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Title: Fugit Irreparabile Tempus
Summary: A lot can happen in a minute. Written for the h50_exchange for delicatale. Originally posted anonymously here.
Characters: Steve/Danny, brief appearances by Chin and Kono
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 5,076
Disclaimer: I am playing in CBS's sandbox. Everything recognizable is theirs, everything else is mine.
Warnings: Swearing.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: So the ever-patient, extraordinarily lovely and talented delicatale expressed a desire to read the AU in which one of the characters goes blind (or deaf, or whatever), and how the characters end up dealing with it. This is my attempt to provide that. I think I mostly succeeded.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I stole the title from the Georgics. I hope I haven't mangled the Latin too horribly. Apologies to all the scholars who read it and cringe. ;)
Neurotic Author's Note #3: The characters and I had a violent disagreement about whether or not they were going to get it on on-screen, as it were. The characters won. I apologize for the lack of sex, but they were adamant about angsting instead.

( Fugit Irreparabile Tempus )

Title: Fly a Little South of Heaven
Prompt/Summary: Written for nicole_sill for Novakfest. The prompt was: Jimmy meets Cas in a different vessel.
Characters: Jimmy, Claire, Amelia, Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,808
Disclaimer: Nothing recognizable belongs to me.
Warnings: Slightly disturbing imagery.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: I would be remiss if I didn't thank my indefatigable beta yasminke for going over this thing for me and fixing a whole lot of broken sentences and indecipherable English. Thank you!!
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I'm not really sure where this came from. Okay, well, yes, it came from a chat I had with twoskeletons while I was mulling over what to write for my prompts, but yeah... it's a little odd. I hope you like it, nicole_sill!
Neurotic Author's Note #3: For the record, I like geese a lot. ;)

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( Fly a Little South of Heaven )

Title: … I Am
Summary: Sam isn't quite himself anymore. Dean stays anyway.
Characters: Sam, Dean, Sam and Sam
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2,626
Disclaimer: Playing in Gamble's sandbox before the new season starts. No profit, no harm intended, etc.
Warnings: graphic imagery, self-harm, mental illness
Neurotic Author's Note #1: Written for summer_sam_love for a couple of prompts by cordelia_gray. The first prompt asked for a post-fall-of-the-Wall!Sam with enhanced and uncontrolled powers/migraines, and the second asked for a Sam lost in his own mind, with Dean going in (perhaps by dreamwalking) in order to help him sort himself out. This is the unrecognisable bastard child of those two prompts, with a bit of acid and Doctor Seuss thrown in for good measure.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: Dear cordelia_gray, I am sorry. There is very little 'c' in this particular h/c story. I hope you still like it anyway. /o\

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( ... I Am )

Title: The Built in a Day Job
Summary: Written as a part of leveragexchange. Eliot takes refuge in his apartment in Rome after The San Lorenzo Job, only to be followed by the one person he thought no longer cared.
Characters: Eliot/Sophie
Rating: hard R
Wordcount: ~4,200
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of The San Lorenzo Job. Explicit sex. Overabundant attention to cooking and food.
Neurotic Author’s Note #1: Written for elzed, who wanted an Eliot-centric plot with a side-order of sex. I got the sex in, and sort of half of a plot. I hope you like it anyway!
Neurotic Author’s Note #2: So my knowledge of Rome is sketchy at best. I based myself partly on what I saw walking around there this spring and partly on Google, but I’m guessing there are massive inaccuracies. Please don’t hold them against me.

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( The Built in a Day Job )

Title: Ride the Lightning
Summary: Written as a spectacularly late pinch-hit for spn_jimmynovak’s Novakfest, for twoskeletons Three years after her father consented to be Castiel’s vessel for the second time, Claire goes to find her Uncle Jacob. He thinks it might be because she had nowhere else to go, but he’s not sure.
Characters: Claire, Jacob Glaser, Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,942
Disclaimer: SPN and Stonehenge Apocalypse have both totally disavowed any knowledge of what I am doing here, and I can’t prove otherwise. Phooey.
Warnings: angst, crack, spoilers through 4.20 ‘The Rapture’ and general spoilers for Stonehenge Apocalypse. Brief mention of underage sex, nothing explicit.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: Uh, IDEK what to call this. It’s angsty cracky fusion fic about angels and vessels and oblique references to robot heads. /o\ Also: poor Claire. I need to write her something happy at some point.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: OMG, twoskeletons, I am SO LATE with this that I might as well have posted in a different century! I know that I was so behind on this that they gave it to someone else to pinch-hit, and so I really hope that you get two fics out of the deal for being so patient! Also, since it’s the day before your birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAVE SOME ANGSTY NOVAK FARE! \o/
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Totally unbeta'd. All mistakes and wacky syntax are my fault and mine alone.

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( Ride the Lightning )

Title: A Flash of Harmless Lightning
Summary: After a year, Castiel still doesn't appear to be adjusting well to being human. Dean tries to help, and finds the solution in an unexpected place. Written for the deancastiel Secret Angels Exchange, for tolkien_fan195. The original post can be found here.
Recipient: tolkien_fan195
Characters: Castiel, Dean, Sam
Rating: PG
Warnings: None. Heck, there isn't even any swearing.
Spoilers: So long as you're familiar with Season 5, we're good. Mild spoilers for the whole season, though.
Word Count: 3,887
Neurotic Author's Note #1: So the Secret Angels Exchange is finally, finally over. This posted back in October and was submitted in September, and the reveals were made today, so now I get to post! Whee!
Neurotic Author's Note #2: The prompt I was given was: Dean introduces Castiel to new things to distract him from his "one-year-on-Earth" anniversary. Uh, so, I kind of took liberties with this prompt, tolkien_fan195, I hope you don't mind. It's not exactly what you asked for, but I think it's close enough. It's kind of AU (or a whole lot AU, really), in that it assumes that Cas stuck around and stayed human after they all found some other (unspecified) way to defeat Lucifer. I just got Photoshop, too, so I kind of got excited about that and made a little picture to go with the story.
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Many, many thanks to pkwench, beta extraordinaire, for the inspiration and help on this story!




( A Flash of Harmless Lightning )

Title: The Empty Vessel
Summary: The world changes, and Claire goes searching for her father. Or, barring him, Castiel. What she finds is neither.
Recipient: gabby_silang, who gave the prompts: 5x04-verse. Claire and Amelia at Camp Chitaqua. Claire runs away from home. Claire tries to find her dad. Claire yearns for Castiel. These are all the same story.
Characters: Claire, Cas, guest appearance by Dean
Rating: R
Wordcount: 3,079
Disclaimer: None of it is mine.
Warnings: Angst. Lots and lots of angst. Not-quite-sex that isn't about the sex but kind of sort of looks like incest from the outside only it isn't. Did I mention angst? Swearing. Recreational drug use. Also, angst.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: So I picked up a pinch-hit for Novakfest, and this is kind of what came out of that. I'm really not sure where it all came from, except that gabby_silang gave some really awesome prompts, and it made me want to do verybadwrong things with them.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: gabby_silang, I am very sorry that I couldn't work Amelia into this story, but it became less about the Novaks than it was about Claire and the fact that she was a vessel for an angel for about thirty minutes of her life, if that much, and what it all means.
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Because this was a bit of a last-minute pinch-hit, it's unbeta'd. I think it's okay enough to post, but if it's riddled with mistakes, I apologize.

:::ETA:::

The fantastically talented nickelmountain has made a podfic of the story! Go here to listen to it and lavish praise upon her!

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( The Empty Vessel )

Title: In Roaring He Shall Rise
Prompt/Summary: Written for pyrebi for Novakfest. Her prompt was for a high seas AU in which Jimmy gets press-ganged into the Royal Navy.
Characters: Jimmy, Sam, Dean, Castiel with guest appearances by Crowley and Bobby
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 16,625
Disclaimer: Nothing recognizable in this fic belongs to me.
Warnings: Complete disregard for canon. Misuse of 18th-century ships. Minor character death.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: I veered away from the prompt a little bit, but I'm hoping I at least got the spirit of the thing right. This thing was evil and ate my brain and caused me no amount of trouble because of how I chose to tackle it, but I think it turned out pretty decently, overall.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: So you will notice that none of the characters come close to talking the way they do in the Show. I waffled about this for the longest time, but eventually I decided I couldn't stomach that many anachronisms in my fic. I like to think that I kept them at least a little bit in character, bearing in mind that this is an AU and that therefore there is a whole lot less angst than current canon has established, and also that almost none of them are actually of the same nationality as they are in the show.
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Writing this was probably the worst idea of my life, because know nothing about eighteenth-century sailing ships. Anyone who knows anything about it, I apologize deeply for every heresy I have committed in this fic, because all of it is stuff gleaned from the internet and/or pulled directly from my ass. I am so sorry. /o\
Neurotic Author's Note #4: Furthermore, I will beg the indulgence of my readers, as there are holes in the plot big enough for a Kraken to swim through. Let’s just all pretend we can’t see them, m’kay?
Neurotic Author's Note #5: Speaking of stuff I know nothing about, I will also apologize for the likely entirely Canadian diction of characters who are meant to be British. I've tried very hard to keep it reasonably neutral-sounding, but I'm sure there are instances of massive fail.
Neurotic Author's Note #6: (Yes, I can totally have six A/Ns if I want!) All my thanks and adoration to the awesome mods of Novakfest for putting this together and for being super understanding with me and giving me the necessary extensions to get this thing done and beta'd. You guys rock! Furthermore, I would like to extend my thanks to pkwench, beta and all-around rockstar, who helped me brainstorm this monster and gave me some of the best ideas in here. Mwah!



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Title: Also Full of Overcoming
Summary: Written for the sassy_otp Sastiel fanworks exchange. From a prompt by weirdwednesday. Cas takes care of Sam as he’s detoxing for the second time, after 5.14.
Characters: Sam & Cas, totally gen. (I’m so sorry, prompter! I hope you’re not too disappointed).
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2,906
Disclaimer: Jim Beaver replied to one of my tweets this one time. Does that count?
Warnings: Angst. Not much else. Spoilers up to 5.14
Neurotic Author’s Note #1: I was given three prompts to work with: a story that took place during or after 5.14; “it’s one of those impossible things that are begging to be proved doable;” and “Oh yeah, talk to me in dead languages some more.” I managed the first, danced carefully around the second, and totally munged the third. So, uh, I hope this is okay, weirdwednesday.
Neurotic Author’s Note #2: While I love the idea of Sam/Cas, I am apparently not yet in the right mindspace to write it convincingly. I tried, I really did!
Neurotic Author’s Note #3: I would like to thank my beta, nwspaprtaxis, for giving me some very sound advice on some of the plot points/character development in this fic. All other mistakes are mine. :)

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( Also Full of Overcoming )

So, in a fit of madness, I've decided to take an AU prompt for one of my exchanges. I know, I know, I never write AU, and the worst part is that I know NOTHING about the kind of AU my prompter wants, and yet it piqued my interest and I WANT IT.

*headdesk*

So, here I am, researching scurvy. For a fic. SCURVY.

IDEK, okay? I might not even be able to pull this off, but I aim to try.

Damn you, fandom, I used to be normal!