Fic: the nameless dead (Alias/SPN)

Title: the nameless dead
Author: Vanzetti
Supernatural/Alias
R; slash; John Winchester, Julian Sark
prompt 51: water
summary: "You will find on the right in Hades' halls a spring, and by it stands a ghostly cypress-tree, where the dead souls descending wash away their lives. Do not even draw near this spring. Further on you will find chill water, flowing from the pool of Memory: over this stand guardians. They will ask you with keen minds what is your quest in the gloom of deadly Hades. They will ask why you have come..."
warnings: Spoilers through the end of Alias, and through SPN 2x01. Dead characters.
Thanks to rez_lo for hand-holding and not having me committed.

( '...I am parched with thirst and perishing; give me cool water, flowing from the pool of Memory.' )

Author's note: I could not find my copy of the B-series Dionysiac "Orphic" texts, and am using Janko's 1984 reconstruction as a basis.

SPN 2x04

( children shouldn't play with dead things )

Also, my story of earlier today seems strangely thematic, after that.