Rather a Story

Title: Chicken Soup for the Hunter's Soul
Summary: A quest for an artifact goes a little off-track with the addition of a new member to the team.
Prompt: Written for team_free_love's Secret Lovers challenge. My recipient was mizra, who wanted something to do with a cold and chicken soup, banter between the four characters, and “big brothers and their boyfriends.” I managed two out of three, which I hope is enough. :)
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Dean, Sam, Castiel, Gabriel
Spoilers: Spoilers through 6.03, just to be on the safe side
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 7,024
Neurotic Author's Note #1: I owe eternal and undying thanks to my two betas, claudiapriscus and yasminke, who are rockstars. They not only beta'd this on ridiculously short notice, but they performed elaborate reconstructive surgery on it and made into a story that was one hundred percent better than the one I originally had. You guys rock my world! *blows kisses*
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I have to confess that I am not super proud of this story. It took forever to get going, didn't flow right, and despite the heroic efforts of my betas, it's really not the best thing I've ever written. I am annoyed with myself, because I would have liked to write something better for my recipient. As it is, this story is one of the reasons I'm backing away from fic exchanges for a while.

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( Chicken Soup for the Hunter's Soul )

Title: Please Don't Take a Picture
Summary: Sam has a bad day, and Gabriel, for reasons best known to himself, tries to help. Written for the first-ever square of my schmoop_bingo card. The prompt was “Bad Day.” This takes place somewhere in-between “Changing Channels” and “Hammer of the Gods.” Link to my card can be found here.
Spoilers: General spoilers for Season 5. Nothing specific.
Word count: 2,858
Warnings: Bad language. Sam has a potty mouth. ;)
Disclaimer: If they were mine they'd bleed a lot more. I think we should all be grateful they don't belong to me in any fashion.
Neurotic Author's Note #1: Written at the instigation of peppervl. She wanted Sam/Gabriel, and this is as close as I could get to that. Yeah, it's gen, and mostly neither Sam nor Gabriel really know what's going on here.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: Okay, so the schmoop took some doing, and there's probably a lot more angst in there than there should be. Writing schmoop is hard!
Neurotic Author's Note #3: Unbeta'd, written in one go, you know the drill. Read at your own peril.
Neurotic Author's Note #4: Title taken from the R.E.M. song “Bad Day.”


( Please Don't Take a Picture )

So I was having a little conversation in the comment section of my last story with elsewhere_kels, in which I lamented that I'd forgotten to add in a "Lassie" reference when I tossed Dean down a well (yes, I'm really mean to Dean, I think we all get that now).

( How the idea came to be )

And thus, a crack!fic was born. I make no apologies for this, because it's total and utter crack, and it ATE MY BRAIN and wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote it. It's not finished yet, but it's nearly done, and I've been writing almost non-stop since early on Monday, when I first decided to start typing. So I'm going to start posting, maybe one or two chapters a day. They're short, so I think it's okay.

:::ETA:::

Okay, it's done. It's longer than I thought it would be, and it sort of moved away from crack into more serious territory about halfway through the fic, and especially in the final third of the story.

:::/ETA:::

It's utterly unbeta'd. This is the master post: links to all chapters will go here.

Title: Take Me Home
Summary: The Trickster decides to have some fun with Sam. Wackiness ensues, with a healthy helping of whump, because it's me and I can't leave the boys intact.
Spoilers: All aired episodes up to 5.10
Word Count: 54,776 (COMPLETE! Thank God!)
Disclaimer: Luckily for them, I own nothing. Otherwise they'd be in for a world of hurt.
Warning: Utter crack. A little bit of non-explicit het (there will be warnings in the appropriate chapter), swearing, violence. Also, dogs. Lots of dogs.
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer: No beta, written in such a hurry I'm amazed my fingers managed to connect with the keyboard.
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer #2:I take NO responsibility for this, because it's cracktastic and weird and I can't believe it came out of of my brain. If you are scarred for life after reading it, it's NOT my fault!
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer #3: It's basically "Lassie Come-Home," Winchester-style. I dunno. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!

LOOK AT THE AWESOME BANNER dither_river MADE:




Chapters:

[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] [Part 25]
[Part 26] [Part 27] [Part 28] [Part 29] [Epilogue]


Since a few people have requested it, I am now providing a .pdf version of the story. It doesn't have any of the pictures in it, though, just FYI. :)

You can get it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WB25KKV