Title: Shadows and Dust
Author: zara_zee
Artist: dizzojay
Beta: endlessevelina
American-English Proofer: 9tiptoes
Genre: Action, Hurt/Comfort
Pairings: Gen
Rating: R
Word Count: ~ 24,000
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box. Written for fun, not profit
Warnings: Violence, blood and gore, nudity, gladiatorial fight scenes, kidnapping, imprisonment, physical punishment, whipping, minor character deaths, hurt!Sam, hurt!Dean, major Dean!whump, non-explicit references to torture and rape in Hell
A/N: Set season six, between The French Mistake and …And then there were none.
Story is mostly canon compliant, although Sam and Dean find out about pureblood werewolves earlier than in canon. This story owes a debt of gratitude to the Angel episode The Ring…in case anyone thought it seemed a bit familiar!

Summary: 
When Dean disappears after a hunt in Montana, Sam will stop at nothing to find him. As he tears up the Mid-west looking for answers, Sam learns that it’s not only hunters who are disappearing; monsters are being kidnapped too.

Meanwhile, Dean awakes to find himself locked in a cell. Being held captive sucks, but he knows his brother will come for him soon. Until that happens, all he has to do is kill monsters in an arena. In front of an audience. Wearing sandals and a leather skirt.

It’s not as much fun as it sounds.

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Art Masterpost

AO3 Link

A huge thank you to dizzojay for her incredibly inspirational art prompt that sparked this whole thing. I accidentally big banged. But wth Gladiator Winchesters to work with, who can blame me! I got gorgeous additional art pieces too. Please check out her art post and tell her how wonderful it all is!

A big thank you to endlessevelina on Tumblr for the beta read and to 9tiptoes for the super last minute look over to make sure I hadn't included any bizarre Australian words or phrases!

And a final, massive thank you to the spn_reversebang mods for once again putting together this fun, friendly challenge! This is my third year taking part and it's always so much fun!

Here is Oz we've sprung into Spring (and the weather is just gorgeous!). The Northern Hemisphere has fallen into Fall and that's important because it means it's no longer summer and thus the spn_summergen reveals have been posted!

There were so many brilliant entries this year. If you haven't checked them all out yet, do yourself a favour and head over to the comm! I had the good fortune to receive an amazing, inspiring set of prompts from sophiap which really set the muse off and racing!  Thank you for such wonderful prompts! And thanks also to cassiopeia7 and frozen_delight both of whom recc'd the story! Deb, your rec made my day...staying quiet and anonymous was hard! :D

So anyway, here is my entry:

Originally posted by summergen_mod at Too long in the Wasteland



Title: Too long in the wasteland
Author: zara_zee
Recipient: sophiap
Beta: 9tiptoes
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~11,000
Warnings: Dean-centric, immortal!MoC!Dean, swearing, violence, attempted assault, hurt!Dean, natural disasters, post-apocalyptic world, suicidal thoughts,major character deaths (with a happy ending!)

**Now also up at AO3 -- CLICK HERE**

Prompt: Such a great set of prompts that I really had trouble picking just one. So…I’ve done a sort of hybrid mash-up of a few of them and done some thinking outside the box! I hope it works for you, sophiap.
Prompt 4: I would LOVE a Sam and/or Dean piece based on James McMurtry's "Too Long in the Wasteland."
Link to Song
With a little bit of:
Prompt 5: Decades or even centuries after they're gone, how are the Winchesters remembered?
And a wee bit of this one too:
Prompt 1:The boys get caught up in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster. There's no hunting things involved, but there's sure a lot of saving people. Or needing to be saved themselves?

Summary: The year is 2015 and Sam and Dean’s battle with the Mark of Cain is suddenly overshadowed by a series of catastrophic natural disasters that devastate the planet and irrevocably change life as we know it.

The year is… actually, Dean is damned if he knows. He stopped keeping track of shit like that after Sammy died. He’s just trying to make it through eternity one step at a time, only ever venturing out of the Wasteland to trade, and to listen to the stories people tell themselves about Before.
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I have been truly loving all the magnificient coda/tag/missing scene fic that people have been doing for Season 10. It's such a fun way to explore our understanding of the Show's themes and plots and story arcs, as well as to delve further into the character's headspaces and to explore 'couldabeens'.  A lot of the stories have been deliciously dark and I have relished them all.

Start Somewhere by kcscribbler starts off with lots of hurt and ends up with lots of comfort and I didn't realise how much I needed this fic until I read it. If you haven't read it yet, go and give it a shot. You won't be sorry! :)

Summary: It's eight days before they actually speak to each other again. A mysteriously appearing marker board isn't the usual way of apologizing for a colossal screw-up like theirs; but then again, they are Men of Letters.