FIC LINK: The Fall From Grace in Ten Easy Steps (SPN: Adult, Death)

[maygra]

Title: The Fall From Grace in Ten Easy Steps (Ten connected drabbles)
Author: Maygra
Status: Complete
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Warnings/Ratings: Adult, Death.
Notes: Though I tend to write dark fic, I rarely (only once before) ever write death fic. Nor do I read them very often. That this presented itself to me is as suprising to me as to anyone.

Comments

[shealynn88.livejournal.com]

Oh, so sad and beautiful and deceptively simple...the writing was perfect and eloquent and just...guh!

I was afraid, when it said "two for the price of one" that someone got left alone...maybe Dean, but of course, he'd never be the same for losing Sam, so in a way, he'd be dead too. Ugh! And in a whole lot of ways, that would be worse than both of them going together. So, I'm glad that's clarified. Is it weird that I'm relieved they both died? Probably.

I love how themes are reflected through all of the drabbles, the symbolism of the altar and the cross and the darkness that is in Sam. God, how sad! I try not to think of him like that, because it just pains me, but when you write it, even the dark, pained version of him takes on a kind of terrible beauty.

[maygra.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It pains me too -- which is why I don't usually write death fic (ner death all the time!) butthee was something about them fighting through all of it, maybe even recognizing they couldn't win and yet still finding a way to *live* with it and through it, and even finding moments of solace and peace and even purpose to it all. And I liked (if that's the word) that thorugh all of it, death still had to come to them and trick them, becasue othewise they'd just have kept cheating death.