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OH YEAH I WENT THERE.

Title: Writing (And Other Things That Are Hard)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Chuck/Becky; mentions of Becky/Sam, Sam/Dean & Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: 5x01
Length: ~2,000 words
Summary: When you get right down to it, Becky and Chuck are both writers. Add imminent death to the equation and you’ve got…whatever this is.
Notes: Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] aesc for scarring her brain with this…and not laughing at me too much.

Writing (And Other Things That Are Hard)

Sam Winchester is huge.

Not just physically, although oh, my god, he’s even taller in real life than she pictured, and his chest is like granite. (Granite—has she used that?) But, like, he is epic—everything about him: his past, his destiny, how hard he fights to do what’s right, to stop the darkness that’s inside of him from taking over. To find his place in the world again, after losing Jessica, losing his chance at a normal life, losing Dean. Becky just wants to give him that. In her stories, she gives him happiness.

And that makes her happy. Because, you know, her life is not epic—Becky Rosen is not huge. Becky Rosen is pretty small. She has her job and a few RL friends and a bunch more online friends, and that’s nice, that’s great, but that’s all. So to be able to touch something larger than herself (metaphorically—and now literally, oh my god!)—that’s amazing. It gives her something nice to think about when the alarm wakes her up in the morning, when she’s stuck in traffic on the way home from work, before she drifts off to sleep at night.

Sam. Sam. Sam.

Up until recently, she’d spent significantly less time thinking about Carver Edlund. Sure, she wrote him some fan letters, but that was mostly to thank him for giving her Sam, for bringing Sam into existence. In her mind, Carver’s always been, like, insanely awesome for coming up with such a fantastic character, but he, despite being an actual person whom she could write to and hopefully repay a little via marzipan, has also always been less real to her than Sam, and even Dean. Sam, and his brother, always seemed realer than real: a glimpse of what life was really like if you managed to tear back the curtain of work-chores-errands-LJ-a night out-a warm bed. Rinse, repeat.

And then it turns out that in her heart of hearts, she was right: it’s all real. Sam is real.

Which means the world is bigger and more incredible than she could have ever imagined. And not only that, it means she gets to help Sam, her Sam, save the world. She could not squee loudly enough to convey her joy if she tried.

The euphoria lasts for quite some time. She got to meet Sam! Carver chose her and she got to meet Sam and help him, and maybe if she keeps helping, together they can defeat Lucifer and maybe Sam will get to know her and start to appreciate her and even fall in love with her? And, okay, that’s ridiculous, she knows it is; and if she hadn’t promised Carver she wouldn’t tell anybody about this and could post about it, she knows it’s entitled attitudes like that that cause so much wank. But Sam’s real, and she’s really helping him, and the idea of him loving her (or just sleeping with her?) is no longer married-to-Snape-on-the-astral-plane ridiculous. That’s all she’s saying.

Unfortunately, though she’d known in her heart that Sam was real—that for life to be worth living, people like him had to be—it takes longer for it to hit home that the fact that Sam exists means all the nasty things he hunts do, too. Lucifer isn’t some abstract concept, some consistently offstage presence that’ll throw enough roadblocks in their way to guide Dean (or, um, her) conveniently into Sam’s strong, muscular arms. He’s real, and he’s really scary, and Becky, as Carver’s messenger girl, is just the type of not-quite-important-enough character who’ll get killed to show that the situation is serious. Which, okay, she can think of worse ways to go out, and maybe it’d be all right if she dies so Sam could live, if her life gets to have meaning that way—if he could cradle her broken body in his arms like he did Dean’s, and cry manly tears over her sacrifice. As a hypothetical that ends in her getting written out, it doesn’t sound so bad.

Of course it’s very different as a hypothetical than it is in practice, than it feels to be trapped in a house with Carver—a house that’s covered in wards so that the archangels can’t even come in and rescue them (him), that’s surrounded by demons who began shouting and are now whispering all the pretty pretty things they are going to do with Becky and Carver’s entrails, with their lifeblood.

“Sorry I got you into this mess,” Carver says. He sits on the couch, curled in on himself; unlike Sam, he’s smaller in person than she pictured.

“Even if I die, it’ll have been worth it,” Becky says, and she still means it. She thinks.

“Don’t say that,” Carver practically moans. He fists his hair, leaving it sticking up in bunches. “I really don’t want to hear you say that.”

He might be a genius, but Becky kind of doesn’t get Carver Edlund sometimes. “Why not?”

“God, where to start? Because it’s my fault you’re here? Because it’s my fault you were wasting your life writing gay incestuous porn on the internet and it’s my fault you’re now going to get ripped apart by demons? I’m as bad as those manipulative angelic bastards—I said jump, and you jumped.” His face drops into his hands. “Right off a cliff,” he adds, muffled.

Becky stares at him, holding herself very still. “I wasn’t wasting my life,” she says. “I was creating stories.”

“We’re going to suck the marrow from your bones,” one of the demons calls.

“Yeah, we get it!” Carver shouts. He looks back at Becky, and she’s not sure if he’s rolling his eyes at her or at the demon/imminent agent of their demise. “But you weren’t really. You were using someone else’s characters.”

Becky feels suddenly as angry as she does when the Dean Girls get all superior and start fights. “So were you! You were writing about real people.” She stabs a finger at him. “You write RPF!”

Carver stares at her. He looks confused, and tired. “What’s RPF?”

She folds her arms across her chest and looks away. “Never mind. I’m not doing this for you, anyway. I’m doing it for Sam.”

“Sam—”

“Yes, Sam!” she snaps, cutting off whatever bit of bashing he’s surely about to come out with. “He’s real, and he’s a better person than you’ll ever be!”

As she watches, Carver collapses in on himself, shrinking down to the smallest she’s ever seen him. “I know.”

Just like that, Becky loses energy for her pro-Sam tirade. “You know?”

“Of course I know!” Carver says. “I mean, look around you—who am I? I’m nothing. I’m…I’m not even really a writer, just a…heavenly transcriber.” He sighs with his whole body. “At least you came up with your stories on your own.”

Becky bites her lip. “You are so a writer,” she says finally. “The way I feel about Sam…that all happened long before I met him. And it’s because of who he is, sure—because he’s amazing—but it’s also because of the way you described him. I know him like I do because of you.”

He looks up at her from between his hands, between the tattered sleeves of his bathrobe.

“It’s like…” She shifts on the couch, scooting closer. “Lots of people submit stories to my site, and they’re all writing about Sam and Dean, and everything they write has the potential to seem real.”

Carver snorts. “I think you have a different view of what constitutes reality than—”

“Shut up, I’m constructing a metaphor.” She just snapped at Carver Edlund. Whatever, he deserved it. “Anyway, everything anybody writes has a chance of making you see the characters, the people, in a whole new way. It can transform them and their relationships and the world and you into something new and amazing. You know?”

“No?”

“It can!” Becky insists. “But not all of it does. Only the really good stuff. The best stuff. And your writing did that for me, Carver. You made me believe in Sam and Dean so much that I wanted to try to make them real, too.”

“Oh,” Carver says. Then he says, “My name’s not really Carver, you know.”

She does know. But maybe it was easier—more fun and less scary—to pretend she was helping the godlike Carver Edlund than to acknowledge that who she’s really going to die with is this guy, who’s no stronger or braver or worthy of worship than she is.

“You can call me Chuck,” he says.

“Okay, Chuck. You can call me samlicker81.”

He stares at her, horrified.

“That was a joke,” she says.

He flushes a little beneath his beard, and laughs weakly. “Sorry,” he says, “My sense of humor tends to go down the toilet when I know I’m about to die.”

Becky looks around at the messy room, listens to the demons crack away at the last of their protections. “Are we really going to die?” she asks in a small voice. She’d known she’s not an important character, not really, but this still seems like such a sad, sorry way to go out. She used to try to do even her minor OCs more justice.

Chuck swallows. “I’m not much use against an army of demons,” he admits. “I’m not Sam,” he adds, a bit ruefully.

“Not everyone can be as awesome as Sam,” Becky says, which is the absolute truth. “If they were, it would be boring. You need to have characters like Dean, and like Bobby—and even like Ruby and Bela and Gordon and stuff.” She tries for a smile. “And like you.”

Chuck chuckles, bitterly. “Oh yeah? And who am I?”

“You’re the plucky comic relief!” Becky says, encouragingly. Though even as she says it, she’s not sure where that leaves her.

Face it, she thinks. You’re a redshirt. Redshirt redshirt redshirt. Crap.

She sniffs, takes a deep breath. Well, at least she’s going to be a brave redshirt. And then, when Sam finds what little will probably remain of her body, maybe he’ll say, Becky was so brave

If he actually does remember her name.

Beside her, Chuck is still frowning, mirroring her own expression’s sudden turn toward the doom ‘n’ gloom. “It’s not fair,” he grouses. “The plucky comic relief never gets the girl.”

She rolls her eyes. “I’m a girl,” she says, because come on—it’s like he hasn’t even noticed that she’s here. Not really.

Then his gaze slides over, and he looks at her.

“So, you’re kind of obsessed with sex,” he says.

And she rolls her eyes again, because seriously, nonfen never understand this, that that’s not it at all— But then she remembers that they’re going to die, and he’s Carver Edlund, and really, even though he’s not Sam, he’s actually kind of scruffy and cute.

She scooches over, leans close. “I’ve been told that I have a really, really vivid imagination.”

This is, undeniably, true.

However, not even in Becky’s wildest imaginings could she have pictured Dean and Castiel and Sam barging in to rescue them while she and Chuck are still tangled together, caressing each other’s clavicles.

“Oh!” She blushes deeply, but surprises herself with how well she keeps her cool—better than she did the first time she met him, really, and that time she was fully clothed. “Hi, Sam!”

“Whoa,” is all Sam says, which is a little disappointing. Perhaps Chuck has spoiled her when it comes to good dialogue.

Nevertheless, “You came!” she says happily. Not dying is definitely worth squeeing over.

“What took you so long?” Chuck asks at almost the same time.

“We wanted to make sure that you two came first,” Dean says with a smirk, and honestly, Becky doesn’t understand what those girls see in him.

“Dean,” Castiel says in that cool rumbly voice of his, “this woman is your apostle; you should show her more respect.”

“Apostle?” says Dean, incredulous.

“If I’m anyone’s apostle I’m Sam’s!” Becky says vehemently. She shoots Dean a disappointed glare and shakes her head. “Who’d want to be his apostle?”

Castiel becomes suddenly fascinated with a loose string on his coat sleeve. Becky stares at him. To her shock, her slash alarms are ringing like crazy.

She turns to Chuck, who’s having some difficulty locating his boxers. She guides his hand to where they’re sticking out from between the couch cushions and grins at him.

“Can I borrow your laptop?”




NOTES:

1. One line stolen directly from Galaxy Quest—but only because the show did it first.

2. I seriously did not expect to be posting more fic today. Please do not expect me to keep this up. Although, after this…you may not want me to.
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Date: 2009-09-12 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com
“You write RPF!”

... oh my god, he DOES.

“Dean,” Castiel says in that cool rumbly voice of his, “this woman is your apostle; you should show her more respect.”

YES. I still hate Kripke's crazyfan punching bag thing, but this is NICE.

Maaaaan, I love Chuckfic. All fic should be Chuckfic. ♥ The others can visit.

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Explicit RPF. Dean's full frontal in there, dude!

I'm still amused at the fan representation on the show, though that could go the other way if it keeps being one-note. I WANT THE FANGIRL ARMY. Dammit.

I love Chuck so much. Seriously, LOVE. *happysigh*

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com
YAY, it is still awesome! And I only laughed with you, not at you! :D

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
That is only because you are a kind and generous person. :)

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roguesgallery.livejournal.com
You went there and it was AWESOME!

Fangirl love!

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Thank you! Represent, eh? *g*

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:42 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Holy fuck, I loved this so much. The brilliant META of it all. I love the way you reclaimed and empowered Becky, love the conversation between her and the SPN writers Chuck about the merits of writing/fandom/etc., all the little fannish in-jokes, the part about how terrifying the SPN universe really is, and then, the ending -- fandom as the apostle of media, and deserving of respect. Just, yes. You have made me love Becky and this fic is incredibly brilliant. ♥

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! That was everything I was (rather loftily) setting out to do, and I'm so, so glad it worked for you! :)

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Re: rotfl!!!!

Date: 2009-09-12 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Hee, thanks. I for one will never be able to use the word "clavicle" seriously again.

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:00 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] taurenova.livejournal.com
DUDE. I can't even. Hands down - best episode reaction ever.

It's so perfect on so many levels. ♥ x 1000 dude. If you ever wanted to write Becky again? I would totally be down with that.

If only for the bit where she catches onto the Dean/Castiel. :D

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Aww, thank you so much! Becky will obviously have to make a reappearance if I ever get around to writing the epic fangirl army story. And she will have to lecture Dean and Cas about subtext. ;-)

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tokenblkgirl.livejournal.com
OMG, this is brilliant! I really hope you write Becky fic again, because this only made me want more. Just really, really excellent work. :D

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Date: 2009-09-12 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityofone.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! Becky power! *g*

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:49 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] arcticdrift (from livejournal.com)
:D :D :D :D

I feel bad that I don't review with anything insightful, especially since this is so awesome and...thinky. :D

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Date: 2009-09-12 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com
“We wanted to make sure that you two came first,” Dean says with a smirk

I admit it, I laughed out loud at this.

Also, this was *awesome*. You win today!

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Date: 2009-09-12 05:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qwertypoiuq.livejournal.com
OH MY GOD, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT YOU WROTE THIS AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I READ IT. WE ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW THAT? Regardless, my amusement outweighs my horror, and I like Becky more when she's slashing Dean/Cas, so why not!

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Date: 2009-09-12 06:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bmouse.livejournal.com
Ok while I admit my initial reaction was basically "....whut" this is pretty goddamn FAB. I would cheer so hard I'd have to dig out my pom poms if Becky went in this direction on the show. This is kind of nice for Chuck too, since stereotypical love interest curve for geeky side characters tends to be pining after improbably hot girls. Whereas this is such a cute, mutual 'demons are gonna probably eat us and hey, you're pretty cute' hookup.

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Date: 2009-09-12 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the24thkey.livejournal.com
Thank god you went there! <3 From now on, Becky/Chuck shall be my new het-OTP for this show.

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Date: 2009-09-12 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] architeuthis.livejournal.com
How much do I love you? It's a pretty large amount. My dog does not love you so much, because you write things like

caressing each other’s clavicles.

that make me make noises that frighten him out of sleep. Sorry.

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Date: 2009-09-12 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-sally.livejournal.com
And this is just another of the million reasons why I love you and everything you write.

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Date: 2009-09-12 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] burkesl17.livejournal.com
Haha! I giggled the whole way through that it was awesome.

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Date: 2009-09-12 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janie-tangerine.livejournal.com
.... OH MY THIS WAS SO PRICELESS IT WASN'T EVEN FUN. I just... the Becky POV was made of so much win and I wish I could say more than total awesome but I think I was laughing so hard that I can't put it into words. I just love how much of a Sam girl she is, but sincerely I was all YAY CHUCK because he got the girl. More or less. Also,

caressing each other’s clavicles.

had me laughing for about five minutes as the RPF thing, even if the best thing was

“If I’m anyone’s apostle I’m Sam’s!” Becky says vehemently. She shoots Dean a disappointed glare and shakes her head. “Who’d want to be his apostle?”

Castiel becomes suddenly fascinated with a loose string on his coat sleeve. Becky stares at him. To her shock, her slash alarms are ringing like crazy.


which was just priceless. Oh dear. The slash alarm! *snorts* And Cas as Dean's apostle? Uh, yes? (also, Becky should seriously learn to appreciate Dean *coughcough* ;) ) This was just too priceless for words.

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Date: 2009-09-12 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randomeliza.livejournal.com
I LOVE THIS. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. OH MY FUCKING GOD I LOVE THIS.

So, like, when Becky got introduced I was all *facepalm* and shit because, well, duh. But when I thought about it more, I came to terms with it and now there's this awesome, hilarious, delightful thing and I LOVE THAT YOUR FIC IS BACK ON MY FLIST and today I actually have time to read it and yes. The point is, I love this.

Castiel becomes suddenly fascinated with a loose string on his coat sleeve. Becky stares at him. To her shock, her slash alarms are ringing like crazy.

LOLYES.

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Date: 2009-09-12 01:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jerusha
*dies laughing* OMG. This...was fantastic. Poor Becky. Poor Chuck. Oh, man.

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Date: 2009-09-12 01:55 pm (UTC)
intermezzo: (SPN:Dean Winchester)
From: [personal profile] intermezzo
This is made of WIN. Win win win! \o/

Brilliant! *thumbs up*

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Date: 2009-09-12 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jujuberry136.livejournal.com
All hail Becky, high-general of the fangirl army! Seriously, I want that fangirl army SO MUCH!!!

Loved the Becky POV and her slasher goggles :D Though I'm really curious to see how the forums react to a Dean/OC who's an ANGEL! I'm wondering how Becky's going to deal with the Gary-Sue accusations ;)

Hilarious and awesome, thanks for sharing!

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Date: 2009-09-12 02:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] miasnape.livejournal.com
Oh, I just love this. And you stuck Galaxy Quest in there, which yay!

And Becky's slash alarms suddenly ringing like crazy for Dean and Castiel - because obviously the books stopped way before he came into it so it's all new to her - and then asking for Chuck's laptop, oh, precious!

You went there, but you went there so well. I can only hope the show does too. Here's fingers crossed to being Kripked.

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Date: 2009-09-12 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tattoo-kink.livejournal.com
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS!!!

CLAVICLES. *rofl* -- WORD OF THE DAY!!!

Thanks a lot for this. It really made my day!!!

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophie-448.livejournal.com
AGH BRILLIANCE! I BOW BEFORE YOUR GENIUS! WONDERFUL :-D ♥ ♥ ♥

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Date: 2009-09-12 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoboat.livejournal.com
“Can I borrow your laptop?”

Heeheeeee! And clavicles!

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Date: 2009-09-12 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] denyce.livejournal.com
This was a OMFG ♥!!!!! You so made my morning ;)
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