Fic with Art: Passengers

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Title: Passengers
Author/Artist: vail_kagami
Characters: Bobby, Sam, OC
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Set in the second half of season 6.
Warnings: brief allusions to torture
Summary: When Bobby is called to Japan to help with a hunt, he brings Sam along as the necessary third man - though admittedly, he would have prefered Dean. During an involuntary roadtrip through half the country, he has a lot of time to analyse why that is.

Comments

[marziebarz.livejournal.com]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS STORY. I JUST NEED TO FLAIL OVER IT SOME MORE. OK? OK. JUST JUST JUST OH GOD THIS IS SO PERFECT. I am going to dump all my favorite lines over here because I was re-reading and these lines made me flail all over again.

Dean wasn’t the only one who made sacrifices for his family, but his were so glaringly obvious that it was easy to forget.

He noticed problems and pointed them out instead of pretending they didn’t exist the way Dean liked to do to this day, but for all those characteristics, it had always been Dean who couldn’t hide his own troubles. Every time there was something brothering him it was obvious in the way he acted. He carried his problems openly but didn’t want to share them, making Bobby work to get through to him and figure out what was wrong, and so Dean always had all the attention, overshadowing his less troublesome brother who for was so damn open that it was easy to overlook he wasn’t exactly open about himself.

Sam hadn’t had anyone, and one thing Bobby had never, ever blamed him for was turning to the demon Ruby when she appeared to be a friend and the only one who would be there for him. (YES YES YES YES YES YES YES THANK YOU FOR THIS, sometimes I feel like all the people who dislike what Sam did in Season 4 and dislike that he ever hooked up with Ruby forget that he quite literally had NO ONE ELSE.)

THIS WILL FOREVER BE MY FAVORITE PART OF THIS ENTIRE FIC THO. THIS RIGHT HERE. ITS SO FREAKING AWESOME AND SO VERY TRUE.

In his darkest moment just after Sam’s sacrifice and before his shadow had appeared in the salvage yard, Bobby had dared to wonder if he would have protested more, tried harder if it had been Dean they were losing. It had always been harder to let Dean go – or maybe it was just easier to fight for keeping him. Dean waved his problems as giant red flags that had the words “I’m okay, spare me your concern” written on them in everyone’s faces, never quite getting away because everyone fought so damn hard to help him even if he didn’t want them to. Sam just left.

And your art is absolutely stunning, and just gets better the more I look at the picture. Seriously, it's fantastic. Just, ugh, this story is perfection and I'm also really sleep-deprived and needed to flail at you. So yeah. HOW ARE YOU SO AWESOME.

[vail-kagami.livejournal.com]

Right back at you! You're awesome and I'm sorry it took me so long to reply!

There are a lot of meta-thoughts in here. It was after Bobby's confession that he likes Dean better that I started thinking about this and since I'm not good at meta it all kind of ended up in this fic.

One thing I loved about Bobby was the fact that he was the only one who never openly resented Sam in seasons 4 and 5. His reaction after Sam got his soul back was a bit of a shock, then. And yeah, everyone always likes Dean better, but I would have liked to keep that illusion, thank you very much.

Heck, even Azazel, who by nature was all about Sam, spend more time sniffing up Dean while invading his personal space... Not to mention the good guys. I think the list of character who were more focused on Sam is very short: Ruby and Lucifer. Congratulations.

So I really wanted something, anything that showed us that Sam and Bobby had a connection, too. And when we didn't get that besices some fleething moments in scenes that focused on something else, I had to deal with the lack thereof in fic.

And I think if I read another comment along the lines of "Sam should be nicer to Dean since Dean just lost his surrogate father" I'm going to scream.

And this went way off topic.

[marziebarz.livejournal.com]

whoa, who is saying stuff like that? BECAUSE SAM IS HALLUCINATING AND LOSING HIS MIND AND BOBBY WAS HIS SURROGATE FATHER TOO THANKS FOR REMEMBERING. Gah. People.

HOLY CRAP YOUR RIGHT THO. I mean all this time its Sam with the big important destiny and nobody actually pays attention to him. The only character I would add to that list is Jess, and they SHOVED HER IN A FRIDGE!!! Man.