like a fever that just won't break.

Title: Through the Looking Glass
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~5,500
Spoilers: None specific past season five.
Pairings: Dean/Carmen (kind of), Dean/Cas (briefly), Dean/Sam (very briefly)
Warnings: Mental illness, panic, violence, implied child abuse, Hell memories, angry queer feminism, repetitive formatting.
Summary: The multiverse theory states that we are living in just one of multiple possible universes that, together, comprise of everything that exists, existed, or could exist. Dean goes down the rabbit hole.
Neurotic author's notes: This is for my darling seeing_ghosts, and pretend it's not 3 am here in America. This it a little bit of a weird fic, and I'm not sure I actually like it, but it's done and it's for you, S. love. The title is stolen from the Lewis Carroll novel of the same name. The cut text is from the great Richard Feynman's The Character of Physical Law.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Hello, dears! Let's pretend it's a lot closer to the beginning of June than it is.
Alright, so it's been juuust under a year since I found this community (and fandom as a whole), and so the loose theme for this batch o' recs is "fics that made me go 'oh, wow, I need to stay here.'" These aren't all of them. These are a tiny fraction of them, to be honest, but here we go. (As I am new, I sincerely hope I'm not posting anything that literally everyone has read; they were new to me within the last year, and hopefully they will be for somebody else reading this, too!)


Title: Winter Sun
Author:seeing_ghosts
Tags: exhaustion, fainting/collapse, fever, headache/migraine, illness (misc./other/uncategorized), purgatory/post-purgatory issues
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: +1,300
Spoilers: Only through the season seven finale.
Summary: Dean gets seriously ill while stuck in Purgatory. Castiel can't help; all he can do is wait.
Reccer’s comments: Oh, man, this was literally like the third Supernatural fic I ever read; I'm not even sure I'd gotten to the Purgatory arch yet, but man, I loved it. I still do. Dean and Cas's alternating POVs are perfect, the pacing is perfect, and the muted, bleak ending is perfect. A few things about this got Jossed in season eight, but it's still reasonably plausible and so very good.

Title: Until Morning Light
Author: nwspaprtaxis
Tags: anxiety/panic attack, dean's deal, hell/post-hell issues [sort of]
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: ~2,301
Spoilers: If you've seen the end of season three, you're good to go.
Summary: The countdown is on, The Hellhounds are baying, Dean's feeling the pressure, but Sam's got it all under control...
Reccer’s comments: The suspense of this, and the pervasive, achy sadness, damn near killed me. So much is happening between the brothers in this fic, and a lot of it gets said and plenty doesn't, and it's just so very sad, and really harkens back to the pre-season-four boys, with Sam and Dean's earnestness and honesty and there's a sweetness to them, here, that just really gets me where I live.

( Four more under the cut! )