electricalgwen

It's apreludetoanend's birthday. I miss her. ♥

Over a year ago, I wrote her in their element, a short fic about Sam & Dean 'as undercover doctors who have to make out in their scrubs so people don't find out they're not real doctors.' I needed some loose semblance of plot structure, and ended up with an air elemental. I then decided to continue into a series, one story for each element, but never actually got around to it. Until now.

This is a sequel, for the element Water. Warning: it is not funny/fluffy like the first. You don't need to have read the first (though I'd love it if you did!); all you need to know is that, as advertised, the boys ended up making out briefly. Set in season three, ~3200 words, rated PG-13. Thanks to madame_meretrix for beta-reading.

( Those are the good days for Dean too. )

Written for tanpopo03 in the spn_j2_xmas exchange, incorporating the suggestions of "some kind of crossover with His Dark Materials (aka boys with dæmons)", future!fic, pining, mild schmoop, and casefiles. ~5800 words, rated PG-13 for violence and language, no other particular warnings.

Set AU post-s5, no spoilers for season 6. Contains mild spoilers for the last book of His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, i.e. information we don't learn until then but nothing that gives away the overall plot arc. I have borrowed only the daemon concept from HDM; no characters from the trilogy appear in this story. The HDM parts are generally book-compliant; I borrowed one visual detail from the movie because it's pretty. *g*

Brief primer: people in this universe have companion animals, called daemons, which are essentially a physical manifestation of their soul/self. More details, including potential book spoilers, here.

Huge thanks to madame_meretrix for listening to me hash out various iterations of this on MSN and for beta-reading on December 24th. Among other things, she commented that this feels like a small glance at a larger story; alas, I feel she's probably right. Thanks also to deirdre_c for convincing me that Tsafira is a fox (I can't think why I'd ever decided against it, but I had) and to affabletoaster for general supportiveness and squee.

( Dean wonders if he's imagining it. )

Written for spn_reversebang, to the inspiring video below by zenamydog. I owe her many thanks for giving me free rein to write, and making helpful suggestions along the way. I really owe madame_meretrix and dancetomato, who did a heroic and high quality last-minute job of beta-reading. Thanks are due also to affabletoaster, for cheerleading and help with Assyrian. ~12,500 words of season 6 casefic - goes AU after 5.22 so no spoilers for s6.



( The last time Dean saw his brother - both his brothers, but let's face it, Dean only gives a damn about one of them - Sam beat the shit out of him, so Dean kind of figures it's his turn. )