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Phantom Load Master Fic Post

Title: Phantom Load
Author: [livejournal.com profile] lovesrain44
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] xterm
Genre: Gen
Characters: Sam, Dean, Dad, OFC's
Fic Rating: NC-17
Art Rating: G
Word Count: 54,000
Warnings:  Weechesters & present day, dark, angst, underage non-con (not wincest).
Summary: Dean and Sam return to Boulder, CO, where they investigate a haunted school. The job seems simple enough to Sam, who has good, although vague, memories of living in Boulder back in 1992, when John Winchester rented a single-wide trailer, and the boys were able to walk home from school together. Dean, however, has altogether different memories, far less pleasant and far more damaging. It's during the investigation that Sam discovers the secret that Dean doesn't realize he's been hiding.
A/N: Sorry, Dean, I was compelled by forces beyond my ken to be really, really cruel to you. 

Part 1     Part 2     Part 3     Part 4     Part 5     Part 6     Part 7     Part 8     Part 9

Thanks to Amothea, here is a link to the whole story in a single file! Click here. (And then click on the link inside the box that displays.)


Here's a link to Xterm's marvelous art!

[Bad username or unknown identity:  and to . They held my hand and listened to me whimper as I wrote, they beta'd and encouraged. And also to big_pink], from whom I learned the art of the outline. 


A phantom load is a concept that I head about one day, and couldn't get out of my head. According to Wikipedia, it refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances while they are switched off or in a standby mode. (You can read more about it at their site.)  I mean, who counts the wattage used by a lighted clock face on a microwave oven or stove? I thought it also might refer to an emotional drain occuring to a person that they were unaware of, a constant and irratating problem, or memory, or secret. Long obsessed about Dean's bleeding eyes secret in "Bloody Mary," I wanted to write a story where that secret came to light.
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[identity profile] clex_monkie89.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, Dean's eyes didn't bleed in Provenance. They bled in the aptly titled Bloody Mary.

ETA: Also. Your fic is locked.
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[identity profile] thatotherperv.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
gonna have to wait until later to read this, but I wanted to say I love the title. great metaphor for what you're working with here.

(also? I didn't know the off-position power sucking had a name. learn something new every day!)

[identity profile] sheafleur.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh you posted it! I'm so fucking pleased with you!

[identity profile] beth9874.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
wondering, is it wincest or not, because i don't read wincest and you didn't make it clear.

[identity profile] devin-chain.livejournal.com 2008-07-21 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant writing and appropriately painful. I couldn't stop reading once I started, so it's 2:35 a.m., and I've just finished. *hugs* Thank you.

[identity profile] balikpulang.livejournal.com 2008-09-24 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
This was a fantastic story. And so believeable too! Did you catch the recent Kripke interview on CW where he hinted at an upcoming "after school special" episode that had flashbacks to the boys as teens? I couldn't help think that this story could've easily been made into a script :) Thanks!

[identity profile] jaylan121.livejournal.com 2009-06-13 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What can I say? I commented for you everywhere & I think your fic deserves it. You're amazing, your fic is amazing, the title is amazing & I'm so thrilled.
Wow
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[identity profile] maerhys.livejournal.com 2009-10-15 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats! ★ Your fic is recced HERE (http://community.livejournal.com/sawedoff_recs/30953.html) at [livejournal.com profile] sawedoff_recs.

[identity profile] hoodietime.livejournal.com 2009-10-25 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, just letting you know that your fic has been recced here (http://community.livejournal.com/sickdean/33088.html). ;) It was such a great, emotional read for me.

[identity profile] laru-tan-repus.livejournal.com 2010-01-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Lately I've been tracking down those precious few First Fics of the Fandoms I read - this was one of them. This read like an episode of the show itself, and I had that feeling when I first read it, even before I knew what Supernatural was. It's a wonderful piece of work, the way the plot is drawn out, and the perfectly timed flashbacks, it's a lot like After School Special and I really enjoyed the read, will enjoy rereading it many times in the future, up on the virtual shelf with many worn-out novels. <3 I want to thank you for writing this because this is a big part of what convinced me to watch Supernatural to begin with, and I'm so glad I did!

Congrats!

[identity profile] theladymeow.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! You've been rec'd!

The Reader's Have Chosen is a fanfiction recommendation community dedicated to finding the best of the best in fandoms across the boards, and sharing them with other authors and avid readers.

Your story, "Phantom Load", has been rec'd and is now being voted on in the Monthly Poll: Supernatural. Fellow fandom-aficionados will vote for their favorites of all the recommendations, and the stories with the most votes will be posted on the front page.

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