#because angels run hot and it doesn’t bother cas in the slightest

[foggysirens]

thinking about dean just having the absolute worst circulation and how despite his protests cas will just take and hold his hands sometimes while they’re alone on a stakeout together or whatever they’re watching a movie to help warm them up and while he may grumble and complain dean never tries to pull his hands away because that’s the exact kind of casual closeness he’s always wanted but never felt comfortable admitting

[lonely-bored-writer]

Winchesters meet  the Phantoms Ch. 2

When Danny Fenton went to bed at five in the morning on a Saturday after a` long, long day of ghostly duties, he didn't want to be waken up. He was to the point that if one person said "I'd sleep when I'm dead", he would kill them. But as poor Danny should know by now the world was never in his favor and God loved to toy with him. So waking up in a dingy abandon building with a headache, as bad as the time he and Tucker binge drank, he shouldn't have been so surprised, right?

Wrong. The first thing he noticed, aside from the intense throbbing in his brain, was how warm he felt. He was use to being cold, he always noticed the slightest rise in temperature... and regulate weather or heaters never affected him. The second thing he noticed was how he was seated on top of a devil's trap (Clockwork would be proud he recognized it after so many weeks of trial and error), and a strange white substance lined the edge of it. Third, he noticed the two large men standing before him with shot guns. Sawed off shot guns might he add.

"Danny?" Sam Winchester questioned confused, lowering the shot gun from aim. "What are you doing here?" With the weird flickering lights, coldness, and winds that occurred during summoning, Sam would have figured they had summoned the correct monster.

"You tell me." Danny groaned, pulling himself into a seating position. Another groan left him when he noticed he was still his pajamas and no shoes. "On minute I'm safely asleep in bed in Amity, and next here feeling like I've been hit by a truck. Why was I summoned?"

"Kid, we were trying to summon the ghost king." Dean grumbled, dropping his gun on top the rickety table nearby that housed the books. "What did we miss?" Dean asked, looking over at his little brother while Sam reread the page.

"Well you see-"

"We didn't miss anything, Dean." Sam's face pulled tight. "I got all the right stuff from Bobby before we got here. We are even on haunted lands."

"Okay guys, but-"

"Than what the hell happened?" Dean pointed a finger to the increasingly annoyed teen. "Because instead of the ghost king, we got a freaking twelve year old!" The temparature drop in the room drew their attention to the fustrated teen, who glared at Dean.

"I'm seventeen." He correct, although he knew vary well he looked much younger because of his young stature before the accident. " And I'd think you'd like to know I'm technically the ghost king." Danny finished, receiving shocked looks from both of the older man.

"But, you're alive?" Sam questioned.

"What kind of Doctor Frankenstein bullshit is this?" Dean added, only to be ignored by the

"There was an accident, and I half died." Danny shrugged, rubbing the back of his neck. "After that I kind of had a run in with Pariah Dark who was the ghost king, I defeated him and now technically it's me know. Though I haven't been formally sworn in."

"That's what Cas meant when he said you defined nature." Sam concluded, sharing a look with his brother. "You're a living oxymoron."

"That I am." Danny nodded in agreement, pulling himself to a stand a stretching. "Do you have some Advil? This summoning has given me a massive headache."

Sam and Dean shared another look, both giving the same impression. Those two brothers have seen many different things in their life, ranging from angels, to fairies, to being brought back to life, but never could either of them imagine a ghost human hybrid. Or the very powerful and tangible ghosts that also exist.

"It seems like you've been here often." Sam spoke. The trio decided to talking over breakfast after Danny took a short power nap. The waitress, Tina, seemed to know Danny and didn't bother taking his order. "I thought you lived in Illinois."

"I do." Danny nodded, taking a sip from his warm drink. "Having the Stopwatch as your mentor means a lot of traveling. I usually try to handle the ecto-ghosts before other hunters grab notice of them. They tend to like Ohio"

"Kids your age shouldn't be drinking coffee." Dean raised an eyebrow watching the kid finish his third cup before the food even arrived.

"It's not coffee." Danny laughed, looking down at the murky brown liquid. "It's a whole pack of five hour energy and hot chocolate." The disgusted and shocked look he got pulled another laugh from him. "I'm fine, I only drink it when I need too."

"How much sleep do you get?" Sam asked, eyebrows furrowed in concern.

"About five hours... a week." Danny answered, smiling at Tina when she placed his plate of hash-browns down. "But it's okay, really. Being half dead means I don't need a ton of sleep, and kind of makes it harder. Just takes a bit of a toll on my human form." Danny reassured when the concern didn't drop. "Besides, what is it you guys need from me?"

"We to know about how to end on of those ecto ghost." Dean answered,Sam gave him a side glare before adding on.

"We also have a piece of literature that apparently only you could translate."

"Let's see it." Danny nodded, eating his food as Sam slide photos over to him. The image had an old looking parchment on it, a strange language scribbled across. To anyone else it didn't look like a language but to Danny, he could clear read it. His eyes flashed green to catch any missing links, lo and behold some parts were written in ectoplasm.

"Whoa, what was with the green eyes?" Dean asked around the bite of his burger.

"Uh, oh its a way to see any thing written in small amounts of ectoplasm. Without it I wouldn't been able to figure this out." Danny replied distracted, eyes running over the different symbols.

આ ભવિષ્યવાણીઓમાં તમે જોશો કે કોઈ આત્મા સેવા આપશે નહીં. અમારા મહાન રાજાએ અમને છોડી દીધા છે તે નાશ કરવાની સલાહ આપી છે, અમારે અમારો ક્ષેત્ર અને મનુષ્યોને એકમાં બનાવવા માટે ચાર ખતરનાક મુસાફરો લેવા જોઈએ. નોટિસ પાડવા માટે સક્ષમ હોવાના કારણે અમે પ્રથમ અજમાયશ પૂર્ણ કરવી જોઈએ. આમ કરવા માટે જીવન અને મૃત્યુ બંનેના પ્રાણીએ તે બનાવનારાઓનું જીવન લેવું જોઈએ. પછી પ્રાણીએ પવિત્ર રાશિઓના પવિત્ર રક્તને લઈ જવું જોઈએ, જેથી સંયુક્ત રીતે મૃત્યુની અછબડાથી જીવોની સંપૂર્ણ ક્ષમતાને અનલૉક કરી શકાય. આ નવી શક્તિ સાથે, આપણા તારણહાર ધાર્મિક વિધિ શરૂ કરશે. પારિયાના પુસ્તકમાંથી શબ્દો વાંચીને, પોર્ટલ ખોલવાનું શરૂ કરશે સ્ફટિકના મૃત્યુના તેલ સાથે આગ પ્રગટાવવામાં આવશે, રક્તના ફૂલોને બાળી નાખવું એ પ્રાણીનો નાશ કરવા માટે જીવલેણ જ્યોત બનાવશે. અડફાના મૃત્યુથી પોર્ટલની વૃદ્ધિ અને અમારા વિશ્વનું મિશ્રણ બનશે. ત્યાંથી ઘણા લોકોના શેલો ખોલવા માટે અમારા લોકોની શરૂઆત થશે.

"You won't have to worry about a thing as long as whoever is trying to complete this doesn't get a hold of me." Danny concluded, handing the images back to Sam. "No one really knows who I am, and its going to stay that way."

"Why would they need you? What were the bastard trying to do?" Dean asked, glancing over to the images. "And what kind of language even is that?"

"It's an old one, something that was more common before I came along. Clockwork made sure to each me." Danny smiled, downing the rest of his drink. "As for what they want, they want to combine the ghost zone and this zone. Giving all the ghosts an opening to new take over everything."

Dean and Sam looked to each other before looking to the young calmed teen who ate as if there would be no problem. The fact that someone was now looking through this old document could mean that someone knows about him. Someone who planned to go through with this.

[frogsgivemehope]

Watching notes: 12x11

Me looking at this episode.

- THEN: Dean and the poor bunny, recapping basically every witch ever (the notable exceptions that stood out to me was the married witches from 7x05 and Patrick from 5x07 - the connection here possible being that those were the ones that they didn’t kill?), and Rowena. ”Are we not a team?” Bless.

- NOW: This running through the forest business immediately reminded me of the opening of 12x06, with adult Asa running through the forest, leading to him being hanged. I think that’s the only such opening we’ve had this season, right? It is also the case of a hunter who someone gets the best out of, and where the one they first suspect turn out to not be the one behind it - the demon for Asa, and the lone witch for Dean.

- It is also jarring, because when we are introduced in-media-res like this to someone being hunted, our instincts as viewers is to sympathise with them - to suspect that the one chasing them is the monster.

- Dean waking up on the ground (WITH THE BUNNY) harkens back to the other times he has woken up on the ground. In 5x04, which deals with Dean, and how his memories shape him. Endverse!Dean was a completely different person than our Dean precisely because of the experiences he have had (And it really doesn’t matter if it was an alternate time line or a scenario conjured up by Zachariah, because Dean believed that Endverse!Dean would be affected that way by what had happened). And the other time he woke up on the ground was in 11x01, where he has just been freed of the MoC and that in turn influenced a shift in his behaviour, albeit to a more true-to-Dean!Dean (and now he has been freed from his memories).

- Speaking of the bunny, I really love the idea that it is a symbol of him having fallen down into Wonderland. My bubb is Alice.

- There is the white fluff cloud we all love and adore. Hi Kuma! And the guy who gives Dean his phone, after the woman with the baby  didn’t even listen to him explain.That guy is also wearing such lovely blue and pink colours, just saying. So, woman with a child symbolising Kelly, possibly? I just looked it up, and the woman Kelly was talking to on the phone in 12x08 was named Sheri. This woman is talking to someone named Stacey. Sheri-Stacey, quite similar no?

- Quick question: Is that how waffles are actually served in the U.S.? Because now I am hungry.

- There is a lot of childhood imagery in this episode: Waldo’s Waffles, Scooby-Doo cartoons.

- Sam always manages to hit me with sadness I don’t expect. I mean, they have been pretty clear over the season that it is mainly Dean that keeps in touch with Mary and with Cas, but the fact that Sam needs to let Mary know to get a hold of him in case of an emergency - shouldn’t she have known to do that anyway, in  case of Dean not responding?

- ”The Rat Pack partied until the day they died!” Okay, Dean, but according to Wikipedia they also had problems with alcohol- and  drug addiction. Doesn’t sound like a good idea to me, Dean. On the other hand, kudos for finding a group with someone named Dean and someone named Sammy.

- Dean replying ”I don’t think so.” when Sam asks if he’s drunk is heartbreaking to me - he knows that something is wrong but can’t put his finger on what.

- Sam ”all we’ve been through lately makes me want to crawl into a bottle too sometimes” Winchester at it again, breaking my heart.

- The memory loss this episode is more sporadic then I expected - based on the Reverse-scene in the sneak peek I was expecting something like Dean first losing his newest memories, then his oldest. Hmm.

- Dean doesn’t want to call Mary or Cas, contrasting with 12x09 where his first move was to call Cas again and again and again - there he needed to see Cas again before Billie came to collect, here when he still believes that he and Sam can solve this he doesn’t want to bother Cas or Mary. When we last saw them talking about Mary was in 12x10, when Dean had offered their help with a hunt and she had said ”Don’t bother” - as has been the case all season, Dean still isn’t sure where he stands with Mary, and doesn’t want to be a bother. Which also applies to Cas.

- Rowena scamming those guys at poker, so much better than attempting to live happily ever after with a guy that is way below her league.  

- Welcome to innuendo-bar where we have a giant pickle pointing at the mechanical bull riding - subtle they are not.

- Not to mention that they have a giant banana in the right-hand corner  with ”Chuck” written over it. Everybody remember Chuck, our bisexual God, right? And everybody remembers how Dean and him had uncannily similar tastes? And everybody remembers how Dean’s waffles earlier this episode were with bananas and blueberries? Just checking.

(Sorry for the lousy screencap)

- And R may stand for Reverse, but also for R-rated. Oh hey, El Sol and a pool table in the background!

- Dean calling Gilman ”big guy” only to later be mockingly called ”the Boss” - pfft.

- Elke seems to be the owner/manager of this place, and at a night they were slammed she had time to notice that Dean ”had the hots for Larry as soon as he walked in there.” It just makes me wonder how obvious he was. Oh Dean.

- This also makes it increasingly unlikely that they actually had sex. Her being the owner, that they were slammed and so on.

- The trash container in the alley look like it had an A with wings on it

- Sam telling Dean ”Witches, werewolves and vampires, they are all real. And we kill them,” and Dean’s reaction to it is the opposite of Yellow Fever (which this episode reminds me of so much).  Not to mention Dean saying: 

”Yeah but monsters are real. And we’re the guys that kill ’em, man. I mean, come on! Best job ever.”

It is the polar opposite to how he felt in 4x06

”I mean, come on, we hunt monsters! What the hell?! I mean, normal people, they see a monster, and they run. But not us, no, no, no, we – we search out things that want to kill us. Yeah? Huh? Or eat us! You know who does that? Crazy people! We…are insane!”

Even Sam’s reply echoes how Dean continued in Yellow Fever.

- The revelation that sirens aren’t all hot chicks doesn’t faze Dean in the slightest - his ”huh” sounds rather pleased to me, but Sam still doesn’t see the full picture - ”Sorry to break it to you”. It’s okay Sam, I think he’ll be fine with it.

- Dean being excited for being best friends with an angel is honestly so amazing to me, especially since we’ve known from 2x13 that he has steadfastly refused believing in angels ever since Mary died. But now Mary is alive, and he has forgotten that she ever died.

- So, Catriona and Lily as mirrors everybody? They are both doing it for family, both looking for revenge, but with completely different perspectives, given that Lily started out as a human and remained unwilling to hurt them, while Catriona had already been living for a very long time, and however she is staying alive it has been gnawing away on her soul?

- Dean is so cute with Rowena, I can’t. This is what he would think of her without knowing who she is: that her hair is ”bouncy”.

- And by watching cartoons we are reminded of 8x08, which are feeling I really don’t need right now, or ever.

- Sam’s and Rowena’s clothes so obviously connects them, and while I obviously loves this continuation of Sam being connected with witchcraft, what makes this sad again is how Dean’s clothes kind of makes him blend into the background, like he is melting away.

- I can’t believe that i predicted that this heart breaking speech would happen in a mirror, but put it in my queue so that nobody will ever know.

- Rowena’s doll is missing an eye (or rather it has an x for an eye which to me is how kids show that something has died), which makes three with Lily and Charlie. I know Yockey said it was an eye for an eye with Lily, symbolising revenge, but I like the thought of it being a reference to Odin as well, who gave up an eye to receive knowledge. Rowena’s doll also has a black heart however, which is more worrying.

- Rowena has a connection with the BMoL, and I can sense #witches for important plot season 12 coming along, or in season 13 even, if they are stretching it out.  I’ve seen complaints around that the Winchesters aren’t taking the BMoL seriously, but honestly it is not bothering me. They are prioritising and so far as they know, Lucifer’s child has the power for more destruction.

- Rowena’s face when Dean says that she has plenty of snuff is so genuinely pleased. Him not having any memories makes their relationship lack a power component - he doesn’t care for having power over her, and she has no use for the power she technically has over him.

- Rowena’s necklace looks like a Celtic knot to me, which apparently ”due to it’s infinite path, the Celtic knot can represent an uninterrupted life cycle” - which feels like it’s a theme brought up to the forefront lately, after being introduced several seasons back (I think was with Patrick, the witch in 5x07? From what I can recall most witches previous either had natural lifespans or were demons who had knowledge of witchcraft from their previous lives).

- The Loughlins resemble both Magnus and the Stynes to me - Catriona’s butterflies echoing Magnus need to collect everything and the Loughlin’s seem to be a mix of Celtic and Latin - they are collecting everything they find interesting, basically. The Stynes did that as well, not to mention the placing of Gideon’s body looked really familiar.

- That it is possible to swap one soul for another is new information right? When I first watched it I assumed that it meant they would take Sam’s soul and shove it into Gideon’s body, but maybe it was to summon whoever has taken Billie’s place and make a deal with them? Anyhow, repeated focus on souls.

- What is up with all the paintings hanging crooked in the Loughlin house? Some are knocked off course in the fight, but the one behind Dean when he comes in is crooked from the start. As is the one in the staircase.

- I knew the second he said ”who’s this hippie?” that he’d gotten his memories back, because honestly, most other times he didn’t even realise that he didn’t remember something until it was pointed out to him.  But shit, Sam’s face.

- I was bawling my eyes out first time I watched this montage, but I will get through it this time *steels self*. The song is so sad, but you know what? After the discussion Sam and Dean just had, asking when are you ever really happy, the answer shown here isn’t when you’ve lost all your memories. It is when you are riding a mechanical bull named Larry, because as we all know, that happened before the memory spell was cast.

The lyrics are being proven wrong, right there. And also, whew.