"it's the family business, isn't that right sammy?"
𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓮 - "it's the family business, isn't that right sammy?"
𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 - set in season fifteen, you (elodie) are killed after a yellow-eyed demon's thrown knife catches you at the last minute before it's exorcised. your last words are said and your last breaths are taken with sam, dean and cas surrounded around you. jack, whose grown attached to you because you were like a mother to him, is devastated that you're dead and covered in a white sheet.
𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻'𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓮 - like mentioned in the description, this is set in season fifteen. part two will be the actress, tiahni saying her final goodbye to this show. also, i have changed the relationship between elodie and jack from partners to a parental relationship cause i keep forgetting that in the show, jack is basically a toddler in an adult's body. so that's why i've changed their relationship
masterlist read part two here!
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elodie knew she needed to be careful. everyone knew how careful you needed to be with yellow-eyed demons. however, it seemed as though it hadn't crossed her mind at how live-like they still were whilst in the process of being exorcised.
"...elodie, you alright?" sam questions as the middle winchester starts her process of exorcising the yellow-eyed demon they had just been fighting against
"ahh...nah...i..i should be fine sammy, but thank you," the girl turned to smile at her younger brother, feeling confident in herself that she was able to take care of and exorcise the demon herself
however, she wasn't as careful in the planning of the exorcisim like she thought she was...
...elodie was quite confident in herself exorcising this yellow-eyed demon as, in all honesty, this was the main part of the job that she had been doing since she was maybe, fifteen...or fourteen even. and now, coming up to twenty-five, she had been quite experienced in exorcising demons. however, sometimes, the girl could get a little bit distracted and make some mistakes but, not until this time where her small misjudgement and slight complacency caused her to die at the hands of a yellow-eyed demon's knife-throwing skills during its active exorcisim.
elodie winchester started to exorcise her yellow-eyed demon when she obviously didn't think that it still had some life and power in its body still. and it decided to attack one last time and struck the middle winchester sibling right where it hurt, a knife right to her stomach. unfortuantely for the female winchester, it seemed as though the yellow-eyed had absolutely murdered elodie to a pulp. the knife was unexplainably large and obviously, as sharp as knives could get and, the demon took its chance. deciding that if they could no longer be alive in this world then, neither could elodie.
"sike winchesters," the yellow-eyed demon whispered, throwing its knife with the utmost precision and aim
the exact aim of bellatrix lestrange from harry potter when she stabbed dobby the house elf with her spear knife, the demon's knife throwing skills on par, stabbing elodie right into her stomach.
with a sudden loud gasp of air and groan coming out of the girl's mouth, due to the blow of the knife to elodie's stomach, the demon had been exorcised and murdered its last victim all at the same time. the second elodie could even be heard hitting the floor, her older and younger brother, dean and sam and their angel, castiel, had split reactions. all of them though rushing over to the girl and hoping she could be spared.
"el!" sam yells out, his jeans ruined by his knees sliding against the floor as he dropped to the floor, moving inadequately fast speeds to keep his older sister alive
"elodie, no!" dean and cas yell at the same time, following on sam's actions, getting to their knees also to try and help the girl who was fading quite quickly due to the amount of blood loss she was experiencing
"what did you do? what happened?" sam screeched out as he frantically tried to stop the bleeding as elodie started to come to as best as she could
"not...not the right thing apparently sammy..." the dying winchester sister responded, a small, rattly sounding laugh as she tried to stay positive
"...oh, come on lodie, don't pull that bullshit on me! what did you do and what happened? tell me, i am...i want to help you!" sam grumbled in anger because he was the youngest, he always felt that if something went wrong, that he had to fix it
and most especially when dean or elodie weren't around so they could fix it, it was up to sam so because elodie was obviously out of action and dean was also out of action due to shock, sam was the one that needed to fix this. so, that's what he was trying to do but, his sister's dark sense of humour was not helping him at this stage.
"oh...sammy...i was trying to be funny. i'm sorry, if you really want to know, i was trying to exorcise the demon. but, i think i broke attention and, i became complacent and the demon managed to slip through and throw their knife, getting me right in the stomach..." elodie's voice was getting weaker and it scared the brothers as it meant she was dying quickly
"you bloody idiot, elodie! you know to keep focus especially when it's a demon, no matter the eye colour!" dean whispered with a tearful chuckle as he tried to apply pressure at the sight of the bleeding as elodie smiled smugly towards her older brother
"yeah...you think i didn't know that, smartarse!" elodie clapped about, about to laugh only to start coughing in the most pain she's ever been in, blood spluttering out of her mouth as the boys grimaced
"don't...don't make her laugh...she...she'll die quicker," cas finally spoke up as he looked over to see jack
who at this moment had no idea what was going on and walked in during elodie's last moments. jack and elodie's relationship was like the relationship between a mother and their son. since jack was technically a toddler in an adult's body, elodie couldn't help but feel as though she always had to take care of him because of that fact. and she's looked after him ever since they first met him. and now, it was clear that jack was going to lose elodie, the woman he saw as his motherly figure and it's going to devastate him.
"don't make who laugh? who will die quicker?" jack's confused and timid voice speaks up as the winchester brothers and castiel tense up
elodie instantly holding what was now very little of her breath so as not to make a sound to give it away that it was her that was dying. not wanting to worry the young nephilim.
"jack! when...when did you get here?" cas spoke in shock, standing up within seconds from where he was kneeling on the floor as the younger boy looks confused towards the angel
"uhh...like...two seconds ago? what is going on? elodie told me that she'd call me when you guys had finished this mission! i just wanna know what's taking so long and why hasn't elodie called me yet?" jack questioned with a worried tone as cas' eyes widened, trying his hardest to think up a perfectly good and human excuse that was totally believable
"oh...the demon is just being a little bit of a....demon's pain in the butt but, i'm sure we'll be done in the next couple of minutes...maybe, leave the bunker for a bit and once...once we've finished we'll give you a call?" cas' eyes widened in shock after those words came out of his mouth without a single moment of planning
and, jack just nodded his head, taking that totally bullshit response and trusting cas with it. of course jack trust cas, he had no reason not to trust the angel. so, he just left the bunker and trusted that he was going to be getting that call from elodie.
"oh...okay then...um, i'll leave then! just, tell elodie that i love her and that i'll...uh...i'll see her soon?" jack spoke with nervousness as cas smiled softly and nodded his head
jack smiled softly too as he then left the bunker, "of course i can jack, see you then!" cas spoke with softness
and then second jack left the bunker, all hell broke loose and it was just a shit storm. it seemed as though elodie impending death decided to come quicker. so, quickly, cas ran back over to the winchester siblings, laying his head softly on elodie's leg...but, before his hand could even touch elodie's leg, the girl almost started an earthquake.
"no! cas...please...don't...don't try to save me!" elodie yelled a little too loudly as the angel lifted his eyes up in direct eye contact with her and tilted his head to the side in confusion
"i...i wasn't going to....i...i was just placing my hand there for support..." the angel spoke softly as elodie calmed down immediately, feeling bad as she smiled
yet, seconds later, elodie inquired about why she heard jack and cas talking, "...oh...and cas, why were you and jack talking? is he alright?" elodie questions with worry, groaning in pain as she sat herself up slightly as cas gulped
"yeah, oh my gosh, yes, he's fine. he...he was just wondering why you hadn't called him yet. he also says that he loves you and that he...he thinks he'll see you soon..." the angel trailed off as elodie's heart broke, as did sam and dean's
jack wasn't ever going to be able to say goodbye because they don't want jack having his motherly figure as his first death experience.
"...bloody hell...jack...i'm so sorry honey..." elodie whispered, her voice filled with guilt as she felt herself getting mad over the fact that right now, jack has no clue that she's dying and will never get that phone call he was promised
"...don't apologise, lodie, you didn't think this is how you'd die..." sam attempted to comfort his older sister, sincerely however it made elodie's blood boil
"...i didn't think i'd be dying at all today...i mean, it really wasn't in my plan to die was it, sammy?" elodie blew up in anger as a blood retching cough expels out of her lungs suddenly as she weakly groans
"no...no...it...it wasn't...i'm sorry lodie..." the younger winchester swallows himself up as elodie's heart breaks again for her younger brother
"...take your own advice sammy, okay?" elodie spoke softly, a small smile covering the seconds earlier rageful face as sam's head lifted up in slight confusion
"huh?" he squeaks out as a small breath-like laugh falls from elodie's lips as she speaks up again, everyone cringing at how quickly her voice had weakened
"don't apologise sammy. i had no right to get mad at what you said because what you said is true. i didn't think i'd die during what is normally an easy demon exorcisim. but, i am and it's because i became complacent and i thought i could turn my head for just a little second to check on something else. all the while thinking the demon would stay completely still. well, no, don't do that. never take your eyes off of a demon, yellow-eyed, white-eyed, you fucking name it. treat it like a weeping angel from doctor who. do not blink or turn away from it otherwise it'll getcha. and unfortuantely, after many years of doing these exact spells, i learnt that the hard way!" elodie's voice became more husky and sickly which made the three guys teary-eyed messes
they watched the girl they all loved, die before she could even find someone to love or before she could celebrate more birthday's with jack and the family. and then at some point, retire from being a hunter and live a somewhat normal life with her future partner and have kids and whatnot.
"i don't care that my statement was true or if it was false. i am still so...so goddamn sorry that i didn't offer you help when you said you had it under control. i should have known the second it went too quiet that i should have reacted quicker and assisted you. i should have made you mad that i was helping you with the demon and have you still alive than having you bleeding out to your death in my lap. i mean, what would you rather me be doing? watching you die in my lap or watching yourself yell at me because you always and continuously preach that you can handle these monsters on your own even though you're just a girl? i mean, i know what me, cas and dean would prefer but, do you?" sam was raging mad now that he was no longer going to have his older sister be alive longer
longer to help him go through life with him. his breathing patterns changed as his welled up tears started to stream his cheeks as the sobs started to rise in his chest. which made his chest start to constrict in pain.
"sam...sammy...please calm down bud, everything is okay. i'd rather be doing the latter, just like you, of course i would. however, there is obviously a reason why i became complacent and looked away. there is a reason why the demon tried one last time and succeeded. right now, i don't know the reason and that's okay but there was a reason. i know us winchesters don't really believe in this crap, despite team free will having a goddamn angel as a member *giggles*. but, i do really believe it is my time to go and let my two brothers flourish in the hunting world alongside our wonderful angel, castiel and nephilim, jack. i really do believe my hunting days are over and it's time i fly my white flag, finally and be at peace," elodie was always the smarter winchester and the eloquent speaker
her smile also always lit up every single room she walked into. she was absolutely gorgeous as well which always worked when she was on a hunting trip. most especially when she was going on a solo hunting trip - she was just gifted. elodie just had a, no pun intended, god-given gift to be a hunter and a winchester sister in this supernatural world. however, she also had the god-given gift to give up her life and refuse to be saved by castiel. knowing that he could keep those powers and use it to help revive those later down the line. including the lives of jack, dean and sam. so they could help the world if anything bad happened to them, they could be saved. however, with everything mentioned, this is why when it came to her final goodbyes to her two brothers and castiel, it was extremely hard to watch her deteriorate and not have the ability to do anything to save her.
for the brothers, sam & dean, knowing they'd never hear their older and younger sister talk smack about the two of them ever again or do hunting trips together as the winchester three. or eat pie at the table in the bunker again, it gave them the worst visceral pain in the world. it gave them a physical and psychological pain that no other hunting death or trip to hell and back could have given them. for castiel, knowing that despite the fact he had the perfect opportunity to use his powers to resurrect the winchester but was not allowed to due to her refusal for his help, he hated it. he felt less like an angel and more of a murderer which made no sense or a nurse that had just been told that no matter what they tried to do to help, that they weren't able to revive a patient of theirs which made more sense. and that...that made castiel feel absolutely helpless and utterly useless. i mean, what good is an angel of the lord if he can't revive those who call for his help? now, that's a question that would end up running through castiel's mind an entire month after elodie's death as it was the perfect question that just wasn't able to be given a perfect answer from the angel.
"...cas...promise me something, okay?' elodie's voice deteriorates with every word and breath, trying her hardest to say all her goodbyes
the guys are attentive, wanting to listen to everything their girl has to say before it's too late, "anything, what do i need to promise?" cas looks up and makes direct eye contact with the girl as she faintly smiles
"please...please tell...tell jack that it's been an honour to be his mom and that i love him...and...and that i'm sorry that i broke my promise of giving him that phone call..." elodie's entire body shook as the bloody cough left her mouth as she continued
"...he needs to know that this was never my intention but i...i don't regret the things i said to him before this trip. i...i really did want to leave this life as a hunter and run away and fall in love with someone and have kids, lay low for the rest of my life. maybe take him with me or...or keep him safe with one of you three. i'm just sorry that jack's going to go through the rest of his life without me with him, cause i promised him i'd never leave him. however, he has to promise us one thing..." elodie trailed off once again as cas, dean and sam watch on, wondering what elodie wanted them to promise her
"...what is it els?" dean spoke up, his bottom lip trembling as he tried to hold back tears as elodie smiled at the use of dean's childhood nickname for her
"i want you guys to promise jack that, although i've left him physically, i've never really left him. promise jack that he can fall in love without me teaching him what love is. i...i want him to fall in love, i want him to get married, i want him to have kids with her. i want him to be happy. i want him to laugh so hard he cries...i want him to cry so hard he can't breathe but wants to laugh so it doesn't look like he's a wuss *tearful laughter*, alright? i...i just want him to be happy after i'm gone...i...i don't want him to let his life go to shit just because i'm gone okay? can...can you promise me that? cas? sam? dean?" elodie begged weakly as the three men nodded their heads, promising to their sister and best friend that they would make sure that jack doesn't waste his life away
"we promise" the three of them say at the same time as elodie smiles before she moves to her eldest brother dean for her final goodbye to him
"dean...dean..i...i never thought i'd say this especially in my dying moments but...that night when you made a deal with good old crowley so you could spare sam's life. i...i was the most frustrated i had ever been in the entire world...do..do you wanna know why?" elodie trailed off, pausing her story as the eldest winchester nods his head, he did want to hear this story
he had never heard, ever, of a moment where his els had been angry at him, "mhm..." dean muttered, nodding his head as elodie smiled softly at the memory before continuing the story as she adjusted herself in sam's lap
"i...i was furious because we had made a promise. us two, the two elder siblings that no matter what happens and if we lose sam, i'm the one who makes a deal, not you. you promised me that day that where you were going wasn't to make a deal but to do something else. however, when bobby told me that you had gone right behind my back to make that deal...i wanted to shoot you in the back of the head because...because you thought you were such a smartarse and could get away with it and not even tell me about it..."
"...but no, although you think you did get away with it, you really didn't dean. i was so hurt and i...i felt like my trust by my own older brother had been betrayed. watching you get ripped apart and tortured by hellhounds just tore my own insides apart from one another...just...thinking how helpless sam and i were as we watched you just be mauled to your death. i...i just wish i could have taken all that pain away from you and taken it myself because i knew i would have been able to handle it. but...watching you be pulled apart like that, made me sick and sure, i watched on in terror but, i was so goddamn mad at you for allowing yourself to do this...to yourself!"
"then...that...that was when i realised that's just who you are as a person, dean. you always put yourself through pain so no one else that you love has to go through it. you are such a selfless person dean that sometimes...i just...it's the worst thing about you. stop beng so selfless for once and be selfish dean! take time away from being a hunter for just a goddamn second and enjoy the fact that you are still alive and healthy! and please...for the love of god, promise me that if cas, sam or jack as you to stop what you are doing, you fucking listen to them, okay?"
it was agony watching the way elodie tried her hardest to stay strong and keep on talking. but it was obvious that she was running on whatever adrenaline she had left because of how she was forcing herself to speak and speak loudly and with authority at her brothers.
"yes, you are the boss and you don't allow people to tell you what to do but, that rule only applies when the people are not cas, sam and jack! if any one of those three tell you something, you fucking listen to them, alright?!" elodie spoke harshly, despite the fact that her throat was burning with every word spoken she still continued to fight through the pain
"els...i...i..." dean was in utter shock, he had no clue about all this built up rage his sister had regarding him selling his soul - well, he knew she was mad at him but, not to this extent
"...dean...re...remember that one time you saved my life af...after michael had tried to kill me and i got mad at you? mad because i had told you that i had everything under control and that it was your fault i almost died?" elodie's voice softened as it sounded watery however with no sight of tears welled in elodie's eyes, staying incredibly strong for her brothers and best friend
dean nodded his head as he remembered that day as though it was yesterday. the amount of nightmares and visions he had from that day saving elodie's life would probably be the thing that haunted him the most, forget about hell haunting him.
"well...i..i lied. i...i wasn't mad at you. if anything, i was so fucking relieved when you picked me up from michael's grip, my lord, was i relieved. i was so glad that you had helped me because otherwise, michael would have seriously had the best and strongest will to kill me at that moment...i...i just yelled at you be...because i wanted you to think that i wasn't your weak younger sister..." elodie trailed off as she chuckled softly to herself considering that currently, in this moment, she was dying
"...els...you were always the funnier, prettier, smarter winchester out of the three of us. however, sometimes it was hilarious when you did get distracted and then you'd get so sassy and act like such a smartarse. telling me off for being a smart arse as well. i...i just...you really made not having mom with us so much better because of how well you took care of sammy and i and then jack...i mean, i always knew you'd be a great mom but...now...we'll never get to see that happen properly..." dean trailed off as he didn't know how to react to the thought and fact that his younger sister was going to die in a few minutes
elodie and dean had a very sweet, special brother and sister farewell that didn't require any more words but just a physical head touch. they then pulled away after a few seconds for the hardest goodbye of elodie's. if it weren't for jack's farewell, saying goodbye to sam, moose, sam-sam, sammy...all the other nicknames she has for sam, he is the worst goodbye for elodie.
"...and sam...moose...sam-sam...sammy, my baby brother who's always going to look older purely for the fact you're an actual giant *tearful laughter*. i am so glad i was able to live this long to take care of you for as long as i have. you have grown up to be one of the smartest, funniest, strongest, fastest and one of the most amazing hunter's that i have ever seen in my career and life of hunting. sure, you can be clumsy, an utter idiot, forgetful and a little clueless. there is always one thing you have always been and that's innocent. you have such an innocence about you that has stuck with you due to not having very much of a childhood and...i am so glad you held on to that because it has helped you through so much, sammy! please...even though it may become hard to do so now that i'll be gone after this but...don't lose this innocence about yourself. it's precious, it's pure and it's what makes you who you are, okay?" elodie paused as sam nodded his head as tears flooded his cheeks, his face red and flushed
"mhm," sam tearfully mumbled as elodie smiled before continuing
"sammy...you...you made me a better person...truly you have...and castiel, so have you! i love all three of you...and jack! i love jack so much..." elodie muttered off, feeling like she was losing her mind
"...sammy, i always looked up to you because i couldn't always be the strong one or the fastest or the funny one. hell, i couldn't even be the really tall winchester *tearful laughter*. you are amazing sammy and i'm so sorry i waited this long to tell you..."
"..i mean, not right now. i'm not being amazing right now, i'm crying over my sister..." sam's laughter turned mournful as elodie was as cool as a cucumber as the girl quietly giggled
"you're not wrong sammy however, you are the reason why i'm this brave, why i'm this smart...you are the entire reason why i am the person i am today! you...you changed me by just being my younger brother! i hope you know how much i truly love you sam-sam...sure, you do get on my nerves a quarter of the time but, the majority of the time, you really do allow me to be the older sister and take care of everything. thank you for being my baby brother and rescuing me all those times you did..." elodie smiled as sam tried his hardest to smile as well but he just couldn't
he was in an uproot of panic and he had no clue what to do with the fact that his older sister,r his role model was literally minutes, maybe seconds even, away from dying.
"el...elodie please...don't die...don't leave me!" sam sobbed as he tried to hold elodie's dying body closer as elodie giggled, her last words escaping quickly
"...it's the family business...isn't that right sammy?" elodie croaked out before her entire body relaxed
elodie's eyes closed, her mouth upturned into a smile as her final breath came and went just as quickly as sam could comprehend elodie's last words. and straight away, dean and castiel gulped, tears streaming down their cheeks also but they stayed silent and calm since sam was in frantic panic mode. since sam was panicking, he was trying everything he could to get elodie to wake up. shaking her, tapping her face, yelling at her, sam tried everything he could to force elodie to wake up. however, nothing was working because it was finally elodie's time to say goodbye.
"elodie! els...come one...ELODIE WAKE UP!" sam screamed, his voice becoming louder and louder as he continued to shake his dead sister's body to no avail of waking her up, his sobs getting louder
dean couldn't deal with his younger brother's screams anymore and it was clear castiel couldn't either. so, without even a word or eye contact with cas, the two of them decided that cas was going to pick elodie up and move her away to cover her up so she could then later be burnt. meaning that dean was in charge of sam and trying to get him to relax and calm him down. the distraught brother who just wished his older sister had survived another yellow-eyed demon.
"sam...sam...sammy...stop it!" dean called out before he could get his grief-ridden sobbing younger brother to calm down and just stop
"dean...dean...she's...she's gone!" sam sobbed out as he tried to resist dean's strong grip as the older brother nodded his head
"i..i know sammy, i know. i hate it just as much as you do and it hurts me just as much as it huts you. but, what elodie said before she died is true. it's the family business and we, unfortunately, can't stop just because she's gone. we have to keep going and we have to keep working," dean tried his hardest to soothe his younger brother and calm him down but it wasn't getting any easier
a flash of anger then flashes across sam's face as dean steps back ,"why did she do it..." sam's voice becomes aggressive and mad which confused dean slightly and scared him
"...what do you mean, sammy?" dean questioned as sam's anger then vanished as though it was just a flick of anger that then disappated as his agonosing pain returned
"i just...why did she do it..." sam sniffled as his tears began again as dean felt awful, he knew that having to deal with the thought of sam not having his older sister there with him anymore was an agonizing thought
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it had been a couple of hours since jack had asked castiel if elodie was okay and the phone call still hadn't been made. so, this made jack ever-so curious and worried so, he decided that instead of waiting another hour for the call, he'd go back to the bunker to find elodie and see what was wrong. however, whilst he had prepared himself for loads of things, he never thought to prepare himself for the moment that he would see his best friend/mother figure dead, bloody and covered in what must have been a white sheet covering her entire body.
he felt like he had just been stabbed in the gut. the noise he made also sounded inhumane as he felt his body get forced to the ground as tears welled in his eyes. so many emotions were going through jack's brain and body right now that he thought he was going to go into overdrive and explode.
"...el...elodie..." jack mumbled in shock as he tried to get himself to stand up, failing as he felt his heart shatter
jack stayed on the floor, on his knees and facing elodie until he heard the sound of what could have only been the fluttering wings of cas and the door closing as sam and dean had walked in to see jack. turning around, a new emotion rose inside of jack, the feeling of anger and betrayal. it was obvious, plainly obvious, that they were the three people who got to say their final goodbyes to their sister and best friend. but jack, elodie's adopted son, couldn't say his final goodbyes to her? suddenly, he felt all the strength in the world, managing to stand himself up as he moved over to the three men who still looked undeniably devastated.
"you...you lied to me! you told me that elodie was fine and that she'd be calling me!" jack was raging towards the three men but none more so than castiel
jack's face was red and his entire body shook, it was uncontrollable at this point but, no one cared. it was understandable as to why jack was raging. he had every right to be mad, they all knew why he was mad so they didn't stop him.
"i...i know i did jack and i am so sorry. we...i truly thought that she would want to be saved! i...i didn't think she wanted to die!" castiel, who was now basically speaking more like a human and less like a smart-intellectual angel, tried his hardest to explain but it still wasn't satisfying the nephilim
"i don't care about that, cas! i just care that you could have actually let me stay and probably told me the truth!" jack yelped as tears welled in his eye line, a few of them escaping as he didn't bother to wipe them away
"i...i just wish i could have said goodbye...cas...elodie was...she was like my mom...she was going to leave this hunting life...she...she was going to make sure i had everything i needed...she was going to be happy..." jack trailed off as his entire face was now covered in wet, hot and salty tears of regret of all the things he never got to say to his adpoted mom
"...if you want, we can go and you can do that now if you still want to do that?" dean then spoke up, the more composed out of the four men as jack lifted his head slightly, his eyes slightly twinkling
"is that okay?" the kid muttered as dean smiled, nodding his head
"of course it's fine. do whatever you need to do. scream, cry, make a mess of things. sam did all of the above. and cas dealt with it in the way he deals with things. i just wanna make sure that you don't pull back the white sheet, you'll get nightmares and i don't want you to have that image in your head and go through that trauma..." dean whispered, patting jack's shoulder as he nodded his head
"thanks dean..." he uttered quietly as he then walked himself towards the table that elodie was laying on, her deceased body covered by a white sheet that was dotted with bloody spots
however, it was as though he couldn't even bear to look at the table because even though elodie was covered, it was still obvious that it was her that was laying there on that table, dead. and that it wasn't just anyone's blood, it was her blood that was spread across the once white sheet that covered her. sobs came up his throat as he at first tried to hold them back before he remembered what dean had said.
remembering that dean said he could do whatever he wanted, he took that advice. and, instead of holding it back, he just released it all, all of his feelings and the agonizing pain he felt. his sobs were just as loud as sam's, his screams were on par as sam's. his anger was five times more than sam's, his distruction of the room was worse than anything sam and dean could do as a duo. that was until he felt someone come from behind him, holding him tightly and not letting him go as they both moved down to the floor as jack continued to scream, cry and thrash around. secretly hoping in his head that he wasn't hurting whoever was holding him tightly
"you can still live your life without elodie," the normally deep and gravelly voice whispered however, his voice was sorrowful and consoling, giving jack the comfort he so very well desired
"i...i can't cas. elodie was the one who wanted to take with her after leaving this life...she...she was going to officially take me in and adopt me! she...she was going to be happy!" jack sobbed as he sat on the floor in the angel's lap as his arms wrapped around the distraught boy
jack resting his chin on the angel's arms which made cas smile despite the smile not being for a happy reason, "she knows that but she also knows that you'd hate yourself forever if you waste your life away. elodie wants you to be happy and to leave this life behind. she made us promise that you would have kids, get married and have a huge house, with a girl that's got you head over heels and tied down to the point where even after three years of marriage, you still stutter your words. and you trip over your own feet because you are so in love with her, she even wants one of us to take you in if we're able too but, most importantly, she wants you to live and be happy!" cas spoke softly into jack's ear and, in all honesty, if that could have taken away all of jack's grief and pain about the loss of his "adopted" mother right then and there, it probably a hundred per cent would have without a single breath of doubt
"she's allowing you to move on because she knows that you'll be miserable if you don't allow it," dean whispered, a small smile on his lips as his arms crossed over as jack looked up, nodding his head
sam then bent down to cas and jack's level, placing his hand on jack's knee before speaking up. giving some more comfort to the grief-struck blonde.
"elodie loved and still loves you so much, jack. she said it was an honour to be considered as your adopted mom. she made cas, dean and me all promise her that we'd make sure you'd be happy and live the life you deserve to live. she also made cas promise to tell you that she does love you and that she is so sorry that she broke her promise and couldn't give you that phone call," sam gave jack a comforting look as they looked at each other before jack spoke up softly
"it's the family business though sam,"
- - -
ok, this was so much fun to write but, it's really sad and i question why i am so good at writing depressing things the majority of the time! also, do get excited for the second part as that will be all kinds of emotions!
PLEASE INFODUMP ABOUT my daughter ELODIE AND THE GRANITE GANG AND THE SHOW AND PLEASE YES GIVE
:O anon i would die for you okay so
i should mention that the general plot of Granite Woods (a boarding school) is that weird things start happening around the house these 8 kids board in, and Simon, Oscar, and Camila are the ones to investigate and find out the house was originally built kind of like the Winchester home, but underground, so there’s a series of tunnels and dead ends and weird rooms and such under the house, almost as if the man who built it was trying to prepare for (or escape) something.
The trio discovers that the spirit of that man’s daughter, Eudora Lancaster, is still trapped in the house after she was murdered in the tunnels, and she asks the three of them to find some of her prized possessions that her father hid so she can pass on. textbook ghost stuff, right
(except they realize about halfway through finding the second possession that Eudora is not at all telling the truth. so that uh. becomes an issue.)
((also the house caretaker is kind of out to get them and apparently really wants to find Eudora’s things as well. so that’s another big issue))
elodie joins the team right around the third possession (of eight), because the team runs into a riddle they can’t solve and camila suggests el as help because she’s ~clever~
(she helps them before that, she just doesn’t know what she’s helping with - she’s gotten them keys, found weird objects they need like an amulet hidden in Davenport’s office, distracted Davenport, all for a price of course)
((camila has a bit of a crush on her))
(((elodie GETS a crush on camila almost immediately after they become tentative friends)))
so elodie is my favorite but don’t tell the others
she’s really only friends with marcello, because they’re both the Smart Kids™ in the house (although now their friendship is built on far more than that), but she’s a bit protective of Fizrah and eventually gets much closer to Camila (big crush aslkfjsdkl) and Oscar
she doesn’t get along too well with Simon but they coexist
she does NOT get along with the house caretaker Davenport. at all. it’s a constant struggle and once she realizes that he’s actually a dangerous person and not just a jerk, she’s constantly trying to get him fired
she has insomnia (because of nightmares and such), so she tends to be in the kitchen at weird hours of the morning
also she drinks. so much iced coffee. so much
she’s very into dark academia
she tends to keep to herself in the house, usually just sits in the common room with her laptop or a journal and listens to or watches everyone else be wildin, but she is very sarcastic and deadpan and will respond as such occasionally
she has a little hideaway in the woods near the house (granite woods, hence the school name), it’s right next to a mini waterfall and the only other person who knows about it (eventually) is camila
she has one sort of like it near her parent’s house too (they live in an honest to god manor right outside a forest, which she found a lot of refuge in as a kid, so now she’s a big woodsy person)
she is an extremely private person, which is why marcello is the only one who knows anything about her family.
she’s not known for being the most smiley person, so camila and oscar are pleasantly surprised when she starts being visibly (albeit quietly) happy during their hangouts after they become friends for a while
NAME: magdeleine elodie fusilier.
ALIAS(ES): jame douglas, danielle chambers, detective renee booker, agent vivienne lombardi + plenty more.
NICKNAMES: maggie [ most common ], mags, bitch, julien 2.0 [ by demons & crowley ].
GENDER: cis female.
AGE: thirty - seven, in current time. twenty - one at the beginning of spn.
DATE OF BIRTH: october 17th, 3:25am.
PLACE OF BIRTH: st. charles parish, louisiana.
HOMETOWN: considers cocodrie home, where she lived with her uncle after her parents death.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: french : mostly due to its use around louisiana, latin : used for exorcisms or sometimes spells while hunting.
SEXUAL PREFERENCE: pansexual.
OCCUPATION: hunter.
[ 𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 ]
EYE COLOR: hazel.
HAIR COLOR: medium brown, blonde highlights.
HEIGHT: five foot seven.
SCARS: multiple, most notable are two large knife ones : one across her abdomen + the other trails down left side of neck. also notable is the gunshot scar on right shoulder.
OVER WEIGHT: no.
UNDER WEIGHT: for a time after hell yes.
[ 𝙵𝙰𝚅𝙾𝚁𝙸𝚃𝙴 ]
COLOR: grey or red.
HAIR COLOR: no preference, though not a huge fan of unnatural bright colors.
EYE COLOR: is a sucker for blue or green but no preference really.
SONG: following in @stlazarus’ footsteps, i’ll do some about her : homage for the suffering - matthew perryman jones, cold cold cold - cage the elephant, mess of me - switchfoot, paranoid - black sabbath, whispers - halsey.
MOVIE: loves horror movies but probably se7en.
TV SHOW: the haunting of hill house, mindhunter.
FOOD: her uncle’s gumbo, lana’s tacos, cheeseburgers.
DRINK: coffee, preferably black. iced coffee though has to be vanilla. drinks tequila and whiskey like it’s going out of fashion, enjoys a beer. not a fan of soda.
BOOK: are we surprised she’s not much of a reader? only books on lore.
[ 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈 ] 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚠
PASSED UNIVERSITY: no, wasn’t the best student in high school so she never went to university.
HAD SEX: obviously, at this point it’s a personality trait for her.
HAD SEX IN PUBLIC: yup. more than once.
GOTTEN PREGNANT: yes, though miscarried.
KISSED A BOY: yes.
KISSED A GIRL: duh??? have you seen women? yes.
GOTTEN TATTOOS: has three currently. anti possession symbol, sword down her spine & dean’s initials on the nape of her neck.
GOTTEN PIERCINGS: only her ears, multiples in each. had her nose and bellybutton in her teen years.
BEEN IN LOVE: mhm...
STAYED UP FOR MORE THAN 24 HRS: kinda a requirement for her job.
HARMED THEMSELVES: yes.
THOUGHT OF SUICIDE: yes.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: yes. also in the sense she’s willing to throw herself into the danger on purpose.
WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE: all the damn time.
HAD A JOB: apart from hunting she’s bartended in her main verse, other than that no others.
[ 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝚈 ]
SIBLING(S): none.
PARENT(S): julien fusilier [ deceased ] & eleonore cormier fusilier [ deceased ].
CHILDREN: cara warren [ deceased, miscarried ], elijah winchester : djinn dreamscape verse, abigail hobbs : adopted in alt verse.
PETS: verse dependent. a rottweiler called gumbo post spn series.
[ 𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙾𝙼 𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 ]
A VIRGIN: uh no..
A CUDDLER: only in serious relationships, which are rare.
A KISSER: yup, uses it as distractions and to get what she wants. loves a makeout session.
SCARED EASILY: not really. maybe if threatened with losing people she loves.
JEALOUS EASILY: oh boy yes.
TRUSTWORTHY: i hate to say it but it’s very 50 / 50. usually yes.
GLASSES OR CONTACTS: nope.
DOMINANT: i think that’s an obvious one.
SUBMISSIVE: can be, enjoys letting go of control.
SINGLE: verse dependent, but yeah mostly.
IN LOVE: verse dependent, let’s be honest she struggles with telling people.
hello! you may know me as @drinkingdeadpeopletea or @storybook-souls; this is the blog where i talk about my own ttrpg campaigns and characters. inbox and also messages are open at ALL times i cannot stress enough how much i love to talk about dnd.
games i currently play in:
MEGadungeon (#c:megadungeon): A voice fifth edition dungeon crawl/political intrigue game about seeking out treasure and knowledge in the massive ruins of a fallen empire. I play Salvador Romero (#cha:salvador), a human spirits bard (6), Alessi di Nicolo (#cha:alessi), a human order cleric (6), and Marigold Glenfellow Dell’Emarginato (#cha:marigold), a human inquisitive rogue (3). Until she was frozen in amber, I played Arcis Petrova (#cha:arcis), a human abjuration wizard (6).
Colossus (#c:colossus): A voice fifth edition game set in a world where societies live on the backs of massive creatures. I play Charisma Dorata (#cha:charisma), a protector aasimar creation bard (6).
Deck of Many Things (#c:domt): A play-by-post fifth edition game about the struggle to escape a massive demiplanar museum, often by drawing cards from the deck of many things. I play Jessamine (#cha:jess), a scourge aasimar hexblade warlock (14)/shadow sorcerer (1)/fighter (1).
Faeme (#c:faeme): A voice fifth edition game about people who were exiled from the Feywild for various crimes finding (and keeping) their way home after 300 years. I play Rowan Caerdonel (#cha:rowan), a half-elf celestial warlock (7).
Library (#c:library): A play-by-post fifth edition dungeon crawl game about protecting the multi-planar Library of Magic from an ancient threat. I play Kara Daradir (#cha:kara), an eladrin cobalt soul monk (13).
games i currently gm:
Rime of the Frostmaiden (#c:rotf): A fifth edition game using the Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden module. Party is a rune knight fighter, a lore bard, a stars druid, a champion fighter, and a tempest cleric (7).
past games:
CROP (#c:crop): A play-by-post fifth edition political intrigue game set in a world of plants. I played Cerise (#cha:cerise), a cherry tree divine soul sorcerer (6). Until she sacrificed herself to slow the approaching army, I played Archmage Sparrow Citrion (#cha:sparrow), an asparagus conjuration wizard (4).
Ship of Fools (#c:sof): A fifth edition actual play podcast about power and freedom and seagulls set in a vast, magical ocean. Party is an ancients paladin, a draconic bloodline sorcerer/barbarian, and a fathomless warlock (14). We’ve finished playing, but you can still find us wherever you get your podcasts or over on @shipoffoolscast !
MOTWinchester (#c:motw): A Monster of the Week game set in the little seaside town of Winchester Bay, Oregon, which is unusually prone to supernatural activity. Party is a Chosen, a Monstrous (werewolf), a Wronged, and a Mundane. I GMed this one.
Elantris (#c:elantris): A fifth edition play-by-post game about a group of heroes waking from a Sequester to discover that they were no longer able to rest and only had the resources they had to deafeat the Lich and save the world. I played Alissaya Lightbearer (#cha:liss), a human life cleric (13).
Dwendalia (#c:empire): A voice fifth edition game set in Wildemount about a group of misfits who find themselves caught between the wills of gods, demigods, powerful crime organizations, kingdoms, devils, and secret societies. I played Elodie Mayflower (#cha:elodie), a halfling unity cleric (7).
Magic Sword (#c:magic sword): A fifth edition voice game about a girl chosen by a magical sword and destined to wield it to kill the tyrannical King, aided by three powerful Guides and an Anchor who tied the life force of the Guides to the material plane so they could return when they died. I played Alita Nikolaev (#cha:alita), a human valor bard (9) and Chosen who was killed in the final battle against the king but whose sacrifice allowed her companions to kill the king and give the people a chance to build a new world.
Seekers of the Ashen Crown (#c:4e): A voice fourth edition dungeon crawl game. We TPKed and the Big City Big Soup Cooking Competition is soooooo cancelled. I played Nova (#cha:nova), a deva wrath invoker (2).
Xhorhas (#c:xhorhas): A fifth edition voice game set in Wildemount about an elite squad of mercenaries hired by the Xhorhasian Dynasty’s military to run some very dangerous errands as war was breaking out, which is currently officially on hiatus. I play Bird (#cha:bird), an air genasi gloomstalker ranger (5)/scout rogue (3).
and several others, but these three are the ones you’re most likely to see me talk about here still.
The term friend, applied by me to you, hardly expresses enough.
You are more than friend, dearest than myself.
Nathaniel Dawson (1829-1895) in a letter to Elodie Todd (1840-1877)
( Winchester, Virginia, July 15, 1861 )
in: “Practical Strangers. The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln”, edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder
FAVOURITE SEASON: Summer and Winter (it changes often)
FAVOURITE FLOWER: Lilac and Lily of the valley
FAVOURITE SCENT: raspberry, coconut, my dog’s fur
FAVOURITE COLOUR: purple
FAVOURITE ANIMAL: panda (they are soooo cute!)
FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER(s): Sirius Black, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Daryl Dixon, Alex Manes, Belle, Dean Winchester, Emma Swan, Loki, Steve Rogers (...)
COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: I’m a complete tea addict. But I can’t say no to a good Pumpkin Spice Latte.
AVERAGE SLEEP HOURS: 7 on week days and 10 on the weekends (I love sleeping!)
DOG OR CAT PERSON: Dog, I’m allergic to cats.
NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: Probably too many. I love being burried under a blanket fort.
DREAM TRIP: Cuba, Costa Rica, New Zeland
BLOG ESTABLISHED: 2017
FOLLOWERS: A few hundreds
RANDOM FACT: I’ve seen my favorite band 41 times and I followed them all over the world. I’m now fluent in English thanks to them.
I’m tagging my darlings @stydiaeverafter, @i-never-look-away, @gra-sonas, @insidious-intent, @chamblerstara, @moderngenius94, @stars-collide-for-alex-manes and @xx5494 if they feel like playing.
valencia walker plays elodie winchester, the youngest winchester sibling and daughter of john and mary winchester on cw's supernatural. joining the show in season one, she didn't think she'd be able to not only stay on the show but also fall in love with jack kline's actor, alexander calvert, since her character elodie, is in a relationship with misha collins' character castiel. but, i guess, anything is possible when you find peace.
(all photos and gifs used are not mine and are found from pinterest.)
Part One - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four - Part Five - Part Six - Part Seven
The Parent Trap
Summary: In the conclusion to “Family Ties”, Ramona takes matters into her own hands.
Story
When her mother left, Ramona was too young to grasp the reality of what had happened. She was, however, old enough to hear and remember the phrase “I don’t want to be a mother anymore”. It would be another two years before she understood that those words explained the reason for the desertion.
Hate is a learned feeling, and hence, no young child can harbor hateful feelings towards any person. What Mercedes did deserved the hatred of her then four-year-old daughter, but the little girl wasn’t capable of it. It never developed, at least not around that memory. Sure, she was often jealous of children who had them and dismayed when she was excluded from mother-daughter events at school, but she never honestly hated her. She did her best to forgive Mercedes and told herself that she left because she needed time to be ready to be a mother – not that she didn’t sometimes wonder if it was her own fault.
Secretly, Ramona held out for her mother’s return, but then she and a friend orchestrated their parents’ meeting, her father fell in love, and that hope was all but forgotten. Why waste energy waiting for a mother she hadn’t seen in eight years when someone else actually wanted the position? She got an instant brother and the baby sister she always wanted. Then Mercedes showed up, and in a single month that hope has been stoked and destroyed. It came crashing down last night, and now the wonder of knowing her biological mother has become fear of seeing her again.
I will get what I want, and I’ll make your life hell while I’m at it.
She doesn’t resist when her father carries her to her room; she’s too dreary and sluggish to fight. But when a trio of voices starts arguing in the round in the living room, she summons her strength and creeps out to eavesdrop at the end of the hall. Moments later, Mitchell joins her.
“I’ve said it a dozen times now,” her father is saying, “she doesn’t belong to you. You don’t have any rights.”
“I’m her mother, Dean. I have all the rights!”
“I’m her mother, Mercedes. She’s my daughter now. You gave her up!”
“And I’ve come back for her!” Mercedes crosses her arms. “We can do this the easy way, and I’ll find a lawyer to work out a custody agreement, or I can take you to court, and you never see her again.”
“Where the hell do you get off?” (y/n) shakes her head. “The nerve you must have, showing up here and making that threat. How dare you.”
“Honey, I’m just trying to protect my baby girl.”
“Don’t call her-”
“And if you’re smart, you’ll protect the boy and the baby. I’ve already warned you about your husband. Now, how are we doing this?”
Ramona speaks before she’s aware of it. “Just leave us alone.”
Dean is on her in an instant, guiding her back down the hall. She twists out of his grip, fighting fever fatigue, and stands her ground in the middle of the living room. “You need to know something Mercedes.”
* * * * *
Since she was born, Dean has gone the extra mile each day to keep Ramona from hurting, and he dreads the day she’ll have to face the world by herself. She’s always accepted and trusted his guidance, wasn’t afraid to put herself out there but returned to his side when given the order. The instinct kicks in when he sees her standing in the hallway. He tries to make her go back to her room – she should take a nap and not worry because there’s no way on Earth he’ll let her be taken away – but she pulls, pale and breathing a little too hard, and looks her birth mother square in the eyes.
“You are not my mom,” she states, lifting a finger to point at (y/n). “She is.”
Mercedes scoffs. “I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I cleaned you, I raised you.”
“You left me. Mothers don’t do that.” The twelve-year-old pauses to bite her lip. “You are a bitch, and nobody wants you here. I won’t go with you.”
“Ramona May Sunshine Winchester, do not take that tone with me!”
“You wouldn’t hear it if you weren’t here! Go away, Mercedes! Go away and leave us alone forever!”
Mercedes stares at Ramona, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. The room is silent, waiting, anticipating whatever comes next. Dean rests his hands on his daughter’s shoulders, proud of her and ready to tear his ex to shreds should she make the slightest wrong move. And Ramona shrinks back towards him, a movement so subtle that an onlooker wouldn’t notice. She still needs her Daddy. It doesn’t matter how much courage she has.
Laughing bitterly, Mercy throws up her hands. “To hell with this,” she says, “with all of you. You want me gone? Fine. I never wanted to come here anyway.” To (y/n): “Good luck staying married to that man and his bastard brat!”
“Get the hell out of my house, Mercedes,” (y/n) replies calmly. Mercedes stalks out the door, and Dean’s wife shuts it behind her. The whole house exhales.
(y/n) has Ramona in her arms within three seconds, latches on to the sick and now quivering twelve-year-old. Dean is quick to join them, holds his daughter tight, opens an arm to Mitchell when his stepson draws near. Four things he’ll never let go of – even Sam takes a backseat to his wife and children. And number four, having finally figured out that the rest of her family has gathered in the living room, comes toddling out on wobbly, unsure legs. Elodie wiggles her way into the middle of the huddle, grasps at her father’s knee, and coos.
“Is she gonna come back?” asks Ramona.
“Never,” her parents say in unison. Dean continues, “She’s never gonna hurt you again, baby girl.”
… if sometimes I fail to be affectionate it is that I fear you may think me tiresome.
Nathaniel Dawson (1829-1895) in a letter to Elodie Todd (1840-1877)
( Winchester, Virginia, July 16, 1861 )
in: “Practical Strangers. The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln”, edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder
stories i will probably never write: elodie evie andrews
Ellen Harvelle’s job was to protect her little sister (she wasn’t that little but that’s what Ellen likes to think). She had to look out for Evie Andrews and threaten every guy that looked at her sister in a way that she didn’t appreciate it.
As much as Evie loved her sister, sometimes it became too much. She couldn’t look after her twenty-four seven and make sure she’s okay. Not especially when she knew Evie was a hunter and killing demons or any other supernatural creature was her forte.
Evie just never thought crossing paths with Sam and Dean Winchester would turn her world upside down and facing supernatural war would be a thing.
note; I couldn’t find Ellen’s last name before she took her husband’s, so I came up with my own.
When it comes to impacting global change, agriculture cuts both ways. Subject to the vicissitudes of global climate change, population, and economic growth, the cultivation of crops and livestock alters atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming greenhouse gases and ]contributes to pollution of freshwater and coastal areas. Assessing the risks to and from the agriculture sector — and identifying opportunities for the sector to thrive amid global change — is both urgent and essential.
To explore challenges and opportunities for the sector, the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change convened a one-day workshop, “Agriculture and Global Change: Driving Forces, Contributions to Global Change, and Climate Risks,” on the MIT campus on Nov. 1. Drawing about 100 in-person and online registrants from industry, government, and academia, the conference was the third of the program’s workshop series. Previous workshops have explored water and energy issues.
Throughout the day, attendees engaged in detailed discussions with Joint Program agriculture specialists, each of whom delivered presentations on three panels focused on driving forces for agriculture, agriculture as contributor to global change, and climate risks for agriculture.
Driving forces for agriculture
Noting the agriculture sector’s need to work through major structural value-chain and technology transformations to meet greater demands from population and economic growth, Joint Program Co-director John Reilly shared projections of demand for and prices of food, livestock, and crops from the Joint Program’s 2018 Food, Water, Energy and Climate Outlook. The Outlook shows significant increases in food production driven by population and economic growth as well as transformation of the value chain, with more rapid growth in livestock than crops.
“This will change how food is produced, processed, marketed, and delivered, with implications across the sector and for farmers, especially in developing countries,” said Reilly. “More rapid yield growth will limit price increases and deforestation pressures.”
Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek showed that how much water a society allocates for agriculture is a reflection of its climate, level of economic development, and evolving value system. Observing that 70 percent of today’s freshwater withdrawals are for irrigation, and that by 2050 about 17 percent of all water now used in agriculture will be at risk from reallocation to nonagricultural economic growth, population and urban growth, and environmental protection, Strzepek highlighted several trends that pose a growing threat to such withdrawals, including the adoption of clean energy generation through hydropower at the expense of water for irrigation.
“You can get a lot of energy at the expense of water and food security,” said Strzepek, who co-authored a study indicating that agriculture has the lowest marginal value of all economic sectors. “We’re seeing rapid growth and urbanization in Africa, and increased hydropower, which increases water demands. Where do we invest in the future? Water for agriculture? Water for energy? Where do we put our values?”
Joint Program Research Scientist Muge Komurcu described a downscaling method she has developed to produce high-resolution regional climate projections that can be used to guide local crop production. Using a regional climate model with detailed land-surface and atmospheric components, she has simulated climate variables including temperature and precipitation at high resolution (less than 4 kilometers and hourly) — reproducing observed historical climate in, for example, the northeastern U.S. and Saudi Arabia with a high degree of precision.
“Having this information will allow the end-user to make decisions at local and regional scales,” said Komurcu. “For example, we can determine changes in the more favorable season for a crop’s growth, growing degree days, diurnal change in solar insolation, changes in daily minimum temperatures, and precipitation rates.”
Joint Program Research Scientist Elodie Blanc presented a simpler, faster way to assess environmental impacts on crop yields. Combining the best of two crop modeling methods — process-based models that simulate a wide range of weather and environmental conditions but are computationally demanding, and statistical models that are based on observed yield data and more efficient but rely on incomplete data sets — Blanc developed statistical emulators that can quickly replicate gridded crop models’ estimates of the impact of climate change on crop yields.
“Our goal is to develop a tool accessible to the wider research community seeking quantitative estimates of climate change impacts,” said Blanc, whose emulators enable efficient assessment of several crops at the national or regional level for a range of climatic conditions.
Agriculture as contributor to global change
Joint Program Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser explored the extent to which land-use and land-cover change impact the local, regional, and global climate by absorbing or redirecting energy received from the sun. He noted that at the regional level, changes in land use and land cover lead to corresponding changes in albedo (reflectivity), soil moisture, canopy, and plant characteristics, which can collectively amplify or offset global warming from key atmospheric greenhouse gases. Citing a study he co-authored on the climatic effects of replacing tropical rainforests with crops for biofuels, Schlosser showed that this response can kick in right away, unlike the relatively glacial pace of the global carbon cycle.
“A frontier in this research is to gain understanding and confidence of how these [land-use and land-cover] changes impact local precipitation,” he said. “What we need to bring to bear on this issue are more detailed modeling tools, so we can really get at the details behind precipitation and the processes that control it.”
Marine Biological Laboratory Research Associate David Kicklighter, a Joint Program collaborator, presented results of a study he co-authored that assessed the effects of two approaches to biofuel production — expanding agricultural land vs. intensifying cultivation on existing agricultural land — on the Earth’s ability to sequester or lose carbon.
“More intensive use of agricultural land allows carbon to be sequestered on land used for biofuel production with some carbon loss associated with the displacement of other managed land,” said Kicklighter. “Expansion of agricultural land for biofuel production causes more carbon to be lost both on land used for biofuel production and the displacement of other managed land.”
Joint Program Principal Research Scientist Niven Winchester summarized two studies that he co-authored on the economic and environmental drivers of greenhouse gas emissions.
In the first study, he used a global agricultural-economic-energy model to estimate the scope and costs of irrigating more land for 282 global river basins and to simulate the impacts of water scarcity. He found that changes in water availability have small impacts on global food, bioenergy, and land-use outcomes at the global level (due in part to irrigation and storage responses), but potentially larger impacts at the regional level.
“These tools can estimate the impact of a wide range of policies and changes in water availability on food, bioenergy, and land use outcomes at the regional and global levels, while accounting for basin-level water resource constraints and price-induced changes in irrigation infrastructure,” he said.
In the second study, Winchester estimated lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by economic sector, calculating each sector’s total as the sum of direct emissions (from the use of fossil fuels) and indirect emissions (associated with other inputs used by each sector). He found that indirect carbon dioxide emissions constitute a large share of lifecycle emissions for most sectors, and that, excluding energy-related sectors, the most carbon dioxide-intensive sectors in the U.S. include transportation, nonmetallic minerals (e.g. cement), nonferrous metals (e.g. aluminum), and iron and steel.
Climate risks for agriculture
Schlosser also described a method that he and Joint Program Research Scientist Xiang Gao have developed to project the frequency of extreme weather events such as 100-year storms and heat waves — or any event that poses a threat of damage. This information could support decision-makers in the agriculture sector to adapt accordingly. The method identifies observed large-scale patterns in the atmosphere associated with extreme events recorded at a particular location (or field). Applying these associations to a set, or ensemble, of model simulations of future climate can provide a strong consensus in the trends of that extreme event across the ensemble.
“By connecting observations at locations of interest over long periods of time with large-scale information, and applying those associations in a climate model, you get a much stronger consensus in the trends,” said Schlosser. “As long as we have the [extreme-event] data at the field site and we know what types of events are damaging to a particular crop, this type of analysis can give you the risks to crop damage at a specified location associated with these events.”
Angelo Gurgel, an associate professor at the Sao Paulo School of Economics and Joint Program collaborator, evaluated potential climate impacts on global and regional agricultural outcomes between 2015 and 2050. Based on a 2014 IPCC review of climate impacts on crops, Gurgel deduced a set of crop and livestock productivity effects from climate change and simulated those in a new version of the Joint Program’s Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model with detailed agricultural disaggregation.
“Negative climate impacts on crop yields and livestock productivity will modestly affect prices, since land-use changes can mitigate such impacts,” said Gurgel. “Crop prices will be 8 percent more expensive by 2050 and livestock prices 28 percent. It will be necessary to expand 70 million more hectares of cropland and 17 million more hectares of pastures at the world level to compensate for climate impacts on yields. The problem with this adaptation strategy is that it releases more 1.9 billion tons of CO2 from land-use changes, reinforcing climate impacts.”
Joint Program Principal Research Scientist Erwan Monier presented a region- and crop-specific assessment of the future climate risks to U.S. agriculture productivity based on a study he led that was aimed at providing agriculture sector stakeholders with the additional information they need to make more informed decisions. In a nutshell, the researchers complement the results of climate/crop model runs with projections of five useful indices of agriculture/climate interaction — dry days, plant heat stress, frost days, growing season length and start of field operations — that clarify what’s driving projected yields up or down.
“We’re building a statistical model to relate these indices to yields of different crops,” said Monier. “Our work provides an alternative way to look at the fate of agriculture under climate change that provides information that’s more relevant to farmers than existing climate/crop models.”
Elodie Blanc presented results from two studies she co-authored examining the impact of climate change on irrigated crop yields in the U.S. and advancing a method to improve crop damage assessment.
The first study found that in the U.S. by midcentury, the impact of climate change on irrigation will severely reduce yields for some crops in certain regions, particularly in the Southwest. Under a business-as-usual scenario, climate and socioeconomic changes are expected to reduce the effects of water stress on irrigated yields for maize, soybean, sorghum and wheat, but worsen conditions for cotton and forage.
“Some level of adaptation will be feasible, like relocating croplands to regions with sustainable irrigation or switching to less irrigation-intensive crops or more water-efficient irrigation technology,” said Blanc.
The second study highlighted a method that can provide faster, easier, more accurate crop damage assessment than currently available tools. Applying simple algorithms to publicly available satellite data of typhoon-inflicted rice damage in the Philippines, the study produced a provincial-level rice damage index that decision-makers could use to adjust import volumes in response to typhoon damages.
“As climate change alters the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, the new method could empower tropical storm-prone nations to respond more quickly to steep losses of rice and other crops,” said Blanc.
Opportunities for collaboration
Noting the Joint Program’s capabilities to apply global-scale models of climate change and crop yields to regional, local and field-level concerns, participants in the agriculture workshop identified a number of potential areas for collaboration. These include assessing water risk and sustainable irrigation solutions, further analyzing impacts of climate change on agriculture and how agriculture can mitigate climate change, and developing predictive models for agriculture sector stakeholders that can inform decision-making at the field and business levels.
“There’s quite a business ecosystem involved in this enterprise of trying to address these issues, and a lot of activity in the private sector aimed at commercializing this knowledge,” said Reilly. “Our goal is to interact with this business ecosystem in the most productive way possible.”
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What’s coming to The CW the week of November 4? Alaric starts to realize that secrets aren’t a good thing on a new episode of LEGACIES, Oliver and Felicity both pull out all the stops to find Diaz on ARROW, and the Winchesters and Bobby get trapped inside nightmares on SUPERNATURAL. Meanwhile, THE FLASH and BLACK LIGHTNING will both be airing reruns, and we’ll be getting flashbacks on RIVERDALE.
Sunday, November 4
SUPERGIRL 4.04 “Ahimsa”: When Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) needs help, Alex (Chyler Leigh) asks Lena (Katie McGrath) and Brainiac (Jesse Rath) to team up. Meanwhile, J’onn (David Haredwood) questions his decision to quit the DEO. However, after running into Manchester Black (guest star David Ajala), he realizes there are a lot of ways to help his fellow aliens during this tumultuous time. Armen V. Kevorkian directed the episode with story by Eric Carrasco and teleplay by Katie Rose Rogers & Jess Kardos.
CHARMED 1.04 “Exorcise Your Demons”: While waiting for The Elders to arrive, the sister’s patience is growing thin as they keep a watchful eye on their new charge. Once one of The Elders, Charity (guest star Virginia Williams), appears, she gives specific instructions on how to handle the situation. Mel (Melonie Diaz) does not agree with the solution and enlists Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) and Macy’s (Madeleine Mantock) and even Harry’s (Rupert Evans) help, but it means going against The Elders. Meanwhile, Macy, Mel and Maggie are all starting to realize that juggling their two worlds is becoming more difficult. Ser’Darius Blain and Ellen Tamaki also star. Melanie Mayron directed the episode written by Marcos Luevanos.
Monday, November 5
ARROW 7.04 “Level Two”: Oliver (Stephen Amell) makes a drastic move in his quest to find Diaz (Kirk Acevedo). Like her husband, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) pulls out all the stops to get to Diaz. Meanwhile, when arsonists target Rene’s (Rick Gonzalez) community center, injuring Zoe (guest star Eliza Faria) in the process, the mysterious new Green Arrow swoops in to help save the day. Faced with pressure from the mayor to capture the vigilante, Dinah (Juliana Harkavy) must decide if following the rules at all costs is the best plan to keep the city safe. Ben Bray directed the episode written by Emilio Ortega Aldrich & Tonya Kong.
DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW 4.03 “Dancing Queen”: When the Legends discover a fugitive is hiding in 1970’s London, they realize he is part of a gang that is targeting the British Monarchy. Trying to stop the gang, they realize someone from the Legends must infiltrate them. Surprising everyone, Ray (Brandon Routh) is the one to gain their trust after he is put through a series of tests with help from Sara (Caity Lotz) and Rory (Dominic Purcell). Meanwhile, Gary (guest star Adam Tsekhman) shows Nate (Nick Zano) the ropes at the Time Bureau, but it turns out to be anything other than an ordinary day at the office. Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Matt Ryan and Jes Macallan also star. Kristin Windell directed the episode written by James Eagan & Morgan Faust.
Wednesday, November 7
RIVERDALE 3.04 “Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club”: When Betty (Lili Reinhart) confronts Alice (Madchen Amick) about Gryphons and Gargoyles, Alice has no choice but to come clean about how she, along with a young Fred (KJ Apa), FP (Cole Sprouse), Hermoine (Camila Mendes), Hiram (guest star Michael Consuelos), Sierra (Ashleigh Murray), Penelope (Madelaine Petsch) and Tom (Casey Cott), played the game in the early 90’s – and how a shocking mystery has been plaguing them all ever since. Marisol Nichols, Charles Melton and Vanessa Morgan also star. Dawn Wilkinson directed the episode written by Tessa Leigh Williams.
ALL AMERICAN 1.04 “Lose Yourself”: While riding the exhilarating wave of a three-game winning streak, Spencer (Daniel Ezra) becomes seduced by the Beverly Hills good life leading to an unexpected adventure with Asher (Cody Christian). Meanwhile, Coop (Bre-Z) is also being seduced by a new way of life – gang life – and everything it offers her. Taye Diggs, Michael Evans Behling, Samantha Logan, Greta Onieogou, Monet Mazur, Karimah Westbrook and Jalyn Hall also star. The episode was written by Johnny Norris and directed by Elodie Keen.
Thursday, November 8
SUPERNATURAL 14.05 “Nightmare Logic”: After a hunt gone wrong leaves Maggie’s (guest star Katherine Evans) whereabouts unknown, Sam (Jared Padalecki) Dean (Jensen Ackles), Mary (guest star Samantha Smith) and Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver) race to find her, but what they find are their own worst nightmares. Darren Grant directed the episode written by Meredith Glynn.
LEGACIES 1.03 “We’re Being Punked, Pedro”: As punishment for breaking the rules, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell), Lizzie (Jenny Boyd), Josie (Kaylee Bryant) and MG (Quincy Fouse) are forced to participate in a community service project in the Mystic Falls town square. Meanwhile, Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) and Rafael’s (Peyton Alex Smith) attempt at a carefree life on the road takes a dangerous turn when they become unsuspecting targets. Finally, Alaric (Matthew Davis) realizes that keeping secrets from his students may be causing more harm than good. Carol Banker directed the episode written by Julie Plec & Sherman Payne.