http://meredydd-ross.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] meredydd-ross.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-05-15 12:34 am

Supernatural/Pushing Daisies (PG-13)

Title: Baking for the Dead by Trollogicfics
Pairing: None for Supernatural, but Pushing Daisies has, as always, Chuck/Ned
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] trolllogicfics
Author Website: LJ Memories
Why this must be read: Because it's WONDERFUL. The narration style and the way the characters talk is both perfectly in character for both Supernatural and Pushing Daisies. Because I've been waiting for this crossover ever since I first saw Pushing Daisies. Because this would be the perfect way for Dean to get out of the deal.

Dean and Sam in this are exactly as we see them in the show, Dean's scared but accepting, and Sam will try anything to save his big brother.

Anyone who doesn't know pushing daisies, click

Okay, so Ned, the Pie Maker, has the ability to re-animate the dead. He touches them, and for one minute he can talk to them, ask them how they died, who killed them, etc. Generally he talks to murder victims, then collects the reward offered for solving how they died. But after they've been re-animated for one minute, he has to touch them again, making them go back to being dead, or someone else in close proximity will die in their place.

Charlotte Charles is Ned's long lost childhood sweetheart, she was murdered and Ned brought her back and solved her murder. The two of them run the Pie Hole, a charming restaurant, while they help solve increasingly strange murders that seem to happen in their city.

The Winchester brothers, Dean and Sam, were twenty-eight years, fourteen weeks, four days, six hours, three minutes and fifty two seconds and twenty-four years, two days, ten hours and twenty seven minutes and fourteen seconds old respectively. The elder Winchester brother had sold his soul to a demon in exchange for his brother’s life. He was given a year before the deadly demon came to extract the debt in the form of the elder Winchester’s soul.

And his year is almost up.

It is for this reason that the younger Winchester is sitting in the Pie Hole eating a piece of the Pie Maker’s Triple Berry Pie and talking to the girl named Chuck.

“See, my brother, Dean,” Sam Winchester said. “He sold his soul to a crossroads demon in exchange for my life and now if I don’t find a loophole before his year is up, Dean’s going to hell.”

“Oh,” said Chuck. “That’s terrible! How long does he have left?”

“Thursday,” Sam said.

“Thursday as in tomorrow, Thursday?”

He nods. “I’ve been looking for anything that may break the deal, but it sounds pretty--.”

“Ironclad?”

“Yeah, ironclad,” Sam agreed, staring at his hands. Then he turned to Chuck, eyes bright again. “But then I found out about you!”

“Me?” Chuck squeaked. “There’s nothing special about me. I make honey. I work in the Pie Hole!”

“But you’re lonely tourist Charlotte Charles,” Sam said, pulling an assortment of newspaper articles from the depths of his battered jacket. “I’ve been researching every aspect of this case and I can’t find anything wrong with it. In most cases of necromancy, there’s some sort of deal involved, a ritual, a demon, something, but I couldn’t find any hint of demonic influence. I want to know how you’ve done it.”

Despite being in possession of somewhat imposing size and being what some would call, an anti-Christ, the younger Winchester had surprisingly sincere eyes. And the girl named Chuck wanted to keep the Pie Maker’s secret, but after the way the younger Winchester’s voice cracked when he said, “Please, Charlotte. He’s my brother.” She found it quite impossible to lie to him.

“There are consequences,” she said softly. “Big bad consequences and even if there weren’t I don’t know how Ned would—“

“Ned?”

Chuck covered her mouth. “Ooops.”



Baking for The Dead

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