amberdreams: (Bum)
Yellow Ribbon
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E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100
Challenge word: strike
Warnings: none
Summary: Dean tries to find ways to cope now Sam’s at Stanford, and John is off who knows where doing who knows what.
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Dean works the job like always, except everything’s different now.

Sam isn’t the only one to strike out that September. Dad takes off too. Says he’s got something to attend to, that Dean’s old enough to work cases alone – Dean can’t argue.

Sam’s in California and Dean’s everywhere Sam isn’t.

He kills two black dogs and gets his leg chewed up bad, spends two weeks in a fever-dream while infection rages and nearly sweeps him away. Dad checks on him while he’s out of it; he never knows.

He survives, but the Impala’s as empty as the long road ahead.

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amberdreams: (Bum)
But still, like dust, I'll rise
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word count: 100
For MEAZRAEL_64’s birthday – hope you had a great day, my friend!
Warnings: none
Summary: It’s Dean’s birthday, and I’d like to think that at least once while Sam was at Stanford, Dean got to celebrate one of his birthdays with his little brother.

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Whiskey glows deepest amber, catching the light and shooting shards of gold and orange dancing across the walls. Dean absently turns the glass in his hand, his mind strangely empty and serene.

Dad’s on a job who-the-fuck-knows-where. Sam’s safe, geeking out with his new study-buddies… and Dean? He’s in a student bar, wondering whether to order another twenty-year-old malt to celebrate his twenty-fifth birthday, or to challenge the loud jock student at the pool table to a match that was liable to end with a brawl.

A warm hand and familiar voice forestalls both options and his heart leaps.

“Dean?”

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A/N the title is a shout out to the glorious Maya Angelou, who sadly died yesterday. It’s from her poem Still I Rise


 
amberdreams: (Bum)
Author: amber1960
Fandoms: Supernatural
H/C: septicaemia/infected wounds; corporal punishment; phobias; wild card – captivity. (written for hc_bingo)
Title: You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth
Medium: Fic
Rating: R (Gen)
Words: c7500
Warnings: mental and physical torture, non explicit mentions of child abuse (non sexual)
Summary: Dean reluctantly agrees to do the research for a change, while Sam goes on a hunt for a skinwalker with John, in a role reversal that does not end well for anyone.
Title from Jack & the Mannequin – Swim.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to verucasalt123 for such a swift beta and helpful suggestions. All errors and typos are mine, the Winchesters, sadly, are not.

You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth

Oxbow, Montana, April 2000

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amberdreams: (coyote)
Author: amber1960
Fandoms: Supernatural
H/C: septicaemia/infected wounds; corporal punishment; phobias; wild card – captivity. (written for hc_bingo)
Title: You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth
Medium: Fic
Rating: R (Gen)
Words: c7500
Warnings: mental and physical torture, non explicit mentions of child abuse (non sexual)
Summary: Dean reluctantly agrees to do the research for a change, while Sam goes on a hunt for a skinwalker with John, in a role reversal that does not end well for anyone.
Title from Jack & the Mannequin – Swim.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to verucasalt123 for such a swift beta and helpful suggestions. All errors and typos are mine, the Winchesters, sadly, are not.

You haven’t come this far to fall off the earth

Oxbow, Montana, April 2000

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