Meme answer

[kat_lair]

And here is the final meme answer to the meme where I asked you to...
Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them, from my own personal pseudo-canon.

claudia_writes  upped the ante and asked for hustler!Sam from a cliché AU version of Supernatural where Sam turned to prostitution as an acceptable source of income. No, really. Take it up with her, if you got issues with this. I’m only doing what I’m told. (Also: there are teeny tiny hints of Sam/Dean herein so consider yourselves warned)

And, um, for some reason that I prefer not to think about too closely, hustler!Sam was very inspirational. Therefore claudia_writes  gets not three, but…

Five things about hustler!Sam

1. The bottom line, the real kicker, is that Sam has no one but himself to blame. It’s not like he didn’t have other opportunities, because he did; a lecturer offering a data entry job, friend’s uncle needing another part-time assistant in his shop, a self-defence instructor’s position at the campus that he would’ve gotten with little more than a snap of his fingers. 

Still burning with righteous anger, determined to make it on his own, Sam turns all of them down. He won’t take charity and he sure as hell won’t make a living from skills his father taught him. So, in the end, he runs out of money and options, because fuck if he’s going back with a tail between his legs.

 

2. Sam doesn’t really remember his first john. Or his second, third, or fourth. He remembers the fifth one though: dirty-blond hair, full mouth, swagger covering up for almost painful shyness, the way he pressed against Sam’s back, hot and hard and needy, big hands on his hips.

Yeah. 

The fifth guy is the first client Sam remembers. The first one he really hates too, because he’s the first to make him come.

 

3. Sam has a rule. It’s not the “always wear a rubber” rule, which is more an unyielding law, nor is it the “no kissing on the mouth” rule, which is nothing but a romantic cliché anyway, because there ain’t anywhere he won’t kiss a guy if the money is right.

No, Sam’s rule goes something like this: “Do not fuck the same guy more than twice.” There’s an extra stipulation to that, which says: “If you actually want to fuck the same guy more than twice, don’t do it; he’s a trick, not your goddamn boyfriend you idiot, just remember what happened that one time and move the fuck on.” In his head that last part sounds a lot like Dean, which would be sort of funny if it wasn’t so utterly pathetic. 

 

4. By the time he meets Jess, he’s pretty well established; a known, reliable face in the city’s gay club scene, several miles removed from his college life. Sam thinks about stopping, he does, but in the end he just cuts down to four-five nights a month, just enough to tie him over, to keep his foot in the door.

He doesn’t actually stop until after Jess’ death, and even then it has more to do with the fact that they’re always moving and Dean is always watching and Dean is… Dean just is.

 

5. He goes briefly back on the game when Dean lies dying in a motel room in Nebraska. Sam figures his brother’s heart is already as broken as it can get, besides which, a couple of hundred dollars might buy them time; specialists, medicine, a miracle.

Afterwards he uses the money for better motel rooms, ammo and food. Dean never questions where he got the extra cash. 

It works so well, that Sam does it again in Montana while Dean is getting chummy with Gordon, and again in Philadelphia, unwilling to play the third wheel. After the bank job disaster in Milwaukee he gets sloppy, slipping out when Dean is sleeping, when he thinks Dean is sleeping. They’re short on money, yes, but more than that, Sam is desperate to feel something, anything, other than the constant gut-wrenching fear of getting caught they’ve been living under for weeks now. Hustling at least is a familiar danger, a manageable threat, a risk he can control. And he does.

Right until the moment he turns a corner, taste of latex still in his mouth, and finds Dean leaning on the wall, hands fisted inside the pockets of his leatherjacket.

Comments

[pushkin666.livejournal.com]

You do know don't you that that very last sentence is just calling out for somebody to go and write it. *g*

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

SHUT UP! I told you: I wrote this so that I never have to write a proper hustler!Sam fic. This is like "the fic I would write if I could be bothered, in five snapshots" or some lazy shit like that.

[pushkin666.livejournal.com]

I shall behave *g*. Although I now have that scene clearly in my mind, Sam getting up off his knees, brushing down his trousers, and turning that corner and Dean being there leaning up against a wall.

[claudia-writes.livejournal.com]

ooohhhoooohhhhhh!

There is just something so hot about hustler!sam, 'cause he just looks so middle america and I can imagine him just so in some Arkansas hicktown taking it up the..... okay..... mouth running away from me there. again.

Aren't you glad I asked for this? ;)

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Haha, I am sort of glad you asked this, because my mind was happily occupied by thinking up "facts" about hustler!Sam... and picturing hustler!Sam's hustler!outfit. um. yes. *drools delicately*

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

Oh, Sammy. I'm not sure if I want to hug him or hit him! and pushkin666 is right, that last line just begs to be ficced. (But I won't force you. Or beg. Even though I want to). Also, the more hustler!Sam I read, the more I think Sam would make a good hustler.

Once again, your personal canon is awesome. Like ficlets all of thier own, only more weighty, and so beautifully conveyed.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I would totally hit him. Yes. Like that. Anyway, I ended on a deliberate "cliff-hanger" so as leave something for the reader's imagination...

And once again your compliments leave me blushing! Thank you hun!

[yasmine32068.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah you have to follow up that last line!!! It's just to good to leave!!!

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

but, but, but... what about all the gazillion wips I have on the go? *wails* I will take this as a compliment though so thank you...

[calijirl5150.livejournal.com]

::jumps on the bandwagon:: Needs to be contined.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

*is immensely flattered* but, um, no. probably no. most likely no. erm. omg, people, hustler!Sam has been done by writers better than me about gazillion times and I am clinging to my current wips with desperation... but flattered. yes. very. *gg*

[calijirl5150.livejournal.com]

but, but, but :;makes Sammy puppy eyes:: ya cna't leave us hangin. Just a tiny little (hee hee nothin about Sammy's tiny) snippet :)

[fledge.livejournal.com]

Last line: WHOA :D
Way to hit the audience where they'll sit up and take notice. That line MADE this - fic, or whatever you'd want to call it.

Is client #5 meant to look a little bit like Dean? Not that Sam has consciously realised this himself, of course.

And awww hustling for more money for his sick brother. That just... *wipes a sentimental tear* ^_^

OOOH so in that canon ep in s1 where he comes in with coffee and Dean realises he hasn't been to bed ALL NIGHT and he pretends it's the nightmares... MUAHHAAH! So that's what he was really up to. And probably stopped right then when he realised Dean was taking notice of his comings and goings.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

First lines and last lines are important. You have to grab your reader immediately and you have to leave them with a lasting impression. So with that in mind, I'm so pleased this worked for you.

Like I said, hustler!fic is one of my favourite fanfic clichés and the prompt gave me a perfect opportunity to write it without actually writing it...

And heh, I hadn't thought about that scene, but I AM NOW. Totally canon from now on. :D

[fledge.livejournal.com]

And heh, I hadn't thought about that scene, but I AM NOW. Totally canon from now on. :D

Wheeeeeeeeee! I love it when canon and fanon come together by sheer accident. It's like we're all on the same wavelength even though the show writers don't know it, muahaha. (Or maybe they do but they just know where they have to stop.)

And yes, while I'm sure you could write a great hustler!fic, I'm not joining the crowds begging for it because you write an even better backbone for it. It's a much more original approach, and I never mind being handed things to play with in my own imagination afterwards *g* Isn't that what slash is all about? :D

(This icon because I made it in homage to a parody fic in which John forces Dean to hustle, among other unfatherly things.)

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I never mind being handed things to play with in my own imagination afterwards *g* Isn't that what slash is all about? - absolutely. I like leaving things to the reader's imagination. Suggestion usually works out better than spelling things out.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

ps. your icon cracks me up.

Re: ps. your icon cracks me up

[fledge.livejournal.com]

:)

Agent Hendrikson: "Did daddy touch you in a naughty place?"

[fledge.livejournal.com]

Speaking of suggestion, and following on from my comment It's like we're all on the same wavelength even though the show writers don't know it, muahaha. (Or maybe they do but they just know where they have to stop.) I am seriously unable to believe that Kripke et al do not know EXACTLY how some fans are interpreting the canon -- especially after the latest, post-Christmas run of episodes. And OMG DEEEEAN in Jus in Bello!!! ^_^ *squeefests*

I mean no, okay, they probably aren't actually intentionally writing subliminal slash. But they're sailing awfully near the coast. There is more ... *makes a fist squeezing gesture* between Sam and Dean as platonic brothers than between most COUPLES on TV.

I would love to discuss last Thursday's 'Jus in Bello' with someone incidentally :) And what does that title mean, exactly? Justice in beauty..?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

It certainly feels like they're spoon-feeding the wincest to us. I mean; all that emotional drama and angst, dying in each other's arms, walking in each other's dreams... Not to mention: "Put a leash on your brother if you want to keep him." and "I love it when you take control. It makes me tingly." and matching tattoos.

I mean... pushkin666 was with me when we watched the latest ep and she can testify that when the boys revealed their tattoos I actually paused the clip and had to take a moment to make high-pitched squeeing noises and gesticulate wildly. Because, they just went there and I can't quite believe it.

*massive flail*

[fledge.livejournal.com]

*Grins* I loved those comments too. Especially the tingly one ^_^

Someone clearly wants a matching tatts icon! They are very fine tatts but since they have a practical purpose as supernatural wards, I would incline to think that's the reason for their looking the same, not that they just decided to go with the same design. Still, they do look hot and you can imagine them tracing one another's tattoos with their tongues... One has to wonder why they never considered it before though. Personally I think I'd be going around tattooed from head to toe! Well... okay not quite that much, they have to pass as government officials.

Oooh I wonder if they did them themselves, there has to be a great fic in that! They probably did, one would think there'd be more to the process than simply inking them in. Spells, and such.

Sam's hand and breathing shiver faintly as he leans close, tongue poking out in concentration as he draws careful strokes over his brother's skin, feeling the steady heartbeat like a communion beneath his hand.

Dean sits as still as possible, eyes locked on Sam's face, devouring his features as he so rarely gets a chance to do. He is drawn again and again to that provocative tonguetip, moist and pink and as alluring as bait on a hook to a fish. He finds himself fantasising about leaning forward, taking that tongue into his mouth and sucking on it, rolling it between his lips and nibbling, tasting, exploring...

"Dean?"

With a start, Dean realises that Sam is staring back, eyes wide and dark, mouth slightly open and his lips glistening; and Dean honestly can't recall whether it was Sam who licked them, or himself.

Ooh there, happy birthday, I think I just wrote you a drabble :D

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for finding me that icon! Now that pushkin666 has gifted me with a paid account for a year I have lots of room for more icons! (how is my flist so awesome, how?)

And I'm glad you're enjoying thehighwaywoman's fics, I'm always happy to pimp my flist (see above: awesome, how so)

And... adsfkgklagjrl; *FLAIL OF MASSIVE PROPORTIONS* Hot tattoo!kink comment!fic FTW! I loved he steady heartbeat like a communion beneath his hand. and the last line was a killer...

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I love this like burning!

[fledge.livejournal.com]

Ah, I don't actually know whether the tatts icon is gakkable, I just stumbled across it so you might want to check up on that first. But I *think* it was in thehighwaywoman's icons which suggests (since she didn't make it) that it may well be.

And wheeeeeeeeeeee!!! :))) *dances* I'm so glad you like the snippet *^.^* Thank you very much. Very high praise from a writer of your calibre. I think the muses just grabbed that one and ran with it before I knew what was happening...

Friends are awesome, yes. Friends with shared tastes, well :)

and a question...

[fledge.livejournal.com]

While we're on the subject (and what other subject than SPN? *g*) do you know the reason for the current hiatus? There are no new eps on spn_provisions, is it just a natural season break or are the writers catching up after the strike?

Re: and a question...

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I don't know for sure but I think it's just writers catching up. We should be getting 4 more eps... And of course season 4 has been officially approved.

Re: and a question...

[fledge.livejournal.com]

WOOOOOOT that is very good news :))

We should be getting at least EIGHT more eps in total, if there is no season break... the comm only has 12 up so far.