Title: Modern-Day Alchemy
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Dean (Gen, Drabble)
Rating: K+
Summary: Dean is more than just a pretty face, and don't you ever forget it…
Author's Notes: Happy belated birthday to kronette! You asked for a Dean drabble on an accomplishment that was for Dean alone, and I hope this is to your liking. :)
Also for the supernatural100 challenge on "Exhilaration."
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It cost two bucks at Goodwill, a total bargain. It didn't need to actually work—Dean didn't want it for music anyway.
Battery-operated, portable, basic circuitry—just needed the "record" function for input, plus rewiring and a display.
And time with a soldering iron and spare parts…
Three months he hauled it around, until they visited Dad's electrician friend in Richmond. Dean tinkered in the garage for days—nothing, uh-oh, almost—before braving a trial run at the cemetery.
Paydirt on the Latham and Montgomery tombs, silence on the gravestones and the rest.
Yes— finally!
If only Sam could see…
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