Lekythos by RivkaT (PG)

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Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Claire Novak/Ben Braeden
Author on LJ: rivkat
Author Website: RivkaT’s Site
Why this must be read: A terrific, heart-clenching future-fic that looks at one of Claire Novak’s possible futures after being Castiel’s vessel and losing her father to the same. But really, just like the show, it’s about children living with the reality their parents bequeathed to them.

Castiel left her with various legacies. Missing father, devastated mother, financial troubles profound enough to constitute their own form of purely human evil—all that, yes. And the ability to detect possession, some angelic sensibility left over like soap scum, coating her insides.

It took her three years to learn enough binding spells to perform a full exorcism. The binding spells were a necessary predicate. Teenage girls aren’t exactly known for their ability to overpower other people in the ordinary course of things, much less demon-possessed, supernaturally strong other people.

She makes her way in the world mostly by telling fortunes and selling charms, giving people what they think they want. She specializes in possessions, intersecting with other hunters only occasionally.

She meets Ben Braeden when she’s twenty-two, both of them chasing a particularly nasty demon who’s taken out two other hunters already and an unknown but high number of civilians.

Seeing Ben reveals something new to her: she knows he’s Dean Winchester’s blood.

Lekythos