Scribbler’s Scribbles

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: The Truth Is Out There
Rating: General
Characters: John, Dean, Sam
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Word count: 3,500
Summary: Livestock has gone missing in New Mexico for some time. When people start disappearing as well, John Winchester decides it’s time to take a closer look. Sammy has a theory of his own about the culprits, but nobody believes him. Until he takes matters into his own hands, and his first hunt nearly becomes his last….

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This was written for the spook_me ficathon, with the prompts space monster, Village of the Damned and Bloody Pit of Horror. It was a hard story to write, and for the longest time I didn’t think I would make the deadline at all.

First, there was no inspiration whatsoever. None of the prompts sparked, and I really didn’t see how I could make those prompts come together (fortunately, spook_me is a laid-back challenge where only one prompt was required so I gave up on the idea of using all three rather quickly). Then, I wanted to do three thousand different things in the same story (hint at Sam’s powers; explain his fear of clowns; have real aliens; have a really scary space monster with horns and claws).

The only thing that was clear from early on was that I wanted to have a wee!Sammy. Don’t ask why; it was just what the story wanted!

When the first draft was done, I really hated it. I had changed tack several times during the writing, and it was a mess. Fortunately, tanaquispn convinced me to let her read it, and then convinced me that it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought. With renewed vigor and after a few days’ leaving it be, I went back with scalpel and glue, and the second draft showed a much more coherent story than it had seemed before.

I was on to something! After that, it was merely a matter of finetuning: dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s and putting the finishing touches on it before sending it back to tanaquispn for her red pen special–which she delivered beautifully And lo and behold, I had a story on the eve of the deadline.

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: The Spa Experience
Rating: Adult
Characters: Dean/OFC
Warnings: Smut
Spoilers: None
Word count: 3,100
Summary: Hunting a black dog on a cold, wet night is not Dean’s idea of fun. But every once in a while, the perks of the job more than make up for the drawbacks.

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Oopst, I totally forgot to announce last week that I posted this!

This story was inspired by the smudgy look of a newly crawled-out-of-his-grave Dean in Supernatural 4.01, Lazarus Rising. Tanaqui and I agreed that a filthy Dean still looked pretty damn good. And then one thing led to another. Like imagining more dirty!Dean. With hot showers, and back washing… And smut.

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Two Odd Ducks
Rating: General
Characters: Sam, Dean, OMC
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Word count: 1,900
Summary: Ever since they first arrived at the monastery, something about Father Parelli and Father Jerrod had been a little off.

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 Yay, the kamikazeremix fics have been revealed! So I can finally post mine in my archive and point you to it. The story I was assigned hinged heavily on the Sam/Dean slash element, with the actual case only hinted at. There were several directions I could have taken this: work out the case fic elements—either what happened before, or during the original story—, write an epilogue type story from Sam’s POV including hard slash, or re-tell from another POV than the original.

After some debating and toying with those ideas, I started leaning toward an outsider POV story, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. But what really cinched it was this:

“Father Parelli kept fingering his collar as if it didn’t fit well and chafed him, while Father Jerrod jumped every time someone addressed him by name, giving the speaker a startled, guilty look, like he expected God to strike him down any second over some perceived sin.”

Once I had that, I had my angle. The rest was just juggling timelines and details, and far more researching of Catholic Mass than ever made it into the story.

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Legend In My Time
Rating: General
Characters: Sam, Bobby, (semi-)OC’s
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Up until 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked
Word count: 13,000
Summary: To rescue Dean from the pit, Sam has to open the devil’s gate—and for that, he needs the Colt. With the gun in Lilith’s possession, there is only one other option left. But things don’t quite turn out the way Sam expected them to…

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In the author’s notes of this story, it says “Because I promised myself I wouldn’t touch S3’s cliffhanger with a ten foot pole… and because I wanted to write a Cowboy!Dean fic.”

Supernatural Season 3 ended with a cliffhanger of epic proportions. Knowing there will be a Season 4, and knowing that whatever we speculate, Kripke’ll prove us dead wrong, I told myself I would not, not, NOT even think about how things might be resolved. It would be a waste of time, and I have plenty of other stories less likely to get jossed with the first episode of the new season to work on.

Naturally, the muses had other ideas…

Once I came up with the time travel concept, I though, well, okay, there’s still this Cowboy!Dean plot bunny, maybe I can kill both bunnies with one story. But as the story progressed (and trust me, I don’t think I’ve ever written a story that changed tack so many times during the writing process), I realized that there would be no Dean to speak of. After all, at the time, Dean’s kinda busy being dead…*

Though I knew fairly early on that Sam would meet Samuel Colt, and that it would be his knowledge that allowed Colt to make the special demon-killing gun that played such an important part in the YED-story line, the actual appearance of Azazel, and the realization that it was Sam’s time travel that started the entire Winchester tragedy in the first place, came as much as a surprise to me as to Sam and (hopefully) the reader.  Predestination paradox. It’s the sort of thing that doesn’t bear thinking about too much, or you’ll risk migraines and spraining your brain. But it’s a great concept to play with as an author and despite the headaches, I had fun.

* I did manage to pawn off the Cowboy!Dean plot bunny onto erinrua, who has done a far better job of tackling it than I could ever do.

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Snowbound
Rating: Teen
Characters: Sam/Jess, Dean/OFC, John
Warnings: smut, schmoop, angst
Spoilers: None
Word count: 1,500
Summary: Three times that the Winchesters find themselves snowbound.

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Wow, that was fast…! One moment, tanaquisga, plot bunny flinger extraordinaire, says (somewhat out of the blue, I might add), Dean, smut, snow… and the next moment, I have three Winchesters snowbound at various times in their life! These vignettes largely wrote themselves, though I will admit that Sam gave me the most trouble. And I used to have a Sam!muse! What happened to her, I wonder…