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Dean Winchester ([personal profile] likedillinger) wrote2010-04-03 08:48 pm

Drabble challenge for [livejournal.com profile] getyourownpie

PromptCarnival Town by Norah Jones
Requested By: [livejournal.com profile] getyourownpie 

Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Claire "Zebra" Bennet
Timeline/Verse: Brave New World verse; S4 finale of Heroes, before Claire jumps, but after stopping Samuel
Location:  Central Park, New York City
Disclaimer:  Kripke and co. own Supernatural, not me.  Dean is [livejournal.com profile] likedillinger , the Sam mentioned is [livejournal.com profile] getyourownpie 
and the Claire is [livejournal.com profile] autophoenix .   All are used with permission and so much love.   It's short but I just... couldn't add to it without butchering the effect, I thought. ;;  Forgive me.  It's an... actual drabbley drabble for once.

Still accepting requests here!


Round 'n round
Carousel
Has got you under it's spell
Moving so fast...but
Going nowhere

Up 'n down
Ferris wheel
Tell me how does it feel
To be so high...
Looking down here

Is it lonely?


There was always that stolen time between the big showdown and the moment when the car door slammed shut, and they pointed towards a new town, a new mission.  Dean would never admit to Sam - to anyone, really - how much he valued those moments.  For a minute at least, they were done.  They could be satisfied.  Especially when things went the way they just had: everyone survived, the bad guy was thwarted, the heroes hadn't had to give something up to do so.  It was as close as he ever got to feeling done.  There was a hunger in him somewhere for that moment, or for things promised by just being finished with this: a normal life, a road that didn't stretch endlessly into the horizon.  Somewhere to come home to at night.

Beyond the hanging glow reflected off the still spinning carousel between him and the sporadically gathered others, he could see Claire pressed against Sammy's side, her hand clutched in his.  Red lights, blue lights, yellow lights danced across their backs, though they remained oblivious to the kaleidoscope.   Dean slid his hands into the pockets of his jacket as he watched them.  Claire obviously had something on her mind, but it didn't stop her from getting caught up in the way Sam was intently staring down at her.  His brother brushed a strand of hair off her face, and there was a tenderness there that Dean had never really seen in him.  When Claire's eyes flashed up to meet Sam's, there was a moment of connection between them that he could feel all the way across the space that reverberated with colors.  They were wrapped up in their own little moment.  Focused on each other while everything whirled around them. 

And for just that moment, Dean wondered exactly what it was like to ride the ride that they were on.

Claire's hand slipped out of Sam's and she slid away from him, moving through the crowd as the police cars arrived, and the moment slipped away just as easily.

He shook his head slightly, and an empty smile touched the edge of his lips as he felt the feeling vanish inside him as well.

It wasn't as if he were tall enough to ride that ride anyway.

[identity profile] autophoenix.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
... THIS IS SO SAD. DEAN WHY ARE YOU SO DEPRESSING. DEAN WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LOVE SOMEBODY. GOD.

[identity profile] likedillinger.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
I AM GLAD IT MADE YOU SAD BECAUSE I AM A HEARTLESS BITCH. HE IS SO DEPRESSING BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM COMPELLING OR SOME SHIT. AND HE CAN'T LOVE ANYBODY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY. GOD.

[identity profile] autophoenix.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
THOSE ARE DUMB REASONS I DON'T LIKE THEM. THERE IS NOTHING COMPELLING ABOUT SADNESS AND AGONY. OBVIOUSLY. I KEEP WATCHING BECAUSE IT'S ... UNCOMPELLING.
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[personal profile] dedicatedbitch 2010-04-04 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just going to go cry forever now. Thanks. My family won't understand why I'm sobbing into my macaroni and cheese.

[identity profile] likedillinger.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
SOGGY MACARONI, what a fabulous review ;_;

[identity profile] i-hadmittenson.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad my pain and my ruined dinner make you so happy. ;___;

[identity profile] intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Dean's life is hard. :c It's okay Dean, one day you'll be tall enough for someone to love you.

[identity profile] likedillinger.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
lmfaoo another reason for Deano to drink his milk and eat his wheaties.

[identity profile] getyourownpie.livejournal.com 2010-04-04 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
AWWW!!! POOR DEAN. HE REALLY DOES HAVE A HARD LIFE. AND NO, THE CAPS ARE NOT STOPPING YET. BUT THIS WAS REALLY GOOD AND REALLY WELL WRITTEN. YOU'RE AMAZING! <33333

[identity profile] likedillinger.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKED THIS!!!!!! <3333333 Yeah I'm a... sucker for the emo. :C
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[personal profile] cheerleader 2010-04-04 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD DEAN JUST GROW TALL AND PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY PANTS AND LOVE SOMEONE. JESUS.

;____;

This was really well written though, it's amazing.

[identity profile] likedillinger.livejournal.com 2010-04-07 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
NEVER. :C

Thank you so much, bb, ilu~