Sell Your Baseball Cards to Pay the Rent by whereupon (r)

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm victoria p. and I'll be driving the van for Supernatural this month. I plan to rec an assortment of gen, het, and Wincest, mostly focused on Sam and Dean.

Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Length: 4,750 words
Author on LJ: whereupon
Author Website: LJ memories
Why this must be read:

Let's start things off with a bang. This story contains a barroom brawl, a hold up, and a gorgeous, awkward, perfect first time for Sam and Dean.

"Okay. Shit. What do we do now?"

"We get us a goddamn ride," Dean says. He reaches down to scoop up the bill, crumples it into his pocket and strides off into the shadows, gravel crunching beneath his boots and Sam trailing behind.

"A ride to where," Sam says.

"The other side of the rainbow, Sammy," Dean says. He looks back over his shoulder to make sure nobody's watching them and then sets to work on the little grey car. "Where the skies are goddamn blue. How the hell should I know? You got us into this, you can do some of the work."

"I did not get us into this," Sam says. "You're the one who said we should stop here in the first place. You're the one who started the game. You're the one who threw the game and all I did was back you up."

Dean looks up from the driver's side door. "Didn't anybody ever give you the peer pressure speech?"

"You're not my peer, you're my brother. It doesn't count. Dean, if you're gonna break into a car anyway, why don't you just break into the Impala?"

"Dude, I'm not gonna break into my own car," Dean says. "I'm not fuckin' her up and besides, I want my keys back."

The seedy, desperate side of the boys' lives shines through here, as well as the overwhelming amount of love they have for each other. Dean's voice is spot-on, and the story is both hilarious and achy.

Sell Your Baseball Cards to Pay the Rent by whereupon

Please remember to let the author know if you enjoy the story.

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Comments

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten how damn fine that story is. Thank you, I loved revisiting it again!

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I was happy to be able to rec it. I knew as soon as I got the word I was up for this month that this would be my first rec.

[ex-uniquewo.livejournal.com]

Would you cut the story excerpt please? Thanks in advance.

[niciasus.livejournal.com]

Why?

The excerpt doesn't give away the story. There is no explicit wording. The excerpt gives non-spn reader like myself an opportunity to read a possible terrific story. Without it, I would've passed it by.

[ex-uniquewo.livejournal.com]

I'll quote the posting guidelines: "If your review is longer than a few paragraphs, or if you're including excerpts from the fic, please consider using cut-tags for the sake of friends-list spammage."

I know other posters forget to cut the excerpts too but this was longer than most.