birthday ficlets: The Knifethrower/The Safehouse/Shreds and Tatters

opprobrium has the dubious honour of being the most entertaining, motivating, c-bomb-dropping degenerate I've ever met. She constantly questions, shocks and titillates, and without her I have no doubt I'd be spending my spare time playing the Sims 2 and reading canadian litmags like an asshat. She has a fearsome ability to motivate others to produce - and god be good, considering she's building a career on manhandling reticent creatives, I'm pretty honoured to be the perverted side project. She feeds me ideas and work, and I'm grateful for every half-formed sentence she slides my way, because they're always, ALWAYS, awesome.

So, in honour of her birthday tomorrow, I just want to drop these three ficlets her way. All are based on prompts she gave me sometime over the summer, and these three were just too good to let go. I had to write them. They all read as Sam/Dean established relationships, they're all PG, and the spoilers are listed individually.

Happy Birthday, Brooke.

( The Knifethrower: or, the one where they were raised in the circus. Spoilers to Everybody Loves a Clown. PG. )

( The Safehouse: or, the one where there's a school for hunters. Spoilers to AHBL Part II. PG. )

( Shreds and Tatters: or, the His Dark Materials AU. Spoilers up to Everybody Loves a Clown, none for HDM. PG. )