Zubeneschamali

Title: The Tear in the Sky
Author: zubeneschamali
Artist: illiminal
Rating: PG
Word count: 4703
Summary: How Season Nine should have started. Sam's recovering from the damage the Trials have wreaked on his body when he notices that something's not quite right—not with him, but with Dean.

A/N: spn_reversebang does it to me again: shows me an intriguing piece of art that makes me want to know what's going on so badly that I have to sit down and write it. I wish RL hadn't made writing such a struggle this year, so I owe illiminal a lot for putting up with me. I hope I did your art justice. Thanks also to morganoconner for being my proxy during claims and beta reading at the last minute.

Small versions of the art are embedded in the fic, including the title, but please look at the full versions here and tell illiminal how awesome it is. I'm so pleased to have been able to work on this!

The full version with art can be found on AO3 here.

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Title: The Life I Left Behind Me is a Cold Room
Author: zubeneschamali
Rating: PG
Pairing: pre-Rey/Finn/Poe
Word count: 988
Spoilers: Um, yeah. Set some indeterminate time after SW:TFA, spoilers galore.
Summary: It's not like Rey isn't used to the cold, but she really wishes the sun would shine on this planet once in a while.

A/N: When you don't intend to start writing in a new fandom, but you get a new trope_bingo card that includes "huddle for warmth," and you realize that Rey would probably be cold on any planet that's not a desert, and...yeah. Thanks to morganoconner for the beta reading and squeeing. ;) Title from Sarah McLachlan.

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Title: Time to Let Go
Author: zubeneschamali
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mention of suicide
Word count: 3,110
Spoilers: through S9 mid-season hiatus
Summary: Sam's only been himself again for a few months when an old enemy threatens to end his life for good. Can he trust Dean to save him, or is it better to just let go?


A/N: Written for the ohsam prompt (full version here) of post-Gadreel Sam not trusting Dean even though his life is at stake. Also filling the "twenty-four hours to live" square on my trope_bingo card, which makes it a blackout bingo! \o/

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Title: Nameless
Author: zubeneschamali
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen
Word count: 1065
Summary: He had a name, once upon a time. Before he decided to take up arms for his king against the heathen who had attacked the holy city. Now a mysterious wizard claims to know that name—and how much he needs to help by helping others. A medieval AU of Person of Interest.

A/N: This is totally morganoconner's fault, and I know she's not even sorry for it. :p At least it gets the "au: fantasy" square covered on my trope_bingo card even as it launches me into a new writing fandom!

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Title: Slavyanka
Author: zubeneschamali
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 5,207
Summary: On their first case after Dean's return from Purgatory, Sam and Dean respond to a request from someone Bobby helped out years ago. When they find themselves in California wine country, they also find that grapes aren't the only crop growing in the Russian River valley.

A/N: I wrote this for spn_summergen last year for tesserae_ and never got around to posting it! So it's completely out of compliance with S8 canon, but that might be a feature rather than a bug, yes? Big thanks to morganoconner for the beta reading.

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Title: Grounded
Author: zuben_eschamali
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 885
Summary: Set mid-season 7. Sam resorts to more extreme measures to try and keep from seeing Lucifer everywhere he goes, and Dean's the one who finds him afterwards.

A/N: Fills the "electrocution" square on my hc_bingo card. Maybe a bit more with the hurt than the comfort.

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Title: Shine Like Silver
Author: zuben_eschamali
Rating: R
Word count: 1,122
Summary: Sometimes being a hunter was like holding a hammer and thinking everything was a nail. The problem was, sometimes that was wrong, and now Sam's life was hanging in the balance.

A/N: Written for 50states_spn and also for hc_bingo (the serial killer square). There's some POV experimentation going on as well. The title is from Barenaked Ladies' "Aluminum," which seems really appropriate for the Silver State. Thanks to embroiderama and ebcdic for beta reading.

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Title: Old Faithful
Author: zuben_eschamali 
Rating: PG-13 (language)
Word count: 1,183
Genre: gen
Summary: Missing scene from 6.12. It's their first chance to have a real conversation since Sam said yes almost two years ago…

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Title: Refolding the Map
Author: zuben_eschamali zuben_eschamali 
Rating: PG-13 (language, violence)
Genre: Gen
Summary: It's an old-fashioned S1 case story: small-town Kansas, mysterious "wild animal attacks", and the legacy of the Orphan Trains. Written for spn_reversebang .

A/N: Thanks to kimonkey7 for the inspirational art (maaaaaaaps!) and for being patient with me while I was writing this.  Her banner is below the cut. Thanks to kasman for beta reading and for responding so quickly to bribery. ;) Also, thanks to the spn_reversebang mods who let me post late when I completely spaced out about the posting date. I am partially constituted of fail.

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Title: Everything We've Yet to Break (30: Universal Invariant)
Author: zuben_eschamali
Rating: R (language, violence)
Genre: Gen
Length: 26,915 total; this chapter, 1,000 words
Spoilers: through the end of Season Four
Summary: What if Sam and Dean knew one crucial piece of information about the future before Dean's deal came due? Would it have changed everything, or would the end result have been the same? AU version of Season Four, written for spn_30snapshots .

Master table is here, and the previous chapter is here. Prompt for this chapter: time.

This is it!  The last chapter!  Thanks again to kasman for beta reading and for everyone who's encouraged me to finish this up.  There will be an epilogue and some author's notes to follow.

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Title: Everything We've Yet to Break (28: Liturgy of the Hours)
Author: zuben_eschamali
Rating: R (language, violence)
Genre: Gen
Length: 26,915 total; this chapter, 645 words
Spoilers: through the end of Season Four
Summary: What if Sam and Dean knew one crucial piece of information about the future before Dean's deal came due? Would it have changed everything, or would the end result have been the same? AU version of Season Four, written for spn_30snapshots .

Master table is here, and the previous chapter is here. Prompt for this chapter: hours.

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Title: Everything We've Yet to Break (26: The Cruelest Month)
Author: zuben_eschamali
Rating: R (language, violence)
Genre: Gen
Length: 26,915 total; this chapter, 808 words
Spoilers: through the end of Season Four
Summary: What if Sam and Dean knew one crucial piece of information about the future before Dean's deal came due? Would it have changed everything, or would the end result have been the same? AU version of Season Four, written for spn_30snapshots .

Master table is here, and the previous chapter is here. Prompt for this chapter: tomorrow.

A/N: After an unfortunately-long hiatus, I finally finished this puppy off.  It is no longer a WIP: all 30 pieces are done, plus an epilogue, and I'll be posting them every few days.  Thanks again to kasman for the beta reading, and thanks to witchcrow01 and everyone else who nudged me to provide an ending. 

Then: Sam and Dean knew before Dean went to Hell that he would only be there for four months, but of course they didn't know that Hell time =/= Earth time.  Dean (and the first seal) broke faster because he thought it was only temporary.  Sam was responsible for them knowing about the four months because he used the coin in "Wishful Thinking", but in his case it gave him the optimism he needed to ditch Ruby over the summer.  The angels killed Anna because Ruby wasn't there, and Dean went into an even worse tailspin mid-season, but Sam falling prey to the siren actually got them back on track.  Castiel sided with the Winchesters against the angels, and he told them that Sam is destined to be Lucifer's vessel as they deal with Chuck's vision of Sam and Lilith together.

Now:

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Title: 'Twill Never Be Light
Author: zuben_eschamali 
Rating: PG-13 (language)
Genre: gen
Word count: 5,015
Summary:  SPN/Numb3rs crossover: after "Folsom Prison Blues," expert FBI tracker Ian Edgerton catches up to Sam and Dean.

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Title: Blood and Gold
Author: zuben_eschamali 
Rating: PG-13 (language, violence, adult situations)
Timeline: AU Season Four, set after "Velocity"
Pairings: Don/Liz, Megan/Larry, Colby/OFC
Word count: 104K (!)
Summary:  Don's team might be back together after Colby's return, but are they really all in the same place?  As a new case threatens them in more ways than one, they have to work on trusting each other again and showing the rest of the FBI that they still have what it takes to bring in the bad guys and keep themselves safe from a variety of threats, some from the outside and some from within.  An AU take on Season Four, featuring angst, action, and romance, roughly in that order.  Written for numb3rs_bigbang .

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