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Re: My ‘not really meta at all’ entry of The Great Meta Scavenger Hunt #5: Only a Dream - Four notes in response:

1) No one made you read my stuff before coffee kicked in - not my fault.

2) Wheeee! Points! Thank You!

3) Since it has been a few days and the story is now out of my head, I think I can now do this in something more”Meta-like.”: I’ve always been fascinated by ghost stories, especially the idea of helpful ghosts and ‘resolvable’ ghosts. I’ve also always been a car chick - so ghost cars were/are like a way cool thing to me (Yeah, Christine was a fav). So when Supernatural kept pounding on the idea that favored objects can ‘tether’ a soul to the mortal world, I almost immediately developed an interesting headcannon that Baby could tether John, Sam AND Dean (and now Mary too).  And then my head ran off with this idea and said, “But Baby essentially *died* in that accident at the end of season 1...which means that Dean essentially *resurrected* her from the dead...well, now THAT has to have had some repercussions...” So given this lovely prompt, I immediately jumped to a series of What ifs:

- What if Baby soaked up all that love and caring from THREE people’s souls (or 4) and has essentially become an entity in her own right?

- What if this kind of ‘soul-sharing’ gave her access to their conscious thoughts and memories - so she has been soaking up ‘Winchester ways of seeing/dealing with the world’ for over 30 years?

- What if the destruction of her body and the danger to her ‘people’ caused her to manifest as an independent entity and try to help them in some way?

- What if SHE fought off the reapers and death - refused to let her guys be taken? And John’s ‘leaving’ the show was because he actually died in the wreck?

- What if she kept Sam and Dean from going into shock by wrapping them in dreams made up of the memories they share? And these dreams she’s been feeding them are all the episodes we’ve seen since end of Season 1? (Dream time being so weirdly accelerated from real time that it is like Season 7 when the EMTs get there.) Yeah, that would work - that would explain all sorts of stuff..like the French mistake, the dog episodes, the failed ‘happy lives’ stories...

- What if all that fire imagery for Sam in Hell was a fire in the real world - threatening her and the boys?  What if the figure of Castiel was simply a good Samaritan who ‘pulled the boys from the fire’ and gave them first aid? What would she do when he tried to leave her boys?

- Ooooo and then if she *possessed* him, and they were struggling for control, that would explain a lot of his woodenness/changing aspects/attitudes in S7 & 8...and ‘killing’ him would explain her disappearance in Season 7....and the whole Leviathan thing would have been while she was sorting out the human body...yeah, yeah...

- OOOOooooo and this would tie into that “Dean is the center of the universe” theory really well, especially if he is her *favorite*...also this ties nicely into the season 5 ender with “the Impala is the most important car in the world.”

- And I thought it would be a bit creepy - like the brother’s co-dependence is creepy. What WOULD an entity made up entirely of the souls of others do to protect the bodies of those souls? Especially one trained in twisted Winchester thinking? What kinds of stories would a *machine-based* intelligence create based on a mix of half-understood human memories? What would this entity do if its ‘container’ was destroyed and another was handy? And...and...and...

Annnnd that’s why you got this cool fic...

d) “ post modern literature “ (eyes go wide, small sharp inhale...tries to control hand flailing...runs to bathroom to check...nope don’t look any different...runs off to check that those words mean what she really thinks they mean...actual arm flailing off in the distance.)