next to the last true romantic

My apologies for the exceedingly late posting, and for the quality of the finished product. Writing this was like pulling teeth, for reasons I can't quite figure out. You should go check out the artwork by amber1960 right over here. She's done quite a few lovely pieces and deserves your praise.

Beta thanks go to the fantastic sycophantastic and darkjediqueen, who both put up with a lot of stalling and whining from me every time this story didn't go the way I wanted it to.



Title: Scheherazade of the Super Eight
Author: pyrebi
Artist: amber1960
Pairing(s): Extremely mild Dean/Castiel.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 17k
Warnings: Fairytale-style madness and unrealistically quick fixes, forced imprisonment, general malice, one bout of non-lethal violence, offscreen deaths.
Notes: Goes massively AU after mid-s6; loosely based on the frame tale of One Thousand and One Nights.

Summary: Dean doesn't know why angels keep recruiting him for impossible tasks. But they do, and now he's apparently the last chance heaven has--not only against Raphael, but against a dangerously unhinged Castiel. Oh yeah, and he has to do it all from the confines of a 10'x16' motel room that doesn't even exist.

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( This is the story of a thousand stories. )
(part two)

Oh god, I wrote accidental marriage fic. -hides face in hands-



Title: Vena Amoris and Other Old-Fashioned Bullshit
Rating: PG-13
Words: 3800
Characters: Dean/Castiel, Sam
Spoilers: All aired episodes
Notes: Written for clwright2 for the spn_j2_xmas exchange. And, as can sometimes happen with s6 D/C fics, there are some cannon issues before the end.
Prompt: J2 or D/C, accidental marriage fic.
Summary: In which angelic marriage bonds are apparently stupidly easy to trigger, Cas wages multidimensional war in Heaven, Dean can't catch a break like ever, Sam rather enjoys being a dick, love saves the day, and nobody consummates anything.

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( Dean is having a bad day. A bad series of days. Fuck it all, Dean's having a bad decade. )

Title: Start Quoting Shakespeare and We're Done
Author: pyrebi
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural AU
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 15k
Warnings: Gleeful profanity, rampant rom-com scenarios, and a decided lack of porn.

Artist: sijay
Art link: Art Masterlist

Summary: In which Dean has the hots for a librarian named Cas, Cas may or may not have the hots for a mechanic named Dean, and Gabriel joins Sam in the peanut gallery in the hopes that he might just get to do a horizontal tango of his own.



This fic is based off of three different prompts from comment_fic 's AU day, all of them from sycophantastic :

1) Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel, romantic comedy
2) Dean/Castiel, Cas is a librarian
3) Sam/Gabriel, they meet for the first time in a candy shop

Happy reading!

Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... (The Less Epic of the Angel/Winchester Romances Simmers)
Rating: R for language and sexual themes
Word Count: 2,500 combined
Spoilers: Vague through 5.22
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Notes: Three separate short fics featuring Sam/Gabriel. They're not connected, except by Sam's pissiness and Gabriel's charming dickishness and my own perception of the ship. All were written for x_shorty1013_x over the past few weeks--two at comment_fic and one on Twitter.
Summary:
1) First Sam and Gabriel are creeping on a county fair and passive-aggressively eating ice cream.
2) Then there's sex. Sorta.
3) And then Sam meets the kids. Well, a kid. A really fucking huge sea-serpent of a kid.

( -dramatic music here- )

Title's from Josh Ritter, yo. Either "Idaho" or "Bandits," as the line appears in both songs.

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Title: all that love all those mistakes (what else can a poor man make)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1260
Characters: Sam, Gabriel, Dean, Lucifer (pre-Sam/Gabriel)
Spoilers: 5.19
Warnings: Bit of blood, bit of language.
Notes: AU for 5.19 "Hammer of the Gods." Originally written for hawk_dancing over at comment_fic for their free-for-all day. Prompt was "Supernatural, Sam/Gabriel + Lucifer, just as Lucifer is about to kill Gabriel Sam shows up growling 'You can't HAVE him!'"
Summary: Sam can't bear to lose another one. Not another one, not after all that's already happened.

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( They're less than a mile down the road when Sam flips the fuck out. "We have to go back," he tells Dean. )

Title: enjoying a resurgence in popularity
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 800
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: Through 5.22.
Warnings: None?
Notes: Originally written for x_shorty1013_x over at comment_fic for their "futuristic" themed day. Prompt was "Supernatural, Dean/Castiel + any(/any), Castiel tries to take Dean to 2014 to show him it's different this time around, but he overshoots by a thousand years."
Summary: Dean can't get over the burn-out he'd seen Castiel become in the future. It's starting to affect their sex life. Castiel has had it up to here with this bullshit.

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( The problem with sex with Cas is that Dean has never been able to shake the memory of what he was like in the future out of his head. )