My problem with this story is that the threat isn't really scary enough for what it is, and the stuff with the forced Dean and OC-Girl interactions are super cringe-y and not good.

The Skinwalker in Dresden is supposed to be semi-Divine and extremely strong and dangerous. Looking at it with his Wizard Sight nearly drove Harry completely insane. As it was, it broke him enough that it took a while for him to pull his mind back together. A single one also utterly curb-stomped him and many other people while it casually attacked as if it were playing around.

We're supposed to believe there's multiple Skinwalkers in this story and Harry, Dean, and Sam can just beat them with some bullets like they were hunting deer? It's pretty silly and not very believable.

Also, the forced interactions with Dean and the Changling feel just that- Forced. It's not enjoyable to read. It was really predictable too, from the moment they were warned not to cause a fuss and Dean checked her out when she greeted Harry that you were angling to force some kind of drama between the two of them. This bullshit "Fae Soul Gaze" idea is also really stupid. Fae are soulless. There's no Soulgaze for them, special "Fae" version or otherwise. True Name are granted by the one who knows it, and that is it.

It's very important, thematically speaking, that there's no way to get a True Name for a supernatural being without them telling it to you, or someone they've told telling someone, or perhaps someone overhearing it. They never/rarely ever "change", so their named always work on them unlike humans whose names eventually "change" as the person changes throughout their life. The inflections are magical in a way, even if technically it sounds exactly the same.

Very powerful beings can even be conjured or influenced in some ways with names that aren't their "True Name" because they have so much power and their names nearly become titles and attached to their being and power. Like Mab. Mab is not her true name. She might have even been human once, if some of the hints in more recent books are true. Yet, calling "Mab, Mab, Mab" will absolutely get her attention even from the Nevernever.

If their names could be discovered by just forced eye contact, then people would be stealing each other's names all the time. It wouldn't be hard for someone to force some mook to "Soul Gaze" a powerful supernatural being or a powerful Sidhe. Now the mook has their name, and they have the mook's name. The mook would then tell their master the Sidhe's name, and then the mook is now disposable and would likely be killed off so that the Sidhe can't use their name to do anything. Now that Sidhe's name is in someone's hands without the Sidhe actively telling anyone.

It just wouldn't work and it undermines the potency of the act of telling someone your True Name, if it can just be stolen by forcing some eye contact under the right conditions.

I devoured your story. Love the idea of the Winchesters working with Chicago's wizard.

Wow thats a shitty ending mother and daughter get raped/soul eaten by the earlking

heh

I'm rather glad that she developed her own story and personality. The damsel in distress for an episode thing has always been a pet peeve of mine about Supernatural.
Instead, both mom and daughter had depth and were brilliant characters in their own right. I actually questioned myself as to whether I was forgetting characters in Dresden Files.
Thanks for writing and sharing it with us lowly readers!

That was a fun ride! I hope you do more with Kess and Jenny

I loved this! It was really done well to both Kripkie original and Butcher! Bravo!

You are awesome
If you ever decide to publish someething do let me know, I would love to read it!

/2_ttDLMuFWA

So, this was before Jareth got infatuated with Sarah then, huh? ;-)

This was very good. You'd judged the length well and the ending was a surprise, which is always pleasant.

I'm most impressed by how self contained you managed to keep the story, well done.

Oh, hello! Don't mind me, just being ENDLESSLY SAD that Kess and Jenny are staying with the Erlking and I'm rather nervous about that but I'm going to decide that that will all work out okay because I refuse to think otherwise and dwell that way too many sad endings come to characters that had much better prospects than those two in both of these works because the writers are freaking SADISTS, I swear. So I'm just going to be delusional and pretend they live happily ever after with the Erlking or he lets them go shortly after because YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME.

But this is a really freaking good story and it is immediately going into my favorites because there are not many of these crossovers that are good and finished and sad and long and WHUMPY and awesome like this one and I like this very much so so there and I will like this to the end of time and remember it very fondly and I would recommend it to my friends if I had any interested which I don't but it's the thought that counts right?

And so now I must go but it's been interesting commenting on every chapter like this because I never do this and i rarely even EVER comment despite the fact that I have close to a thousand favorites and have read all of them but then again I hardly ever start a story that isn't completed yet and you came through with this one so hooray! Goodbye and thanks for all the whump!

'Power in your bloodline'

Nice reference to the Men of Letters! Speaking of which, it would be awesome to explore the possibility of if Sam and Dean grew up with their father telling them bits and pieces of the MoL history. Like, they knew MoL existed and maybe frequented other 'batcaves' growing up. The MoF could still be gone, but the brothers were recruiting and using the MoL resources to improve the hunter network. I have no idea how you would write that, but it would be interesting to explore.

I liked the ending! It was very fitting for Murphy to kick them out of town. It would be cool to do a pseudo sequel after Sam and Dean learned about MoL and Harry when he had the coin. I'd have to go reread the Dresden books (oh darn), but it would be cool to incorporate Cas and Michael into a conflict with demons.

I loved this story! Kess was well written and I thoroughly enjoyed your writing! I think you captured the characters well, besides 1st person Dresden which was like you said a challenge. I like how you expanded magical Chicago, especially the apothecary ;) I think you told the story well with a good balance of characters we know and the additional characters you inserted. I like how normal your heroine was and that she didn't become Mary Sue. This was an excellent crossover and fits in like a filler without causing an AU. I like the tidy end and the lack of plotholes too!

Kudos to your husband for all his help.

Thank you for this story! I loved it!

Bravo and well done. It was an excellent story in almost every respect, and if you do write a sequal, I'll be interested.

This is an excellent story. As both a Dresden Files and a Supernatural fan I truly enjoyed it.