Not the Demons You're Looking For (Master Post)

[ratherastory]

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 here
Summary: 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

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Since when did anybody object to multiple fills per prompt, unless the rules say one per customer?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It was an exchange of sorts, not a comment-fic meme. :)

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

If it's as epic as the epic neurotic author's notes, I'm going to enjoy it!

I say this in the kindest possible way. I love your author's notes.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

They are a little epic, aren't they? ;)

I have fun writing them, though, and they make me feel better about posting old stuff like this that should probably make me cringe...

[alexseanchai]

Twenty-four parts? Ack. Chances of a single-file download? (If nothing else, AO3 is pretty quick about getting through the invite queue and has an option to view chapter-by-chapter or all in one, or, which might be easier, the internets are swimming in Dreamwidth invites at the moment and 50K fits in one DW post easy.)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Once I've posted all 24 parts I'll make a pdf and include it in the master post. :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Okay, pdf is done and available!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1JLTJ0FL

I have a DW account AND a bunch of invite codes, but I don't like DW, to be honest. LJ is my home, even if they're douchebags, sometimes.

[alexseanchai]

Thanks!

[27-jaredjensen.livejournal.com]

YAY!! I loved this story! I go read it all the time (where you first posted it) and now here's another excuse to read it again! You are one of my most favorite people EVER. Yay.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*g*

Thanks!

I've finished posting it all.

Eventually I'll get around to posting "Nothing's Ever Simple," and then all my stuff will be in one place. \o/

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

Since megaupload is gone now, will you be providing a link the PDF someplace else? I didn't see this title in your list of fic at AO3.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I will probably eventually be uploading it to AO3. If you want I can email you the pdf in the meantime if you provide me with an address. :)

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! my email is matchboximpala (at) gmail.com.

Appreciate it --