Title: Not The Demons You're Looking For
Prompt: From
mad_server for the
hoodie_time Dean-focused h/c challenge from last year. Toward the end of Season Two, the boys are swinging back through Andy's part of the world, and decide to check on him. Dean, superstressed over Sam possibly going darkside, has come down with the worst headcold ever, and is sneezing his face off (oh please oh please). Sam and Andy end up sort of awkwardly (or supersmoothly?) working together to subtly take care of him. Bonus points if Dean ends up feverish, overmedicated and in a set of Andy's PJs. Double bonus points for forehead feels and/or thermometer action. Original prompt is
hereSummary: Another vision leads Sam and Dean back to Guthrie, Oklahoma. (See the prompt for basically the entire plot of this fic)
Disclaimer: Would that they were mine. I would spend all my time breaking them and putting them back together. Sort of like a really violent, gory version of dress-up dolls.
Warnings/Spoilers: I guess if you haven't seen Season 2, then you're in for a shock. I managed even to keep this swearing-free. Emetophobes will probably want to give certain chapters a miss.
Wordcount: 49,711
Neurotic Author's Note # 1: Oh, man. I am almost embarrassed to be posting this. It's one of the very first things I wrote for this fandom, and I posted it in another forum and promptly never thought about it again. To say that it's rough would be putting it mildly (although it's not as rough as the actual first thing I wrote, which is surprisingly close in subject matter to this and which I'm still waffling about posting to this LJ). I was new to fandom, didn't have a complete handle on the boys, and... yeah. It was also written with a very specific target audience in mind. So.
Neurotic Author's Note # 2:The reason I posted this elsewhere is that someone else had already claimed the prompt, and I didn't want to step on their toes. I never saw it posted at
hoodie_time, though, although I might simply have missed it, so I feel safe enough posting it now, six months after the challenge is over. It could maybe be considered an orphan prompt? IDK. /o\
Neurotic Author's Note # 3: Longish fic is long. I'm unwilling to spam my flist with all twenty-odd chapters, so I'm back-dating all of them except the master post. Anyway, there's no obligation to read this thing, but I'm taking a page out of
rainylemons' book and posting my older stuff and claiming ownership of the potential fail.
Neurotic Author's Note # 4: In spite of all the self-deprecating waffling I just posted, I must say I actually have a real soft spot for this story. I have a thing for sick!sneezy!Dean (and Sam too, but this story is about Dean) and Andy is one of my favourite characters ever. It's a little short on plot, but it's long on Sam and Andy both being pretty awesome with Dean, who is sick and cranky and trying to be all stoical-like. IDK, I like it in spite of its flaws. Extra props to
mad_server, the queen of spelled-out sneezes. :)
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Part 8] [Part 9] [Part 10] [Part 11] [Part 12] [Part 13] [Part 14] [Part 15] [Part 16] [Part 17] [Part 18] [Part 19] [Part 20] [Part 21] [Part 22] [Part 23] [Part 24] For those who have asked, there is now a pdf of the story, all in one file. You can get it
here