crack_van | Take a Long Line, by Derry (PG13)

Fandom: NUMB3RS
Characters: Don, Charlie, Sam, Dean
Length: Medium
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Derry at the CalSci Library
Why this must be read:

Imagine by-the-numbers realist Don up against Supernatural's Sam and Dean Winchester. The FBI has a huge file on the Winchesters. When Dean brazenly walks into a Federal Building it looks like an open and shut case, but maybe Charlie can show him a different way to interpret the numbers.

Derry does a great job of intergrating Supernatural into the Numb3rs universe. It's a collision that sets off fireworks.

Take a short look:

"You know nothing about my family."
Still trying to keep up the momentum, Don opens his mouth to list details, but Winchester cuts him off.
"Oh, yeah, you've read a file. Believed every word of it too, I'll bet, but you don't know a single goddam thing."
"I know that you've left a trail of death and mutilation in your wake. Somehow wherever you go, every horror imaginable follows. I know the casualties include your brother's girlfriend in Palo Alto, his college friend in St Louis, your accomplice in Milwaukee."
"Hey! Your side killed Ronald. No way that's down to me!" And it sounds like this wiseass psychopath is actually insulted by the accusation.
"But you never looked back, did you? What's one more death, after all? You just continue on your merry little tour of destruction and mayhem. Seems the only one safe from you is that brother of yours." And now Don throws in a carefully calculated shrug of his own. "But maybe not even him, huh?"
For a second, Winchester looks as though he's about to leap across the table and wrap his hands around Don's throat, but instead, he takes a deep breath and again speaks in distinct, deliberate words.
"You know nothing about me. You know nothing about Sam. And for all your files and FBI databases and whatever other shit you've got there, you don't know anything about what's really going on out there in the world, Agent Mulder." He flicks a hand dismissively at the file on the table. "You think that's me? That's my life? That's just some fairytale you and your buddies have cooked up. Made the story up to suit yourselves and never asked whether it's true or not. And you never will. Of course not. It's an FBI file, like it's gospel or something. Hey, who needs the actual truth when you've got a file to believe?"

Take a Long Line

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I wasn't sure if it could work, if the author could achieve a seamless integration of the different sets of voices from the two series but it worked. Thanks for the great rec!

Thanks for the endorsement. I hope you are trying some of my other Numb3rs recs as well.

Imagine by-the-numbers realist Don up against Supernatural's Dean and Charlie Winchester.

Uh, you mean Dean and Sam Winchester, surely? *winks*

And yes, the story is great; it's one of the best SPN crossovers in my opinion. Definitely a must-read! :-)

Oops! Thanks for pointing out my brain fart:-). I'ts fixed now. Glad you liked the story. Sounds like you are coming from the Supernatural side. If so I hope you will try out some of my other Numb3rs recs- some of the best are still to be posted. Don and Charlie are another entertaining set of brothers.

Yeah, the Supernatural brothers are my favorite siblings. I watched the first two seasons of Numb3rs, though, because I like anything geeky, and Charlie is such a cute klutz. ^-^ Looking forward to your recs! :-)

I also stopped watching Numb3rs for awhile, but you might want to give the show another try. There have been some very good episodes this season.

PS, I'm a Supernatural fan too. There's something interesting about the way family ties create such strong bonds between people who probably wouldn't even be friends if not for being related. Family creates different dynamics than the bonds of friendship - in some ways stronger, in some ways more contentious, and sometimes it expands our way of seeing the world. Numb3rs and Supernatural both explore that. Numb3rs in particular is unusual in the current crop of procedures in making family an important element, not only between brothers, but including their father as well. It's one of the things I especially like about the series.

I actually gave up because, well, I'm deaf and thus rely on subtitles, and the subtitles that are available for the downloaded episodes often weren't timed right - that was especially bad in the 3rd season, so I just stopped there, not wanting to bother any more with retiming them and doing so only by relying on lipreading. Gnargh. But I'm glad to hear that the show apparently hasn't jumped the shark yet! ;-)

*nods* I agree - it's very much the same with me and my siblings. My little sister is studying to become a teacher for the deaf, and I know that this is only because I'm deaf. Families are a fascinating subject for me, especially siblings - kids thrown together only by luck of genetics, not by mutual affection like in a regular friendship, but often the genetics will provide a deeper bond than a friendship between drastically different people - the Baldwin brothers, for example. You learn to tolerate things in your siblings that you wouldn't do so with friends, you change your interests or worldviews according to your siblings (like when a sibling comes out or something like that).

Numb3rs in particular is unusual in the current crop of procedures in making family an important element, not only between brothers, but including their father as well. It's one of the things I especially like about the series.

*nods* Supernatural did that for a short while in the 1st and 2nd season, too bad John Winchester got offed at the end and never really got a bigger role in the brothers' lives. *sighs* Re Numb3rs: As I never really got to watch the 3rd season and - the series is now in the 5th season, isn't it? - I heard that the father is now also working at CalSci, or somesuch? That must be interesting...

Take a Long Line, by Derry (PG13)

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