So I'm reading this fic and I realize that maybe there's a halfway decent idea in it.
Wait! Don't run away because I linked crackfic that sucked yet still makes me laugh maniacally! I blame insomnia (it wasn't as funny at 4 pm as it was at 3am, although Dean's "oh god" and Chuck's "exactly!" still made me laugh).
It's not quite all there, but halfway: Sam's body & soul and Lucifer go into the cage. Maybe on the point of entry into the cage equalled death for Sam's body, and therefore his soul went to regular ole Hell or Heaven. --Or some other plane where Tessa or another Reaper is trying to coax him to let go or else eventually become an angry spirit.
So, basically, Sam and Adam's physical bodies are rotting in the ground in Stull, but their souls bounced off the walls of the cage and went their respective ways, while Michael and Lucifer, being archangels/angels, are still in the cage.
So what's outside Lisa's house? Sam's soul that needs to go back into his shell? For some reason I really want him to be corporeal. Unpossessed, and solid. Perhaps other, perhaps a bit tainted, but huggable.
That's what confuses me. Sustaining a storyline where one of them is a ghost would be pretty tough. For them, explaining how Sam got his body back intact is less so. He's other a demon, has Lucifer riding shotgun, or has been given some sort of second chance, I think.
I'd buy Sam as a ghost with a short arc to make him corporeal again (relatively quickly).
I could see that it was Sam choosing to risk becoming an angry poltergeist outside Lisa's house, and then, yeah, him becoming corporeal again somehow, at some point. I could also see that all already having happened. But the latter seems too easy. And I can see why Sam would hold back on seeing Dean if it was the former.
I know the Winchesters are all about what's never been done before (duh), but for some reason it will take a lot for me to buy reversing ghost-hood if his body is actually corpsified.
And I am really fairly convinced that Kripke took Lucifer with him when he left showrunner. Sam probably came back wrong, but I really hope Michael and Luci are locked up for good.
There are a million reasons for Sam to hold back, even if he's completely normal. I think he's stupid like that--and I say that with fondness. He may very well think that one of them getting out to normal (alcoholism aside) is worth it. If he's blowing out electric lights, he's totally going to fuck with Dean's retirement.
I completely agree. Sam didn't ask Dean to try on that life on a lark. He meant it. And if he thought for a second Dean was doing it, and doing it *well*, I think he would back way the hell off.
Fuck! I owe you icon, don't I? I'm totally working on that this weekend.
