Crowley's Christmas Fic Exchange: Oh Christmas Tree for Swellison

[crowleysxmas]

Title: Oh, Christmas Tree
Word Count:~1300
Author: candygramme
Beta: spoonlessone
Recipient: swellison
Rating: Gen
Starring: Sam and Dean plus hangers on (Including Crowley!)
Prompt: The Christmas Tree Incident - Sam and Dean (plus anyone else) decide to decorate for Christmas, alas! something goes awry with the tree (a humorous disaster vibe here)

Comments

[midnightsilvers]

Awwwww 🤗🤗🤗 that was so good! 😄
I cracked up over everyone enjoying Dean’s singing 😂 ‘cruel and unusual’! (Snort 😂)
And what a lovely twist! This way everyone has a merry Christmas! Awesome work 😄

[candygramme]

That tree has a fairy godmother! It's really a good job Dean didn't sing to it. The poor thing would've withered before Mrs. Butters could do anything. I'm so glad it made you crack up! My work here is done. Thank you.

[ellerkay]

This was so cute! I loved Sam's puppy dog eyes and him requesting a tree to stop Dean's singing, lol. And what a treat to see Mrs. Butters! I love her new outfit. :D

Nice job with this; it was a really fun read!

[candygramme]

Thank you! I suspect that Sam has developed a ton of ways of short circuiting Dean's singing. The problem is that he has to weigh up his options, because Dean sings while he's cooking, and Sam likes to eat! Mrs. Butters was such a cool character. I am so glad she stayed close to the bunker though. Thank you.

[fledge]

Oh heck yes!!! I was just fluffing up with indignation for the poor tree when Mrs Butters stepped in :D Cutting down trees for Christmas isn't my idea of how to behave, either. Anyway, Sam just wanted to get Dean out of the kitchen for a while, so mission accomplished! I'm sure he'll enjoy making extra treats for the wildlife - reminds me of the squirrels which keep raiding our bird feeder, they are as fat as chinchillas.

Sounds like the beginning of a joke though: Death, the Archangel Gabriel, and the King of Hell walk into a bunker...

Great story, some super characters, and crisis narrowly averted! 👍🥳🎄 (Also lol at Sam's enormous puppy eyes... 🥺)

[candygramme]

Hee. I totally disagree with the cutting down of trees. Sam just wanted to get Dean to shut up, and would've been happy with a fake tree, but the grievous bodily harm of the earholes that Dean was perpetrating had gone on long enough.

There's good eating in a fine, plump squirrel! (I'm just saying...) Now I will be awake all night trying to think of the rest of that joke. Thank you for the love! Sam's enormous puppy eyes are a terrible cliche for a reason. Dean can never ever resist them. It's canon!

[fledge]

LOL nooooooooooo we are not killing and cooking Chad! (Yes, that's what we have named him, though not after Chad Michael Murray, more after the memes. He is an absolute Chad.) I can't help thinking of Dean every time I look at a squirrel... There is a second squirrel, and the other day when it was hanging down to get at the feeder, flashing its nuts everywhere, I realised that possibly Chad is in fact the female of the pair! In which case she definitely wears the trousers, and come spring, we will be overrun by a fine bevy of Chadlets. Only something seems to have happened to his/her tail and it's gotten a bit short... Possibly something else in the neighbourhood thought she would make fine eating. I hope not our cat!

Nobody can resist Sam's puppy eyes! Except when Chuck has been putting them under the Black Mark. Everyone can resist Dean's singing though, which is hilarious, since Jensen of course can sing beautifully. I suspect Dean just does it on purpose, to annoy Sam.

[theymp]

Great story - and I love that the ‘extended family’ were all in there too - even if they were initially a little traumatised by Dean’s singing. Still, it doesn’t sound like it took them too long to get over it - and I also wouldn’t mind some of that shortbread!!

[candygramme]

Thank you. I just rewatched 'A very Supernatural Christmas,' and trust me, *I* was traumatized by Dean's singing. It was fudging horrible! (So was Sam's, let's not just blame one of them.) The shortbread was, I hope, adequate recompense for all the suffering!

[swellison]

What a great pressie! Thank you, I love the humor of this. Sam and Dean are in character if not always in harmony (to use a sound term)😁 interesting assortment of hangers-on, too. I love seeing Mrs Butters in her natural element, defending her favorite tree. Thanks again for the terrific story!

[candygramme]

You are so welcome. I am looking at writing more of Mrs. Butters, so thank you for the inspiration. I think she could become a powerful ally now that she's back in the woodland.