Title: The Winchester Revision
Author: proxydialogue
Artist:
avienicaFandom/Genre: College AU…(ish). Also fairytale and, uh, meta.
Pairing(s): Dean/Cas
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 38,289
Warnings: Strong language. Mentions (non-graphic, minor characters) of rape. Drug use. Verbal and physical abuse. Sex.
Summary: A recently de-deified Chuck, dying in Italy, decides to revise the story of Sam and Dean and Cas to give it the fairytale ending it deserves as a last hurrah before he goes. In a world with no monsters Dean Winchester goes to the University of Delaware for physics and engineering where a terrible twist of fate lands him in a Feminism and Literature class for one of his general electives. It is taught by a dark haired, blue-eyed professor named Castiel. Sam, meanwhile, is a boy genius who gets into college at sixteen and really is going to be a lawyer this time as soon as he finishes his English degree at UDel and gets into Stanford. But the more Chuck writes, the more he discovers about himself, his characters and the friends he will never see again; because some stories must be told.
HERE! Here it is!
I have to thank avienica, obviously, for her very pretty pretty art and for being so awesome. Also the mods for being flexible with the posting date when I fell shamefully behind. And finally I have to thank my cousin, Sara, without whom this story would not exist. At all. In any capacity other than meaningless gibberish. She is the beauty of the world and the paragon of betas and I am eternally in her debt.
The poem used is
"A Forsaken Garden" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
And then, of course, there are many references to E.A. Poe's
"The Fall of the House of Usher"And finally, some quotations are taken from Dorothy Allison's "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure", the full-text of which I have been unable to find online as yet.
That being said, all remaining typos and icky things are my fault entirely. My life got rather in the way of all my efforts to complete this project and I am more relieved than I can say that it’s done. There are, of course, a million things I would have yet done with it (including about two more drafts) had I the time. I hope you find it entertaining nonetheless.
The Winchester Revision
Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven (PDF w/ Art) (AO3)The A03 has not been updated with the revisions yet because I'm having trouble with the formatting.
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