Chaos

[tifaching]

Title: Chaos
Author: tifaching
Prompt: #2  at the April Showers Drabbleathon at  day_by_drabble
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Sam Winchester, Ruby
Genre: Gen'
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Summary:  Ruby's taken Sam a long way.

 

He's nearly ready.

Ruby smiles as Sam reaches out- eyes cold and hard.  He pulls the demon from its host, consigns it to eternal oblivion and his face shows only triumph.  No guilt or pain- he’s so much stronger now.

Ruby’s triumph is even greater, but she keeps that to herself.  The lost, broken man she’d dragged from his cocoon all those months ago has grown, fed on the sweet nectar of anger and revenge, nourished by the power of her blood.

When her butterfly flaps his wings, it will bring more than chaos.  It will bring hell on earth.

Comments

[dante_s_hell]

Very nice!

[tifaching]

Thanks!

[lylithj2.livejournal.com]

Oh hell! That was brilliant!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thanks, BB! The prompt was a picture of a butterfly, time lapsed from emerging from its cocoon to full grown, ready to fly, and powers!Sammy just came to mind.

How's things? You doing well?

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

What a direction to take this prompt! Very effective!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Oh shit...oh hell, woman!! This was gorgeous!!

*hugs you hard*

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

*squishes you*

[louisem27.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!

Just....Wow!

You do know that even as dark as these are I just love them.

Hugs

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thanks KB! How's your puppy?

[louisem27.livejournal.com]

Not good :( :(

I know S made a post for me, but I can't bring myself to look at it.

Thank your for asking.

[minebellatilli.livejournal.com]

Loved your insight into Ruby's evil mind. Butterfly indeed.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

She is evil,but she worked Sam like a pro. He is her butterfly and those wings? Gonna flap.

Thanks!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

And that She is evil, but she worked Sam like a pro. He is her butterfly and those wings? Gonna flap. is what made Ruby so intriguing from an intellectual standpoint as a villain. Or at least that's why I liked Ruby on some level.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

My problems with Ruby stemmed mostly from the poor acting ability of the two women who played her. When you look back at her character though....damn. She played on Sam's desperation to save Dean and then on his despair after he couldn't. When Dean came back she still had her claws in Sam, whispering in his ear that Dean was weak, broken, unable to save himself or the world. She was right in her final lines. She was awesome!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

You sound exactly like me - my problem with Ruby was the acting abilities of the two women who portrayed her. I hated Ruby 1.0... until I met Ruby 2.0. I don't like S3 Ruby by any stretch of the imagination in terms of acting, but she was definitely way better than S4 Ruby.

But poor acting aside, Ruby as a CHARACTER... damn. She was awesome. And hardcore. She was actually phenomenal in her manipulation and getting her claws into Sam, playing into Sam's character flaws - his desperation, his despair.... and then toying with his concepts and perceptions of Post-Hell Dean. On paper and conceptually speaking, I kind of have a love-affair with Ruby. It's just a shame she didn't transcribe well visually.

[monicawoe.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! THIS IS BRILLIANT! I LOVE THIS!

And you totally have Ruby's voice DOWN.

I especially love this line When her butterfly flaps his wings, it will bring more than chaos. It will bring hell on earth. So, so, so totally S4!RUBY.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Ruby would know chaos theory. And Sam is her butterfly, all the way.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Ruby totally would know her Chaos Theory.... and I almost wish we had a Ruby-monologue about it. THIS is now my personal mind-canon with Ruby's POV. And Sam totally was her butterfly all the way....

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

:D. Yay for personal mind canon. And a Ruby monologue would be great! *nudges you*

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

Your ending packs such a punch. Guh.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Ruby played Sam like a violin all the way to the end. Her only miscalculation was, as so many bad things are, Dean.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

This is AWESOME! Love the imagery and the use of chaos theory. So good! *saves*

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! When I saw the butterfly prompt,powers!Sammy came right to mind. And yes for chaos theory! When Sam flaps his metaphorical wings, well...we all know what happened!

Thanks again for reading, and I'm so glad you enjoyed!

[selecasharp.livejournal.com]

This is a really awesome interpretation of that prompt, bb! It gives me shivers, seeing how you got into her head here. Oh, Ruby, if only I hadn't hated your actress, hehe. Great job!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

I know, she really sucked. It's too bad, because Ruby could have been awesome.

Glad about the shivers and thank you!

[abeautifullie3.livejournal.com]

Holy Shit! (or unholy, rather) This is...I can feel it.
Yeah, this one goes to the place where it's beyond a mere comprehension of words. This packs a physical punch.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

I love it when it's more than just words. I'm so glad the impact came through. Ruby was a piece of work and her machinations really did bring hell to earth.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Very nice job capturing Ruby here, with her pride and very real, if fairly fuckd-up, affection for Sam and all his possibilities.

Also - happy birthday! Here, have a cupcake!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you! For the comment and the cupcake!

[cece-away.livejournal.com]

Stunning phrases. I'm always so impressed when a writer can give so much within an economy of words. That's hard.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The butterfly prompt really inspired me. And thanks for the lovely comment. It is hard to get out what you mean in only 100 words, but it's so worth the effort.