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The vast majority of my fic is gen, but I have a few entries in other categories: a novel-length Dean/Cas series, a het fic, and a few SPN crossover fics. I don't write anything more graphic than R, and virtually all my gen fics are PG or PG-13. I hope you find something you will enjoy! I've grouped my gen fics in such a way that it will hopefully be easier to find something you'd like to read ....
GEN FICS:
I mostly write gen fic. I write some humor, but if it's not specifically tagged 'humor,' you can be pretty sure there will be angst, perhaps intense angst. What can I say, I likes me my angst fics!
Organizing this list, I discovered most of my gen fics fit pretty conveniently into a few categories: pre-series (that is, wee! and teen!chesters, as well as Stanford-era fics), humor, outsider POV, and metafiction. Then there are a few that don't quite fit anywhere, which I've categorized under "hard to categorize." Within each category, the fics are listed in the order they were written/posted.
Pre-series
Stuck
6,000 words
angst, teen!chesters
Things go from bad to worse in a small Wyoming town until Sam and Dean are stranded in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard, where there's nothing to do but talk about all the things they've never been able to before--things that may be better left unsaid. At least maybe now Dean can try to fix whatever's going so wrong inside Sam that's made him so cold and hostile all these past months, but talking about feelings has never been Dean's forte.
“Jeez, when did you start hating dad so much?” Dean asked, disturbed.
“Around the time I started hating you,” Sam said.
The Perfect Life
3,200 words
angst, teen!chesters, outsider pov
A new guy comes to school, who has looks, cool, and attitude to spare. Name: Dean Winchester. Basically, he's a guy's perfect new friend, even if his family's a little weird. Okay, a lot weird.
Alien
13,000 words
angst, Stanford-era
This is the story of when Sam went to Stanford and figured out, with a lot of difficulty, loneliness, and false starts, how to make his way in the normal world without the family that had defined his whole life for 18 years.
"If there was one thing he’d learned at college, it was that you could take the boy out of the hunter’s life, but you couldn’t take the hunter’s life out of the boy."
Family Night
1,500 words
wee!chesters, slice of life
John Winchester has two rowdy boys to take care of while he travels the country and hunts, staying in cruddy hotels along the way. As hard as that sounds, it's even harder, because one of those boys is Dean.
Three Times Dean Went Crazy and One Time Sam Did
3,500 words
gen, angst, hurt!Sam
This is about wee!Sam and teen!Dean and times when their messed-up lives pushed them too far--this is not a feel-good fic.
Ricochet
3,700 words
gen, outsider pov, teen!chesters
Dean's the coolest guy Reese and his friends ever met. He promises them a wild night out on the town, and they get that and more--way more than they bargained for ... but it's his 12-year-old little brother who ends up really making an impression.
Four Words
4,900 words
gen, hurt!Sam, hurt/comfort, teen!chesters, family matters, family feels
Running away again at 15, a series of unlikely events leads him straight into a dire situation, and Sam knows, without a doubt, that these are his last hours on Earth.
"He couldn’t die without someone knowing he’d been here on this planet, caring and suffering and living. He just couldn’t."
Respect
3,800 words
angst, h/c, teen!chesters
John sends a very unwilling 14-year-old Sam with Phil, one of John's hunter buddies, to help him kill a werewolf. When things don't go as planned, Sam has to rely on himself and what he's been taught to try to pick up the pieces. Sometimes life with Dad and Dean seems pretty great by comparison.
“Jesus, I thought John Winchester’s kids would at least know how to follow my orders. You better stay far away from the danger. I get John Winchester’s kid killed, I’m a dead man.”
Yeah, well, if I let you get killed, I’m dead, Sam thought. Phil could think he was a disobedient little snot if he wanted, but Sam would do whatever it took to follow Dad's order.
The First Time Sam Ran Away
angst, wee!chesters, some humor, emotional h/c, slice of life
4,500 words
Sam is four. The title pretty much says it all.
"John saw another little piece of Dean being compressed into a new shape by all the pressure he had to endure. John hoped it was like was coal being forged into a diamond ... but he doubted it. Dean never complained about this. If anything, he seemed to blame himself for not being stronger."
Discipline
teen!chesters, episode tag for 9.07, metafic
1350 words
John finds out Dean gambled away his kids' food money and got caught stealing, and decides not to bail him out.
Rumpelstiltskin
wee!chesters, angst, h/c, 4.03 episode tag, fairy tale, metafic
2,600 words
Sometimes, life is like a fairy tale, at least for the Winchesters--not the happy cartoon movie versions, but the grim original ones, where happy endings are all too rare.
In the Garden of Eden
wee!chesters, angst, emotional hurt no comfort, family feels, metafic
1,300 words
"John told Dean it was about revenge, but it wasn’t really. You didn’t pull your family up by the roots and force your kids to live on scraps, in and out of a new school every year or even every month, expose them to hunters and weaponry and danger, for revenge. You did it because it was the only way to save your son."
What Was and What Could Have Been
angst, h/c, brotherly feels, wee!chesters, teen!chesters
5,500 words
When John doesn't return from a hunt, Sam and Dean, ages 10 and 14, have to find a way to live on their own.
Kintsugi
intense angst, h/c, emotional h/c, brother feels
4,600 words
Dean needs a new protective sigil tattoo, and he visits the tattoo artist other hunters recommend--the only person in the area who's precise enough for the work. Getting two words in a row out of the guy is hard labor, but undeniably worth it in the end.
Kintsugi is a Japanese method of mending broken pottery with gold, where the pot is considered more beautiful for having been broken.
Broken (Sequel to "Kintsugi")
intense angst, h/c (mainly hurt!Sam, some emotionally hurt!Dean), brother feels, heroics and badassery, pathetic first time
16,000 words
Dean spent his whole life searching for the little brother who was taken from him at age 6. He thought once he finally found him, everything would be perfect, but Sam is more broken than Dean could have imagined someone could be and still function. Worse yet, Dean can't even tell if Sam wants his brother back in his life ...
Humor
Supernatural After-Hours
6,000 words
humor
What's with all the shifters lately wanting to look like Sam and Dean? Why were those fans of Chuck's books at the store talking so dirty about Sam? And what was up with that porn Dean tried to watch that starred a very tall, very ripped character named Sam with long dark hair?! You can bet Sam and Dean will do what it takes to find out.
Donut Run
1,800 words
humor
Soulless Sam wants donuts, and he's going to get them, whatever it takes.
He Gripped Him Tight Down There
1,200 words
humor, crack
An only-slightly-less-subtle-than-the-show spoof on all the outrageous subtext the writers work into the episodes ....
The Gospel According to Becky
2,500 words
gen, humor
Cas did say Chuck's books one day would be known as the Winchester gospel, and where there's a gospel, there must be a church ....
"Becky was danger wrapped in lies wrapped in a sweater vest."
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lib
7,800 words
humor, angst, casefic
Written for this prompt for summergen 2013: "A spirit is haunting a high school, every prom night. Dean and Sam have to go undercover as supervisors to hunt the ghost. One of the high school kids takes a shine to either Sam or Dean and she's very, very insistent." VERY, VERY INSISTENT. Also, there are Mad Libs.
'Man's Best Friend' Benefits Do Not Include a Retirement Plan
1,700 words
humor, spoof, crack
This is a fix-it fic/spoof of the execrable "Man's Best Friend with Benefits," because I just couldn't let the episode stand as it was. Hopefully it'll ease the pain of watching that episode.
Donuts on the Run
1,500 words
humor
Soulless Sam was supposed to bring Dean donuts, and he didn't.
Sequel to "Donut Run."
"Leave it to Dean to be able to instantaneously identify donut sugar and miss the blood all over Sam’s pants and in his hair."
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Bradbury!
1,800 words
humor
It's Halloween, and Sam and Dean need some fake blood for a hunt, so they enlist Charlie, who takes them shopping in suburbia. Suffice to say, suburbia is not Dean's kind of place.
"Jeez, acting was hard work. You had to go stand on the colored tape on the floor, and say a bunch of stuff, and everyone was always mad at you and telling you you weren’t doing a good job ..."
Of Demons, Monsters, and Squirrels ...
humor, outsider pov
460 words
Chaz always knew this day would arrive, but why did the Winchesters have to come after a harmless squirrel shifter like him?!
Idiots
outsider pov, casefic, some humor, slice of Winchester life
2,000 words
Some of the people the Winchesters help really don't want to be helped.
"Next that hustler was going to ask her for money; she just knew it."
Wild Animals
brotherly feels, some humor
1,100 words
Sam won't walk away and leave a coyote some rednecks have captured, so Dean can't, either.
Backgammon
humor, brother time
290 words
Dean finds some games in a room in the bunker and convinces Sam to play them with him.
Outsider POV
A Real Angel
500 words
outsider pov
Written for this beautiful prompt by just_ruth for the Outsider POV comment fic meme over at the spn_bigpretzel:
Some people come to Niagra Falls to begin new lives - some come to end the one they have.
She had everything planned for her exit; after all, who would even notice she was gone?
Then she saw the man in the gray trench coat staring at her. . .
Traffic Stop
1,700 words
outsider pov
A small-town cop with a habit of taking care of "bad guys" using his own questionable methods pulls over a black '67 Impala for a minor traffic violation.
"Laughing, he was laughing. These psychopaths. What had Troy gotten himself into?"
Angels at the Door
10,200 words
outsider pov
17-year-old Dorothy believed she would spend her life under the protective wing of her family and then her husband, but on her way to her private religious school one morning, she's whisked away by two terrible men who claim they're trying to protect her from a vampire stalker. She will never be the same again.
"Truly, she hadn’t known there were men this bad. Her intuition told her that of all the bad things that could be done in this world, these men had done almost all of them and hadn’t thought a thing of it."
Heroes
5,500 words
gen, outsider pov, casefic
Eleven-year-old action-movie addict Toby's teacher and classmate are acting weird, but that doesn't explain why the two huge guys torch his classmate and kidnap Toby! That's only the start of the night's adventures. Too bad he's the kidnapped victim instead of getting to be the hero.
"Dean was a tough kid. He thinks every kid is as tough as he was," said Sam.
Metafiction
Echoes
3,000 words
angst, teen!chesters
Young Sam and Dean Winchester are taking their first roadtrip on their own together to go look at colleges and hit Vegas along the way, and they couldn't be more excited--until they're attacked by terrifying strangers. Their assailants?: Sam and Dean Winchester.
Dependency
3,500 words
angst, emotional hurt/comfort, coming of age, addiction
Sam has a demon-blood addiction. Maybe a 12-step meeting will help.
"I didn’t do it to feel powerful. I did it so I could help people,” Sam said. Freakin' Chuck, suggesting otherwise. Like Chuck knew anything about anything.
Saving Sam
2,200 words
hurt!Dean, h/c, meta
Dean wakes up in the hospital. He's told he was in a coma, his mother and father are still alive ... and that he is Sam, an only child. There never was a Dean.
"Take away Sam, and what was Dean? Nothing."
Boundless Love
1,000 words
angst, deathfic, horror, hurt!Dean
Sam didn't say yes to Ezekiel, and a broken Dean struggles to come to terms with it. THIS IS NOT A FEEL-GOOD FIC.
"Dean wrestled Sam’s body out to the Impala, where he carefully buckled him into his seat and tilted his head so it looked like any other time his brother had sat beside him in the Impala."
Ain't No Me, Ain't No You
angst, metafic
3,900 words
Sam doesn't recover from his amnesia after Cas takes down his wall. Dean and Bobby find him in a hospital a week later, having no memory of them or anything they've all been through.
Inspired by 6.22 via 9.10.
So Wrong It's Right
angst, metafic, resolution!fic, bi-bro, brother feels, hurt!Sam, emotionally hurt!Dean
8,000 words
Fighting bitterly with his brother on a hunt, Sam gets caught by the djinn they're hunting and gets to live the life he's always thought he wanted, only to discover maybe it's not what he really wants after all.
Demons
angst, military, addiction, metafic
1,400 words
Captain Sam Wesson and Sergeant Dean Smith have been fighting this war together for a decade ... but will their demons get them first?
Not a feel-good fic.
The Winchester Way
angst, mindfuck, retcon, psychological torture, hurt!everyone, conceptual horror
1,200 words
Sam was willing to do anything to get Dean out of Purgatory--anything at all ... Dean just never knew it.
"Third: act disappointed to learn your brother was alive. Oh, the look on Dean’s face ... Lucifer savored it still. When he played it right, he was able to draw it out of him any old day, knowing the pain of that was still as fresh for Dean as it was the very first time."
Hard to Categorize
Same Song, Different Verse
14,000 words
angst, humor, fluff, action, character death
Jimmy Novak isn't the only vessel Castiel could use. There is also his daughter, Claire, now 19, troubled, broken, in need of help only the Winchesters could provide. Castiel needs her for a vessel, but one thing's sure: she will never, ever say yes to him.
“We are not about to become three men and a baby.”
“Well, he’s ... not exactly a man, anymore ....”
Cinders and Salamanders
3,500 words
gen, casefic
The girl Dean spends a romantic evening with kicks him out at midnight, Cinderella-style. When he and Sam go back the next day to check out a haunting in the area, there's no sign of the girl, only an old woman by the same name .... This one is bittersweet.
Don't Like Poetry
1,500 words
Megstiel, glimmers of romance, a little horror
Meg knows Cas will be there when she goes to talk to Sam and Dean, and she totally didn't pick out this shirt just for him. Too bad it just got a bloody bullethole in it--not quite the flirtatious encounter she hoped.
HET FICS
Inescapable
outsider pov, emotional h/c, comfort sex, angst, somewhat violent sex, bondage, dom/sub, language, violence, death
9,800 words
The tall guy she was supposed to lure to a hotel room and roofy seemed so sweet and innocent, such an easy mark, but he turns out to be something else entirely once she finds herself instead roofied and tied up in his bed--someone dangerous and inescapable ...
"Seeing herself next to Sam, his goodness against her badness, her weakness ... maybe she wouldn’t ever be good like him, but she could be better. She could try."
SLASH FICS
So far, my Destiel series has five parts, each pretty long (over 10,000 words). Each story has some (not graphic) sex and all are chock full of angsty, romantic goodness. This is not PWP; there is plenty of plot, and it's also kind of curtain!fic-ish. You can read just one, or you can read all; I wrote them so they each stand on their own.
Feathers
Human
Union
One
Wings
CROSSOVERS
Shards
Supernatural/Princess Tutu crossover
10,600 words
gen, teen!chesters, angst, light romance, high school/boarding school, mystery, hurt/comfort, fairy tale, crack
Sam has lost his soul, and it's up to the angel Castiel to collect the shards and return them to him without letting anyone know what Cas really is ... but Sam's girlfriend Rueby and his brother Dean stand in Cas's way ....
A fairy-tale-esque retelling of how Sam's shattered soul/mind got put back together, based on the plot of Princess Tutu.
Three Faces of Sam
Supernatural/House M.D. crossover
9,500 words
gen, outsider POV (House's POV of the Winchesters), h/c, House casefic, meta
Sam wakes up with amnesia after Cas takes down his mental wall, so he goes to a local hospital clinic for help where he gets treated by Dr. Gregory House, who gives him a new diagnosis: multiple personality disorder.
Faithfully
Supernatural/Psych crossover
3,400 words
gen, humor, resolution fic, case!fic (kinda), brother feels
Sam and Dean follow a lead on a possible werewolf case in Santa Barbara, where no one seems to be who they say they are at the local police department, especially that Shawn Spencer guy claiming to be a psychic ....
PODFICS
A Marine Aubade, written by septembers_coda, read by brightly_lit
22 minutes
gen, angst, suicidal ideation, brotherly love
Summary: Sam might be lost to the ocean forever. And Dean might have to let him be.
mmmm, written by kalliel, read by brightly_lit
7 minutes
gen, mostly pre-series (with pitstops in S3, S5, S9, and post-canon)
Summary: That one time Sam climbed on top of Carhenge, and that one time Dean waited to see him do it again.
TRICYCLEMAN
tricycleman is a shared-world original fiction project instigated by yours truly. We would welcome other writers/readers!
Chimera
1,200 words
gen, character study, slice of life
Angel
1,200 words
gen, character study
Reading, Overwriting, and Arithmetic
3,100 words
gen, emotional h/c, mild conceptual horror, light angst
ART
Art Masterpost for "Sleeping Beauty" by septembers_coda
METAS
Meta and Author's Note on my fic "Saving Sam"
"Saving Sam" is metafiction that explores an interpretation of SPN in which Dean and Sam are one person.
Is Sam the failure Dean claims he is?
Was it wrong for Dean to deprive Sam of the fulfillment of his desire to die, in 9.01?
What's with Sam's defeated, depressed attitude these days?
Season H8--on Sam-hate, Amelia-hate, and the direction it took SPN