The angels are pushing Sam out. Lucifer is pulling Sam in. Dean just wants to hold onto his brother before it’s too late. Set post Lucifer Rising…might as well call it AU since that will happen with the season premier.

Missing scene for 5.10. Sam POV. Everyone knows the devil is after Sam, but they can't really understand what it means to live with that.

The big brother inside of Dean has been locked in a box for the past year, pounding to get out. A break down from Sam might be the key to unlocking the box. Tag to 5.10 SPOILERS.

This follows events in episode 5x10 "Abandon All Hope" and may be spoilery if you haven't seen that episode. The Winchester brothers remain at Bobby's for a bit after the events in Carthage as they struggle to come to terms with what happened there.

Post 5.10 He had taken comfort in the fact that he and Dean, together, would face down Lucifer and kill him, or die trying. But neither was the case. They had failed. Ellen and Jo sacrificed themselves for nothing.

Season Five spoiler warning!--Short 'out of left field' snippet. Set right after the episode 5-10. -- "No!" A loud cry coming from the living room and something crashing against a wall, stopped the heated conversation. "Sam!" Dean bolted out of his chair.

Spoilers for 5.10. Missing scene.

Sam thought his only worry in the world was being Lucifer’s true vessel and having triggered the Apocalypse. Then he and his brother got swine flu.

Missing scene for Abandon All Hope... Between escaping from Lucifer and returning to Bobby's, the Winchesters need a moment to regroup and remember why they fight when all hope seems gone.

Tag to 'Abandon All Hope' 5x10; I rarely do tags, but this episode ended on such a short note and I wanted MORE so I wrote a few extra words and felt better, well, as best as you can with the Winchesters. I'll warn you, it's a little on the angst side.

They were the first to fall, probably wouldn't be the last, but they were going to give them the right send off -- the kind of send off they had never given themselves. Tag to 5.10

Dean finds it harder to deal with than he thought... *Spoilers for Abandon All Hope Dean/Jo

How do you kill the Devil? Dean has THE solution - at least *he* thinks so. Spoiler for 5.10! Dean, Sam, Castiel

Tag to 5.10. Sam and Dean and grief.

Jo, Dean/Jo, spoilers.

Missing scene for 5x10 Abandon All Hope. SPOILERS! The boys return to Bobby's. Sam POV.

Ellen's thoughts during Abandon All Hope. I admit it's a bit more of an emotional rambling of mine. Obvious spoilers for the episode if you haven't seen it.

Heaven has a surprise for Dean Winchester. Sometimes, just sometimes, good things do come. Dean/Jo Spoilers for ‘Abandon All Hope…’

One-shot, post-Abandon All Hope. "Tonight Bobby’s is a place of sorrow, not of celebration."

5.10 coda. Set in the last minutes of the episode, in between Castiel’ scene and Bobby’s. Bobby's POV. Complete.

The Heavenly Father returns! And He's not happy.

Michael's standing orders are the same as Dean's, to save his younger brother or to kill him; when desperate enough to save Dean, there's nothing Sam won't do. Spoilers through 5x04 "The End".

Three angels, in a bar, having an existential crisis or two. Spoilers for 5x08.

Set post 5.02. Sam takes a moment to think, and blaspheme.

Set in 5.04 'verse. The cheerful tale of Detroit.