FIC: A Mighty Dark Night (Masterpost)
Title: A Mighty Dark Night
Author: blue_fjords
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Word length: ~74,000
Warnings: violence, language and sex
Summary: Detective Dean Winchester meets Homeland Security Agent Castiel James over a corpse.
I started to write this during the winter break for Season Five. It's been awhile! The original idea for it came to me on the metro (as most of my ideas do) and it grew in the telling, as canon added more and more fodder. Though this is very much an AU. The title, and all the chapter headings, are taken from "Raise the Dead" by Emmylou Harris.
Many thanks to my many betas and alpha readers. They were legion: thaddeusfavour, paragraphs, cassiopeia7, stageira, qthelights and kel_reiley. Every time I thought no way could I finish, I got another reader! Thanks to kel for the finishing touches, and paragraphs, amand_r, cruentum and misswinterhill for putting up with me moaning about this fic for over a year and a half! Consider this my entry into Mander's Big Ass Big Bang.
And now, also available on Ao3 here! Thanks, c!! AND available as a PDF here, thanks to wolfrider89. Woo hoo! Thank you! AND, you guys, kel_reiley made me a playlist, icons, and a kickass banner!!!! I have been listening to this playlist nonstop! I LURVE IT!!!!!! So check it out here! And the banner beneath the cut. :)
First, banner. This made me so very heppy!!
Dramatis Personae
The Family
Our Intrepid Hero, Detective Dean Winchester, Narcotics, Prince George's County
His younger brother, Sam Winchester of the Montgomery County ADA office
His aunt, Ellen Harvelle, proprietor of the Roadhouse, a bar in the District
His cousin, Jo Harvelle, a grad student at John Hopkins in Baltimore
His surrogate father, Bobby Singer of Frederick County
At Homeland Security
Mr. Joshua, Director
Zachariah Adler
Raphael Finnerman
Uriel Inger
Gabriel Smecher
Balthazar Dion
Rachel Steele
Castiel James
At PG County, Hyattsville Precinct
Rufus Turner, partner to Dean Winchester, Narcotics
Major Victor Henriksen, Commander of the Hyattsville Precinct
Missouri Moseley, night shift phone operator
Andy Gallagher & Jake Talley, fellow Narcotics detectives
Scott Carey & Max Miller, beat patrolmen
Shady Characters
Lilith
Crowley
Alistair Drac
Meg Drac
Ruby Diavol
Tyson Brady
Additional Players
Anna Milton, Special Agent, FBI
Ash Skynyrd, hacker and employee of the Roadhouse
Chuck Shurley, Confidential Informant, of the District
Pamela Barnes, healer and psychic, Frederick County
Becky Rosen, administrative assistant for War, self-help guru
Sarah Blake, girlfriend of Sam Winchester
Ronald Reznick, conspiracy theorist and all-around nice guy
Cameos by dozens of supporting players
On to the story. This is set in the DC metro area. All of the places are real locations. I did once encounter a chalk outline outside the West Hyattsville metro. I really like BBQ at Red, Hot & Blue, though according to rumor, it's not as good outside of the Laurel restaurant. The Roy Rogers is totally in honor of taffimai. Some liberty was taken with distances.
This way to Chapter I, full listing below.
Chapters
I'll never get out of this world alive * I've seen a lot more than Hank ever did * I've done the down and out in every dark end dive * Well dying young I have survived * He sang about the blues in my body and soul * Trying to beat the devil to the old crossroads * Drove him to the coffin like a hammer and a nail * He believed in a God that could raise the dead * It takes a powerful man to carry that load * I wrestled the devil, lived to testify * I'll never get out of your love alive
Author: blue_fjords
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Word length: ~74,000
Warnings: violence, language and sex
Summary: Detective Dean Winchester meets Homeland Security Agent Castiel James over a corpse.
I started to write this during the winter break for Season Five. It's been awhile! The original idea for it came to me on the metro (as most of my ideas do) and it grew in the telling, as canon added more and more fodder. Though this is very much an AU. The title, and all the chapter headings, are taken from "Raise the Dead" by Emmylou Harris.
Many thanks to my many betas and alpha readers. They were legion: thaddeusfavour, paragraphs, cassiopeia7, stageira, qthelights and kel_reiley. Every time I thought no way could I finish, I got another reader! Thanks to kel for the finishing touches, and paragraphs, amand_r, cruentum and misswinterhill for putting up with me moaning about this fic for over a year and a half! Consider this my entry into Mander's Big Ass Big Bang.
And now, also available on Ao3 here! Thanks, c!! AND available as a PDF here, thanks to wolfrider89. Woo hoo! Thank you! AND, you guys, kel_reiley made me a playlist, icons, and a kickass banner!!!! I have been listening to this playlist nonstop! I LURVE IT!!!!!! So check it out here! And the banner beneath the cut. :)
First, banner. This made me so very heppy!!
Dramatis Personae
The Family
Our Intrepid Hero, Detective Dean Winchester, Narcotics, Prince George's County
His younger brother, Sam Winchester of the Montgomery County ADA office
His aunt, Ellen Harvelle, proprietor of the Roadhouse, a bar in the District
His cousin, Jo Harvelle, a grad student at John Hopkins in Baltimore
His surrogate father, Bobby Singer of Frederick County
At Homeland Security
Mr. Joshua, Director
Zachariah Adler
Raphael Finnerman
Uriel Inger
Gabriel Smecher
Balthazar Dion
Rachel Steele
Castiel James
At PG County, Hyattsville Precinct
Rufus Turner, partner to Dean Winchester, Narcotics
Major Victor Henriksen, Commander of the Hyattsville Precinct
Missouri Moseley, night shift phone operator
Andy Gallagher & Jake Talley, fellow Narcotics detectives
Scott Carey & Max Miller, beat patrolmen
Shady Characters
Lilith
Crowley
Alistair Drac
Meg Drac
Ruby Diavol
Tyson Brady
Additional Players
Anna Milton, Special Agent, FBI
Ash Skynyrd, hacker and employee of the Roadhouse
Chuck Shurley, Confidential Informant, of the District
Pamela Barnes, healer and psychic, Frederick County
Becky Rosen, administrative assistant for War, self-help guru
Sarah Blake, girlfriend of Sam Winchester
Ronald Reznick, conspiracy theorist and all-around nice guy
Cameos by dozens of supporting players
On to the story. This is set in the DC metro area. All of the places are real locations. I did once encounter a chalk outline outside the West Hyattsville metro. I really like BBQ at Red, Hot & Blue, though according to rumor, it's not as good outside of the Laurel restaurant. The Roy Rogers is totally in honor of taffimai. Some liberty was taken with distances.
This way to Chapter I, full listing below.
Chapters
I'll never get out of this world alive * I've seen a lot more than Hank ever did * I've done the down and out in every dark end dive * Well dying young I have survived * He sang about the blues in my body and soul * Trying to beat the devil to the old crossroads * Drove him to the coffin like a hammer and a nail * He believed in a God that could raise the dead * It takes a powerful man to carry that load * I wrestled the devil, lived to testify * I'll never get out of your love alive