April 18th excerpt:

Before anyone else could react, Dean’s hand swiped through the air. He might be drugged, exhausted and seeing double half the time, but he was still a hunter. Not to mention a big brother who’d only just rediscovered his little brother and found out he had an adopted family. Bowman ended up snatched up in a loose fist, brought close to the glazed green eyes to inspect him for any injuries.

“What about you?” Dean asked worriedly as he squinted at the tiny sprite he was holding only two inches from his face. One of his fingers carefully nudged at Bowman’s arm to make sure it was moving okay. “Did anyone bother you while we were gone? Did anyone bother my baby?”

For the AU, they won’t meet. (At least… they won’t meet yet. There’s always the possibility it will happen in the future.)

But, the good news is you will get to see Oscar and Jacob encounter each other at least once in our AUs, maybe even more than once! 


“Okay. You’re okay, I promise,” Jacob continued. He slipped a hand under the guy’s other shoulder and helped him sit up. The little guy let him, but when he looked up and caught a glimpse of Dean again he started to quake. Jacob, acting on impulse, pulled him into a hug so he couldn’t see Dean’s huge face looking down on him. Not until he calmed down. The tactic seemed to help, because the smaller person didn’t try to squirm out of the protective hug.

“H-he’s … he’s so … he’s a human … he’s a human,” the smaller man breathed, talking through his shock.

“Sure is,” Jacob answered. “And he’s not gonna hurt anybody, we all just got a little high strung this morning, that’s all. Everything’s fine, honest.”

Oscar shuddered and worked his hands up to his face. He scrubbed at his eyes, a task made tricky the way his arms were shaking. When he looked up again, he leaned a little to peek timidly around Jacob. Awe and trepidation in his eyes met growing concern. He broke eye contact quickly, unable to hold a lengthy stare with such an intense, giant face.

“I-I didn’t mean to,” he mumbled out. “I was just looking around.” He sat back and Jacob let him, though one of his hands hovered near Oscar’s shoulder for a beat longer before lowering away. Oscar brushed away any lingering tears waiting on his eyes with the heel of his hand. So long as he avoided looking up at Dean’s face, he could try to pick up the pieces of his shattered nerves.

There has been talk of involving law enforcement in a future story in the AUs, so it’s perfectly possible you will see this happening down the line! It’s which AU it happens in that’s the hard part to decide, there’s so many different possibilities to bandy about.

Also, Jacob’s stepdad is a cop. So… have fun introducing Dean to the fam. Just sayin’, Jake.

In the Darkness Ch. 3 Part 3

borrowedtimeandspace:

Something evil is afoot in a small rural town in Midwestern America, and it’s up to Sam and Dean to find out what. With the help of a small woman named Zepheera, they’ll do their best to save the town and Zepheera’s time-travelling alien friend from the greatest evil the Winchesters have ever faced.

This is a contest entry for @nightmares06. It features characters from my Doctor Who/Borrowers crossover series ‘Borrowed Time (and Space)’ with a little tweak in Zepheera’s size to put her to Sam’s scale. This is not canon for BTAS and takes place sometime before Taken in Brothers Apart.

Posting in bits to help keep me motivated to write this. Once it’s all done, I’ll put the chapters up properly on Ao3


The
silence between them was broken by Zepheera, who peeked around the console at
the brooding men. “Sorry,” she piped up, “But I think I have something that’ll
help.”

Without
waiting for permission to share, she approached Dean and thrust a pair of
glasses onto his face. Dean blinked in surprise. The square lenses were fake,
but it was certainly the last thing Dean expected Zepheera to do.

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Cute guess! Kinda the opposite of Brothers Asunder, but with a fluttering Bowman. He’s only five in the story, so they’d have their hands full with a wee little sprite that likes to just run off when he gets excited.

This isn’t the AU, but it’s a fun idea to muse on!

In the Darkness Ch. 3 Part 2

borrowedtimeandspace:

Something evil is afoot in a small rural town in Midwestern America, and it’s up to Sam and Dean to find out what. With the help of a small woman named Zepheera, they’ll do their best to save the town and Zepheera’s time-travelling alien friend from the greatest evil the Winchesters have ever faced.

This is a contest entry for @nightmares06. It features characters from my Doctor Who/Borrowers crossover series ‘Borrowed Time (and Space)’ with a little tweak in Zepheera’s size to put her to Sam’s scale. This is not canon for BTAS and takes place sometime before Taken in Brothers Apart.

Posting in bits to help keep me motivated to write this. Once it’s all done, I’ll put the chapters up properly on Ao3


“How
do you know it’s the Star?” asked Dean, voice rough from sleep. Sam sat on
his shoulder, looking just as disheveled as his brother and slightly more
alert. But not by much. Zepheera had just shown them as much footage from the
scene as she could find on the local news sites.

“The
guy spontaneously combusted.”
Zepheera emphasized. “Blew up, out of nowhere. No other damage to the
apartment, so it couldn’t have been a bomb. And the poor kid was on the phone
with his sister when it happened.”

“So
we have a possible witness,” Sam chimed in.

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April 16th excerpt:

“Use this to fill it out,” Dean said as he handed off the card, taking a heavy seat in the waiting room.

“Sure … thing,” Jacob answered, pausing when he glanced at the name on the card. Larry McGillicutty. It was the third name Jacob had gotten for Dean, and he had a sudden feeling he’d only seen the tip of that particular iceberg. He chose not to comment on it and sat down to fill out the form with information from the card.