Untitled / by sams1ra (R)

Title: Untitled
Author:  sams1ra 
Fandom: Supernatural
Genre: casefic
Length: Medium (~14k words)

Author's Summary:
"What about the museum? Is it haunted?" Dean asked curiously and took a bite out of his bacon cheeseburger. "Ooh, is it a mummy? I always wanted to hunt a mummy," he said, wiggling his brows.

Review:
Sometimes, I just want a Supernatural fic that doesn't have any angst in it.  Is that really so crazy?  Given the nature of the show, it's perhaps unsurprising that good fics like that are kind of hard to find.  Well here's one.  It's a casefic --- and it takes place in a museum which means all sorts of cool artifacts... and therefore kind of a needle in a haystack problem: how can you tell which weird, old object a ghost is attached to when the place being haunted is chock full of weird, old objects?  Also, museum people tend to get cranky when you're slinging rock salt around the place and making noises about burning fascinating historical artifacts.

Untitled (on LJ)

Searching for Something / by si_star_x (PG-13)

Title: Searching for Something
Author:  si_star_x 
Fandom: Supernatural
Genre: character study, family, pre-series, kidfic (teenagers), angst
Length: Medium

Author's Summary:
In the beginning, Sam wanted to be a part of the life. He didn't like being left behind for hours on end, but not least he wanted to stop Dean from getting hurt. His Father had other ideas, and Dean was insistent that he stayed out too. So in the end, he left for benefits other than his own.

Review:
A really interesting fic about how Sam ended up running away (/being kicked out) to go to Stanford. I can totally see Dean in particular treating Sammy like this, for these reasons and teenage Sam reacting to it in these ways. And this fic, as opposed to a lot of other fics on the subject, manages to be believable by making each character sympathetic in different ways - no one is being blamed (though all of them are portrayed in unflattering light a little bit), and more or less, everyone is acting out of good intentions and having reasonable reactions based on their point of view.

Searching for Something (on LJ)