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Title: The Witch Is Dead
Author:
dear_tigerArtist:
gold_bluepointPairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: R
Word count: 30K
Warnings: horror, violence, disability (OCs), love spell, one underage kiss (Sam is 15); no underage otherwise.
Summary: In 1988, three witches in Montana are growing a monster in their garden, and Sam is holiday snack. When Dean and John show up to get him, one witch is killed, and Dean gets a love curse that he keeps secret. As teenagers, Sam and Dean are living in a dying industrial town in Pennsylvania, where they come across a crooked old creature that takes an unusual interest in Dean. As adults, Sam and Dean return to Montana for a hunt and run into the two surviving witches who have been unsuccessfully trying to grow their monster. Dean, still carrying the love spell from the dead witch, is looking like perfect plant feed.
Art Master Post by
gold_bluepoint Part One ..
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Part Four ..
Notes and Sources AO3 Timestamps:
To Run Into the Middle of the Room, in which they are in San Juan, PR, there is a hooker and a bad moment of eye contact, and Dean wonders if the love spell has finally caught up with him. Takes place between chapters 2 and 3.
Dinner Beneath a Hurricane, in which they have finished the San Juan job and head over to a wild beach to burn a dead monster and drink tequila in an abandoned restaurant.
Owl of the Waste Places, in which Sarah Barnard's story gets told.
Notes: You guys, check out the lovely art that
gold_bluepoint made! Contains a spoiler, but it's glorious and is everything an author could hope for. Do leave her some good words. Thank you, my 2013 Big Bang partner, for the awesome work you did despite RL being busy. It's been thrilling to work with you once more. (Who's the happiest munchkin in Munchkinland with the coolest art ever? This girl \o/)
sonofabiscuit77, thank you for being the voice of reason and once again the first reader on the scene! Who'd save me from baaaad bad plot moves if not you? And
cassiopeia7, thank you for your speedy, fantastic editing work! You guys are both the cat's pajamas! (stole that expression from the f-list.)