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)

Title: Viscera Waltz in 3/8 Time
Rating: R
Word Count: 100x7
Spoilers: Through 5.13
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of pain and death. A bit of language. (No didn't-already-happen-in-canon character death, though.)
Notes: I feel like this is often a grisly show, one that doesn't shy away from gore and death. So, for practice, I wrote a character study of Dean in bodies and blood.
Summary: It's one of those things you get used to, in this business, and knowing how a man looks on the inside sure takes the mystery away.

( “Fuck. Jesus,” Dad hisses, throwing an arm across the doorway like that’s gonna stop Dean from seeing what’s on the other side. )

Here we go! I'm sure a goodly chunk of viewers were thinking of this while watching tonight's episode, but it was just too fascinating an idea to let go. Thus, have a lovely AU tag for Time Is On My Side. I very much enjoyed writing it--I hope you have half as much fun reading it!