she had become like they are

Bones

human skin can be hard to live in by cartwheel_dizzy
She deals with the bare facts that are left when you strip away everything else. Booth deals in the everything else, not just flesh and skin and sinew, but the messy reality of thought and motive. Brennan understands the differences between her and Booth. Beautiful.

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Dark Angel

Reflections by swanseajill
Lovely series of snapshots showing how Max's feelings towards Alec change and grow.

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Good Omens

Just Save the First Edition for Me by such_heights
Aziraphale sells a book (shock! horror!), but Crowley makes sure it doesn't happen again. Adorable.

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Iron Man

so many armadillos by sangga
"I'm the holder-upperer now." / He grins as he works. "You're always the holder-upperer, Potts." Lovely bantery, UST-filled snapshot of Pepper helping Tony out in the workshop, and feeling way out of her depth.

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home on the highway

Supernatural

Deja Vu by bellatemple
Ficlet that deals perfectly with one aspect of 4.03, and also with how Dean ends up with John's leather jacket. Oh, Winchesters...

Do Winchesters Dream Of Electric Impalas? by kellifer_fic
AU in which Dean is a replicant an Imitant. I have really mixed feelings about the premise, because reducing Dean's love for Sam to programming makes me unhappy, but this story is heartbreaking and well done, with John not really warming to the young robot commissioned to watch after Sam, and Sam being aware and yet unaware of how he takes advantage of the situation, and Dean, after all of it, still being Dean.

Family Resemblance by fryadvocate
Beautiful, sad story of Mary and Dean during his first three years, the things she teaches him, and the things she doesn't. Heartbreaking.

Fire Took My Baby Away by ninhursag
girl!Sam AU where they were raised separately. Dean picks up a hitchhiker who has some secrets of her own. I like this sharp, bitter Sam, on her way to see her girlfriend at Stanford, and this Dean who can't seem to keep himself from getting involved with her anyway. (wincest)

In the Very Hesitation by teand
"You have to stop lying about what you want, Sammy." Ruby thinks she knows what Sam wants. Sharp and heartbreaking.

In this theatre by ultraviolet9a
Dean needs to understand the big picture, needs to understand how Castiel lost six brothers this week and the war is still raging. Lovely look inside Castiel's head through the first three episodes.

Incredulity by derry667
Azazel never believed Dean would be the one to kill him. Really cool YED pov, spun out from the conversation he has with Dean in "In the Beginning."

sclerenchyma by tigriswolf
“Dad told me once that I might have to kill Sam. You should know here and now that I never will. Not even if your God commands it.” Short, sharp look at Dean post-4.02

See You In Hell by parenthetical
Dean and Bela, goading each other to sanity in hell.

speechless by candle_beck
Dean loses his voice, and Sam discovers things about him he never knew. Full of lovely brotherly interaction and a sweet, visceral first time. (wincest)

teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above by i_speak_tongue
Dean finds out Sam's keeping some secrets of his own, and it just might break him. Heartwrenching. It's your fault. You were the one who was supposed to stop this from happening. You. No one was doing your job while you were gone. There's no steno pool for big brothers of the potential Anti-Christ. So it all comes back around to you. You want to feel betrayed, angry. Instead, you just feel like you let him down again. Where did you go wrong? The potential points in time and space form constellations.

Unexpected Company by dotfic
Wonderful story of John with wings, and the Winchesters staying with Bobby until they go away. Funny and sweet and a little heartbreaking.

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