Tag: amelia novak

title:   home to nowhere
summary: post 4.20. amelia & claire

Amelia is half way to her parents’ home in the car the Winchesters stole for her when she stops. The night is silent and cold around them, and Amelia’s hands tremble on the steering wheel. She doesn’t look at the ghost sitting in the passenger seat; right now it’s still too soon to be able to look at that blank look on Claire’s face and understand.

She wants to rage and scream and howl at Jimmy, but he’s not here. All that remains is their daughter, looking more broken from a ten minute possession than she has any right to be. Jimmy will not see this. Jimmy will never see this, and in a way that is just as heartbreaking as the shadow in Claire’s eyes.

So now that I’ve exploded Claire all over the internets (ok yes. two journals is not the whole of the internet. shoosh.) it’s time for some Novak Family Headcanon!

  1. Castiel doesn’t think to put any protections on Claire and Amelia until after he’s started his downward spiral into humanity/losing his powers
  2. He doesn’t expect them to truly be targets, so he doesn’t put the same level of protection on them as he does Sam and Dean (mostly so he can conserve his powers for the fight he’s found himself in.)
  3. Amelia buys (and in some cases steals) texts and grimoires and anything she can think of to to protect her daughter/hide them from demons and angels alike
  4. But Claire is the one who winds up doing all the research and conducting experiments and eventually cloaking them from everything ever
  5. even though Claire still wants to see Castiel and Jimmy more than anything in the world and prays to both of them every night.

And now for some Ben Braeden head canonish stuff:

  • Erasing a year’s worth of memories is no easy task. And Castiel was honestly more focused on erasing Lisa’s memories than Ben’s.
  • Castiel has that whole sinning thing going for him now, so we can totally call it jealousy.
  • Anyways, the point of this is that Castiel’s messing around in Ben’s brain caused some problems ala Joyce Summers & The Dawn Thing. 
  • Except that Ben actually manages to survive the brain surgery thing.
  • This doesn’t happen until he’s like… 21, though
  • So he gets his teenage years of blissful normality.
  • and then after the tumor is removed, it’s like. So yeah. Cas didn’t actually remove anything. Just like… shoved the memories into the same spot that early childhood memories go.

I dunno. I just like the idea of Ben having to have brain surgery, and shaving his head to show off the scar when he finally turns hunter. Then coming up with completely random stories as to how he got it. “Oh well I was fighting a Wendigo, right? And—”

Novak Family Headcanon

Another note for my Claire rp journal headcanon, but as it actually pertains to more than just Claire I figured I’d make it a Novak Family thing.

Like her dad, Claire didn’t get a whole lot out of being a Vessel. No super powers, no epic knowledge, nothing that sets her apart from the rest of humanity.

Amelia, on the other hand… with the way that the demon was forced out and killed, there was a residue left behind. Its not enough to give her any fancy powers but its enough that she can feel an angel’s grace as a creepy crawlie feeling along her spine.

The worst part of it is that she can feel the remnants of Castiel’s grace in Claire, and she lives in constant fear that Claire will disappear the way Jimmy did.