We're gonna Need a Bigger boat

Fic title: Cross Creek
Author name: zoemathemata
Artist name: nerrianah
Genre: Gen, Casefic
Rating: PG-13 for language
Word count: ~ 48,000
Warnings/Spoilers: Set in Season 2
Summary: The Winchesters check in at Cross Creek Hotel to purge its ghostly guests. It is widely known that the hotel is haunted and every year thrill-seeking tourists check in to experience the supernatural, but as far as the Winchesters are concerned, there’s no such thing as a happy haunted hotel.

The hotel is managed by twins Oliver and Farrah, and while Oliver is happy enough to let them stay, Farrah is adamant they should leave. A presence that sleeps during the tourist season wakes in the deep, long dark of winter, and while Farrah’s been keeping it at bay for years, she doesn't know if she can ensure the brothers' safety.

The Winchesters refuse to leave and the twins reluctantly allow them to stay, with warnings that they shouldn't wander off by themselves or enter the maze, but the Winchesters have never been good at following other peoples' orders.

As the boys investigate the haunting and delve into the history of the hotel, they find out that ghosts are the least of their worries. 

Part1  |  Part 2  |  Part 3  |  Part 4  |  Part 5  | Part 6

Art!

In Mandarin courtesy of jorily  at her blog

A/N: Ya, it’s totally co-opted/stolen/inspired from bits and pieces of various things. If you recognize it, I probably borrowed it. Most notably I started working with this idea when I realized I hadn’t read a “The Shining” type story with the boys trapped at a haunted locale. Not that they aren’t out there, I just hadn’t read one.

Longer Gratuitous Author notes here

My Cheerleader and Bitchslapper: neros_violin . I cannot tell you how many emails I send that went along the lines of "… and I just don’t think I can ever finish it!" But I did. And she kept telling me I would.

My Beta: Many thanks to my RL BFF, D! you ROCK! She doesn't even WATCH Supernatural and she read it! and soothed my worried, fragile writer psyche.

My other Beta - Mum! thanks!: And though she will never see this post, as that would mean giving up my sooper sekrit LJ name, thanks to my mum who also beta'd and told me that "... Oliver shouldn't swear so much for a man who lives with his sister." You were right, so I toned it down. And she also pointed out when I had used the F-word three times on one page. Let me tell you, the words "You have fuck three times on this page" in my mother's handwriting is PRICELESS.