The most beautiful loser

There is love in our bodies and it holds us together / But pulls us apart when we're holding each other / We all want something to hold in the night / We don't care if it hurts when we're holding too tight

Prompt: Breakfast Time for #SPNsummer

Title: The Crossness Monster

Author @bethmints​ Artist @alicetallula​

Word Count: 12,385

Rating: T

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Michael/Adam Milligan, Implied Castiel/Dean Winchester, AU - Victorian, Adam Milligan is So Done, Inspired by Jane Austen, Eldritch Horror, Romantic Comedy, Crack, POV Adam Milligan, Anachronistic

Summary: 

By day, Adam Milligan is a scholarship student at the esteemed London Hospital Medical College, and by night he hunts supernatural creatures all over the city. When he descends into the newly-built sewer tunnels at Crossness, he has a chance encounter with a bizarre creature.

His name is Michael, and he is an ancient being cursed to become only what is revealed to him. Whispered rumors among the nightmen reveal to him that he is a great, stinking, nightmarish, horrendous beast, but their nightly candlelight readings of Jane Austen novels also reveal within him an all-consuming desire to find love and be married. When Adam accidentally reveals his reflection to the creature, Michael finds in Adam a new physical form to adopt and an object of his most ardent affections.

An irreverent Midam romp through Victorian London, featuring an Adam who is completely done with his half-brothers’ bullshit and a Michael who speaks almost exclusively in Pride & Prejudice quotes.

Excerpt: 

Adam moves the mirror sharply away from the horrific eyes, catches the briefest glimpse of his own petrified face reflected in the glass, and drops it right out of his sweaty, shaking palm. It’s deafening, the sound of the mirror hitting the floor and shattering into pieces.

Marv stops reading.

The beast stops inching towards him.

Adam’s life hangs in the silence.

He runs, as hard and fast as his legs will carry him. The sounds of his footfalls against wet brick are loud cracks in the quiet, like a blacksmith striking a hot iron.

A low, roaring gurgle comes from behind him as his feet pound against the ground. It’s drawing closer still—the beast is pursuing him again.

It takes Adam a moment to realize the gurgling noises are the beast’s voice. It’s speaking.

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!” it roars, garbled, and Adam can feel its hot breath, its open maw right behind him. The stench is unbearable, like concentrated death—like the municipal cemeteries all over London spat all of their dead out of the ground right at the apex of summer.

Then Adam is finally back at the hub, somehow, scrambling to the ladder and up it.

He looks back down, once, and he’s horrified by what he sees looking back at him.

This thing…it's going to follow you. Somebody gave it to me, and I passed it to you, back in the car. It could look like someone you know, or it could be a stranger in a crowd. Whatever helps it to get close to you. It could look like anyone…but there is only one of it. And sometimes…sometimes I think it looks like people you love. Just to hurt you.

I was wondering about the bunker having a sauna and couldn't stop thinking about it

“I rebelled for this?!”

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

Urgh I need to create a link on Tumblr and fix it for both Big Angel Cas AU and Showgirl Dean AU... There are too many drawings for them.

"Thanks for the coat, Officer."

"Dean..."

"Yes?"

"You are sitting on official documents..."

Fauniel porn (uncropped on bsky, same niceworkhuggybear handle)

not necessarily romantically, not yet - i believe he probably had some attraction to cas and mayyyybe even some kind of romantic draw to him, but wasn't thinking about that or recognizing it so early on.

i mean courting him as a friend. he's straight up trying to recruit this alien to be his bestie and it's so sweet it's giving me tooth rot

in 5x03, not just hanging out and taking him to a brothel, laughing and talking. but that JOKE he told when they confronted raphael and then the LOOK of "heh, you get it? this is our inside joke now. see what i did there? do you think i'm funny?"

in 5x04, that softness at the end, the "don't ever change": i like you the way you are, alien freak. stick around.

and in 5x06, the whoopee cushion!!! like yes this is just dean being silly and immature but he's bringing cas INTO that. he's inviting an angel of the lord to be silly with him because he's just??? drawn to him???