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1. Is 2010 like the year of the earthquake? There was another one in western China's Qinghai province this morning, seven on the richter and so far at least 600 dead. The Huffington Post has links to how you can help. Fandom, are we gonna have ourselves a help_china?
2. How about the AU where Cas and Anna are hunters together, and the Winchesters are angels. Uriel is the Bobby. What the hell would their last names be? The emotional/plot notes can't be the same as SPN. Anna is the older sister who wants out of this life, running away not to go to college, but to a simple life working some simple job. Younger bro Cas tracks her down when... something happens. Or maybe it's something else that compels her to go back to the life, because Anna in canon is never forced into anything. Canonically, she chose to fall, then she chose to be an angel again. So maybe something happens to Cas, and Anna is the one who pursues him. They reconnect, sort of. That is the pilot episode.
Mostly I just want to write about Cas and Anna on a road trip, patching each other up, fighting about their dad, Cas resenting Anna's aloofness, and Anna pitying his frustration. Recounting memories of their childhood and how much things have changed, but sometimes when Anna is the last one to fall asleep, she stares at the ceiling and listens to her brother's breathing in the next bed and it feels like being fourteen again, shacked up in another shitty motel room and waiting for Dad to come home. It's like that with Cas, she finds: being with her brother sometimes feels like time standing still.
I have no idea what the plot is, since Cas and Anna are emotionally so different from Dean and Sam. Anna is not so blindly self-sacrificing, and she probably has to end up pulling Cas back from a lot of stupid decisions. She always tell her little brother he has to think, man, think for yourself. "I'm not always going to be around to boss you around," Anna says, and she's smiling this crooked smile, and it feels like a little too much foreshadowing for Cas.
Mostly I want to rewrite 4.01 where Cas is all, "WHO ARE YOU," and Dean is like, "Dude, I'm the one who pulled you out of the fucking pit. Some thanks I get." Mostly I wanna rewrite 4.02 where Dean gets all in Cas's face in the end, all like, "Look, pal," etc. And omg, 4.16? 4.22? 5.04? jflksjdl.
But would this AU even naturally lead to canon S4? I don't know if Cas would summon a crossroad demon to bring Anna back from the dead. Maybe he'd do it for his dad, though. Maybe Cas goes to hell to get his dad back and Anna says DON'T DO THAT ARE YOU CRAZY, but yes, sometimes Cas is crazy, and something goes wrong and he gets stuck downstairs. Anna staunchly goes through every lore she knows trying to trick hell into giving her her brother back. Nothing works. Dean pulls Cas out of hell, but WHY? (Plus, Cas probably got all, "You should've saved my dad, not me," at Dean.)
And where does Sam come in? Maybe Sam is the Anna, and when he chose to fall, Dean spent years secretly looking for him on earth.
Aaaand that's all I got. I dunno, anyone wanna ramble it out with me in comments? Everyone should have a hunter AU. Mulder and Scully should be hunters. Gaga and Beyonce should be hunters. Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse should be hunters.
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2. How about the AU where Cas and Anna are hunters together, and the Winchesters are angels. Uriel is the Bobby. What the hell would their last names be? The emotional/plot notes can't be the same as SPN. Anna is the older sister who wants out of this life, running away not to go to college, but to a simple life working some simple job. Younger bro Cas tracks her down when... something happens. Or maybe it's something else that compels her to go back to the life, because Anna in canon is never forced into anything. Canonically, she chose to fall, then she chose to be an angel again. So maybe something happens to Cas, and Anna is the one who pursues him. They reconnect, sort of. That is the pilot episode.
Mostly I just want to write about Cas and Anna on a road trip, patching each other up, fighting about their dad, Cas resenting Anna's aloofness, and Anna pitying his frustration. Recounting memories of their childhood and how much things have changed, but sometimes when Anna is the last one to fall asleep, she stares at the ceiling and listens to her brother's breathing in the next bed and it feels like being fourteen again, shacked up in another shitty motel room and waiting for Dad to come home. It's like that with Cas, she finds: being with her brother sometimes feels like time standing still.
I have no idea what the plot is, since Cas and Anna are emotionally so different from Dean and Sam. Anna is not so blindly self-sacrificing, and she probably has to end up pulling Cas back from a lot of stupid decisions. She always tell her little brother he has to think, man, think for yourself. "I'm not always going to be around to boss you around," Anna says, and she's smiling this crooked smile, and it feels like a little too much foreshadowing for Cas.
Mostly I want to rewrite 4.01 where Cas is all, "WHO ARE YOU," and Dean is like, "Dude, I'm the one who pulled you out of the fucking pit. Some thanks I get." Mostly I wanna rewrite 4.02 where Dean gets all in Cas's face in the end, all like, "Look, pal," etc. And omg, 4.16? 4.22? 5.04? jflksjdl.
But would this AU even naturally lead to canon S4? I don't know if Cas would summon a crossroad demon to bring Anna back from the dead. Maybe he'd do it for his dad, though. Maybe Cas goes to hell to get his dad back and Anna says DON'T DO THAT ARE YOU CRAZY, but yes, sometimes Cas is crazy, and something goes wrong and he gets stuck downstairs. Anna staunchly goes through every lore she knows trying to trick hell into giving her her brother back. Nothing works. Dean pulls Cas out of hell, but WHY? (Plus, Cas probably got all, "You should've saved my dad, not me," at Dean.)
And where does Sam come in? Maybe Sam is the Anna, and when he chose to fall, Dean spent years secretly looking for him on earth.
Aaaand that's all I got. I dunno, anyone wanna ramble it out with me in comments? Everyone should have a hunter AU. Mulder and Scully should be hunters. Gaga and Beyonce should be hunters. Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse should be hunters.
3. Meme time! Similar to the concept of
firstlines1000, give me the first line and I'll reply with it as the first line of a ficlet/drabble thingie. Fandoms: Supernatural, Supernatural RPF, Fight Club, The Office, Parks & Recreation, classic Disney/WB cartoons, X-Files, Boondock Saints, Leverage, random anthropomorphism.
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She's on her lunch break when she sees his picture on the TV, serious blue eyes staring blankly at the screen, mouth turned down in a frustrated scowl.
She scoots her table closer to listen to the announcement; fugitive considered armed and dangerous. It's not a good picture, really. Grainy on the bad TV the company reluctantly paid for, and Castiel rarely frowns anyway, though he can pull quite an impressive bitchface. When she goes back to work, she finds his last known location and pulls up Google maps, tracing roads in and out of San Francisco.
She hands in her two weeks notice at the end of the day.
"You'll be hard to replace," her boss says, and writes her a letter of recommendation that she tucks into her journal as she packs. There's no way out, not really, and she's always known this, but this is her proof of life.
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Midnight. Cas nearly shoots her in Golden Gate Park, but he isn't focused; he misses. He's hurt: his footsteps are uneven, and his silhouette is wild and flailing, and he's breathing in ragged anapestic rhythm, which means he's in pain. She calls his name, once, twice, careful as she approaches, relieved to hear his footsteps slow.
"Cas," she says.
The reply comes like an echo in its hesitation and hope: "Anna?"
She steps out of the shadows, gun still in hand, but the wondering recognition on his face is all she needs to run to him; he looks ready to fall over. "Cas--"
"Keep your gun out," Cas hisses. "The werewolf--"
The howl resounds from just behind the trees.
SKIP AHEAD, they're in some cheap motel, Anna is digging around Cas's bag for needle and thread, "Where is it, Cas?" "Anna, sit down--" but she doesn't, and it's hard to see, it's so goddamn-- She lifts a hand to her head and slowly realizes. Her forehead is sticky with blood, it's falling into her eyes. She can't stitch Cas up like this.
"Anna, sit down."
"Your arm--"
"Sit down."
AND SKIP AHEAD, Cas is driving Anna's car out of San Francisco, and Anna is listless and limp in the passenger seat, staring out the window, entrenched in deja vu. And Cas, he's still the same Cas, all grim quiescence and discomfiting single-mindedness. He's skinnier, he's taller, he's messier, and lined, but Anna knows the downward curve of his mouth and the tension in his arms, and she thinks This is my brother, as if reminding herself. This is my life, as if reminding herself. He lived it with me, baptized in blood. And now she is confirmed.
"I tried," Anna says. "I gave it a shot."
She doesn't know if Cas understands, and she doesn't care.
"The feds are after you, Cas," she says, softly.
Cas says, "I know."
SKIP FORWARD. Cas asks her where she keeps the crucifix, and Anna says in her bag. So he looks through her bag. Wallet, keys, gun, tampons, butterfly knife, compact, phone charger -- her journal falls out. He picks it up, and a piece of paper falls out, and it is a letter of recommendation from her last employer. Cas just stares at it for a while, holding it in his hand, staring like it's some astonishing thing, this piece of paper praising his sister's industriousness and amenable personality, and not even using her real name.
"Did you find it?"
Cas turns around and meets her eyes, and she glances at the paper in his hand.
"It's in the front pocket," Anna says.
Cas folds the letter back up again and slips it between the pages of her journal, and checks the front pocket of Anna's bag. He finds the crucifix.
SKIP AHEAD. Anna didn't tell Cas or their dad where she was going when she left, but they found out easily enough. For a while, she never stayed in one place for very long, but then she seemed to like the looks of some shitty town in Kansas, and there she stayed. Shortly after Anna left, Dad had said, "Now that she's gone, we need to pull her weight," and they started hunting alone. Cas could hunt alone, sure, and Dad was right, they could cover more ground this way.
Sometimes Dad called and would say, "I know you're in her area," and asked Cas to check up on Anna. And yeah, Dad, she's fine. She's reading a book in the park, she's putting groceries into the back of her car, she's kissing some guy outside of a bar, she's fine. And Cas wonders how often Dad checks up on Anna too, when he happens to be in her area.
Cas is not entirely surprised when, now, years later, Anna says to him, "You never came up and said hi, all those times you were watching me."
"Should I have?"
Anna shrugs. "Then again, I never came up and said hi to you."
Cas just watches her for a few seconds, this girl in jeans and a tank top cleaning guns on a motel bed. And he says, "Hi."
She smiles, looking down the barrel of a gun. "Hi." She says, "It's good to see you."
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"It's not like you, to get Feds on your tail," Anna says when Cas turns the lights out. "What made you so careless?"
"Dad's missing," Cas says. "He's just gone. I can't find him anywhere. I backtracked everywhere he had been for the past year, and there were demonic omens like crazy whenever he was there."
"And you didn't think to call me?" Anna says. Cas is quiet. "Cas, you should have called me."
"You wanted out," he says. "I didn't want... I didn't think it was important enough, not yet."
"You got Feds on you, Cas. That says you think it's important."
"I don't have any leads. I burned the last one in Oregon." He probably means that literally, she thinks, and almost laughs because her mind immediately wandered off to what creature would require burning.
"You call me next time," she says.
"You say that like there will be a next time," Cas says. She doesn't have an answer.
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It's strange how many things you remember, and how many you forget. Cas still has the same single-minded drive, but he drinks more than she remembers. He's still obsessively neat, his bag never unpacked more than a layer deep, the car shining. After a hunt, Anna wrinkles her nose at her blood-crusted shirt. The jeans she can save, she decides, but she burns her shirt as Cas scrubs his clothes in the sink.
She'd forgotten, most of all, how much she'd missed his precise and occasionally bizarre diction, how she could never predict where he'd drop a contraction, how he murmurs information to himself while researching. She'd missed his stillness, his unblinking stare.
She hadn't forgotten how much he hated her wrappers in his car or cluttering the room, though. Maybe she should feel bad about that, but halfway through his sputtering denunciation of her messiness she grins at him and he smiles back reluctantly.
"I pick the music, though," he says. "Payback's a bitch." And she remembers this too, Cas singing along to his supremely cheesy music as they drive down a highway doing eighty.
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Low priority: Dean shows up, flirts with Anna, is eventually cajoled into telling them why he showed up ("What, I can't just say hi to my favorite hunters?"), then continues flirting with Anna afterward.
Medium priority: Dean shows up, flirts with Anna a bit, gets to the point. If he doesn't continue to flirt with her afterward, bring extra ammo.
High priority: Dean shows up, tells Anna she's looking good, and gets to the point.
So, one time, when Anna goes off to get more salt and Cas stays in the motel room doing last-minute lore research, he asks Dean, "Have you ever had sex before?" because he is curious. "Do angels have sex?"
Dean says, "Woah, dude."
"It's just that it seems you wanna have sex with my sister."
"I've had sex before," Dean replies.
"With my sister?"
"Uh," Dean says carefully, because angels can't lie.
Cas raises one eyebrow. "What the hell kind of angel are you?"
"A damn good one," Dean retorts.
"Uh-huh..."
"Hey, I don't have to explain myself to you, meatbag."
Cas shrugs. "I didn't say you should."
BUT PLOT
The fic wherein Cas goes to hell is going to be rife with Orpheus parallels. In the final moment where Cas fucks up, and his dad is pulled back, and Cas is about to be pulled in too, or throw himself in after his dad (because if he cannot save his father, then he does not deserve to live anyway), that's when Dean grips him tight and raises him from perdition.
So, back in the world, fresh after the rescue, Cas is throwing a fit about Dean not saving his father. But Dean says, "Your dad chose this." And Cas says, "I choose my father." And Dean says, "That's now how it works, buddy." And then Dean says, "Call your sister, she's worried sick," and then the angel disappears.
Anna's voice in his ear is shaky and sharp: "Cas!"
Like an echo: "Anna."
"Cas, are you okay?"
But Cas's eyes are full of the image of his father being pulled back into the darkness of the flames, and he cannot say yes.
The first time Dean meets Anna, he puts on his Dazzling Smile (TM) and lays on some cheesy flirty line. Anna is just like, "...Is that how angels say hello?" And Dean says, "It's how I say hello." Dean just hits all over this family, basically.
Also, in some later episode, Cas is being volatile about something (perhaps he is exercising thinking for himself in sad and destructive ways), and Anna and Dean are talking to each other about trying to stop him, and Anna says, "What makes you think you can stop him, if I couldn't?"
"You're his sister," Dean says. "He's too used to saying no to you."
There's something heavy in Dean's voice when he says it, a weight Anna has not heard from him before.
Re: BUT PLOT
"You're his sister," Dean says. "He's too used to saying no to you."
There's something heavy in Dean's voice when he says it, a weight Anna has not heard from him before.
Oooooh, I like this A LOT.
plot? what is this... plot... you speak of?
Perhaps Dean pulling him out is a pre-emptive thing? Or a "we don't need two righteous men in hell and getting Michael's vessel mentally screwed up wouldn't be a good idea"? hmmm. angel!Dean I think would be very similar to Castiel in some ways - obedient to a fault, completely loyal to his father even when he can't see him. I think he'd be more likely to question the upper management, though? and oooh, Sam as Anna! he would have to have a more prominent role than poor Anna got. <333
ohhhh boys! <333 they are so fabulous!
Re: plot? what is this... plot... you speak of?
he would have to have a more prominent role than poor Anna got.
Sam will! I just hashed out the Sam&Dean sideplot with hiza_chan below, and it kind of feels more cohesive than the Cas&Anna one at the moment.
I am already shipping Sam/Anna in this 'verse. They should just have a Dean/Cas/Anna/Sam love-in.