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audrarose ([personal profile] audrarose) wrote2006-10-13 06:58 am

FIC: A Thousand Ways (SPN, Sam/Dean, R)

CRAAAACK. Total angst-vampire-porn that has absolutely nothing to do with last night's episode!

Written for [livejournal.com profile] missmollyetc and the love meme. (Not part of the Venom-verse, but vampires nonetheless. heeeeeee!!)

Title: A Thousand Ways
Author: Audra Rose
Fandom/Pairing: SPN, Sam/Dean
Summary: Sam loves Dean enough.






Sam leans against the open window and listens to the streetlight flicker, fretful buzzing that bats at his nerves, even from three stories up. Still a lot of traffic on the street below, even this close to midnight. It’s always cities for them, now, places where the lights don’t go out at six p.m. and there are whole populations for Dean to seduce before dawn.

He thinks he should just go out there, too, disappear into the crowds, maybe find a bar. Get drunk, get laid -- do anything but just stand in this hotel room with worry gnawing a hole in his stomach, waiting for Dean to show up with whatever he does at night hidden behind a secret smile. Don’t ask me, Sam, Dean used to say, when Sam was still foolish enough to wonder, and he’d have told Dean to go to hell if he wasn't pretty sure they were both there already.

Fuck.

The street noise drifts up to him and he crosses his arms. In a place like this he could find a thousand ways to be lost, and one night he'll just do it, take off into the city and make Dean see what it's like to wait, to wonder if Sam's coming back at all.

But not tonight.

Sam straightens, takes a closer look at the shadows outside and breathes out in relief. Dean, finally. On the ledge. Sam opens the window as wide as it will go and leans out.

“Dude, someone’s going to call the cops.”

Dean’s unmoving, arms on his knees, a breathing shadow watching the street. He could have been sitting there seconds or hours, Sam has no way of knowing.

“Don’t worry about it.” Tired. Infuriatingly certain.

“No one's going to notice a guy on the ledge?” Frayed nerves make him snap. “You hope people will think you’re a – a gargoyle or something?”

Dean turns his face into the light and Sam thinks of marble angels instead of stone monsters. “Well, if you keep yelling at me out the window, Sam, I'm thinking no.”

Sam leans against the window frame and tries not to feel sullen.

“How do you even get up here from the street?”

Dean shakes his head at the traffic below them. “Not sure. Not exactly, anyway.” He looks up, sculpted profile and long throat Sam wants to trace with his fingertips. “This is nothing. Remember Chicago?”

Sam will never forget Chicago and forty stories up, Dean leaning into the night with arms outstretched, laughing like he was daring the wind to catch him. Sam wonders if Dean would have come back in at all if Sam hadn’t threatened to come out and get him.

“I think I could go higher, maybe.” Too thoughtful, too distant.

Dean’s entranced so Sam looks up, too, invisible stars and a skyline that makes him dizzy, and he doesn’t want to think about Dean that far away. Sam shivers.

“So. You get lucky?”

Quick flash of green eyes, lurking magic that flares once in Dean’s smile before it's just Dean again.

“Always.”

That hurts like fire but Dean's beside him before Sam can move, slipping through the window with eerie, fluid grace, and Sam has to spin to follow him. Dean keeps moving, and Sam almost lets him go, but then it happens again, just like always. Dean’s come back and so has the need, yawning deep and aching, so he reaches out. Hates that he has no choice -- like the poison in Dean’s blood enthralls him, too -- but that doesn't matter when he’s got Dean close again, night air and cool skin that Sam tries to touch enough to close up all the spaces between them.

“Take me with you next time,” a pleading whisper against Dean’s ear and he wishes he could control his voice.

He feels Dean’s breath against his neck, teasing flutter right before the soft brush of his tongue. “Can’t do that, Sam." Dean's voice is soft, regretful. "Not your kind of hunt.” Press of lips over his pulse point, a brief, teasing scrape of teeth and Sam thinks he might pass out. Then Dean’s soft, bitter voice.

“I don’t want you to watch me with someone else.”

Jealousy's going to choke him but he swallows it down, pulls Dean with him instead. Sam’s hopelessly grateful when Dean lets himself fall, lets Sam spread him out across the bed and slide over him.

“I could be enough for you.” Softly spoken into Dean’s mouth with slow licks and flicking touches against Dean’s tongue, mindful of sharp teeth and he hates himself for sounding so desperate.

"Sam..."

"I'd let you," Sam tells him, soft like it's a secret, pushing Dean further into the mattress and sliding down to mouth at Dean's chest through his shirt. "Let you take it from me. Whatever you need."

"I -- I told you why we can't --." Dean's voice is rough but his hands are gentle, threading through Sam's hair, at least until Sam presses his tongue flat against one hard nipple, soaking the cloth so that Dean arches when he blows across it, hands clutching convulsively.

"You and me," Sam whispers, pulling Dean's shirt from his jeans, slow slide of cloth over flawless skin he needs to lick as soon as he can see it. "In this bed. Any bed." Soft kisses over Dean's tight stomach. "Every night..." Runs the tip of his nose up Dean's zipper, then retraces the path with his lips, rough denim instead of the velvet skin he wants but it makes Dean instantly hard.

Dean's hips roll helplessly, one hard thigh coming up like he's trying to give Sam more access but then suddenly Dean's pulling at Sam's shoulders, dragging him up over every inch of Dean's body, and, jesus, that's just as good.

"What are you doing, Sam?" Angry, but broken, like the words are hard to find, so Sam rocks into Dean's body in a slow, writhing motion that makes Dean groan.

"Can’t say you don’t want me, Dean. ‘Cause I can feel it." Hard grind over Dean's hips so Dean can feel how much Sam wants him back. Needs to kiss Dean again, just kiss him, and it’s so fucking good to fall into this. Insistent, relentless rhythm, mindless and liquid, at least until Dean catches Sam’s movement and surges up into him.

“Oh, God…”

Far less controlled now, uneven stutters and Sam puts messy kisses over Dean’s face. He presses his mouth on Dean’s jaw, beneath his ear, gets a jolt straight to his cock when he feels Dean’s lips brush his neck.

“Oh, please, Dean, please. Do it.”

Sudden stillness beneath him before a burst of frightening strength that shoves Sam to his back, leaving him gasping at the ceiling with Dean heavy and hard on top of him, lips against his throat and breathing hard.

“Think I’d risk you? Ever?”

“Please, Dean … for fuck’s sake...”

Maddening tug against his neck, cruel tease that makes him moan, makes him beg some more.

“You don’t even know what you’re asking for.” Dean's voice is urgent, and so are his hands, fingers impossibly sure, pulling at Sam's clothes until he finds skin. "You don't know what it's like. All that darkness. Sometimes I think it's going to drown me."

"If I could be with you --" His words are muffled by his shirt as Dean pulls it over his head, dragging his hands over Sam's chest until he shudders.

"What do you think you could do, Sam? Drown with me?"

Naked together now, skin and sweat, Sam's heat enough for both of them, and Dean's almost mauling Sam's neck, sucking bruises into his skin. Painfully sweet but not enough.

"Come on, Dean -- more --."

Sharp teeth just at the edge of pain, pleasure he can almost touch, if Dean would just --

“Inside me -- please.” Begging, begging, and Dean pulls Sam's hips up to give him what he asks for, not the way he wants but still so good he could break in two, so good that Sam can’t argue, can’t think, can’t breathe -- can only gasp and shudder and come.

Panting in the tangled sheets, barely enough light to see Dean's hunted expression.

"I won't make you a monster."

“But I could go with you,” Sam whispers. “And then you’d never have to come back.”

It's just for a second, when Dean glances out the window, just long enough for Sam to see Dean's face, longing for something that isn't in this room. Then Dean curls himself around Sam's body, puts his face against Sam's chest, and Sam can barely feel Dean's breath when he speaks. "Go to sleep, Sam. Don't ask me anymore."

Sam can tell the exact moment when Dean falls asleep, so he pulls Dean close and listens to the city waiting for them outside the window.

Maybe not tonight, Sam thinks.

But every night has secrets and the world is wide, and Sam can find a thousand ways to be lost.

End

[identity profile] thandie.livejournal.com 2007-04-07 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
WOW, I liked how you started the fic, and that we find out only a little later where Dean has been going at night.
Dean turns his face into the light and Sam thinks of marble angels instead of stone monsters
Loved this bit.
It's just for a second, when Dean glances out the window, just long enough for Sam to see Dean's face, longing for something that isn't in this room
And this one...so sad.
You are getting me hooked to vampire!Dean!

[identity profile] cassiakohn.livejournal.com 2007-04-11 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
wow that was sad, and hot, and beautiful. Dean needs to cave in and bring Sam with him!

[identity profile] orphan-project.livejournal.com 2007-04-11 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
GUH! That was sooo good! I loved it. It had that dark haunted feeling yet at the same time you had just enough light in there. And guh...I'll take a sexy vampire!dean any night! WOO!

Great work! <3

[identity profile] jeyhawk.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeep. Now you made me all achy inside. *pouts*

But it was beautifully written and a little green*.

Thanks for sharing. :0)


*I always refer to the good stuff as green after reading Poppy Z Brite's Drawing Blood. That is one very good, very green book. (Yes, I'm weird).

[identity profile] be-a-rebel.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh this was extraordinary. I don't even like vampire fics in the SPN universe and this totally sucked me in.

[identity profile] nevcolleil.livejournal.com 2007-08-18 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Lovely and eerie and delicious - Sam's jealousy and desperate devition and Dean's subtle wrongness. And how cool is it that he's out on that ledge, so unnatural, and is still so very Dean.

“Well, if you keep yelling at me out the window, Sam, I'm thinking no.”

Awesome :)

[identity profile] raggedann.livejournal.com 2007-10-27 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
*wibbles*
That punches you right in the gut.

Wow.

[identity profile] redheadforever.livejournal.com 2007-12-13 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh, vamp!Dean is STILL love, as far as where His Sammy is concerned, still looking out and protecting his baby brother.

How terrible that he doesn't grasp that what Sam really needs is, good or bad, the *belonging* which only turning him is going to bring.

Dean needs to bring Sam along for a nightly hunt and let him see exactly what goes on before he agrees to turn him.

Except, for Dean the hunt seems to have overtones of intimacy that the older man can't shake -- he feeds (can't keep feeding on Sam to the extent he needs to stay "alive" and healthy, obviously) and something about it is what would make Dean talk about it like it was a form of unfaithfulness, almost adultery.

But at this point Dean doesn't understand that Sam's ready to bolt for loneliness and not *knowing* and a diet of steady nighttime fear. At this point they're being driven apart.

At this point, this is most likely the RIGHT point to turn Sammy because he's being eaten alive (er, yeah) bit by bit by being nibbled to death by ducks with fangs.

Goodbye to all that bodily warmth, but Sam needs to belong totally to His Dean, and that can't occur any longer if the older man is something Sam's not. For the human, it's going to be worth it to *belong*. For the older, he will be his sire in a way that he mimicked in their original life. He'll teach Sam how to grow up as a vampire, give him the benefit of afterlife lessons as well as the original ones he used to raise that small boy right along with himself.

Our sweet Dean just doesn't realize that it's all about Dean just as much as all about Sammy. He's still needed, he's still loved -- but a new approach is necessary.

Sam needs one more gift from his brother, the one that Dean can't see as a gift for all the extraneous hoopla. Turning him at this point is the greatest gift of himself that Dean could give. Even with the obvious negatives, he doesn't understand the many and varied positives of what Sam will eventually cajole him into doing -- or lose him.

The brothers have always been stronger together than apart, no matter what. This, for these particular men, is just another bond.

*throws roses and chocolate at the author and would NOT mind being present at Sammy's Turning-Out Party*

Red

Happy Deanwoman, BIG vamp! kink, bigger Dean's boundless love!appreciation

[identity profile] rebekahfair.livejournal.com 2008-10-12 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Guh, lovely. So angsty and delicious.

[identity profile] rejeneration.livejournal.com 2008-12-14 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
EEEE, I'd never seen this, but this SO AMAZING. God, I can't believe this, I was writing a vampire thing for [livejournal.com profile] mkitty3 because she asked me and yours and mine, so SIMILAR! I swear I'd never read yours, but I am in LOVE with your desperate Sam. I'm in love with the quiet-coldness you've given Dean here!! Man, yours is sooooo good. Makes me wish you'd continued it. =D

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