Chapter Four of Lustra Episode 909 has been released!
Episode 909: “Dirty Water Dying”
Sam’s back, Dean’s mostly okay, and they have to deal with what has happened. Unfortunately, they disagree on pretty much every aspect of “dealing,” and Dean HAS to win this fight. Doesn’t he? Warnings for themes of abuse, addiction, mental illness.
It’s now available at the following locations:
LJ (coming soon) || AO3 || ff.net (all links go to the most recent chapter)
Chapter Three of Lustra Episode 909 has been released!
Episode 909: “Dirty Water Dying”
Sam’s back, Dean’s mostly okay, and they have to deal with what has happened. Unfortunately, they disagree on pretty much every aspect of “dealing,” and Dean HAS to win this fight. Doesn’t he? Warnings for themes of abuse, addiction, mental illness.
It’s now available at the following locations:
LJ (coming soon) || AO3 || ff.net (all links go to the most recent chapter)
Chapter Two of the latest episode of Lustra has been released!
Episode 909: “Dirty Water Dying”
Sam's back, Dean's mostly okay, and they have to deal with what has happened. Unfortunately, they disagree on pretty much every aspect of "dealing," and Dean HAS to win this fight. Doesn't he? Warnings for themes of abuse, addiction, mental illness.
It’s now available at the following locations:
LJ || AO3 || ff.net (all links go to the most recent chapter)
If you’ve been missing out, check the fiction venue of your choice to get caught up
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Seriously, THANK YOU to everyone who’s read, left a comment, pushed a kudos or a favorite. Apparently it’s getting around thanks to guys, and OMG MY HUSBAND FINISHED READING IT TODAY AT WORK!
So that conversation over dinner should be interesting. LOL
Thanks, guys!
Feeling nostalgic? Wanna reread boogeyman? YOU CAN right here!
Post Swan Song. Dean finally puts the Impala into storage and encounters Sam's things one last time... 2k words, one-shot.
This is the first fill for our October prompts event. Due to real life circumstances, we have been slacking, but check out the prompts page and think about submitting something. Just ignore the whole October thing.
Here's the prompt text:
"In episode 904, we find out that Dean kept the pencil box he gave Sam for his tenth birthday after the events of Swan Song, and even though everything else of Sam’s was stowed in the trunk, he placed the pencil box on the mantle. Can we see the scene between seasons 5 and 6 where he makes that decision?"
Below the Read More is a brief look at the next episode of Lustra, currently in edits. If you have not read up through 908, click through at your own risk! There be spoilers ahead!
Episode 909
“Dirty Water Dying”
Chapter One
He is in the back of the car, his knees are bent and he is lying in the back of the car. But his knees don’t hit the back of the passenger seat, his shoulders aren’t hunched forward trying to fit, his head isn’t quirked up at an odd sideways angle against the door, it’s propped up on a lap.
There’s blood in his mouth, there’s a warm hand on his side. He is twelve.
“Shh, Sammy. It’s okay.”
Dean, Dean.
His leg is wet and filled with heat, as he wakes up the ache grows and it’s sharp with every bump in the road, they’re going fast he realizes, so fast, and it’s nighttime, and Dad is so quiet.
He shouldn’t have been out, he wasn’t allowed out, but Dean had forgotten the binding thing, the string Uncle Bobby had given them to bind the monster and Dad and Dean were going to get killed if they didn’t have what they needed, so Sam had gone out in the snow to find them, to give it to them, and --
He hadn’t seen it. Dad was yelling and he should have listened, but he needed to give Dad the string, and he hadn’t seen the monster and then all he saw was Dean’s face, worried and pale in the moonlight, crying and yelling, angry, scared--
He is lying with his head in Dean’s lap. One of Dean’s hands is on his side, soothing and heavy and warm. The other is smoothing Sam’s hair, and Sam is hurt, he’s hurt and he’s dying, he knows it, and he’s sorry, he’s sorry--
“Did we get it?” he says, and in the front, Dad draws in a sharp breath through his nose, stiff and annoyed.
Dean frowns. “Yeah. We got it.”
“Dean--”
He doesn’t go on. He doesn’t need to. Dean squeezes him at the hip, smooths his hair down over his ear, his hand comes to rest on Sam’s forehead, heavy and warm and solid Dean’s hand on his forehead, and Dean says, “You’re okay, kiddo. You’re gonna be okay.”
He hums. The tune is so familiar, but Sam can’t place it. Dean is singing, but he can’t make out the words. The radio isn’t on, but he hears the gentle unresolving chords, the lyrical lead guitar line over top of the jangling strum on repeat, the story in the words he can’t make out, Dean is almost plaintive, like this song is for Sam, to Sam, like he’s afraid Sam will leave him someday, like Sam can ever leave, or like he’d ever want to. Like he can see a life for himself beyond this car, beyond Dad and Dean and the smell of blood and gunpowder and leather, beyond the soothing bump of the road as sure as any lullaby.
Like there is another place besides Dean that could ever be home.
He did not wake up in the dungeon. He was in his bed, warm, wounds dressed, he could feel the stitches pull, he could feel the ache of his relocated thumb. His memory of the last couple of weeks faded back to him like remembering a dream, the feel of it more vibrant and clear than the actual details.
Flowers in a silver crown, the bright bright red of sacred (tainted) blood in a porcelain bowl. The sulfur in the back of his throat. Days and days and days of hoping, of giving up.
Dean had come. Dean had come.
Episode 909, "Dirty Water Dying," will be released as a fully complete multi-chaptered episode. Please pardon the wait as there are five chapters planned for this one. Thanks!!
And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die.
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.
SPECIAL TWO-HOUR EVENT
Something's killing people in Smalltown, America, so what else is new? Sam's dealing, Dean's dealing, and both are keeping their secrets, but when Sam takes off before the hunt's even done, some secrets will find their way into the light of day. Part One: 5 ch, 28k; Part Two: 4 ch, 19k
Part I: LJ || AO3
Part II: LJ || AO3
This two part episode was written as part of the SPN Gen Big Bang event on LJ. The art for this episode is done by amber1960. Check out the fic's masterpost for all the details!
These link to the first chapters, in case you've been waiting for the "completed" tag → ff.net | AO3 | LJ
Sam and Dean catch a case deep in the wilderness where some fugly has been snatching hikers. Same song, different singer. The boys disagree about what they're hunting, how they should hunt it, whether they should split up -- but when Dean is on the menu, Sam has to prove that he's up for the task. 5 chapters, 26k
Fifteen minutes out of the cabin, Sam still had no idea how to kill the thing, nevermind how he was going to find it. He figured it had dragged Dean back to its home base, and either way, his first goal was to find Dean, save Dean--
--the arc of red into the air as Dean flies back into the clearing from the underbrush, onto his back, and he’s turning toward Sam to tell him he’s fine, just get to the cabin, Sam who is trying to sort what is real from what is something Lucifer is showing him--
Sam moved through the brush along an animal trail, back toward where he’d first encountered the creature one on one. Dean’s trail would pick up at the bottom of that ravine, and Sam would just have to find him. They could work out how to hunt the thing once Dean was found. But Sam remembered the red of Dean’s blood, in the air and on the rock where he disappeared -- if he was alive (he was alive, Sam would know somehow if he wasn’t), Dean was still injured.
What a fucking failure of a hunt. Way to go, Sammy.
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