(Story 3 of the Brothers Found series)
Cowritten by @nightmares06 and @neonthewrite
Bowman Leafwing would scoff at the idea of ‘giants’ out there in the forest, but after a run-in with Sam Winchester and his larger hunting buddies, he’ll have a hard time denying their existence.
Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Jacob Andris, Bowman Leafwing
Archive of Our Own || Fanfiction || Deviantart
Artwork by @lamthetwickster!
Aaa, thanks! It’s great to hear that someone’s enjoying our alternate storyline for Lich! So similar in some ways and so different in others.
Bowman was very bothered by this entire idea, shaking a bitty fist.
As stated in the notes of the story, Brothers Found came about directly after A Lich of Sense was completed, when we were bouncing around story ideas and doing ‘mini-rps’ in Skype that we’d just randomly scrap and start anew.
When this one began to take form more than the others, and gave birth to the idea of the horror story, instead of scrapping it, redoing probably over a hundred thousand words and losing all momentum for the horror story, we simply moved the rp from Skype to google docs for editing, and cleaned it up.
(That was! A lot of hard work! Don’t use Skype for rps!)
Brothers Found = Brothers Apart if Jacob came into it first. No more, no less. Until we stumbled over the idea for the horror story and the story grew into its own. And remember– this AU was the first we created and you have these stories to thank for all the others that came after.
So enjoy the nuggets. We never promised this was anything else.
TorchMLP: How many chapters is bothering bowman?
nightmares06: 15
BorrowedTime24601B: xD he will be quite bothered
nightmares06: It would probably be Lich-length if we hadn’t condensed them a bit
TorchMLP: So you did the entirety of Bothering Bowman over skype?
Neon: That we did, Torch
nightmares06: Oh my god it was the worst decision ever XD
Neon: We edited it after the fact, but getting it written was a bit of a pill
BorrowedTime24601B: Didja just copy/paste, or?
nightmares06: XD Copy paste and then go Fuuuuu when no formatting came over
Neon: Lessons were learned
Sorry about that!
The posts that list the horror story as the third part were posted before the short story After the Hunt was written on a whim, changing the numbering of the stories. So #jiw is officially the fourth story of Brothers Found, so long as we don’t add in any other short stories.
The numbering of any stories is subject to change up and until the stories are posted! Sorry for the confusion!
Bowman Leafwing would scoff at the idea of ‘giants’ out there in the forest, but after a run-in with Sam Winchester and his larger hunting buddies, he’ll have a hard time denying their existence.
To a sprite, ‘bigger’ usually meant ‘predator.’ Bowman, as low as he was on the food chain, wanted to be anywhere but caught in the watchful gaze of two giants.
He frowned and tried to wrench his arm free, but wasn’t nearly strong enough. He should have known better than to reveal himself. The stranger latched onto his arm may be sprite-sized, but he must be some kind of whatever the giants were.
Maybe he was just one of their young.
Bowman desperately spread his wings and fluttered them loudly, buffeting his current captor with the leafy appendages.
“Hey, wait!” Sam tried to yell as he almost got knocked down from the wind currents. “I just wanna know what you are!”
That was all either of them had time for. Dean’s hand dropped from the sky, closing around them both in an attempt to save Sam from his attacker. Sam found himself in a fleshy enclosure, rising through the air next to the struggling winged man as Dean stood to look at what he’d caught. “This is all your fault,” Sam griped at the winged man, trying to get himself unsquished. Dean’s ring was digging into his side.
Bowman heard nothing through the white noise of his terror. He was caught by a giant of all things, his wings squashed awkwardly in the biggest fist he’d ever seen. It shouldn’t be possible to be so large.
Jacob leaned in closer too, to get a better look at whatever Dean had in his hand with Sam. It was struggling as much as it could, those bright little eyes ablaze with panic. “Dude,” he whispered, noticing the wings as they twitched desperately.
“Ah, look out!” Jacob warned, but he was too late. The new creature leaned forward and bit Dean’s hand.
“Ow!” Dean said, cursing angrily. His fist sprang open reflexively from the bite, releasing the strange winged creature and Sam.
Sam.
Who plummeted.
A bit of backstory for Brothers Found: This is actually the first AU we ever worked on, after A Lich of Sense was completed! Initially, it was all done by skype RP. The first and second stories started out that way, then for the horror story we switched to a better RP system so we didn’t lose any details.
The first story was then rewritten the same way, but the second– Bothering Bowman– remained in its skype RP form. Forgive any formatting errors that might have snuck past us, this is the one and only story we’ll post that was done in skype. It was too much of a hassle in the end.
The poll to decide the order of the next three stories that go up was one of the closest yet! There’s only a two vote difference between all three stories, but starting us off this coming Wednesday, we have…
Saving people, solving crimes
The flatmate business
Over a decade ago, a serious of unfortunate events led to the Winchesters, at only a few inches in height, being forcibly relocated to London. Now, they’ve adjusted to their size and found a new home to live in that just happens to be the same residence of a certain detective and his blogger…
Brothers Consulted starts us off with a bang, followed by…
Bowman Leafwing would scoff at the idea of ‘giants’ out there in the forest, but after a run-in with Sam Winchester and his larger hunting buddies, he’ll have a hard time denying their existence.
At long last, the second story of Brothers Found will post! That means we’ll be one story closer to the horror story!
And last but not least (and never forgotten)….
Oscar lost the only friends he’d ever found over a decade ago. He’s learned to survive on his own, brief reminders of Sam and Dean keeping him company along with the mice who share the walls with him.
Yet Sam and Dean, though they may have forgotten where he lives, out of the hundreds of motels they’ve been to, never forgot their Oz.
Didja think we’d leave him alone forever? But it looks like chance has conspired against Oscar once more, leaving him at the end of the posting schedule, waiting for his friends!
The third story of Brothers Together is coming!
Small sneak peek for Brothers Consulted coming tomorrow!
Very close indeed! With any luck it’ll appear after we start adding stories to the poll after the current stories all post– We’re not adding anything new until Brothering Bowman, The Study of the Four and Return to Oz all get to post. (Because the horror story is huge and these stories need their chance to post before it takes over for a while).
Enjoy the horror story excerpts as they begin!
Brothers Apart 