The Song Remains the Same - Master Post
Go back to the beginning . . . and take a different road.
John never married Mary, Dean never became a hunter, Sam never had a father. While Dean grows up in a typical loving family, Sam is raised as a guerilla hunter cut off from normal society. They are thrown together for the first time when the yellow-eyed demon attacks Dean's family. Dean abandons his life as a college student and musician and takes to the road with Sam. Now they are fighting side by side, searching for the demon that killed their mothers and trying to save John.
This is an episodic AU serial that mimics the formula and style of the original Superntatural show, but with an ongoing slash romance subplot manifesting mainly as UST nuances in the early episodes. Each episode has a self-contained adventure plot and can be read as a stand alone story.
Characters: Sam Campbell, Dean Winchester, John Winchester, Castiel, Meg, Ruby, Bobby, The Campbells (Samuel, Gwen, Christian, Mark), Crowley, Other canon characters and original characters.
Genres: Alternate Universe, Case Fic (Supernatural), Drama & Action, Epic Romance, Horror Fantasy, Humor, Romance, Slash (Pairing Sam/Dean)
Content: Adult themes and coarse language; Angst and hurt/comfort; Canon level violence and death; Explicit sexual content.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DISCLAIMERS: I should like to offer my grateful thanks to my most loyal supporter for being my beta-reader, and I offer my apologies to the writers and creators of Supernatural for my use and abuse of their original material, and to the owners of all other fandoms and franchises I mention in passing. I write for love only. Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke/CW.
I'd like to express my grateful thanks to the amazingly talented
semarinan for creating the stunning gifs that accompany the summaries for the earlier episodes:
The road begins here . . .
Episode 1: I Can Never Go Home
i/ Attempting to escape from his violent past and the demands of his hunter family, Sam Campbell is struggling to make a life for himself in a new town when a death vision of his employer’s wife and son, under horribly familiar circumstances, draws him back into old ways and the hunt for his mother’s killer.
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ii/ After the attack on the Winchester family, Sam must protect and prepare John's shell-shocked son, Dean, against the demon threat, a task that is complicated by his growing attraction for the irritating but charismatic music student. When a couple disappear on a lonely Californian road it provides an opportunity to initiate Dean into the dark mysteries of the Supernatural.
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Episode 2: Golem A woman’s death unearths a secret that menaces two families. Dean struggles with his grief and anxiety while he and Sam try to solve the mystery and defeat a creature made of mud walking. But is fighting the monster enough in a case where innocence is the first victim?
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Episode 3: Prank'd Dean Winchester is adjusting to his mother’s death and his father’s disappearance. Sam Campbell is adjusting to Dean Winchester. As they hunt an invisible killer plaguing a reality TV show, Dean hones the hunting skills that will help him survive . . . always assuming Sam doesn’t kill him first.
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Episode 4: Together Everything changes. Everything stays the same. Tensions mount between Sam Campbell and Dean Winchester until an explosive quarrel drives the friends apart. Sam finds himself drawn to a pretty stranger while Dean confronts a sinister scarecrow. You think you know this story. Think again.
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Episode 5: Something Wicked? A little girl has an imaginary friend who knows too much. When Sam Campbell and Dean Winchester investigate, Dean is haunted by memories of the little brother he never had.
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Episode 6: Bad Blood A clue about the Colt leads Sam and Dean to Red Lodge where Dean is surprised and delighted to run into an old college buddy, Jim Masters. Sam isn’t so thrilled, and is determined to prove the handsome charmer isn’t all he appears. Meanwhile, a confrontation with vampires stirs painful memories of his fatal last case with the Campbells.
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Episode 7: Wayward Son Sam’s visions reveal another of the psychic children. Is he connected to a series of mysterious immolations? Is the yellow eyed demon involved? Sam's search for answers leads him home in more ways than one. Along the way, he and Dean discover they have a mutual friend in South Dakota, and Sam learns more than he wants to know about his relationship with Dean.
(In progress. Please watch this space.)
Disclaimer: I write for love only. Supernatural and its characters belong to Eric Kripke/CW
The full collection of artwork for the serial may be viewed at "The Song Remains the Same" Art Post.
MORE FICTION BY FANSPIRED IS AVAILABLE AT AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/users/fanspired/pseuds/fanspired/works
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All my fiction, apart from a few drabbles, has now been deleted from Live Journal, but it's all still available on Archive of Our Own, Dreamwidth, and Fanfiction.net. And I will be posting annoucements here, with links, whenever I update the serial, or write anything new.
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