This is a series of stories showing times when Sam needed Dean near him to be able to sleep. New chapter: Missing Scene to S13E22.

Set around Fallen Idols and beyond. The boys email each other. Up now: Ch 13. Dean asks Sam to get him some beer.

AU of season 4. COMPLETE. "Look, I've got no idea who your brother is, but uh, I think I might be him. Just, y'know, alive."

The intensity of the close bond between the Winchester brothers inspires envy, awe, admiration, longing and even suspicion in outsiders. A series of stories told by individuals after unforgettable encounters with Sam and Dean.

SN pre-series / post X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Dean meets Wolverine during a solo hunt, which leads to friendship and a new job. NO SLASH Ch119 - Complete (I mean it this time!)

By the time Sam figures out that trekking through a forest, looking for a Wendigo, is the last place on God's green earth Dean wants to be, it's too late to turn back. No Slash.

Future, post season 8. OC POV. The staff at Copper Hills Retirement Home has been trying to figure out the mystery of Mr. Novak's visitor for years. Mention of character death.

Dean pretends he has nothing to hide, but he has secrets he'll never tell anyone, especially not Sam. Companion piece to "Deep Dark Secrets".

Sam is fourteen years old and doesn't really need Dean anymore. He tries to restructure their relationship... and does more harm than good.

Sam's been away at Stanford for almost two years with no problems, supernaturally speaking, that is…that's until one night when Dean receives a panicked call from his brother. Dean is 25, Sam is 21, A/U (Disclaimer: I don't own Sam, Dean, or John Winchester. Kripke, Warner Bros, and CW do as usual.)

Missing scene/tag to 8.14, Trial and Error. Some errors have been too great, some trials too costly. Losing his brother is not an option, not this time, not when he can do something about it.

Dean is a young, vibrant hunter with a keen sense of purpose, itching to prove himself. When a sudden, catastrophic illness strikes him down, Heaven and Earth collide in a desperate race to save his life. Teen!Chesters. Sick!Dean. COMPLETE

It's a Terrible Life tag: He remembers being Dean Smith. All of it.

Sam and Dean Winchester get a new perspective on each other during a hunt when things take a turn for the freaky... How do they cope when they find their places inexplicably swapped? And what happens when they call Cas, only to have the angel lose his mojo before they find the answers to this bizarre case? This story is now complete. Not my best work, but it was fun to write.

Sam storms out in 2012, and gets lost in 1987. Or, procrastinating!Sparrow tries de-aging!fic, kind of.

Congratulations on your new DEAN unit! This manual includes everything you need to know about owning a DEAN unit, including proper care, risks associated with owning a DEAN unit, and popular uses for DEAN units.

Post 8.07, A Little Slice of Kevin. There's only so long he can avoid the trap of memories, and he fears that when they catch him, they won't let him go.

Maybe the Winchesters fight monsters and prevent the apolcalypse, and maybe they don't. Five places the Winchester boys might have ended up. See inside for warnings.

Impalaverse, roughly season 5. Cas wants the Impala to like him. She has other ideas. Sam gets caught in the middle.

Highschool AU: It's Castiel's senior year. One year before he can finally be free from his abusive father, and he's ready to go through it nice and quiet and leave with as much going for him as he can to get into a good college. Enter the Winchesters.

When monsters become the pawns in a competition between humans and demons, Dean Winchester adopts a Faceless outcast named Sam who just might bring the broken Winchester family back together again. AU, John/Mary & brief Dean/Jo

There's always been more to Dean than meets the eye. Featuring hurt!Dean, hurt!Sam, and lots of brotherly moments. Mild spoilers for seasons 1-3. Previously published in Blood Brothers 4, winner of the FanQ Award for Best Supernatural zine.

for the spn rambleon prompt: Sam reads Nightmare by Carver Edlund because of reasons. The last scene where the boys are talking about how they were lucky they had Dad is written from Dean's POV. Turns out Dean's and Max's childhoods weren't entirely different...I just really want Sam finding out years after S1...

A disgruntled witch casts an unusual spell on the boys. It's going to take all their guts, ingenuity and badassery to get out of this one.

Three time Cas wanted to tell Dean he loved him, and one time he didn't have to.

Leaning further into each other, they stood their ground. It was how they had survived every storm they've ever weathered. It was how they would survive this one too. *Tissue warning!* Angst, Humor H/C, Drama, De-aged Sam, AwesomeBigBrotherDean

Summer of '99: After being injured on a hunt w/ his father & brother, and despite his wishes, 20 yr. old Dean is left w/ family friend & fellow hunter, Bobby Singer while John & Sam leave on a week-long hunt. Written for '11 SPN-Gen Big Bang

Hunting's a dirty job and it would be really easy to drown in the filth if Sam and Dean didn't have each other's back.

It brings all the boys to the yard.

Nurse Jenny has the night-shift, a cranky patient, and a secret. Season 3 setting.

Dean Winchester walks into a bar as a virgin. After this, that never happens again. Dean/Other Het . Spoilers: No. Warnings: Dean is underage.

Dean Winchester likes when things work.

How hard could it be to find a few friggin' zombies? Harder than you might think. Season 2 fic with humor, angst, hurt!Dean, brotherly moments, and pranks. Finalist for best SPN fic of the year in the 2011 Fan Quality Awards. Published in Route 666 #3.

De-aged!Dean and early S6 Sam. S6 spoilers in the warning. Sam has his eyes narrowed on the pool tables like he's thinking of dissecting them, and Dean's head doesn't even clear the bar-top.

Dean decides to surprise his brother with a new phone. Even better is when he finds that he's been able to save all of Sam's old information and restore it to his cell. That's when he discovers an old voicemail that Sam has kept saved...

"Sam…I don't know what he ate or how much. He just complained that it tasted bad and fell over." After a case of mistaken identity, Dean finds himself on a 'trip' down the craziest yellow brick road ever. Prequel of sorts to WWWS & Baby. Set Season3

High school is hard enough without an absentee father, restless spirits, haunted cars, a missing classmate and a sexual predator on the loose. Then again, the Winchesters never did anything the easy way. Dean is 17 and Sam is 13.

What the Hell are you doing to my car? A very quick one-shot follow up to What's Wrong With Sam?

If you lived next door to the Winchester family in 1993, would you call Child Protective Services? an urban casefic for the 2010 summergen challenge

Pre-Series AU. The boys are put in separate foster homes after John is sent to prison. Five years apart in very different lifestyles sees them eventually reunited. Will their bond survive after years of separation and abuse? Contains abuse & rape.

Taking Lucifer on is just crazy.

After the deal is broken, Sam gets a worrying call from Dean and both Winchesters are forced to face the fact that the past never goes away. AU. Angsty!Sam, Hurt!Dean. COMPLETE

Missing scene from The Song Remains the Same. Schmoop Noir. Dean wrestles with destiny and dirty laundry as he cares for his battered brother. Also explores how Sam got some of the more 'interesting' shirts in his wardrobe!

AU. Dean's life goes in a whole other direction when Sam supposedly dies at age four. But while on the Shooting Team in the 2004 Olympics, Dean meets a tall, shaggy-haired swimmer. Can the yellow-eyed demon be far behind?

It sucks that Sam left. Sometimes Dean tries to imagine being an only child - it beats admitting that he misses the big geek. But he finds it's not so easy to pretend he never had a brother when a hunt takes him to the campus at Stanford.

Sam makes a wish. Dean is not pleased. Written pre-What Is and What Should Never Be. Mentions of child abuse.

Dean's mind wanders while he sits through Sam's high school graduation.

Pre-Series AU. When John gets too close for comfort, the yellow-eyed demon threatens Sam in a way that hits too close to home. The aftermath leaves John having to decide: continue the hunt, or abandon it for safety of his sons? Complete.

Sam protects his de-aged, obnoxious, traumatized brother. Complete with epilogue.

Dean falls victim to an evil cult hellbent on making him one of their own, leaving Sam to try and find him before it is too late. warning, there is a lot of fairly graphic violence in this story

Top Secret Fic for Darksupernatural. Happy Birthday! Teenage Sam and Dean on a hunt with their father, but when things go badly wrong it drastically alters the Winchester family dynamics. Will the boys survive? Lots of LIMP Sam and Protective Dean.

Set During Lucifer Rising. Castiel's thoughts after he sends Dean to stop Sam. Slashy overtones.

Dedicated to and written for charis-kalos. Dean 21, Sam 16. Sam is given a writing assignment in English class which leads him to make unsettling discoveries about his family. Complete

When life has left you with nothing but exhaustion and pain,the unexpected and wonderful can come your way. To what lengths of denial would Dean go to hang on to it? Would Sam's search for the truth destroy it all? Dean Angst,Sam Angst,Ellen,AU,OFC

AU: What life could have been like for the Winchesters.

For Phx, Sequel to The Unlearned Lesson: The boys have to take care of a time stone. Dean decides to use it to say goodbye to his brother. Set somewhere mid season 2. Hurt-angsty!Sam, bigbrother!Dean, time travel, schmoop and angst. Schmangst?

A summoning ritual backfires. Instead of drawing the restless spirit of Cpl. Leamon Griffith to them, Sam and Dean find themselves catapulted to the side of the young Union soldier, just hours before he goes MIA – in 1863. Set S3 after BDABR.

The Winchesters stumble into the work of a serial killer running loose in New York, as if Dean's post-traumatic stress syndrome, the police, and two Subway ghosts weren't enough to deal with. Set between 4.08 and 4.09.

Stories of the years after Mary's death and before Sam's tour of duty at Stanford.

When Sam and Dean re-visit their dad's storage container, Sam makes an unexpected discovery. Set early season 3.

Post-Born Under a Bad Sign, Sam finds one thing he's stronger than his older brother at: getting a tattoo.

Sam travels to Hell to rescue Dean, but Hell isn't exactly like what we've all been led to believe - it is, however, rather familiar to anyone who owns a car. HA HA!

AU. On October 2, 2005, Sam Winchester walked out of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Jess in the middle of the night, and didn't come back. COMPLETE.

He was terrified. This wasn't what I'd signed up for. Outsider POV.

Hunting becomes more difficult for Sam and Dean when the FBI starts a hunt of its own.

Dean meets sushi. Sushi wins.

After Faith, a job has the boys looking for missing hikers in Wyoming. While Sam worries it’s connected to what happened to Dean ten years ago, Dean wonders if Sam would be better off back in the world of normal.

Knocked unconscious by a witch, Dean has his own little Ozfest journey...

Weechester tale of two childhood incidents, a fire and a flood. By request of the reviewers of Murphy's Law.

An explosion removes his identity, puts him in the hands of a stranger, and forces him to fight his way back from darkness. If everything he knows is taken away, who can he trust? Who is he, really? And what if he doesn't want to remember?

Sam takes a nasty knock on the head, resulting in strange amnesia. He thinks he's five years old. Now Dean has to deal with his big lil' brother and all the trials and tribulations that entails. Ch22 Up. COMPLETE

Dean vanishes, leaving Sam to discover his brother's whereabouts before it is too late, while Dean finds himself trapped in a world of nightmares and delusions of a yesterday that ever was.

Dean was a treasure once.

Dean and Sam head south to deal with a thousand year old legend that no one will touch… perhaps because they’re too busy laughing at it?

“Someone goes over Niagara in a barrel. You gonna jump in and try to save them?” – Dean Winchester, Crossroad Blues. Sam’s making plans, and they don’t include his father or hunting. They might not even include Dean. High school in two time periods.

Making a deal with a Demon can be an unseemly business. Especially when you discover that the deal you've made has endangered your sons in ways you hadn't foreseen. Now they've grown up apart and unaware and things need to be set right. AU oddness.

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Is Dean really thick, or does he just want to appear that way? A bored Sam is about to find out. complete

I wondered what would happen if Dean and Jensen switched places. I figured it might be interesting, so here it is. Very minor language.

Future Xmas, 2033. The Winchester brothers separated after a terrible fight. For many years, one man believed his brother was dead. When another hunter brings word of a stranger who knows the truth, the surviving brother goes on one last hunting trip.

Something evil is killing treeplanters in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, possibly the same predator that Dean narrowly escaped years before. How Grimm will things get before the brothers figure it out? COMPLETE

Dean discovers email and so does the fabric softener teddy bear.

The boys hunt a ghost in Charleston. And Dean's in trouble....

Dean and Sam enter the world of Civil War reenactors as they track a dog gone bad and a battlefield ghost. And now, with the epilogue, they finally get a chance to make peace with the past.

The aftermath of a curse leaves Sam with a very different version of Dean. Gen no Wincest.

They almost talk about a lot of things. But the sound of the road is almost deafening, and the radio is turned up again, leaving them to their almost thoughts in the dwindling afternoon.

At a parentteacher conference, a principal expresses some concerns to John Winchester. His sons are special... very, very special.

Following one of Sam’s premonitions, Dean and Sam end up in a town ripe with mystery and fraught with danger. And it has its eyes on Dean.