lirazel | Choco_cherries Challenge: All The Way Down

Don't you just love it when the chemicals combine in just the right way and things explode in your face? I do.

Ingredients:
1. New fandoms (Supernatural and Friday Night Lights)
2.

ava_leigh_fitz's recommendation of

choco_cherries
3.

arewewinning's insane pairings
4. My insane need to IMDb every actor from every show I love.

The result:
My first challenge entry.

Title: All The Way Down (Sam/Tyra) PG
Rating: PG
Word Count: 299
Summary: "She can’t help but wonder what he sees." Supernatural/Friday Night Lights
Characters: Tyra, Sam, Dean.
Spoilers/Warnings: None
A/N: For choco_cherries's "What did you say your name was, again?" challenge. Adrianne Palicki plays Jessica in Supernatural and Tyra in Friday Night Lights.

She notices the older one first—how could she not? Smile as big as Texas and an ass that looks better in jeans that even hers. He’s a charmer, the kind she usually pretends to roll her eyes at but would take back again and again and again. She could get him to notice her, too, if she tried just a little, and he’d be eating out of her hand in seconds.

But the younger one, the one with the big sad eyes, stares at her like he’s seeing the most perfect woman he’s ever seen or a ghost or maybe both and they’re really the same thing. He’s looking into her, all the way down, and she can’t help but wonder what he sees.

She reads people well, too, and sees that there isn’t anything small town about him, that he could fit in anywhere and nowhere. He looks like the rest of the world beyond Dillon, and she still wants that world so bad that it hurts—so bad that she can barely stand to look at sunsets or out-of-state license plates or maps that show more than the surrounding nine counties.

Her heart’s been broken so many times that one more really shouldn’t matter, but he grinds the pieces to dust when the truth finally comes out: a dead girlfriend, one he was planning to propose to, a fire and then there was nothing but the road and his brother. He’s been seeing someone else this whole time, staring at her face and finding ghosts there, and that hurts as much as when you think your mom would choose some jackass over you.

But then he smiles quietly and tells her she’s completely different from Jess, and she thinks maybe he does see her after all.