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avandell2008-11-01 09:14 am
theladyscribe) wrote in avandell2008-11-01 09:14 am
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Left alone standing out on the street
Title: Left alone standing out on the street
Characters: Sam
Rating: PG
Word Count: 265
Summary: There are entire passages underlined, most prominently in the chapters on the Riders of Rohan.
Notes: Set between S3 and S4 of SPN. Originally written from a prompt fromaislinamara: Dean and Eowyn would be an interesting crack pairing. Part of the Bruce Springsteen Project. Song used is "Jackson Cage."
Left alone standing out on the street
Sam finds the book tucked into a deep, dark corner of the trunk of the Impala when he's cleaning it out after...after Dean is gone. It's a ragged copy of the third volume of Lord of the Rings. He flips through the book, startled to find pencil sketches in the margins - horses and soldiers, weapons, Sam and Frodo in the mountains.
There are entire passages underlined, most prominently in the chapters on the Riders of Rohan, many of which are footnoted with the chicken scratch that he recognizes as his brother's handwriting. Some of the writing is foreign to him though, loopy, almost girlish cursive that weaves around the margins. This is marked in pen.
She (he's fairly certain it's a she) has marked the passage about Eowyn: "I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death... I fear a cage... To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
Sam wonders who this phantom writer is, and why Dean hid this book in the black pit that is the trunk of the car (and why he marked it up and drew pictures in it), and then he flips to the front of it and understands.
The copyright page states that it was printed in 1963, but that's not what interests him. There's a slight hitch in his breath when he reads what has been written in ink above the copyright information: To Mary, on the occasion of her 11th birthday. Love, Pop.
Characters: Sam
Rating: PG
Word Count: 265
Summary: There are entire passages underlined, most prominently in the chapters on the Riders of Rohan.
Notes: Set between S3 and S4 of SPN. Originally written from a prompt from
aislinamara: Dean and Eowyn would be an interesting crack pairing. Part of the Bruce Springsteen Project. Song used is "Jackson Cage."Left alone standing out on the street
Sam finds the book tucked into a deep, dark corner of the trunk of the Impala when he's cleaning it out after...after Dean is gone. It's a ragged copy of the third volume of Lord of the Rings. He flips through the book, startled to find pencil sketches in the margins - horses and soldiers, weapons, Sam and Frodo in the mountains.
There are entire passages underlined, most prominently in the chapters on the Riders of Rohan, many of which are footnoted with the chicken scratch that he recognizes as his brother's handwriting. Some of the writing is foreign to him though, loopy, almost girlish cursive that weaves around the margins. This is marked in pen.
She (he's fairly certain it's a she) has marked the passage about Eowyn: "I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death... I fear a cage... To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
Sam wonders who this phantom writer is, and why Dean hid this book in the black pit that is the trunk of the car (and why he marked it up and drew pictures in it), and then he flips to the front of it and understands.
The copyright page states that it was printed in 1963, but that's not what interests him. There's a slight hitch in his breath when he reads what has been written in ink above the copyright information: To Mary, on the occasion of her 11th birthday. Love, Pop.