So one of my very favorite characters ever is Tim Speedle from the first couple seasons of CSI:Miami. I loved his attitude and his backstory and his hot, hotass self. I thought it was character assassination of the highest degree when they killed him off the way they did, so I have a few different ways that I've fixed that over the years.

This first one doesn't ignore his death and is an xover with Supernatural that ends up Speed(sort of)/Dean.


carleton97: I just had a flash of a ghost story. So, Dean and Sam are in Miami, right?
exitsign: askasl;kas;lasas;lskl;ask oh my god.
exitsign: i LOVE you so fucking much.
exitsign: oh my god.
exitsign: i just... you're my soulmate.
carleton97: and, because it's me, there would be much ghostly goings on and the, some miraculous reincarnation thing wherein they run into him later.
exitsign: yes.
exitsign: oh, god, that would be awesome.
carleton97: Like I imagine Speed as a ghost just being PISSED. That the supernatural was real.
exitsign: sakljsljk because he's a logic guy. and supernatural =/= logic.
exitsign: so he's like, going all ghosty and GRR not because he's dead, but because WHAT THE FUCK.
carleton97: Exactly. He's DEAD. There should be nothing. Or heaven. Maybe.
exitsign: maybe. but mostly, no. logically, no.
carleton97: And it just makes NO SENSE BECAUSE HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING AND OH GOD WHY IS HE STUCK IN THE FREAKING RETAIL SPACE HE BOUGHT IT IN?
exitsign: askljakljaaaaaaaaaaaaaaklj
exitsign: he wants to go see if alexx is humping his FUCKING CORPSE but he CAN'T.
carleton97: and he can't HELP anyone and he can't DO anything.He can only fuck with whomever is in the building.
carleton97: And, dude, after a while he gets bored.
exitsign: he totally does. because how many times can you make grown men scream like little girls?
exitsign: well. okay, a lot. but still.
exitsign: not forever.
exitsign: which is what he's fucking LOOKING AT HERE JESUS.
carleton97: And, fuck you canon, he's pissed because HIS DAMN GUN WAS CLEAN.
exitsign: totally.
carleton97: FUCKING USELESS PIECE OF MACHINERY.
exitsign: STUPID. HE WOULD KICK IT IF HE COULD BUT SEEING AS HOW HE'S INCORPOREAL AND ALL.
carleton97: oh oh oh! AND! Since the crooked jewelers aren't in that retail space now, it's something else.
exitsign: asklj oh, god, it should one of those kid's clothes consignment shops. and he's like ewwww children.
carleton97: Once Upon a Child!
exitsign: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakljssl;ak
exitsign: i think he scares one exceptionally rotten little fucker.
carleton97: aaaaaaaaaahahahah
carleton97: Yes.
carleton97: and finally, a friend of a friend of some chick who's brother knows Bobby calls Dean and is all, "there's some shit going down in Miami."
carleton97: Because if he concentrates REALLY hard for about three days, Tim can make himself sort of visible for a few seconds.
carleton97: and he made the owner piss herself.
exitsign: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
exitsign: how are you so brilliant? i never would have thought of this.
carleton97: so sam and dean show up and the EMF goes crazy and tim pitches freaking onesies at them because he may not believe that shit, but he's seen enough movies to know he REALLY doesn't want to be exorcised down to hell or whatever.
carleton97: Dean sends Sam off to do some research while he hangs out in the shop, "what dude? these women are nearly all *SINGLE*."
exitsign: askljas;l;slsk
carleton97: "With *children*." "So?" "You're disgusting." "Yeah, yeah."
carleton97: aaand there are a couple of ways I could take this.
carleton97: I, in fact, want DEAN to have to do the research. He lost a bet. Or something.
carleton97: So Tim spends the day harassing Sam. Hah. And Dean learns all about Detective Timothy Speedle, killed in the line of duty in that building.
exitsign: awwww!
exitsign: and there's something with Dean being like "he didn't clean his shit, it seems." and tim's like "hell. no." and shit gets knocked over.
exitsign: and Sam's like "I don't think he agrees with you."
carleton97: And he is not Sam, but he's got hidden skills and finds the articles Tim wrote in college and the newspaper stories about David's death
carleton97: omg YES
carleton97: And Tim is SUPER pissed at Calleigh because HE CLEANED HIS SHIT. RELIGIOUSLY. HE DIDN'T WANT TO DIE.
exitsign: *sniffles*
exitsign: this... is going to have to be an au, dude.
carleton97: well, duh.
carleton97: What isn't?
carleton97: I just cannot stand by such a lazy fucking piece of characterization as him not cleaning his gun. AGAIN.
exitsign: no, no, i was talking about spn au.
carleton97: oh!
exitsign: because the new canon adds even more issues.
exitsign: so screw it.
carleton97: issues. yeah. Well, this isn't a story about the Winchester issues.
exitsign: surrounding the dead and the dead not being dead. etc.
exitsign: you're right. it's about Tim's issues.
exitsign: it's always about Tim's issues with you. aslkjslkj
carleton97: *pout*
carleton97: I lurve him.
exitsign: but that's a good thing! because someone should love him.
carleton97: and it could be a S1 spn story anyway.
exitsign: but... happy ending?
carleton97: well, it would go AU after of course.
exitsign: saklja ah, okay, I get you. that's what I was thinking.
carleton97: so Dean is all 'we can't just send him to *hell* Sam!" And Sam is all, "we can't just leave him *here*" so they have ot do some research to find the chant or ritual or whatever that will get tim to where he's supposed to be because it seems more and more like Tim is stuck because he was *never* where he was supposed to be. Like he went off his karmic track some where.
carleton97: and I think Dean maybe falls a little in lurve with the dude he read about because, well, it's *Speed*. alskdjla
exitsign: asklasjklj of course.
exitsign: speed needs someone who'll fall in love with him for being his fucking awesome self.
carleton97: right. So they do the ritual and dean is sad. Inside. You know. deep inside his marshmallow core.
exitsign: wait, why is he sad?
exitsign: because he thinks they kilt him?
carleton97: because Tim's spirit has been released!
carleton97: Right. yes.
exitsign: or sent him on his way or something?
exitsign: ah! so he doesn't know.
carleton97: So epilogue. It's a couple of years later, maybe three or four, and sam and dean have established some sort of home base because they still hunt and all, but yeah. And Dean fucking hurts himself roofing or fixing something up around the compound and Sam has to drag him to the emergency room. Dean very nearly swallows his own tongue when the Dr who treats him is the spitting image of one Tim Speedle.
exitsign: awww! he became a doctor!
carleton97: Said doctor - whose name is not Tim Speedle - is all, 'that's so weird, I just had the biggest deja vu ever. Have we met?"
exitsign: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
exitsign: dude! okay, i don't know where you're going but, amnesia! he just appeared somewhere. and he had no fucking idea who he was. but he knows things, like, inherently. and i think it should be more than 3 or 4 years because, dude, medical school takes a *while*.
carleton97: well, where I was going is that this not-Speed guy has always had his own life. Because, ok, it's not reincarnation exactly, but the soul is the same and time is fluid, not a line, so when he was finally kickstarted again when the boys released his spirit, he went back to where he was supposed to start and reborn 30 some odd years ago.
carleton97: But, actually, your way? Way less tardo and intensely nerdy.
exitsign: a;lka;lk
exitsign: i think yours is cool but it's also really sad. because it's like one of the two of them didn't really get to exist.
carleton97: I watched that one fucking Timothy Hutton & Kelly McGillis movie too many times.
exitsign: askljkj
carleton97: but yes. amnesia.
carleton97: he just *appeared* in this little dusty town in... Colorado? Someplace dusty. And the town sort of adopted him.
exitsign: awwww.
carleton97: No memory of *anything* personal. Like total recall of all things academic.
exitsign: which freaks pretty much everybody, including himself, out.
exitsign: "how do you know this?" "i don't *know*, i just *know*."
carleton97: wait.
carleton97: no, amnesia won't work.
carleton97: Fingerprints. You're automatically fingerprinted when you're a city/state employee.
exitsign: dude, you can't pretend you don't know that? you just brought Speed back from the DEAD.
carleton97: I'm just saying that the first thing the authorities would do would be to run his fingerprints!
exitsign: yeah. i know.
carleton97: but I suppose if some mysterious force brought him back from the dead, it's not like they either couldn't change his fingerprints/dna or delete them from the various databases.
exitsign: i don't think deleting would work. but he could certainly be a little different. i mean, hey, that also sort of explains why he showed up a bazillion miles from Miami.
carleton97: plus, MYSTERIOUS FORCES.
exitsign: like, you know, if the supernatural could talk, it'd be like "it's not an exact science this bringing people back from the dead, okay? let's see you do it."
exitsign: mysterious forces. totally.
carleton97: alskdjflj
carleton97: right, so he shows up and no one can identify him and he's really smart and educated and when it becomes obvious he's never going to remember much of anything about his previous life, they help him get an identity and a life and he goes to med school and loves it.
exitsign: awww. speeeed.
carleton97: the only thing missing is someone special. and he feels like he's waiting for someone.
exitsign: I think he's... I think he's spent a lot of personal time trying to find himself. like, online searches and missing persons message boards, stuff like that.
exitsign: because he has to be someone.
carleton97: oh, yes!
carleton97: but Speed is *dead* not missing, so no one is looking for him.
carleton97: *sob*
exitsign: too bad you didn't check the obits Speedle2.0!
exitsign: no one is looking for dead Speed, no. :-(
carleton97: so it's really frustrating for him.
exitsign: yes.
exitsign: i think this speed is a lot more open, because he has no bad memories, there's no dead best friend haunting him. but there's definitely some of the darker edges that we know and love.
exitsign: because a) you don't know who you are and b) apparently no one gives a shit about you.
carleton97: yes. He's got this gallows humor that makes all the cops he knows think he was in law enforcement.
exitsign: aslkj it sneaks out.
carleton97: it surprises him too.
carleton97: but it's similar to the dark humor of doctors, so it works all around.
exitsign: yes.
carleton97: I think he also manages to finance his med school through something like poker. Like, he doesn't want loans or to take charity.
exitsign: I think he feels bad because he feels like he's taken a lot from people by being, you know, john doe and all.
carleton97: yes. exactly.
carleton97: which is why he opens a practice in the dusty town when he's done . Which is where Dean goes instead of the emergency room.
exitsign: aww. oh! omg! dude. the explanation! it's right there! why do his fingerprints not show up? why is he is fucking buttfuck colorado of all places? because, when the time came, that's where Dean would be. His and Sam's place is just outside of town. They've probably walked down the same fucking streets and shit, dude. Within *minutes* of each other.