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Title: Swim Into the Smoke
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, sexual references. Coda for 4x04
W/C: ~1,100
Disclaimer: Yeah. I know. Next question?

a/n: Title is from Conrad Aiken (poem here). Lots of thanks to luzdeestrellas and batyatoon.

( Right now, you don't have to deal with how he looks at you, the doubt and worry, and worse, the confusion, as if he's trying to figure out who you are. )

This was posted at spnflashfic back in August (wait, where did the time go?) and I never got around to archiving it. So if you missed it the first time around, here it is.

Title: Cross My Heart
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, preseries (Sam 12, Dean 16)
w/c: 1,500
Disclaimer: Property of not me.

Summary: Sam finds a way to magically protect Dean on hunts. This can't end well.

( Dean's okay, he's going to be fine, Dad says, but Sam doesn't believe him. )

Title: Our Own Shadow Hides Light
Author: dotfic
Rating: PG, Sam and Dean gen, mild Dean/Castiel. Set a few weeks after 4x02
W/C: ~1,800
Disclaimer: Still not mine.

a/n: Thank you to smilla02 for the polishing and hand-holding. Much pie to musesfool for helping me find a title (which is from Christina Rossetti).

Summary: A story of Sam, Dean, memories, Castiel, cheeseburgers, and pie.

( You've been remembering, Castiel said, voice low and quiet. )

Title: Then I'll Wave and Say Goodbye
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG, preseries, pov of guest character from 4x02
W/C: 900
Disclaimer: Property of Eric Kripke and The CW.

a/n: Title from Gracie Allen. Thank you to innie_darling for the wonderfully helpful and speedy beta. Written for spn_xx gen flashfic challenge #27.

( It was better when she didn't know their names. )

Title: The Taste of Water
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG, coda for 4x01
w/c: ~800
Disclaimer: See, I keep thinking they're mine, but they're not, they belong to the CW and Eric Kripke.

a/n: Many thanks to janissa11 for the careful polish and smilla02 for audiencing.

( This was what you were hoping for, wasn't it? When you told him to keep on fighting? )

Title: Now Hollow Fires Burn
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, season one
W/C: 6,500
Disclaimer: Property of Eric Kripke and the CW.

a/n: Set between Route 666 and Nightmare. My gratitude to the maintainer(s) of the season one timeline on the Super-wiki. Title from A.E. Housman. Thank you to innie_darling for the beta read and the extra nudge and to pheebs1 for listening to me blather about the fic in email.

Written for vichan for spn_summergen 2008, run by the patient and awesome mahoni and ignipes. Originally posted here.

Summary: The house has no violent history, no cold spots, no strange noises. But there's something not quite right about it.

( Dean laughed in that way that made Sam feel like he was eight years old, always following his big brother. )

Title: Until Dawn
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, preseries (Stanford years)
W/C: 3,100
Disclaimer: Eric Kripke and the CW's, not mine.

a/n: This references events that took place in Long Past Dark, but can be read on its own. Many thanks to luzdeestrellas for the insightful beta comments.

Summary: Demons, rock salt, holy water, and beer. Just another father and son road trip.

( The windshield wipers swished back and forth. Dad had gone quiet, not the closed-off, terrible silences of that past fall, but the kind of sneaky quiet that fell over him sometimes when he was thinking hard. Dean's fingers twitched, wanting to turn on the radio or a mix tape, needing the noise, the familiar rhythms. )

There's an entry from me over at spnflashfic in the "Potions and amulets" challenge, Cross My Heart. Gen and preseries and not at all angsty. Okay, a little. But not so much that would fill you with despair. There might be a tiny bit of Dean whumpage and Sam angsting...okay look, I meant for it to be comedic when I got the plot bunny...

Title: Epilogue
A coda for A Thin Chain of Next Moments
Authors: batyatoon and dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, AU, futurefic
W/C: ~3,000
Disclaimer: Not ours. But does that stop us any?

a/n: You do have to read A Thin Chain of Next Moments, an AU breaking off with canon after "Crossroad Blues," in which Dean made a ten-year deal to save John, to read this. If you have already read it, thank you. We made you a present. (Also, we wrote the beginning of this before the season 3 finale aired. Standard disclaimers about having been jossed/kripked apply.) Big thank yous to iamstealthyone for the thoughtful beta, and again to destina for her support of this AU.

Summary: Time's run out for Dean, but Sam and John aren't ready to give up.

( Demons lie, he knows that; he's always known that. )

Title: Eight Times Dean Was Unexpectedly Kissed (In Multiple Universes)
Author: dotfic
Rating/pairing: PG-13, het and slash. Dean/Layla Rourke, Dean/Tony Stark, Dean/Ellen Harvelle, Dean/Martha Jones, Dean/Jack Harkness, Dean/OFC, Dean/Victor Henriksen, Dean/Haley Collins
W/C: 1,600 (eight double drabbles)
a/n: Thank you to batyatoon, pheebs1, mclittlebitch, and smilla02, for various kiss approvals, and to marinarusalka for tweaking and approving the whole bundle.

( Layla Rourke )
( Tony Stark )
( Ellen Harvelle )
( Martha Jones )
( Jack Harkness )
( Jill Hernandez (OFC) )
( Victor Henriksen )
( Haley Collins )

Happy birthday, deirdre_c! It is wonderful sharing a fandom with you and I hope we share many more. Inside and outside of fandom, you are awesome and I'm glad to have found you.

Title: Five Times Sam Winchester Was Unaware of His Own Hotness
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG, Stanford years-present
W/C: 500
Disclaimer: Property of Eric Kripke and The CW.

a/n: Written for the fabulous deirdre_c's birthday, and therefore, there is scaling of fences, among other things. Thank you to the patient pheebs1 for her input.

( Probably he looked like a freak, dripping water everywhere. )

Happy birthday, smilla02. It is lovely being in fandom with you and your kindness and your insight, not to mention how you rock creatively.

Title: Furlough
Author: dotfic
Rating: slash, hard R, Dean/Victor
W/C: 1,900
Disclaimer: Property of The CW and Eric Kripke.

a/n: Let's say this happens in an AU of season 5. Written for the lovely and talented smilla02's birthday. Pie and shiny new hiking boots to marinarusalka for the beta and encouragement.

Summary: Every time they run into each other, it goes something like this.

( Somewhere in the back of that compulsively ordered notebook of his, it probably read Victor: 17, Dean: 27. Because the way Dean figured it, he was definitely ahead. )

Happy birthday, Victoria! It's a joy sharing a fandom (fandoms) with you. Hope you have (had) a wonderful Tuesday!

Title: Then You'd Better Not Stay
A Supernatural/DCU crossover
Author: dotfic
Rating/pairing: Het, PG-13, Dean Winchester/Wonder Woman
Continuity: For her, after the JLU ep "Divided We Fall." For him, preseries, a few months before New Orleans.
Word count: 2,300
Disclaimer: Property of Eric Kripke, The CW, Bruce Timm, DC Comics, and Warner Brothers. *checks* Not me.

Written for musesfool's birthday, at her request because I'm easy that way. Vic, I'm not sure this is exactly what you wanted -- once I put them together they started bossing me around.

a/n: Reference for Wonder Woman's background (and any other obscure canon shout-outs) is the animated Timmverse. Title is from David Bowie. Thank you to mclittlebitch for the beta read.

Summary: He's a hunter. She's an Amazon princess. Together, they slay dragons!

( How many guys could she know who get trashed by monsters and refuse trips to the ER after? )

Title: Receiver
Author: dotfic
Artist: dun
Rating: Gen, PG-13, slightly AU
W/C: 21,700
Disclaimer: The OC's are mine. The Winchesters belong to Eric Kripke and The CW.

a/n: Written for the spn_j2_bigbang 2008 challenge. This fic refers to fanon events in three of my prior stories, Recoil, Ricochet, and Reload. You don't need to read them to read this. Some readers may recognize portions of Recoil from another pov.

Massive thanks to marinarusalka for her excellent beta skills and to smilla02 and luzdeestrellas for their terrific input, and to audrarose, estrella30, and wendy for running the challenge.

Summary: "When I told Dad I was scared of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45...I was nine years old." In the wake of the events of "Fresh Blood," Sam and Dean find a hunt: a family whose youngest child has a monster in his closet. The Winchesters know exactly how to deal with monsters, but this hunt is a little too familiar. Sam starts to unravel while Dean's show falters.

( cover art )
Post with all the artwork by the extremely talented dun

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
More notes and additional thanks

Title: Receiver
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, slightly AU
W/C: 21,700
Disclaimer: The OC's are mine. The Winchesters belong to Eric Kripke and The CW.

( Part 4 )

( notes and additional thanks )

Title: Receiver
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, slightly AU
W/C: 21,700
Disclaimer: The OC's are mine. The Winchesters belong to Eric Kripke and The CW.

( Part 3 )

Part 1|Part 2

Title: Receiver
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, slightly AU
W/C: 21,700
Disclaimer: The OC's are mine. The Winchesters belong to Eric Kripke and The CW.

( Part 2 )

Part 1

Title: Receiver
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13, slightly AU
W/C: 21,700
Disclaimer: The OC's are mine. The Winchesters belong to Eric Kripke and The CW.

( Part 1 )

Title: Turning Left Again
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, G
W/C: 700
Disclaimer: Property of the BBC.

a/n: Post 4x13. Because there's more to the story than what we saw. There always is. Thank you to marag for the beta and letting me use her line about UNIT, and to pheebs1 for the brit-pick.

Summary: Donna will let him believe. It's the only way.

( She lets him believe. )

Title: The Trouble With Jarvis
Author: dotfic
Rating: PG. Tony/Pepper UST, implied Tony/Jarvis, brief mention of Tony/OFC. Movieverse.
W/C: 2,000
Disclaimer: Property of Marvel and Paramount.

a/n: Beta by mclittlebitch. She denies it, but I'm convinced this story is her great and terrible revenge on me. Of course, I could have said "no I'm not writing that."

Summary: Jarvis develops a glitch. Pepper commiserates.

( The usual speech wasn't going to cut it. Pepper knocked back another swallow of scotch. )