Please tell me about • Cybernatural Short: Prequel
It’s a short fic (probably end up being less than 10k) about Sam’s demon blood binge mentioned in Cybernatural. It revolves around him hunting a demon crime syndicate, meeting Nima, and helping her gain power, while also resisting Dean and Castiel’s attempts to capture him. The story ends with the confrontation at Twilight Plaza.
It’s a fun but challenging exercise in writing a version of Sam that toes the line between self-interest and villainous. Honestly, the writing process is all just me making heart eyes while writing Sam and Nima being menacing together.
“He drinks the blood of demons,” Nima told the nest’s leader.
The brutish man scoffed. “It’s poison. Nobody can—“
Sam could see Nima’s muscles coil subtly and her jaw set. For some reason he got the distinct impression that everyone else was mistaking it for nerves or desperation. To him it was obvious that she was seething. She’d just survived torture by the enemy, witnessed something that was evidently unheard of, and was now being called a liar in front of her entire nest. Not only was the leader being blindly stubborn to his own harm, the guy might be an obstruction generally. Life was too short to endure the likes of such nuisances.
He looked at Nima while gesturing at the supposedly powerful vampire. “Do we need him?”
The nest leader stepped forward and hissed, “Who the fuck do you think—“
Sam telekinetically threw him into the ceiling and held him there without turning his attention away from Nima. His body tensed a bit from the strain causing more blood to drip from his injured shoulder.
“If you don’t need him, I’m just gonna kill him. Okay?” Sam told her.
“Wait!” shouted the former leader, but Nima gestured at him in a dismissive way.
In an instant the man’s head was literally torn from his body. A huge amount of blood poured out onto the filthy tile floor. Sam used some of his diminishing strength to telekinetically throw both pieces of the corpse to the side of the room. It had taken real effort to make that demonstration, but he trusted that every other vampire there would think twice before trying to fight him.
