starting a new series (atom bound) in the midst of nano: a daemon au!! still haven’t read hdm but I’m obsessed w daemon aus, and hdm and spn just go together so well. there’s some great fics out there, so if anyone wants recs, hmu 👀
daemon pairings/names/types:
dean and rasha (rah-shah, wolf dog)
sam and trinelle/nellie (trih-nel, great horned owl)
john and kirna (keer-nah, doberman pinscher)
We have to move, Rasha tells him, anxiety rippling through their connection, now.
You think I don’t know that? Dean hisses back. They need to leave before Dad— before Azazel finds them.
But first they need to find Sam.
“You can’t hide forever, Dean-o!” Azazel sing-songs. Rasha’s ears flatten, teeth bared in a snarl. Dean presses a hand to her scruff. A screech catches them off guard, and they whip towards the noise, Colt up and aimed before Dean has fully turned.
Trinelle!
Dean exhales silently, Sam’s daemon peering around the corner down the hall. If she’s up and moving, then Sam shouldn’t be far behind. Rasha pads ahead towards her, Dean on her heels. A low hissing snarl halts him in his tracks, then, his hand tightening on the gun. There’s only one daemon that could be.
Kirna stalks towards him, head low to the ground in warning, black smoke trailing from the corners of her mouth. Her usual dark eyes are a sickly yellow, Azazel’s control whirling deep. Her movements stutter as if controlled by a puppeteer, no longer sturdy or agile. Everything about her movements is wrongwrongwrong and Dean feels sick, Rasha’s fear and disgust echoing through their connection and amplifying his own. They’ve seen possessed human-daemon pairs before, but to see one of their own is petrifying in a way far greater than a stranger’s.
Dean steadies himself, Colt aimed at his father’s daemon. He knows he can’t kill her, knows that injuring her would be one of the most heinous crimes he could commit.
He also knows what his father would say at his hesitation.
“Give in,” Kirna hisses, voice doubled as Azazel speaks through her maw. More smoke pours from her lips. “You have nowhere left to run.”
“Get out of them,” Dean snaps, finger hovering over the trigger.
"Dean!" Rasha shrieks, which is all the warning Dean gets before he's thrown backwards across the hall, crashing into the wall and crumpling to the floor, the Colt clattering out of reach.
Distantly, Dean hears Rasha howl past the ringing in his ears. Someone grabs his collar and yanks him to his feet and he stumbles, trying to get his balance.
“Sam…?” he slurs.
“Someday,” Azazel purrs, face way too close to Dean’s, and Dean recoils, blinking hard. Azazel smirks at him from his father’s face, and Dean feels like he's going to be sick.
“Nice new digs, huh?” Azazel snarks. “Bet you never thought you’d see your daddy like this. It’d be a shame to damage the goods.”
“Get the fuck out of them,” Dean snarls again, Rasha echoing him across the room.
“Hm, no can do kiddo,” he says, hand tightening on Dean’s throat. Dean’s hand clenches, desperate for the Colt. “I think I’m gonna ride him for awhile, really get all the gas mileage out of him that I can.”
Dean grits his teeth. He has to— he has to do something—
Trinelle appears in the corner of his eye, soaring in, talons outstretched. She slams talons-first into Azazel, sending him careening away to avoid injury, and Dean collapses to the floor. Rasha rushes to his side, Colt gentle in her muzzle. She drops it into Dean’s hand.
“We have to,” she whispers over Trinelle’s frenetic screeching. “We must.”
“Rasha—” Dean begs.
“What other choice do we have?” she counters.
We know this is the only option, she speaks across the bond as Sam races past them to help Trinelle. It’s him or us. Him or Sam and Nellie.
Dean glares disdainfully at the gun. Glances over to where Sam and Trinelle are doing their best to hold Azazel off.
The first time he sees a demon, Tim is four years old.
Of course, he has known for a while what his parents do on the nights they send away the nanny of the time – his nannies never last very long – tell him to stay quietly, very quietly, in his room, and go down to the basement.
But now they are taking him to the circus! And there will be demons there!
OR
Baby!Tim's first meeting with Dick Grayson.
