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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.

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Post with all the artwork by the extremely talented dun

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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.

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( 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.

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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 )

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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 )

Happy birthday destina! \o/ I hope you have a wonderful day with lots of doing whatever you want. :D

Title: Triangle
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG, preseries
W/C: 1,400
Disclaimer: All of them belong to Eric Kripke.

a/n: Written for destina's birthday. Thank you to embroiderama for the lovely beta work.

Summary: Sam Winchester was sure of three things.

( A heavy scrape and a click snapped out, and then silence followed. Only then did he start to squirm free. )

Title: In the Wires
A Supernatural/Iron Man movieverse crossover
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG
W/C: ~3,300
Timeline: Post-movie for Iron Man. For Supernatural let's call it AU.
Disclaimer: No, they still aren't mine. I still have my way with them.

a/n: Thank you to marinarusalka and mclittlebitch, enablers and beta readers. I've included some speculation on how Tony might have remodeled his house post-movie.

This picks up right where Ghost in the Machine left off.

Summary: Tony Stark has a problem with the Iron Man suit, and receives help from a couple of specialists.

( I don't want my suit to be haunted by a crazed terrorist who has a mad-on for me and much as it pains me to admit it, getting into the suit right now would be unnecessarily hazardous to my person and I think we're both pretty fond of my person. )

Title: Angle of Refraction
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13
W/C: 716
Disclaimer: Not mine, although that doesn't stop me any.

a/n: Coda for "Time Is On My Side." Written for the Women of Supernatural Gen Flashfic Challenge prompt #9 at spn_xx, Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. - Dorothy Gilman. Thank you to pheebs1 for looking it over for me.

Summary: Bela has too much time on her hands.

( She'd expected heat and screaming. )

Title: A Thin Chain of Next Moments (4/4)
Authors: batyatoon and dotfic
Rating: Gen, AU, PG-13
Warning: Character death
Word count: ~22,000 (total)
Characters/pairings: Sam, Dean, John, Bobby and others (both canon and our own), Sam/Ava, Dean/CRD, Dean/OFC, Jo/OMC
Disclaimer: Sadly, none of them belong to us except the OC's.

a/n: Follows canon up to Crossroad Blues. Puts season two canon in the blender, diverges completely from season three. It took us a while to write this; during the process we got Jossed and Kripked so many times our heads were spinning. Many thanks to our beta reader destina for her patience and her careful editing above and beyond the call of beta-dom. Title is from Bruce Springsteen.

Summary: Dean makes a deal, and lives a life.

(  One long day, slowly drawing to a close. Sunset colors fan up from the horizon all around, and the road’s wide and open in front of them, and the Impala sings to him: Oh, I did somebody some good, somebody some good / Oh, did somebody some good, I must have did somebody some good.... )


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Title: A Thin Chain of Next Moments (3/4)
Authors: batyatoon and dotfic
Rating: Gen, AU, PG-13
Warning: Character death
Word count: ~22,000 (total)
Characters/pairings: Sam, Dean, John, Bobby and others (both canon and our own), Sam/Ava, Dean/CRD, Dean/OFC, Jo/OMC
Disclaimer: Sadly, none of them belong to us except the OC's.

a/n: Follows canon up to Crossroad Blues. Puts season two canon in the blender, diverges completely from season three. It took us a while to write this; during the process we got Jossed and Kripked so many times our heads were spinning. Many thanks to our beta reader destina for her patience and her careful editing above and beyond the call of beta-dom. Title is from Bruce Springsteen.

Summary: Dean makes a deal, and lives a life.

( It's like there's a tiny bubble of silence around him, just him, weirdly peaceful: it was worth it. It has to be. )

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Title: A Thin Chain of Next Moments (2/4)
Authors: batyatoon and dotfic
Rating: Gen, AU, PG-13
Warning: Character death
Word count: ~22,000 (total)
Characters/pairings: Sam, Dean, John, Bobby and others (both canon and our own), Sam/Ava, Dean/CRD, Dean/OFC, Jo/OMC
Disclaimer: Sadly, none of them belong to us except the OC's.

a/n: Follows canon up to Crossroad Blues. Puts season two canon in the blender, diverges completely from season three. It took us a while to write this; during the process we got Jossed and Kripked so many times our heads were spinning. Many thanks to our beta reader destina for her patience and her careful editing above and beyond the call of beta-dom. Title is from Bruce Springsteen.

Summary: Dean makes a deal, and lives a life.

( He drives for four hours without a break, fighting off exhaustion with truck-stop coffee and No-Doz and the loudest music he's got. Running on fumes by the time he pulls into the hospital parking lot, he staggers out of the car on legs that don't want to support him, and leans for a moment on the side of the Impala. )



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Title: A Thin Chain of Next Moments (1/4)
Authors: batyatoon and dotfic
Rating: Gen, AU, PG-13
Warning: Character death
Word count: ~22,000 (total)
Characters/pairings: Sam, Dean, John, Bobby and others (both canon and our own), Sam/Ava, Dean/CRD, Dean/OFC, Jo/OMC
Disclaimer: Sadly, none of them belong to us except the OC's.

a/n: Follows canon up to Crossroad Blues. Puts season two canon in the blender, diverges completely from season three. It took us a while to write this; during the process we got Jossed and Kripked so many times our heads were spinning. Many thanks to our beta reader destina for her patience and her careful editing above and beyond the call of beta-dom. Title is from Bruce Springsteen.

Summary: Dean makes a deal, and lives a life.

( Dean, how can you possibly think this is okay? )


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Title: To Bitch, With Love From Jerk
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG
Timeline: preseries-future
W/C: ~1,500
Disclaimer: Guess we know who's owned around here.

a/n: Thanks to marinarusalka for looking this over for me.

Summary: Dean has written to his brother a few times over the years. Sometimes he even gives Sam the letters.

( P.S. Lay down the salt every night. But you knew that. )

ileliberte, thank you for prettying up LJ with your character-driven drawings and being a great person to be in fandom with! Hope you have a lovely birthday.

Title: Clay Pigeon
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, G
Word count: 500
Disclaimer: I don't have to explain this, I think.

a/n: Set in a bubble of time during mid-season 1. This is for ileliberte on her birthday; the series is all sort of her fault to begin with anyway.

Previous parts: Next Time, Duck|Two Against One

Summary: Sam persuades Dean they should adopt an imp. Dean's convinced this can only end badly.

( Seeing how defeated Dean looked, he felt a twinge of guilt mixed with doubt. After all, Dean was the one who'd been hunting with Dad for years while Sam stayed in the sanctuary of a university library. )

Today is the fabulous and funny pheebs1's birthday. Hope you have a terrific one, with many laughs and possibly chocolate. *throws confetti*

Planning
Gen, PG, spoilers for Mystery Spot, 100 words

Written for pheebs1 on her birthday.

Summary: Ruby knows how to get attention.

( Demons never play fair. )

Happy birthday, vaznetti! I'm not sure, but this might be crack!fic. *checks* Yes, it's definitely crack!fic (I'm sure I'm not the first one around here to have done this, though) and I did it on purpose and it's John Winchester-shaped just for you.


It's Just One of Those Days
Gen, PG, 200 words. Preseries. Crack!fic

a/n: Written for vaznetti's birthday.

Summary: He hopes there's something in the hunter manual for this.

( John rubbed a hand over his face, wishing he could sleep for a month. )

Title: Only Pieces
Author: dotfic
Rating: Gen, PG-13
W/C: 1000
Disclaimer: The Harvelles belong to Eric Kripke (whether he still wants them or not).

a/n: Set a few weeks after "Born Under a Bad Sign." Thank you to the wonderful fryadvocate for beta reading. Written for the Women of Supernatural Gen Flashfic Challenge at spn_xx prompt #1.

Summary: Jo's listened to the stories, done her homework, tried to prepare for everything.

( The wind picked up, tugging at the flames even down in the hollow of the grave. Jo crouched at the edge, shielding the fire with her body. )