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@ 2012-02-22 05:02 pm UTC

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For reasons beyond my ken, tonight I feel compelled to create fanworks. Particularly fanworks that engage in critique of the source. So. Name something about Supernatural you feel needs critique, and I'll do my best! :)

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	no subject dancewithoutyou 2012-02-22 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	Many may disagree with me, but: the boys crying at extremely awkward moments. Over people they disliked moments ago. Over issues they've discussed over and over already. (Reply to this)

	no subject neotoma 2012-02-22 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Dean is a crappy friend to Castiel in S6, y/n? Sam is deeply manipulative with his empathy. The way Lisa's agency was absolutely destroyed at the end of S6. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

I'm Gonna Smoke You Out

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2012-02-23 12:48 am UTC (link)

The doctors call it a miraculous recovery. A literal miracle: they'd thought she wouldn't live out the night, and now all she has to deal with is the aftermath of her abdominal surgery.

They'd told Ben she might not make it.

That's unforgivable.

She mentions the car crash to one of the doctors, and he makes a confused face and explains that she was mugged, stabbed in the gut; she tells him that the man who crashed into her came and apologized to her, and why would he lie?

Two months later, she's going through the photo album from the past year, Ben's got a project requiring photos of himself at various ages, and it's a metaphorical stab to the gut. She has pictures of this man who did not crash his car and did lie about it. Pictures of him and her and Ben, together, happy.

What in the name of all that's holy happened that she does not remember any of this?

A month later she finds a sketch of a pentagram in a circle, surrounded by flames. She shows it around, and Gina thinks it's a tattoo design and steals it. Can't be, though. Lisa has never gotten, will never get a tattoo. The design bugs her, though; where has she seen it before, why has she not seen it before?

Six months later and she's nearly forgotten the man, the photos, and the pentagram sketch when two—creatures—(what else could they be with mouths like that) invade her home. Two more people appear out of fucking nowhere and fight off the first two, with squirt guns of all things, which one of the angels (Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, angels) says were filled with dissolved borax, after the angels teleport her and Ben to God alone knows where.

She memorizes the names 'Castiel', 'Dean', and 'Sam'. And the words 'memory spell', which the one angel immediately slaps down the other for mentioning. She wonders which name is her mystery man.

And if there's magic that can erase memories, there's magic that can bring them back.

Lisa sets out to find it.

Three months later, Lisa runs into Dean and Sam in a supermarket. It's happenstance; either that or they're tracking the heavy-duty magic she's just done. First thing she does is haul off and slap Dean. Second thing she does is leave before she actually kills him. He had no right to do that to her. Not to leave her defenseless and not to leave her choiceless.

But she knows now. Professional tattoo for herself, homemade tattoo for Ben to be fixed by a professional as soon as he's legal, because possession is not something she is undergoing again or permitting her son to undergo. All the salt, iron nails, holy water, and borax they can carry, because she is not going to be defenseless again. And a truck and two loaded shotguns, because her choices have been reduced to 'fight back' and 'lie down and die'.

Her name is Lisa Marie Braeden and she will never, ever lie down and die.

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	Re: I'm Gonna Smoke You Out neotoma 2012-02-27 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Dean needs to be slapped for that many more times -- seriously, he thought ignorance was better than Lisa having enough knowledge to protect herself? Because seriously, the monsters aren't going to stop coming just because Lisa doesn't know about them anymore. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	Re: I'm Gonna Smoke You Out elliemurasaki 2012-02-27 11:24 am UTC (link)
	Very much so. Glad you enjoyed! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject gwenbasil 2012-02-23 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Nasty patriarchal assumptions among hunters: The way Dean denied Lisa (enough) tools to protect herself from supernatural threats, to maintain his self-image as 'protector of the helpless'. General lack of solidarity or organization between hunters, ubiquity of "last man on earth"/"I work alone"/"big goddamn hero" syndrome. (Reply to this)

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