Why is it easier to write ABOUT fic than to write fic?

[dragojustine]

Only 15 more days till I go home for Christmas!

Successful days of writing: 9

Random: I really, really, really want to play "Girls with Guitars" on Guitar Hero. I LOVE that song.

So I wrote a SPN/Chuck little crossover sentence and then I couldn't stop thinking about the idea. Then (unrelatedly) rei_c did a crossover drabble that is very good.



So here's what I'm seeing: Chuck and Sam meet their freshman year, when Sam is taking a lot of scattered freshman classes. Chuck thinks Sam's a genius with a knack for computers and tries to convince him to go that direction, but Sam is carefully heading at something that will get him into business or law or medicine, which comes from a deep-seated insecurity that Chuck, with his utterly middle-class upbringing and stable family support structure (mom's death notwithstanding) can't really understand. Anyway, Chuck sees that Sam is alone and hurting and he tries- really tries- to draw Sam into his circle of friends (because Chuck is a fundamentally kind person who builds supportive groups around himself. It's just how he is), but Sam isn't actually a geek (Dean calls him that, but Sam's relentless pursuit of normalcy in high school didn't set him up to be comfortable with guys who play DnD and learn Klingon, he's smart but not a geek) and anyway Chuck soon sees that he won't ever really know Sam, that Sam is keeping secrets locked up so tight that nothing Chuck sees will be more than an act. And there's probably Sam/Chuck here, but it's dark and not-quite-violent and it scares Chuck off, convinces him for good that this is a guy he can't heal.

And Bryce really cares about Chuck, that's obvious, and helps him stay away from Sam after that. Plus, the whole Bryce/Chuck/Jill circle is actually a wonderful happy little bunch, with sexual confusion but no angst and pretty vanilla but with rather blurry lines of who really is with who, and it's the most blissful thing in the world for Chuck, so staying away from Sam isn't that hard.

But Chuck does know Jess, knows her pretty well (do we have cannon on what she studied? Cause I'm attached to her not in something like art history. Maybe not CS or Engineering, but at least, say, Econ- hell, maybe even a friend of Jill's). And by Senior year Chuck and Sam have pretty completely drifted apart but their whole little circle is just shook to its very foundation when Jessica dies, and Chuck goes to the funeral only to hear that Sam skipped town, didn't even stay to put her in the ground.
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But then this guy, pretty guy in James-Dean-leather with the flashiest smile Chuck's ever seen, walks into the Buy More and he's looking for a new battery for this cell phone. Chuck can help him out no problem, but when he turns around from the shelf to hand it to the guy he sees his eyes clearly for the first time, those freakishly green eyes and he flashes and this guy is an FBI-Most-Wanted serial killer. So Chuck's freaking out and trying to signal Casey without tipping his hand when Sam Winchester himself walks right up without an ounce of shame and Chuck flashes on him too. So it's all "You?" and "Oh my god you've become a serial killer and you're back to kill me for something I did at Stanford and can I just say I'm so, so, sorry now just take the battery and go-"

But Casey sees that Chuck is in some kind of distress and comes on over, and Chuck blurts something out to him, and just like that Sam and Dean are fleeing from their lives from Casey. There's a fight, and Casey puts a bullet in Sam before Dean's straight-up balls-to-the-wall careless-of-his-own-life rush puts Casey under and away they get.

Chuck is convinced something is wrong, convinced that Sam isn't aiding and abetting a serial killer and there must be a mistake. But Casey knows fighting men, and he knows for damn sure that this Dean fellow is dangerous, well-trained and the kind of scary-insane that could kill people easy, but he can't seem to quite convince Chuck of this, though that might mostly be Chuck's guilt that he got Sam shot.

Casey and Sarah get on the horn with the Big Bosses and it's a huge deal- the chance to bring down the FBI's top Wanted. They're to attempt to keep the targets under surveillance until the FBI's man can arrive. So Sarah goes out to try to track down Dean and Sam, but Casey says he's gonna follow his own lead.

Chuck has been doing his research. He's looking up everything he can on every case Dean Winchester is supposed to be connected with, and the pieces just don't add up. For one thing, sure the deaths always stop after the Winchesters leave, but the weird thing is that the deaths tend to START before they arrive. For another thing, that cop in Minnesota absolutely refuses to testify against them. The woman Dean supposedly tortured now swears he saved her life. Several other people online swear he did too, with varying levels of craziness.

But the really interesting thing is the photo of this woman who Dean supposedly killed in Milwaukee, because that flashes hard. See, the Intersect happens to know that she doesn't exist- the twin-sister-who-wasn't. The Intersect also happens to know that her body turned to a mush of melted meat-stuff halfway through the autopsy (hushed up by the local coroner, who was afraid for his job). And the Intersect knows that when the FBI tried to exhume the supposed body of Dean Winchester, that same meat-mush was all they found.

Chuck calls Sam, partly to make sure he's okay. Partly to warn him that Casey and Sarah are coming for him and he needs to get out of town. And partly to say that he knows there's something going on here, and he just wants the truth. So Sam sets a meeting place and Chuck goes... trailed, of course, by Agent Casey.

There is a standoff, Dean and Casey pointing guns at each other, and Casey is hard and professional and scary, but Dean just this guy shoot Sam and he's not backing down for one second, and there is much smart-assed wisecrackery. Sam and Chuck talk, and Chuck doesn't know what to believe, all he knows is that the FBI's official line is wrong. And Casey is a consummate professional, he follows orders but he also understands that in the field, Chuck can have more information than headquarters and Casey knows when it's time to just make the call. So Casey lowers his gun and watches as Dean gets Sam and their stuff all packed up.

But before they can drive off, there's one last thing Chuck has to know-

"Why didn't you even go to her funeral?"

"Because we were hunting the thing that killed her."

"Did you get it?"

"Yeah. Yeah, we got it."

And Chuck returns to his sister and Awesome and his best friend and fake-girlfriend and just thinks that, as utterly fucked-up as his life is, there are things going on out there even stranger.
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I really, really want there to be a way to work a Sam/Dean/Casey/Chuck orgy into this plot. But there isn't.

Oh man. That's a hell of a lot of plot for something I said I couldn't write because I had no plot for it. Would anyone read it, anyway?

Comments

[miriad.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD.

I would read that in a heartbeat. Guh. That's awesome. So, so awesome.

dragojustine FTMFW!

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE that icon!

Wow. My bunnies are actually sexy enough to justify That Face on Dean? *fans* Hot.

Now I know what I'll have to do after I manage to get spn_holidays written.