Spooktober 2019 Round Up

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All the fics I wrote for Spooktober 2019! All works are unrelated and stand alone.

The Bridge that Crosses
1503 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

On Samhain night, the dead are close. If you know how, you can bring the dead near and converse with them.
Cas hasn't seen Gabe since he died, years ago. It's time they have a chat about their family and maybe forgiveness.

Something Beautiful By Incantation
4364 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

Dean is only visiting the psychic because Sam insists. Because Sam's a romantic who can't see what's perfectly clear to everyone else: Dean's soulmate rejected him, sight unseen, decades ago, and even if they hadn't, Dean's not worth their time anyway.
But Sam insists, so Dean shows up at the last psychic west of the Mississippi, hoping that Crowley will at least tell him that his soulmate is happy, where ever they are.

Werewolves of Lawrence, Again
944 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

They're on the last night of the shoot, done with filming for the night and packing up to go home when Cas sees the shape moving through the woods. Too big to be a raccoon or even a deer.
And then Dean looks up at the full moon in the sky.

Dean Winchester and the Missing Sugar
1069 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

Dean keeps buying Halloween candy and it keeps disappearing overnight. Who is taking the candy?!

Nessie Ain't Got Nothing...
408 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

It's not much above freezing, the lake is cold and dark, and of course today is the day they're fighting a giant squid in the lake. Great.

Nothing and Nowhere is Golden
1127 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

The sun beats down on her shoulders, turning her jacket into an oven. She might be cooler carrying it, but Claire wants to have at least one hand free and she’s already got a duffle in her left hand, stuffed full of clothes and weapons, too full to toss a leather jacket in.
Heaving a sigh, she glances down the road, peering through the heat haze in hopes that car will show up on the horizon.
She’s alone, of course, on dusty two-lane blacktop snaking south and leaving her with nothing but her thoughts, a dead cell phone, and a burning desire to be anywhere else.

Bake In the Love
1536 words
No Archive Warnings Apply

Jody dithers a bit in the baking aisle before going ahead and snagging a bag of chocolate chips and another of peanut butter chips. If they’re going to turn her kitchen into a warzone, she at least wants something she likes out of it, and there damn well better still be oatmeal.

I'm no hero and I'm not made of stone
963 words
Major Character Death, self-harm and suicide

He’s always known it would come to this, an ache deep in his chest and a hollowness in his belly whenever he looked at Sam. At Cas.
Sometimes he could almost forget, relaxing into the warmth of his family, but the ache was always there. He should have died fifteen years ago, electrocuted alongside a rawhead in the basement of an abandoned house.