explicit, I promise you, something else I write will. :D
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on 2006-01-29 03:57 am (UTC)Tarot decks tend to develop stories, which is why I don't play with them much, whether in stories or otherwise. But, hey, expansion!
*is happy*
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on 2006-01-29 04:04 am (UTC)If you miss your ankh you should get another one! They rock. :D
Missouri appeared in ep 1x09 'Home' and intrigued me. She obviously knew the boys when they were kids and still feels a lot of affection for them. With her specific skill set she is probably someone I'm going to use and reuse in fic.
I'm not sure about a sequel, but this piece is crying out to be expanded. I have words and ideas and backstory bubbling in my head. ;)
Icon snap! (almost *g*)
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on 2006-01-29 04:21 am (UTC)Sam felt like a bit of an emotional powderkeg in this piece and I was tempted to light the blue touchpaper and retire to a safe distance but the plan called for subtle - leaning and pressing and brushing and... Yeah, all of that. ;)
I <3 Missouri too. I hope they bring her back on the show occasionally. I love the way she winds Dean up and it makes Sam grin. And with her specific skill set she's a wonderful character to fic with. :D
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on 2006-01-29 04:27 am (UTC)Hummm, we're about to see 'Home' here.Even if I know everything that happens, I haven't seen it yet.
*g* That icon is amazing, indeed ^^
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on 2006-01-29 04:34 am (UTC)Thanks so much for writing.
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on 2006-01-29 04:39 am (UTC)Now, I'm off to post at your archive before I forget. *g*
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on 2006-01-29 04:53 am (UTC)Like I say, just a thought. Feel free to ignore me, I honestly don't mind. ;)
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on 2006-01-29 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 05:22 am (UTC)Nice.
Ordained!by!Fate!
I like.
:)
There's someone in the Supernatural 'verse called 'Missouri'? I like!
:)
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on 2006-01-29 05:27 am (UTC)BTW, I've upgraded my M/K archive (http://mulderkrycek.com/fanfic/) too and you are more than welcome to post your M/K stories there. :)
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on 2006-01-29 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-01-29 05:54 am (UTC)I want to tacklesmooch that woman ;)
Very nicely done, babe.
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on 2006-01-29 11:22 am (UTC)Hot and perfect and mmmmmm I wish that'd happen on the show.