Dammit, I never saw that one.

I'm pretty sure it was mishasmuse, and it might just be friendslocked (wait, no, I think she purged her lj), i haven't gotten around to checking. Or maybe it was by rusalki or whomever it was that wrote the "To Love a Rose" depression-era baseball fic. I know they both wrote con/prison fics. But one of them was a tatted Cas being a scary motherfucker.

That's ringing some bells, and I can't think of the end of it. Was Cas FBI? That characterisation of him totally worked for me.

I think Dean was a PI being investigated by Detective Castiel, something about black and white and grey in the title. But I could be wrong. There was another WIP about Dean the cop and Cas the fed investigating some suped up drug. I think that's the one.

The con fic that's still available is here [link] It is ru_salki99. There is non-explicit non-con, and it doesn't end on the happiest note. More of an unfinished realistic note.

There was another WIP about Dean the cop and Cas the fed investigating some suped up drug. I think that's the one.

That's the one I was thinking of. I thought they did interesting things with the canon notes to make the demon storyline into drugs, as far as it had gone.

I am tickled by the idea of Castiel being Russian. I will have to give that fic a look.

I just reread the end of the Janie Tangerine fic. I had forgotten it was the one where she seems to have sat up and gone "Castiel! BAMF!" almost literally. Strange moment.

For the record, I would like to state that there's a world of difference betwee whump and torture. I'm not opposed to either one, but there is a difference.

I would like to state that there's a world of difference betwee whump and torture

Yeah. That gen BB I linked to yesterday that I said was Dean!whump? Quickly became Dean!torture. I kinda slacked off reading it when it got really brutal.

Oh absolutely get the disk with Pollo Loco on it. One, Ben is my favorite ever. But it's also canon that reverbs through S2 so you are better for watching it.

Ben... Sigh.

I'll admit that I've been skimming the Last Child BB, the one with the torture. What's worse than the torture? the stupidity. When the rescue finally happens, there's lots of talking and arguing instead of taking care of business, leading to more being trapped and hurt. Like, all of this would be over three chapters ago if Sam and Dean, or rather, the writer, weren't so long-winded.

I should have known, with how long the prologue was in it's loving detail.

Oh god, they're taking the time to save the cow now.

Okay, I get it now. Clumsy plot device to get Sam to see the instruments of torture used on Dean.

And to top it off, after all of that, Sam takes him, not to a hospital, but a crappy motel to fix him himself. The fuck?

Catching up on some reading, and this is absolutely fabulous. It shifts between Dean post S5 finale and a case when he was 18 and Sam was 14 (and still short).

Beautifully written, and creepy as hell, and the payoff at the end... I'll be flailing about this one for a while.

Plus, whoever wrote this did a brilliant job at showing John with the boys. Lots of head-butting and drill-sergeanting, yes, but with a sense of love and affection. Tricky balance to pull off, but it's done very well here. The Dean-n-Ben scenes are also priceless.

Anne, that story is fabulous! Still not finished, but I just got to the instory mention of the title, and I am thoroughly intrigued and nervous.