August 2nd excerpt:

The tines of the fork nudged at Sam’s arm, who barely even looked up at the threatening cutlery that could scoop him up into the air. “What, Dean?” he asked tiredly, a put-on air about him as he studiously focused on the shreds of hot dog and bread he had pushed into a facsimile of a hot dog on a bun.

“You gonna eat that?” Dean asked, jabbing his fork at the remainder of Sam’s portion of the meal.

August 1st excerpt:

With hands shaking from anger and exhaustion both, Logan found the edge of the pocket flap keeping him trapped. He even allowed himself to be smug as he pushed it up at last to survey his options.

And promptly froze as Dean leaned forward slightly and poked his fork at Sam, who was sitting on the plate just below.

Okay, stemming off of my last theory/question about Celeste, if she has an awareness of her other selves, does that mean that there is a certain concrete order in which the AU’s occur? (So that she retains the memory of which ways have failed?)

Well, for this I usually stick to the order the AUs were actually created in! (Not necessarily the order they posted in, because we opened up the poll for deciding which story posts next). Not that all apply this way, because some were actually designed around this concept.

First is of course

Brothers Apart, and that’s in front of all other AUs. The original, the first, the basis for all that follows. 

It’s followed by the main ones that we’ve played around with–

Brothers Found,

Brothers Consulted,

Brothers Saved,

Brothers Lost,

Brothers Together, 

Brothers Grounded.

She did throw Sam a bone in Brothers Adopted and Brothers Divided. Maybe if he has a little brother to look after, he’ll keep out of trouble until she needs him.

Maybe if she coaxes them to go to a different motel they’ll keep away from her little experiments? She might lose Sam as a curse victim, but there are other ways in Brothers United.

No more Walt to bother her Sam in Brothers Unexpected

Following that is

Brothers Asunder, when she gets fed up with Sam and Dean. Bowman better watch himself there. She’s seen him interfering a few times.

Sherlock should watch where he sticks his nose, because one of these days she might not just leave him to be the Consulting Detective like he enjoys. Stan got himself in some trouble too, leading to

Brothers Chosen.

Brothers Kept

currently takes place last, though there may be another AU placed around the same basic period with Celeste. Here she’s thrown out the rules and tossed Sam and Dean into the (currently) worst case scenario.

What would happen if you got Bowman and Nixie together? I know Bowman is already skeptical about her being a sprite from his conversation with Sam in A Lich of Sense…

Nixie would be amused by her volatile, younger cousin. She might not be connected to the sprites that the Earth Spirit created, but she would treat them as she would any other sprite. She would love to see the village, and is especially fond of forests and streams.

I can see her and Rischa getting along great, sharing experiences about their empathy abilities. Rischa would love to get some tips from Nixie about how to handle it, especially if people are feeling a lot of really strong emotions.

Bowman, meanwhile, would be baffled and wary of this new sprite. She definitely doesn’t look like what he’d expect a water sprite to look like. Rischa why are you being so friendly with her. What if she’s dangerous.

July 31st excerpt:

Dean hummed to himself as he dumped the scalding hot water out over the sink and the hot dogs dropped into a strainer to cool. “Ketchup?” he called over his shoulder to Sam, getting a distracted nod in return.

Piling it all onto a plate, Dean snagged the bag of hot dog buns and brought it all over to the table, claiming the spot Bobby had eaten his own lunch in. It was easier since the spot was cleared of the regular clutter. The ketchup was fetched from the fridge, and a fork, which ended up used to cut one of the hot dogs to manageable pieces for Sam to gather from. Dean nudged that one to the very edge and plucked some of the softer parts of his bun off for Sam to try, then poured practically a red lake’s worth of ketchup for Sam to use.

“Grub’s up,” he announced, piecing his own together with the buns provided and grabbing mustard and onions as well to stack on top.