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Journeys / by Enmuse (NC-17)
Jan. 3rd, 2013 02:56 pmTitle: Journeys
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EnmuseEnmuse aka Scifiroots
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: main: Gabriel/Sam Winchester; background: Crowley/Bobby Singer, Castiel/Dean Winchester
Genre: Romance
Length: Medium (Words: 75,200)
Author's Summary:
1. Team Free Will, with a recently added team member, struggles to maintain faith in their cause and fight to stop the Apocalypse. The dead don't stay dead, a demon sticks around, and Dean's drunken brainstorm pans out. Sam has trouble adjusting after his time in Hell. Castiel returns to ask for help finding a militant group of angels just in time for an amnesiac Gabriel to show up to demand what the heck is going on.
2. In the autumn following the averted Apocalypse, Sam is struggling with nightmares and memories slipping past the wall Kali put in place when she pulled him from the Cage. Gabriel's torn between helping his lover to the best of his ability and helping reorganize Heaven with Cas and Raphael. As Sam's flashbacks worsen and Gabriel learns details of his lover's time spent in the Cage, it becomes clear that the Cage hasn't held together.
Review:
Though I'm not normally an amnesia!fic fan, this one works really well. The author tries to stick close to canon throughout, despite some fairly big changes, and manages to pull it off. The characterizations are alright, but they come off as OOC at the very beginning (later, it can mostly pass for character development so it becomes less of an issue). The main reason I'm giving this fic a rec though it re-readability. I've read this series several times now and still enjoy it.
Journeys (on AO3)
Author:
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: main: Gabriel/Sam Winchester; background: Crowley/Bobby Singer, Castiel/Dean Winchester
Genre: Romance
Length: Medium (Words: 75,200)
Author's Summary:
1. Team Free Will, with a recently added team member, struggles to maintain faith in their cause and fight to stop the Apocalypse. The dead don't stay dead, a demon sticks around, and Dean's drunken brainstorm pans out. Sam has trouble adjusting after his time in Hell. Castiel returns to ask for help finding a militant group of angels just in time for an amnesiac Gabriel to show up to demand what the heck is going on.
2. In the autumn following the averted Apocalypse, Sam is struggling with nightmares and memories slipping past the wall Kali put in place when she pulled him from the Cage. Gabriel's torn between helping his lover to the best of his ability and helping reorganize Heaven with Cas and Raphael. As Sam's flashbacks worsen and Gabriel learns details of his lover's time spent in the Cage, it becomes clear that the Cage hasn't held together.
Review:
Though I'm not normally an amnesia!fic fan, this one works really well. The author tries to stick close to canon throughout, despite some fairly big changes, and manages to pull it off. The characterizations are alright, but they come off as OOC at the very beginning (later, it can mostly pass for character development so it becomes less of an issue). The main reason I'm giving this fic a rec though it re-readability. I've read this series several times now and still enjoy it.
Journeys (on AO3)