Choco_cherries Challenge: All The Way Down

[lirazel]

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.

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I totally didn't know it was here in both of them till I imdb-ed her--I never, ever would have recognized her, and I'm so good about that. Ah, well. I had fun figuring it out once I did.

Thanks so much! I really am so glad you liked it. I agree about Tyra--she could be with either one of them. Her relationship with Dean would be dramatic and explosive, but with Sam it would have been more subtle and angsty, and, as you said, complicated.

I thought I would hate Tyra at the outset--typical skank, I thought--but now I'm really beginning to feel for her, which started happening after that episode with the LA guy--there's so much to her. She just needs to stay away from sleazebag!Tim.

Thank you and thanks for the welcome! And you're right--I am so writing more. I just finished up my Dean/Veronica piece which will be making an appearance soon....

Oh, and I adore your icon. I laughed out loud when I saw it. Ah, Dean. How I love thee.

[ineffort.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm kind of in love with sleazebag!Tim, but I agree that they need to burn their bridges because I don't see him changing though in his defense he has kind of, but he'll probably always take her for granted just a little.

See, I'm a minority Lyla lover so my dislike for Tyra was kind of immediate, but she did win me over.

And this is where I was going to pitch arguments on how I was going to friend you if only to be a crusader behind said D/V fic or anything for that matter, but you beat me to it. :P

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, Tim's an interesting character, I'll give him that. I always pay attention when he's onscreen. But he and Tyra are just not good for each other. Not good at all. He isn't going to challenge her or support her while she tries to become the person she needs to be. But like you say, he has kind of changed--I love his interaction with Bo. If only he could be that guy all the time.

I have a weird relationship with Lyla. I really, truly can't decide if I like her or not. I was screaming at Jason when he kissed that Suzy girl--how dare he! After how hurt he was when she was with Tim! But I have yet to come down completely on her side.

But maybe I will. I certainly changed my mind about Tyra.

Arguments, huh? Think I would be hard to persuade? D/V is forthcoming! Watch for it! I'll love your feedback.