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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: 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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