Fic: The Gallows Knot

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Title: The Gallows Knot
Author: rainylemons
Warnings: lynching, language, violence, torture, vague mentions of past sexual abuse
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,139
Summary: Sam is strung up as punishment for a crime he committed when he had no soul & Lucifer drops by. Takes place between 7x15 and 7x17. Setting heavily influenced by Silent Hill and the town of Centralia, PA. I also snitched a line from Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman.
Author's note: Written for the 2012 spn_summergen. Endless thanks to ratherastory for beta reading this for me and for pushing me to expand on my eccentricities when it comes to Sam, Lucifer, and maybe just horror in general. Dude? You're awesome.
AN2:  Not that I think it really matters, but the prompt in question for this fic was: I can never get enough of Hallucifer!fic, so something where Sam's hallucinations/his overall crazy play a role. I'm not sure how I exactly went from that to "hmm, Sam hanging from a tree," but yeah. There's a line or two that, reading it now, I find I quite despise, but there's a few bits that I love enough to accept it as it is and not rewrite the lame. Anyhoo - Sam: I hung him from a tree (in what amounts to Silent Hill).

(Read over on my LJ.)