An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Collinlock16 - Oneshef (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Zander & Zander's Friend (Collinlock16), Kevin & AwesomeG (Collinlock16), Zander & AwesomeG (Collinlock16), AwesomeG & Collinlock16 (Collinlock16)
Characters: ZanderX400 (Collinlock16), AwesomeG (Collinlock16), Souler (Collinlock16), Hungry (Collinlock16), Gridman | Admin 6 (Collinlock16), Kevin (Collinlock16), Collinlock16 (Collinlock16), Zander's Friend
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Timeline Shenanigans, only a little bit, Zander lives, AwesomeG lives, Kevin does not not, ghost!Kevin, haunted AwesomeG, AwesomeG is named Gavin, AwesomeG uses they/them, AwesomeG gets Collin's hauntedness in this au, and the rain too, no beta we die like Kevin will, Collin and AwesomeG are siblings, Swearing
Summary:
When Zander and his friend encountered Souler, they thought they were just being pranked by each other, and by the time they knew it was real they just couldn't take it seriously. After all, if it couldn't hurt them when they thought it was a prank, there's no way it was really dangerous. Instead, they took a video of themselves mocking it and posted that alongside their Herobrine sighting. Surely this would have no unforeseen consequences, right?
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You stared at the table in the library. His papers were still there. Hell, his mug was still there.
“What are you doing awake?” Kevin had asked you.
You’d just shrugged. “I could ask the same for you.”
Kevin had bags under his eyes and his short black hair stood up at odd angles. “I have to finish translating the-”
“No, no you don’t,” You replied. “You have to sleep.”
Sighing, Kevin got out of his seat. He wrapped his arms around your waist and kissed your cheek. “What would I do without you?”
You giggled. “The question is what I’D do without YOU.”
“You’d do just fine without me..”
But you weren’t just fine. You hadn’t been fine since the night Kevin died. Since the night where you found him lying on the floor of the bunker, eyes burnt out of his skull.
That was all you saw when you closed your eyes. You couldn’t eat. Couldn’t sleep. Couldn’t bring yourself to even shower. You just shuffled around the bunker, occasionally grunting if the Winchesters asked you a question.
You could still feel his arms around your waist. No, really, right now you could feel slight pressure pushing into you. Then it was gone.
Why did Kevin have to leave you? Why did Metatron need to order his death? It wasn’t fair! None of it was.
You trudged to the kitchen, picking up the mug Kevin used to use. It helped a bit, using that one.
You put some coffee on to brew and thought back to times when things were right.
"Favourite musician, go!” You said, sitting on the counter and swinging your legs.
Kevin pondered for a second before reaching a conclusion of “Mozart.”
You blinked, unsure if you'd heard that right. "Mozart?”
“I mean, Bach has good stuff too. Can't forget him.”
You smiled. Then you chortled. Then you full on laughed. "I meant like someone alive!”
“Oh!” Kevin exclaimed, his cheeks growing red.
"You're such an old fart.”
“Am not! Take it back, Y/N.”
“Y/N?”
The voice repeated your name, but not in your head this time. You dropped Kevin’s mug. It shattered once it hit the floor, sharp sound echoing around the empty kitchen.
“No! Nononono…” You cried out, over and over as you tried to pick up every bit of ceramic. “I- I can fix this…”
A fragment dug into your palm, sending a prick of pain running up your arm. A line of crimson beads began to form on your palm.
“You're hurt.”
You looked up, and there he was. Kevin stood there, looking just like he used too. Maybe a bit paler, a little less solid, but definitely there. He smiled like he always did, flickered and disappeared.
“You're dead…”
The tension between the brothers had risen to the point where any conversation was an argument. The events with Gadreel, Metatron, Crowley and especially Kevin set everyone on edge.
And things weren’t right. Lights in the bunker flickered on and off. All of you knew what that meant.
You were in the kitchen with the boys, Sam packing shotgun rounds with rock salt.
“How is this possible? I thought you said this was the safest place on the planet!” Dean cried out, breaking the silence.
Sam sighed and stopped with his work. “Look, I know nothing got in. I mean, the bunker is warded and sigiled from top to bottom. There's no way something came in from the outside.”
“Okay, so whoever's haunting us died here.” Dean grumbled.
Sam scoffed. “What, dead man of letters?”
“Has to be a recent death.” You replied, the first time you’d spoken to the brothers in days. “Kevin.”
“No.” Dean said, crossing his arms.
“How can you be so sure?” You asked. “I know it’s Kevin, I saw him!”
“ I burned his body myself, okay? It's not him.” Dean growled.
“So I’m seeing things?!” You asked. “You cremated him, so what? I was there! You cremated Bobby, too, and-”
“Don’t bring Bobby into this!” Dean demanded, still shaken by the incident with his almost father’s ghost. “Y/N, I'm telling you, this ghost, it's not Kevin!”
At that point, the coffee maker screamed, its clock going crazy. The mug in Dean’s hand shattered. The brothers looked shocked, backing away. However you got up and walked towards the machine.
“Kevin?” You asked softly.
The coffee maker stopped making strange noises, beeped once, then shut off completely.
You looked over at Sam and Dean. “Believe me now?”
“Woah…” Dean mumbled. “So what now? Seance with a coffee maker?”
“He’s trying, Dean.” You said. “He’s new at this, and stuck in the veil. I mean, Heaven is all fucked up!”
“It did take Bobby ages to make contact.” Sam agreed. “It could take a while.”
Dean frowned, sitting down at the table. “You said you saw him, Y/N.”
“I thought I was insane,” You admitted. “But I really did see him. Idiot wasted his energy just to show off to me.”
The coffee maker beeped and you smiled. “I was just teasing you, Kev.”
“Y/N, now isn’t the time to goof off.” Dean said sternly.
“My boyfriend is a ghost and you’re telling me how not to grieve?”
“There’s more important things to do than play hard to get with a damn coffee machine!” Dean retaliated.
“Oh, like what?” You asked. “Begging for forgiveness?”
“His death was my fault!”
“Tell that to the angel possessing me.” Sam cut in.
“I should have been there to protect him!” Dean yelled. “I got him killed!”
“Dean, no! Stop blaming yourself for everything!” Sam said, raising his voice too. “It was my-”
The coffee maker screamed again, Kevin trying to make contact, whether it was to argue or end the fight. You’d had enough.
“ALL OF YOU STOP IT!” You screamed. The room went silent. You stood there, shaking with rage and sadness, trying to prevent the tears from running down your face. “It was all of our faults, maybe mine the most! But arguing isn’t going to make Kevin any less dead and stuck! So shut the fuck up, and act like adults!”
“Y/N-”
You didn’t know who’d spoken your name and you didn’t care. This was all too much and you’d had enough. You stormed into your room without another word.
Sam knocked on your door. “Y/N?”
“Go away, Sam.” You mumbled, turning over in your bed.
“It’s about Kevin.” He added.
You were curious. You opened the door, hair a mess and eyes red, cheeks stained with tears. “What.”
“We saw him too.” Dean added. “After you left, he was there for a couple minutes.”
“So?”
“So, he wanted a favour.” Sam explained. “We go save his mother while he has time here with you.”
You nodded. “You sure he wants to see me?”
Dean sighed. “Dude wouldn’t stop talking about how he missed you, almost talked our ears off ‘till he got to the point.”
“Talk to Kevin. We’ll be back soon.”
When the Winchesters left, you sat back down at the kitchen table, unsure of what to say next. Minutes passed before you gathered the courage to speak. “Kevin?”
Across from you, a form flickered. “Y/N can- can you see me?”
You nodded as his form solidified, Kevin standing right in front of you. He grinned. “Hey.”
“Hey.”
He sat across from you, flickering when he tried to move the chair. It looked like it took a lot of effort even just to be seen. “I missed you.”
You smiled and wiped your eyes. “God, I missed you too. I’m sorry Kevin. I’m so sorry!”
“Hey, don’t be sorry. It’s not your fault.” Kevin assured.
“But-”
“Trust me.” The ghost said, his voice calm and soothing. “I’ve had time to think. And I know that it’s not your fault any of this happened. If I hadn’t become a prophet I would never had met you.”
You laughed through your tears. “What will you do without me?”
Kevin shrugged. “The question is, what will you do without me?”
You were silent for a bit. “I… I don’t know.”
“Promise me something.”
“Anything.”
“Live your life.” Kevin told you. “Stay safe and live out your life. Grow old, get grey, adopt twenty cats. I’ll wait for you.”
“Then I guess I’ll wait for you too.” You replied. “I promise.”
The two of you spent the rest of the day just talking. When Kevin couldn’t hold a visible form any longer, you moved to the front room and turned a movie on, knowing he was right beside you.
The boys returned with Mrs. Tran, and you had a decision made. You looked at the ring Kevin’s spirit had attached to, turning it over in your hand. “I’m done hunting.”
“What?” Sam and Dean asked in unison.
“I’d like to go with Kevin and his mother. If that’s okay with Mrs. Tran.” You admitted.
Kevin’s mom smiled. “I could use some living company too.”
You hugged the Winchesters and turned to Linda Tran. “Give me ten minutes to pack.”
“Take all the time you need.”
You slipped the ring onto a small chain around your neck, feeling the cold metal against your chest. You’d wait to be with Kevin again, even if it took forever.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 14/?
Fandom: Collinlock16 - Oneshef (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Zander & Zander's Friend (Collinlock16), Kevin & AwesomeG (Collinlock16), Zander & AwesomeG (Collinlock16), AwesomeG & Collinlock16 (Collinlock16), Colinlock19 & Collinlock16 (Collinlock16), AndreW2002/Assimilation (Collinlock16), Collinlock16 & Kevin (Collinlock16)
Characters: ZanderX400 (Collinlock16), AwesomeG (Collinlock16), Souler (Collinlock16), Hungry (Collinlock16), Gridman | Admin 6 (Collinlock16), Kevin (Collinlock16), Collinlock16 (Collinlock16), Zander's Friend, Colinlock19 (Collinlock16), AndreW2002 (Collinlock16), Assimilation (Collinlock16)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Timeline Shenanigans, only a little bit, Zander lives, AwesomeG lives, Kevin does not not, ghost!Kevin, haunted AwesomeG, AwesomeG is named Gavin, AwesomeG uses they/them, AwesomeG gets Collin's hauntedness in this au, and the rain too, no beta we die like Kevin will, Collin and AwesomeG are siblings, Swearing, Sibling Bonding, Found Family
Summary:
When Zander and his friend encountered Souler, they thought they were just being pranked by each other, and by the time they knew it was real they just couldn't take it seriously. After all, if it couldn't hurt them when they thought it was a prank, there's no way it was really dangerous. Instead, they took a video of themselves mocking it and posted that alongside their Herobrine sighting. Surely this would have no unforeseen consequences, right?
Never Go Home (1352 words) by kalliel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Linda Tran & Kevin Tran, Linda Tran & Dean Winchester
Characters: Linda Tran, Kevin Tran, Dean Winchester
Additional Tags: Episode: s09e14 Captives, episode coda, 9x14, Character Study
Summary:
There is only one way to mean what you mean, and you mean you've lost your son. This is the longest wake you've never left. Coda to 9x14 "Captives," Linda!POV
This is such a lovely look at Linda following 9.14. The second person narration creates a fabulous atmosphere.
all and nothing (2654 words) by alethiometry
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Linda Tran, Kevin Tran, Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Crowley (Supernatural)
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, POV Second Person, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Racist Language, Post-Season/Series 09
Summary:
Some nights you dream of shackles, and when you wake up it takes an extra minute to remind yourself that you aren’t with the demons anymore. You are whole. You are safe. You are free. You have your son, incorporeal as he is, and that is all you need. (Post-season 9.)
I have a thing for Linda fics set after Kevin's death told in the second person. This is an atmospheric look at Linda's headspace that really worked for me. Warnings for racism/racial slurs and off-screen rape.
Cooking for the Dead (9036 words) by Sophia_Prester
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Linda Tran, Kevin Tran, Death (Supernatural)
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Cooking
Summary:
If you're trying to figure out how to help the ghost of your dead child hang on to his sanity, first you've got to figure out how to hang on to your own.
This fic absolutely blew me away. It combines a wonderfully characterized Linda with a portrayal of death we're rarely allowed to see in the show itself. Beautiful.
Haunted (2917 words) by Balder12
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kevin Tran & Linda Tran
Characters: Linda Tran, Kevin Tran
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Angst, Canonical Character Death, Ghost Kevin
Summary:
Linda Tran is a hunter on a mission.
I know that I've recced this at least once. But the relationship here between Linda and Kevin is portrayed so well that I had to rec it again. Hunter!Linda is always one of my favorite tropes in the fandom.
Let her under your skin by lyryk.
Rating: PG-13
Relationship: Jody/Linda
This was my springfling gift this year and it is awesome. Post-Apocalyptic Jody/Linda, with both characters written beautifully.
Vacancy (639 words) by mako_lies
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kevin Tran & Linda Tran
Characters: Linda Tran, Kevin Tran
Additional Tags: Demonic Possession, Hurt/Comfort, Season/Series 08, Mother-Son Relationship
Summary:
Kevin is there when Linda comes to from the possession. Set between 8.02 and 8.07.
I hate to rec my own story, but I couldn't find another fic on AO3 about Linda & Kevin where Kevin was actually alive apart from this one, so here we are.
Summary: Kevin Tran tries to make contact with the Winchesters at the bunker. He has some difficulty getting through to them. Inspired by this prompt: slight 9x14 AU where ghost!kevin keeps accidentally materializing in the middle of destiel sexytimes.
It was all so strange
And so surreal
That a ghost should be so practical
Only if for a night
And the only solution was to stand and fight
And my body was bruised and I was set alight
