Missing LJ and a fic rec.

So, last Friday ( the 13th! ) LJ went MIA. I was without it for almost the whole day and I thought that it had suddenly been blocked in my country, except that my KL friends said that it was fine there ( and everywhere else apparently ). I was halfway through this story the day before, and it was driving me nuts because I was dying to know what happened next. Thank you ala_tariel for coming to my rescue!

Anyways. This is the story - a really excellent, spine-chilling, old-fashioned ghost story, and it's one of those that I wish my non-SPN flist will give a try, too, because it's great and engrossing and genuinelyly scary with amazingly written original characters.

Cross Creek by zoemathemata. SPN, gen, PG-13, 48000 words.

Summary : The Winchesters check in at the haunted Cross Creek Hotel to purge its ghostly guests. Thrill-seeking tourists came to experience the supernatural, but as far as the Winchesters are concerned, there’s no such thing as a happy haunted hotel.

Fay and Ollie are twins in charge of Cross Creek Hotel. Only it's not just the hotel and the resident ghosts that they're in charged of. Something darker is about to wake up, and It is waiting for Sam Winchester. Great writing, wonderful story-telling, incredible characterisations. I love the parallels between the two pairs of siblings, Fay and Ollie, Sam and Dean, and how they'd do anything to save the other.

”There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”

That children's rhyme will stay in my head for a long, long time.