Stuff and things and ficlets by request...

[kellifer]

- I'm a reccer for spnroundtable this month but my problem isn't getting stories to rec, it's narrowing it down and deciding what I want to rec first. Heh. I need to categorise the big mess of links I've been keeping.

- Work is progressing slowly for my spn_summergen fic. However, it's pretty cool when *just* when the Big Bang fics will trickle off these ones will start posting. We're pretty spoiled as a fandom for these few months.

- I'm feeling a wee bit nostalgic. Give me some five!things fic prompts if you're so inclined. My boss is away so I need something to fill the day up with.

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[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

1.

He swears to Sam, black and blue, that he takes Home Ec for the girls. They all think it's adorable that he wants to learn to cook and sew and don't know that it's motivated by need, by having to take care of a growing brother and a father who's there less and less.

Okay and yes, maybe he and Mrs. Peters get a little thrill when everyone else's souffles fall flat and his is light, airy and wonderful.

He is a master at everything he tries after all.

Comes with being a Winchester.

2.

Mr. Speevin, name aside, isn't actually too bad for a highschool counsellor. Dean assumes the worst when he gets called in only 3 weeks into a new school but is surprised when Speevin says, "So, you pretty much look after your brother by yourself, right?"

"We have my Dad," Dean says, but he knows it sounds weak and ineffectual, even to his own ears. It was Dean who walked Sammy in, made sure all the paperwork was done and the transcripts in order and handed over. He made the excuses, Dad works long hours and watched the secretary not give a shit one way or the other.

"Still," Speevin says. "Sam excels while your grades go down the crapper. I know there's a correlation."

Might be that Dean stayed up past one every night the last two weeks helping Sammy get caught up and ignored his own steadily piling up work. He didn't really care much, he knew what he was doing with the rest of his life and really the only class that might've been halfway useful was American History.

He always aced that one.

"How about we see if we can arrange something with your teachers. I had a Senior last year that was granted guardianship of her sister. She had to work but I didn't want her to drop out so we made it work."

Dean starts to smile but then it freezes on his face. He's being offered help and he's really not sure what to do with that.

Plus, their dad told them they were moving on sooner than expected only last night. Sammy had thrown a bitch-fit because he'd just gone out for track and...

"That's okay," Dean says, standing. "I'll manage."

3.

Mrs. Coral is only six years older than him and the very dictionary definition of bored and ignored wife.

Dean nearly goes there.

Nearly.

4.

John leaves the school, looking thunderous. Dean knows that means he's going to be repeating next year instead of going to summer school like Mr. Alecki suggested.

"You're a bright kid, you don't need to repeat. Only reason you're failing is because you missed so much at the beginning of the year."

"Can you believe that?" John grumbles. "Like we don't have more important stuff to do over Summer."

"Yeah," Dean sighs, because John's not the one who's going to be tainted with the stigma of having repeated a year wherever he goes. Not only being the weird new kid but being the weird, new, older kid.

5.

"You got a natural eye for it," Bobby praises and Dean grins, snugging the rifle tighter into his shoulder. His father was forever telling him what he was doing wrong.

It was nice for someone to tell him what he was doing right for a change.

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Oh, Dean! <333

[onthehill]

♥♥♥♥♥

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

*sniff* Oh Dean!

[too-rational.livejournal.com]

Oh! ♥ ♥ ♥! Thank you thank you thank you! *hugs*

It's even more heartbreaking than I thought. *sniffs*

And not to spam you with comments: I adored the 'Bobby say I♥U' one, and 'Dean playing stupid' was equally sad and loving and frustrating. =/ And you will post the J2 thingy (or a link) when it's complete, right? You have to! =D