Of Poltergeists and Gilded Cages | Archive of Our Own

talkingtomyselfagain:

Part Six of Become the Beast (Cadbury). 

Summary: Sam learns that the dormitory he was meant to stay in has been closed because it’s being haunted by a poltergeist. Dealing with it proves to be a struggle, especially when he’s caught by campus security guard Arthur King and locked inside the dormitory. Now they have to work together to purify the dormitory, but there are a lot of floors and the poltergeist is very determined not to let them win.

The first official crossover in the series crosses Supernatural and Merlin (BBC). 

I got quite a lot of reviews about people freaking out over the ending of Of Music and Memories and I may have feared for my life just a little bit (I’m looking at you, @altyex), so here’s the first chapter of the next fic in the series. We’re back at Stanford now, but don’t worry, we’ll see SaMatt again. 

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 A Destiel AU

Chapter Nine: The Situation Room

When they reached the Situation Room, Arthur Ketch was waiting for them.

In Dean’s defense, he tried to keep his dislike of the man off of his face.  He was a talented National Security Advisor, but in the few interactions Dean had had with him, he’d been incredibly condescending.

“Thank you, Ms. McLeod,” he said crisply.  Then, turning to Dean, “Agent Winchester.”

Things had to be bad for Rowena to pat his shoulder as she turned away.  Dean tried not to make his swallow so obvious as he followed Ketch into the room.  It looked pretty much like it did in the movies.  Were the darkened lights for the ambiance or for the projector?

Once he and Ketch got settled, they didn’t have much time before Roman walked through the door and everyone stood.  To Roman’s credit, he had least had the grace to look a little disconcerted at such a welcome.  It appeared that there were still things that took some time to get used to.

“Thank you.  Mr. Ketch, proceed.”

Dean’s heart settled somewhere around his naval.  He wasn’t sure he’d be able to listen to this.

“We received this video this morning.”

Ketch nodded to someone in the back, who clicked play.  Dean had to grip the side of the table until his knuckles turned white in order to avoid shouting out loud when Jack’s face came into view.

He didn’t look hurt, but it didn’t feel like much of an upside.  His eyes flickered nervously between the camera and what Dean assumed was the monster behind it.  He looked far younger on the screen than he had in years.

“Tell them.”

If Dean had been expecting some sort of Hollywood villain drawl, something that sounded chilling and evil, he was disappointed.  The man sounded like just that—a man.  Dean closed his eyes as Jack responded.

“I’m not hurt.”

Dean listened hard for some kind of catch in his voice, a noise that would alert him to some hidden hurt to prove the sentence a lie, but it seemed like he was telling the truth.

“Go on.”

“And I’m gonna stay that way.”

At that, Jack’s eyes filled with tears.  Despite himself, Dean’s did too out of sympathy and fear for the kid.

“For how long, Jack?”

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Listen – followyourenergy – Supernatural [Archive of Our Own]

imdestieltrash33:

Chapters: 24/24
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Castiel & Sam Winchester
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Eileen Leahy, Jessica Moore, Meg Masters, Anna Milton, Alfie (Supernatural), Mary Winchester, John Winchester, Original Novak Character(s), Benny Lafitte, Andrea Kormos, Charlie Bradbury
Additional Tags: Deaf Character, Deaf Sam, Deaf Gabriel (Supernatural), Hearing Dean, Hearing Castiel, Fluff and Angst, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, John Winchester and Mary Winchester are Divorced, strained relationships with parents, interpreter Castiel, Sam Winchester Ships Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel and Sam are best friends, Castiel and Gabriel (Supernatural) are Siblings, Gay Sex, Bottom Dean, Top Castiel, Karaoke, Musician Dean Winchester
Summary:

Five years ago, an accident happened that changed the course of Sam Winchester’s life – and in turn, the life of his brother, Dean, and the Winchester family. Dean wasn’t sure how to deal with the “after,” so he distanced himself from his brother at a time when Sam needed him the most. Now, at Sam’s invitation, Dean has decided to visit him in Boston, where he’s been living on his own. He expects his brother to be struggling, but is surprised to learn that he’s not only surviving, but thriving. Sam has two jobs, graduate school, and amazing friends – including an attractive interpreter named Cas – and although Dean has had some success in his chosen career, he longs for the true happiness Sam has. When Dean seeks Cas’ help to reconnect with his brother, Cas eventually agrees but Dean finds that his usual way of dealing with things won’t work with the captivating man who is firmly in Sam’s corner, and he will have to learn much more than a new language. Dean’s journey forces all three men to confront themselves, and eventually teaches them about assumptions, friendship, and love.

Told from three perspectives, this is a story about love, acceptance, and learning what it truly means to listen.

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Listen – followyourenergy – Supernatural [Archive of Our Own]

goodfemalecharacters:

A Destiel AU

Later, Sam would be hard-pressed to describe the day to someone who asked.  Luckily, he took enough notes to cobble together a piece for his editor, but it was hardly the best work of the career.  He couldn’t be bothered to improve it, though.  After so long of living shoulder to shoulder with his brother, Dean’s anxiety was transferable to Sam, even though they didn’t speak all day.

Besides that, he really did care about Jack on his own.  Thanks to Dean, he’d gotten to know the kid pretty well, and he liked him.

“Do you have food in your apartment?”

Sam jumped at the sound of a voice behind him.  Eileen laid a gentle hand on his shoulder as she turned him around so she could read his lips.

“Dean always makes sure we’ve got something, yeah.”

Sam was so utterly terrible at remembering to feed himself that Dean often left pieces of food—an apple, a box of crackers—along his path of getting ready in the morning.

“Great,” she said, forcing a cheerful smile. “You can make me dinner, then.”

Sam shot Dean a quick text to let him know there would be something (poorly) home-cooked when he got home if he wanted it.

The little read sticker didn’t appear.

As they broke into the last few rays of sunlight, it felt like a weight fell off of Sam’s shoulders.  Usually, working in the White House felt like a dream—a long, tiring, sometimes infuriating dream, sure—but these last few days had been something more of a nightmare.

“Have you even seen Dean today?” Sam asked.

Eileen shook her head as they stepped on to the metro. “No.”

(start from the beginning on ao3)

goodfemalecharacters:

A Destiel AU

Chapter Seven: The Oval Office

The day of the inauguration dawned bright and clear, despite Dean’s best mental attempts to chide the sky into storming.  It took him a full three snooze cycles (and Sam smacking his bedroom door once he realized Dean wasn’t getting up) to drag himself out of bed.

Sam eyed him drowsily over his Cheerios as he stumbled into the kitchen, still blinking gummy sleep out of his eyes.  He estimated that he’d gotten about two hours between all the tossing and turning and how long it had taken to get up the heart to leave Jack last night.

“You look like hell,” Sam observed.

Dean glared, best as he was able with his left eye still half shut against the flickering bulb of the light above them—someone really had to fix that, but that would require a free afternoon that neither he nor Sam would have for the foreseeable future.

“Nice observation.  I can see they’re teaching journalists well these days.  You’re sharper than ever.”

This was the sort of day that would normally be cause for some bacon, but Dean couldn’t find it in himself to bother.  Instead, he nabbed Sam’s Cheerios and ate them straight out of the box.  It was a testament to the day that Sam didn’t cuss him out for it.

They ate in silence.  Dean normally turned out the radio and he and Sam duked it out over Big 100 and NPR, but it didn’t seem like the right time for classic rock and it wasn’t like either of them wanted to hear the news.  Dean ducked back into his room to change and emerged, still scowling.

“Is my tie straight?”

“As you are,” Sam said without missing a beat.

“Bitch.”

“Jerk.”

He still attempted to straighten out his tie.

(start from the beginning on ao3)

deancasminibang:

Title:   A World As Yet Unseen
Author: 
@thedogsled
Artist: 
@pantydean
Beta: 
@idjitsaviors
Rating: 
NC17
Word Count: 
17, 839
Summary: 
This is how it’s always been, as far as Dean knows. He’s always been a disappointed son, he loves playing the piano, and he’s been blind since the incident in his brother’s nursery when he was only four.

How things came to be this way Dean doesn’t know, but it doesn’t matter; this is his life, and he lives comfortably enough. He gets a little work at a local bar, free drinks during and after his set, and now and again he even manages to pick someone up.

Which is where Castiel comes in. Funny, sweet and sort of adorably oblivious, Dean falls for him straight away. And really, who wouldn’t?

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A Destiel Au

Chapter Six: Alexandria

Castiel hadn’t been in the dating pool for quite some time, so he wasn’t sure if taking someone to buy a suit constituted as flirting.

“Don’t you have to be with Jack?” he asked as they got off the metro in Alexandria.

Dean shook his head. “He headed back to school today, said he wanted to feel normal.  So I let Benny and them take care of security.  Sam said he’d kill me if I didn’t take a bit of a break.”

He took the steps up into the sunlight two at a time, so Castiel had to double his pace to follow him.  The streets were slightly less crowded here than they were in the heart of the city.  Cas took his first full breath in what felt like months.

He refocused on the conversation and nodded. “Your brother.”

“And the weirdest mother hen roommate you’ve ever met.  You’d think he was the one to raise me.”

Cas paused. “Raise?”

Instantly, he kicked himself.  This was what Meg meant when she called him socially inept, however affectionately.  He always put his foot directly in his mouth.

Dean didn’t seem bothered. “Yeah.  Mom died when I was eighteen, so I fought to get custody of Sammy.  He was a snot nosed little brat, but I wasn’t about to let somebody else take him.  Family, you know?”

Cas nodded.  Even a week ago, he wouldn’t have realized what that meant.  But thinking about Jack’s face—

“He’s only four years younger than me, so we were pretty much looking after each other, but I still tease him all the time about it.”

His face darkened slightly.  Cas tried to imagine him at eighteen, the five o’clock shadow coming in far patchier, with a kid brother by his side.  He certainly couldn’t have done the same at eighteen.  He’d been buried in college applications, worried about how he was going to survive the interview portion of his science fair entry (answer: he hadn’t).

“That’s why I worry about Jack.  I know what it feels like to just—be adrift.” Dean waved his hand vaguely. “And yeah, he won’t have to worry about money or anything, but he’s got the eyes of the world on him.  It’s going to be so hard.”

Cas tugged at his collar. “I want to help him.  I need to—to make it up to Kelly.  I mean, I want to help him, too, it’s not just because I’m guilty, but I need you to know where I’m coming from.”

The hand that brushed his wrist as Dean answered, “I know.”—was that flirting, too?  Or was it just Dean trying to seem like he understood?

Either way, it wasn’t exactly something he had the energy to dwell on right now.

(start from the beginning on ao3)

deancasminibang:

Title: Leap of Faith
Author:
@hartlessfiction
Artist:
@thedogsled
Beta:
please see A03 for betas
Rating:
Explicit
Word Count:
70,636
Summary: 
For some of us, it’s easy, close your eyes, take a breath, and jump. For others, it takes an entire bottle of whiskey, a slow, unreliable internet connection, and years of self-induced isolation on a picturesque mountainside to do what they have to do. What they need to do. Many years after losing his own pack, his family, an act he blames himself for, Alpha-Were Castiel is skilled at not giving himself even the smallest of pleasures, including that of a pack. An alpha needs a pack. It’s written into their DNA. It’s so much more than just having a mate. It’s the pack bonds that make an alpha whole, and the longer Castiel denies himself one, the more he loses of his humanity.

When a drunken, desperate act brings a beautiful, vibrant omega to his doorstep with a disastrous winter storm nipping at his heels, Castiel knows he does not deserve the gift. Sending Dean back down the mountain would be certain death for the young were, but allowing him to stay will undoubtedly change Castiel’s life forever. Maybe it’s time for Castiel to leave his darkness in the past, where it belongs. With Dean standing next to him on the precipice, there’s nothing left for Castiel to do but close his eyes, take a breath, and leap.

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Chronicles of the Merchant: Book 1 – MonPetitTresor – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

thequeervet:

Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Highlander: The Series
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Characters: Tony Stark, Methos (Highlander), Kronos (Highlander), Caspian (Highlander), Silas (Highlander)
Additional Tags: dark themes, Violence, Rape, Hurt Tony, slight stockholm syndrome, Angst and Feels, Rough Sex, Knife Play, Dom/sub, submissive Tony Stark, Dom Methos, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, BAMF Tony Stark, Tony-centric, Time Travel, Ancient History, Immortal Tony Stark, Hand-wavey Science, Magic, Four Horsemen, Triggers galore here people, cautious as you read, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
Series: Part 1 of Immortal Tony
Summary:

Book 1: The Beginning

When Tony went through the wormhole, it was with the knowledge that this was a one-way trip. There’d be no coming back from it. The aliens had to be stopped, and the Avengers had to close the portal. Tony knew that, and he accepted it. When he closed his eyes for that last time in the vast darkness of space, he expected it to be the end.

He never expected to open them again, or to find himself alone – minus the suit and the arc reactor – lying in the sand in the middle of some desert. Where the hell was he?

Before he gets the chance to start to find answers, he’s found by a group of people who don’t have his best interests at heart.

Forced to be their captive, the only thing Tony do is try to survive until he finds a way to get free. No matter what it takes. Even if it means befriending a man who he finds himself hating a whole lot less than he should.

I know the tags might throw people off, but this fic is a blast to write. And it’s very Tony-centric. This is HIS journey through, well, time. Immortal Tony Stark. And there are going to be multiple pairings in here

Chronicles of the Merchant: Book 1 – MonPetitTresor – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]