Master Rec List II (Supernatural
Too many SPN fics to put under the first Rec List (huh, who knew?)
Supernatural
I went ahead and tried to identify which ones were Gen or Het (no Wincest found here).
40 Years of Sacrifice by Nebula
Author's Summary: Sam isn't going to stand there and let hell have a second more from Dean. (gen)
Excerpt: He always sacrificed for others, and the one selfish act that Hell had forced him to commit was tearing him apart.
Accidents Will Happen by holli
Author's Summary: Some Goth teenagers accidentally resurrect John Winchester. No, seriously. (gen)
Excerpt: "Don't-- that may be the worst advice anyone has given me, ever, and that includes the time in seventh grade when my mother told me to just be myself and people would like me the way I was," I hissed at him.
Adam West Ain't Got Nothing On You by luzdeestrellas
Author's Summary: "You know what the worst part of this whole thing is?" he says, a calculated risk that might end up with him missing a few teeth. "I totally missed all the summer movies." (gen)
Afterburn by henyxie
Author's Summary: Things only carry the meanings we attribute them. (het - Dean/OFC)
All the Sweet Green Icing Flowing Down by kimonkey
Author's Summary: What's outside isn't always what's inside. (gen)
And All But He Departed by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: A primer on Discworld's Death. There is no real character death in this story... except the character Death of course. (SPN/Discworld crossover - I have no knowledge of Discworld and still enjoyed this)
Angels Above You While You Sleep by smilla02
Author's Summary: Mary never forgets. (gen)
Excerpt: She likes to think of an angel protecting her sons. He would be like that other Dean nobody knew about. Fierce and strong and terrible. A true protector.
ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes by musesfool
Author's Summary: Domesticity, Winchester style. (gen)
Bay of Fire by Scullspeare
Author's Summary: A hunt to destroy a vengeful ghost ship leaves the brothers stranded in the cold Atlantic, fighting to survive. (gen)
Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart
Author's Summary:They come from the north, exhausted by the sprawling highways and overpasses of Silicon Valley. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean remembers when he didn't talk in much the same way he remembers the night of their mother's death, when things became too large and scary and all of the words he had learned so early became caught in his throat in the same way the smoke did.
Black and White and Purple and Orange by Maychorian
Author's Summary: Dean makes a friend. Sam rolls his eyes a lot. (gen, some het - Dean/Jaime)
Blind Eyes Open by fryadvocate
Author's Summary: Dean says "trust" sometimes like it's a new four letter word.
Breaking by eloise_bright
Author's Summary: Set Season 1. Sam POV. Dean's hurt. Sam copes. Just about. (gen)
Excerpt: There's no sarcastic quip, no smartass comment, and Sam wishes Dean would call him an asshole, or flip him the finger, something - anything - but Dean is silent.
the broken hand we learned to lean on by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: They agreed to meet at a house by the sea. Apoca-fic. (gen)
Brother's Day by Rose Ganymede
Author's Summary: It's Mother's Day - so what's a little boy without a mom to do? (gen)
But I Never Could Sharpen No Blade, Quite the Way He Say by onelittlesleep
Author's Summary: "homosayswhat?" Dean spat out, grabbed the machete and slammed the trunk. / "What?" Sam said, surprised. (gen)
Can You Picture That? by cofax
Author's Summary: Tickle-Me-Chucky was going down. (gen)
consult the book of armaments by estei
Summary: Sam's sick and Dean proves what an awesome big brother he is. (gen)
Conversational Winchester for Trolls by eloise_bright
Summary: The Winchester men meet up with a troll who lives under a bridge. (gen)
Excerpt: And I have discovered I'm psychic, and therefore suffer not only from my own considerable personal angst, but am tortured by visions of others in mortal danger, which I express by clutching my head as if in the throes of a migraine induced by hair/vision obscurage.
Coeur d'coeurs by lyrawing
Author's Summary: Dean and Sam open a pie shop. Supernatural/Pushing Daisies crossover. (gen)
Corner of the Eye and the coda Here Be Dragons by kellifer_fic
Summary: Sam's sees things that he shouldn't be able to (gen)
Excerpt: "I'm calling you Bob," Sam decides, knowing it's probably ludicrous to name the embodiment of Dean's fierce protectiveness, but sometimes Sam knows you just have to roll with the punches.
credo ut intelligam by fryadvocate
Author's Summary: Dean and language before and after Sam. (gen)
Excerpt: If Dean was a noun, he would be a Latin noun, he would shuttle off each part of himself into a different ending, so that when he smiled a certain way he would mean one thing and when he lied to people it would be ok because the other four declinations of him weren't liars at all.
Days Like This by Kilia
Summary: Dean meets Angel. SPN/Angel crossover (gen)
Excerpt: The whole night had been jacked up from the start, and it only proved what Dean Winchester had always believed: California had it in for him.
Death Vs Dean Winchester: Grudge Match '07 by eloise_bright
Summary: see title (gen)
Excerpt: Dean's teeth flash white in his purple-stained face. "Man, I love me some pie."
The Dearth of the Cool by innie_darling
Author's Summary: Five Errant Dreams of Other Lives (gen)
Excerpt: Sam thinks, without exaggeration, that he'd give his own soul for Dean to be rocking out to some dumb song of his own creation, like that endless version of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song he'd made up, listing all of their exploits on the road in chronological order, from Constance Welch to the Morton House, always including lines about two good old boys.
Destiny by legoline
Author's Summary: Dean thinks that he was supposed to die. (gen)
The Drowning Chain by july
Author's Summary: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has a list of key points to bear in mind to minimise the risk of drowning...Experts have come up with four main reasons why people drown. All these reasons are linked to one another, a bit like a chain. Therefore experts refer to them as 'links' in a 'Drowning Chain'. -BBC (gen)
Excerpt: There was nothing quite like the satisfaction of being right. / "I fucking knew it!" Dean screamed at Canada. "Suck on that!" / Humility was for other people.
Dwellers in Silence by dwarfankylosaur
Summary: After Sam kills the crossroads demon, they drive back to their motel room and bolt the door behind them. (gen)
Even Living Legends Need Eggs by belyste
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean stop for the night in a random small town in Iowa, but it turns out Dean's been there before - and the townspeople have an interesting reaction to his return. Pure humor, and not a speck of angst. (gen)
Everyday Heroes by geminigrl11
Author's Summary: What is the measure of a man? Sometimes, it's found in the midst of epic struggle. Sometimes, it's in the spaces in between. (gen)
My notes: I also recommend the listed follow-up/sequels as well.
Excerpt: Sam reached up, patted Dean's cheek awkwardly. "You're a good man, Dean," he mumbled, already sleeping again. But not before he saw a gleam of something startled but pleased shine in Dean's eyes.
A Family Business by liptonrm_fic
Author's Summary: The Winchesters never stay, and when they go they leave more than burned corpses behind them. (gen)
ficlet by roque_clasique
Summary: Dean and Sam saving a couple of adorbs kids from a fugly (gen)
Excerpt: "I still don't think it's fair that you get to use the flamethrower," Sam whines. / "Dude, I have been waiting for a case that requires an honest-to-god flamethrower since I was fuckin' born. I told you, you can lob the grenade next time we take out a nest of Black Dogs." / "Puppies, Dean," Sam says. "You're telling me I get to explode a cuddly nest of puppies." / "With a grenade."
Fire or Fire by lemmealone
Author's Summary: It took less than an hour in Hell to send Dean mad. Sam doesn't remember what he did to bring his brother back, and in Oklahoma six months later people are burning alive. (gen)
First Hour by merryish
Author's Summary: Dean tries to let go; Sam tries not to. (gen)
Excerpt: "Yeah, well, I still am. I don't see what's so great about a 'normal life', and I don't think it's ever gonna suit you, Sam; I just don't." Dean clears his throat; it doesn't help. His voice comes back low and jagged. "Doesn't mean you're not my little brother. Doesn't mean I don't want what's best for you; you know that. I want you to be happy, and if you can't do that with me and Dad, then I hope like hell you can do it somewhere else."
Five Times Bobby Called Dean to Check He Was Still Alive (and one time he didn't) by Nativestar
Author's Summary: *points to title* (gen)
Excerpt: "Hey, Bobby" The voice was quiet and close to a whisper but unmistakeably Dean, and finally Bobby relaxed.
The Flip Side of the Coin by gekizetsu
Author's Summary: Frickin' angel has to be good for something, right? Dean, Castiel, and Sam. No pairing. Just schmoop interspersed with Dean-flavored suspicion. Takes place between 4.02 and 4.03. (gen)
Friday I'm in Love by thenyxie
Author's Summary: This is… this is a high school first love story, ya'll. No, I am NOT kidding. But it's a high school first love story that's more like an out and out war when Dean finally meets his female match. Oh, and there's cooking! And possibly the longest first!time (first!time for her, not Dean) porn scene ever written. (het - Dean/OFC)
Ghost in the Machine and In the Wires by dotfic
Author's Summary: (SPN/Iron Man crossover) Sam and Dean meet Tony Stark. (gen)
Gift by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: Prompt fic - Sometimes Dean forgets, he loves Sam, has always loved him, but sometimes he forgets that he genuinely likes him, too. (gen)
Haircut by weesta
Summary: Dean gives Sam a haircut (gen)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by eloise_bright
Author's Summary: Sam is determined to have some downtime at Christmas. Dean needs to be convinced. (gen)
Excerpt: "Ow! What? I'm just saying. We wouldn't have to play along with all this Christmas crap. And Hannukah? You at least get to light stuff on fire. My kind of holiday."
heavier things remain by toneskis
Author's Summary: The fallout from "No Rest for the Wicked" will impact more than just Sam. (gen - Lisa, Ben, Sam)
Excerpt: "Dean's always okay," Ben said, going back to his worksheet. "He's like a superhero, you know? I mean, not super in that he can fly or anything, and he doesn't have, like, powers. But he's really good at saving people, and that's what superheroes do. He gets scrapped up sometimes, but it's just part of the job."
Hits the Spot by lyra_wing
Summary: Dean + Rusty = Awesomeness. (gen - SPN/Oceans 11 crossover)
The Hope Verse by ficwriter1966
Author's Summary: What's the Hope Verse? It's my version of the future -- no doubt kinder and gentler than the one Kripke's going to cook up. The boys settle down (off and on, then off, then on), have families ... and nobody dies. No deals, no trips to Hell. Is there angst? Butofcourse. There's also romance, and a little schmoop, and HOME. (some gen and some het - Dean/OFC, Sam/OFC)
A Hundred Hearts by ultraviolet9a
Author's Summary: How far would you go? (gen - SPN/Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog crossover)
Hurl'd Headlong by kellifer_fic
Summary: coda for episode 4.01 (gen)
I Like the Girls with the Boom by innie_darling
Summary: pre-series Dean/OFC (het)
i only sleep with my guns when you're gone by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: A curse brings back someone Dean hasn't seen in years. (gen)
Excerpt: "Dude, I'm not really sure what you're asking me. You're my brother and I loved you like… unlike anything else really but you were also…" / "What?" Dean prompted. / "I don't know. You were kinda my mom too."
I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me by musesfool
Author's Summary: Mary's boys will never hunt by the light of the moon. (gen)
In Harm's Way by dark_roast
Summary: SPN/Veronica Mars crossover. Logan and Dean meet. (gen)
Excerpt: Then in steps this kid. Skinnier than Sammy and nearly as tall. A self-conscious walk half liquid, half lanky like he doesn't know how to work his long arms and legs yet. Dean remembers that age, not fondly. Kid's got hair like he stuck a fork in a toaster and a "come punch me" smirk on his baby face, and Dean thinks somebody will likely oblige him.
In the Long Run by legoline
Author's Summary: Dean has to go and break his leg in the middle of the damn apocalypse. (gen)
In Reverse by sodakey
Author's Summary: 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. (gen)
Excerpt: The rush of affection was abrupt and absolute. Home and safe, and this is my brother. Sam reached, scrubbed his free hand down over Dean's scalp, gripped the short hairs tight between his fingers. / Dean didn't balk-simply untangled his hand smoothly from its wrap in Sam's shirtfront and used it to softly thump his chest, reassuring and calm. Hand then settling flat and strong on Sam's sternum.
Infrangible Road by Dayspring
Author's Summary: infrangible \in-FRAN-juh-bul\ adjective -- not capable of being broken. Although the scenery changes, the path winds onward, and detours always lead back to the main road. A Supernatural Gen AU in which John raises his sons in Lawrence.
Interesting Times by Troll Princess
Author's Summary: Dean doesn't even think about the curse until the next morning, and by then it's too late. (gen)
Excerpt: He shouldn't be able to identify his baby brother from a million different replicas of himself by sound alone but there it is, that pitch and timbre that hits something in Dean's chest that chants, my brother mine mine fuck with him and you answer to me.
Jonah of Dalhart by Oselle
Author's Summary:Dean gets out of the hospital after the thrashing he took in "Head of a Pin" and decides he needs a little space. Castiel disagrees. (gen, het - Dean/OFC)
The lady of the right hand by fleshflutter
Author's Summary: Dean's last night in New Orleans with that voodoo gig (gen)
Land's End and the sequel Man's Allotted Span by janissa11
Summary: SPN/Deadliest Catch xover. Yeah you read that right. Believe it or not, it works beautifully. You don't have to watch the show to read BTW.
The Language of this Foreign Country by ignipes
Author's Summary: Sam has a list in his head. It's a dictionary or a phrasebook, something you can keep in your pocket and pull out whenever necessary: Translation Guide For People Who Spend Every Waking Hour With People Who Never Say What They Mean. (gen)
Lazarus Came Forth by oselle
Author's Summary: Dean returns from hell and finds himself alive and alone in the stark landscape of an America that has gone terribly wrong. Adrift in hostile territory and pursued by hell's bounty hunters, he sets out on a desperate hunt to find Sam. Apocafic and AU for everything after Season 3. (gen)
Let the Games Begin by yesterday4
Author's Summary: Dean's got awhile to think on the drive over. Coda to 4x03. (gen)
Life Before Death by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: Sam doesn't know how to break the silence. (gen)
Life on Mars by musesfool
Author's Summary: Sam finds that without hunting, without television, the internet, or saving the world, he's got a lot of time on his hands. (gen)
(like a you or a me) by lemmealone
Author's Summary:Spoilers to 4.10 - more an extracanonical interlude than strictly Jossed by ensuing eps. Religious themes, bad puns, food porn, one brief graphic zipless het threesome sex scene (Sam/Dean/OFC), extreme indulgence, Sam’s penis, instant coffee, fraternal schmoop bordering on smarm and PIE. Not mine, done for love and charity. One (mis)quote stolen shamelessly from Homer Simpson. Blame Psych for Sam's smoothie fetish and Dexter for the location. Do not look for plot in this. It is H/C without the H. It is the opposite of torture porn. Please check your brain at the door before entering. (gen. Ish)
Little by kellifer_fic
Summary: So there's this curse that neither of them ever talk about. (gen)
Mimeo by mikhale
Author's Summary: mimeograph, a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed. With each duplication, the copy gets fainter and fainter. (gen)
Missus a Deo by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: In October 2008, Mary Winchester opens the door to something that looks like her son but isn't. (gen)
the moon is gold and silvery by ygrawn
Author's Summary: Sam worries he might just run them off the road. Late, late at night, he doesn't worry. He wonders. (gen)
The Most Important Thing by yesterday4
Author's Summary: Wee-chesters. In the month prior to Sam's birth, Dean is having his doubts about the whole baby gig. It's up to Mary to ease them. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean blurts out his great big thought. "I think Baby is a bad idea. Maybe God will let you return it."
A Moveable Feast by musesfool
Author's Summary: Five Winchester Thanksgivings (gen)
My Wingman by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: A SPN/Scrubs crossover. Sam is an attending physician and Dean is a cardiac surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital. (gen/AU)
Excerpt: "You know he hates us because we're more cut than he is." Dean offered a leer to the girls at the nurses' station as they passed by. Half of the nurses rolled their eyes and half of them giggled, which was about Dean's batting average. You'd think heart surgeons wouldn't need cheesy pick-up lines, but Dean seemed to enjoy using them anyway. Dean added, "Not to mention that we're totally hotter."
Nazareth Verse by Duckie
Author's Summary: After the world doesn't end, Sam and Dean find a measure of peace in a small town in Kansas. That is to say, they scrape together as much peace as can be had with monsters to hunt, padawans to train, and a couple of girls in the house. (het - Dean/OFC)
Night Moves by researchgrrrl
Author's Summary: Porn. For serious. That's it. Porn. Completely gratuitous, completely cracked-out porn. Wincest-free. (het - Dean/OFC)
No Fortress is So Strong by kimonkey7
Author's Summary: Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. - Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January, 1994. (het - Dean/OFC)
Not As We by tru_faith_lost
Summary:Coda to 4x17 (gen)
Excerpt: "Yeah. Anything I can do to help." Y'know, since he has no choice. He gets it. Things are going downhill fast. The only way to head them off is to get to the bottom first.
Nothing Quite Like the Feel of Something New by thenyxie
Author's Summary: Devirginizing porn. There had to be at least an hour before Sam and Hendrickson could get all those suddenly un-possessed people out the door. (het - Dean/Nancy)
Now Hollow Fires Burn by dotfic
Author's Summary: The house has no violent history, no cold spots, no strange noises. But there's something not quite right about it.
Offsides by july
Author's Summary: "Take a lap, Winchester!"
Excerpt: They were Winchesters. And if they weren't responsible for each other, who would be?
Old Rebel Yeller by big_pink
Author's Summary: The boys have fun at Civil War reenactments while chasing down a ghost and a possessed family dog. There's plenty of swearing and a tiny bit of angst, but mostly just fun. A ripping yarn in the best Boy's Own Annual tradition. With swearing. I mentioned that, right? No spoilers, really. Set in the summer between when Dean picks up Sam from Stanford and before the first season finale. (gen)
On Warm Summer Nights by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: I actually have no idea how to explain this fic, or how to summarize it. Let's just say…. Mary works the late shift at this diner, and John visits her. Sam and Dean also visit her. (gen with some John/Mary)
One More Mile (Five times Sam and Dean didn't hunt) by dotfic
Author's Summary: Sometimes they find a normal that doesn't need a disclaimer. (gen)
The One Where Dean Turns Into a Talking Cat by ifyouweremine
Author's Summary: "Rub my belly, bitch," said Dean. (gen)
Open Mind for a Different View by insomnia_geek
Author's Summary: Letting Dean loose unattended in a bookstore, while enlightening, can be hazardous to Sam's mental health. (gen)
Excerpt: All he knows is that when he stepped around the giant display for Thomas the Train Engine storybooks, he found Dean, his macho big brother, sitting on a tiny chair surrounded by almost two dozen wide-eyed kids as he read Curious George out loud.
Outside Your Coverage Zone by lazy_daze
Author's Summary: Coda to 422 (gen)
Parts of Speech by mona1347
Author's Summary: When Sammy left, Dean had to learn all the ways to speak again. (gen)
Excerpt: That was before he learned that you can never get people back, you could only try to keep hold of them to begin with.
Paul Newman and a Ride Home by musesfool
Author's Summary: Five books Dean Winchester has read more than once. (gen)
Excerpt: Fourteen years later, as he drives to the crossroads, he knows exactly why Dally pulled his gun under that streetlight.
Permanent Ghosts by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: OK, but Dean's not going to star in Cats, OK? Just so we're clear. (gen)
Phantom Load by Lovesrain44
Author's Summary: Dean and Sam return to Boulder, CO, where they investigate a haunted school. The job seems simple enough to Sam, who has good, although vague, memories of living in Boulder back in 1992, when John Winchester rented a single-wide trailer, and the boys were able to walk home from school together. Dean, however, has altogether different memories, far less pleasant and far more damaging. It's during the investigation that Sam discovers the secret that Dean doesn't realize he's been hiding.
Warnings: Kidfic, underage non-con, not wincest; present day, dark, angst.
My notes: I will not lie, I stayed up til 4:30am reading this and it made me bawl like a baby. It's not an easy read and tears away at you piece by piece. Angst with a capital 'A' awaits you.
The Plain of the Lethe by meyerlemon
Author's Summary: For the first few days, he expects him to remember. (gen)
Playing in Harmony by Pheebs1
Author's Summary: Pre series. Dean finds a guitar and wants to learn how to play. (gen)
Excerpt: Those are his favourite times, when everyone's sleeping, and Dean's alone with his guitar. When Dean can play what he wants, pretend to himself that he's in a band, travelling onto his next gig, girls throwing themselves at him. Lose himself in a world that'll never be his.
Real Men Don't Make Cheesecake by Troll Princess
Author's Summary: Dean takes home economics, and chaos ensues. And no, it's not his fault. (het - Dean/OFC)
Receiver by dotfic
Author's Summary: "When I told Dad I was scared of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45...I was nine years old." In the wake of the events of "Fresh Blood," Sam and Dean find a hunt: a family whose youngest child has a monster in his closet. The Winchesters know exactly how to deal with monsters, but this hunt is a little too familiar. Sam starts to unravel while Dean's show falters. (gen)
Red by BigPink
Author's Summary: 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?
Rest For Awhile Till Our Souls Catch Up by verbalavalanche
Excerpt: "t wasn't that Dean was bad at keeping his promises. It was that he never knew when to stop." (gen/AU)
Ride by july
Author's Summary: "This isn't helping, Dean." (gen)
Riddle Me This by musesfool
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean meet a sphinx. Hijinks ensue. (gen)
Excerpt: He can practically hear Sam's teeth grind. It makes him a little giddy.
Rising to a New Morning by authoressnubula
Author's Summary: He was the only one in the room. Only Winchester left standing. Sam wakes up and feels the pain of what he thinks was only a dream. (gen)
Rumspringa and the companion piece Meidung by july
Author's Summary: I don't know if you notice anything missing, like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over the floor. I don't know if you even notice at all. Cause I was real quiet when I closed the door. -Fink, "This Is The Thing" (gen)
Excerpt: "I'm Uncle Bobby goddammit!" he yelled. Just as fast, though, Bobby wasn't angry so much as something else. "You call me, Dean. You call me no matter what. Jesus Christ. Did you think I'd nark on you? Did you think I wouldn't take you in?"
Run by glasshoe
Author's Summary: "Hey Sammy, wanna race?" (gen)
Same Time Next Year by apreludetoanend
Author's Summary: Pilot AU. Some things never change. When Dad goes missing, Dean comes for Sam. (gen)
The Sea Will Open in Your Veins by musesfool
Author's Summary: "You hate the beach. You've always hated the beach." (gen)
Secure the Blessing by rahmi
Author's Summary: Sam makes a wish. Dean is not pleased. (gen)
Seeing Red by eloise_bright
Summary: Three interconnected drabbles (gen)
Settled down like rain by musesfool
Author's Summary: In which there is a thunderstorm, some cookies, and a pillow fort. (gen)
Shotgun by July
Author's Summary: Dillon, TX. 1996. (SPN/Friday Night Lights crossover, AU)
The Skin Horse by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: Dean has always been grounded by contact, needing to touch. (gen)
Strange's Country by concernedlily
Author's Summary: Sam stopped focusing on ways to free Dean from the deal and started looking for ways to get him out of hell two months before he was due to arrive there.
SPN Ficlit by kayto1
Summary: Fun little ficlet
Excerpt: To sum it up then, Dean woke up not dead, cold, hungry, and naked
Squirt by innie_darling
Author's Summary: a little pre-series tomfoolery (gen)
Sunday Bloody Sunday by Sojouner84
Author's Summary: Still reeling from the revelation of Dean's deal, the brothers hunt down the Hell Gate demons. But one hunt sends them to a place where secrets kill, sins are punished, and Sam and Dean feel the impact of an ageless war.
Swim Into the Smoke by dotfic
Summary: Coda for 4x04 (gen)
Excerpt: That the slight weight of it, hanging from its cord around your neck, might be an anchor, a reminder. Always tugging, you'd like to believe, between you and your brother's soul.
Telling Myself It's Not as Hard as it Seems by deirdre_c
Author's Summary: After the fire, Dean sifts through what's left in Jess and Sam's apartment. (gen)
There Is No Such Place by ygrawn
Author's Summary: There are days when even Dean hates their itinerant lifestyle. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean does not believe they are rudderless. There is an internal rhythm and logic to their lives. They do have traditions and rituals, a shared history, a purpose to their days and nights. They are a nation-state of two, with a language and culture entirely their own.
Three Gifts by destina
Author's Summary: Three Gifts Sam Gave Dean (whether he wanted them, or not) (gen)
Excerpt: Dean, who could have been any fucking thing he wanted to be, but was sitting on this stupid porch looking out at this stupid street because Sam was here, too.
this road is wrapped around me, and i wear it like a chain by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: There will never be salvation for you. (gen)
Tiger Boy by pdgragon76
Author's Summary: We follow where the bent stalks lead. (gen)
Tis evil in the Wild to Fare by irnan
Author's Summary: You should have known better than to stop to talk to that boy. (gen)
To Bitch, With Love From Jerk by dotfic
Author's Summary: Dean has written to his brother a few times over the years. Sometimes he even gives Sam the letters. (gen)
To Everything a Season by dodger_winslow
Author's Summary: A little piece of good advice: Never hunt a wendigo when you're drunk. (gen with some het/AU)
Tweny minutes, before breakfast by merryish
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean. Coffee and puttering (gen)
Excerpt: He's got Sam; he's got breath in his body, concrete under his wheels, and a hundred-thirty days like this one on the road ahead.
Under a Haystack by Emily Brunson
Summary: As a result of a curse, Dean is regressed back to a child. (gen)
Unexpected Company by dotfic
Author's Summary: The one where John has wings, Sam is a toddler, Dean is seven, and Bobby is in way over his head. (gen)
Excerpt: "Don't want charity from anyone," Winchester said, voice going tight. "I'll pay you for room and board, and for the help." He paused. "If it was only me, I'd wait it out here. But Sam and Dean." The way Winchester said that, it was like he'd said the sun and moon.
Unspoken and In a Foreign Tongue by b_stearns
Author's Summary: For Harrigan, who asked for Sam-whumpage, but no big guilt trips, no Winchesters-as-damsels-in-distress, no total incapacitation. (gen)
Vocabulary by innie_darling
Author's Summary: Given a week to define himself, Sam watches Dean.
voice mail (the rest is silence) by blacklid
Author's Summary: Sam feels alone in their old room at Bobby's and he hasn't checked his messages in over a week. (gen)
We Say Grace, We Say Ma'am by kimonkey7
Author's Summary: It's hard to be idealistic when you're 19 years old. Even harder when you live in a trailer park. Almost impossible when your dad is John Winchester. (gen)
What Kind of Day Has It Been? by musesfool
Author's Summary: Dean thinks this is the strangest job they've ever worked. (SPN/Muppets crossover - gen)
Excerpt: "Have you noticed anything...odd about the manager?" Sam asks as they're checking the dressing rooms for EMF. / Dean shoots him an incredulous glance. "Like the fact that he's a frog?"
When the Hour Turns Over by dotfic
Author's Summary: In which Dean turns thirty. (gen)
Excerpt: "I just. Didn't think I'd get to thirty. Y'know?" / Sam's hand was on his shoulder. He felt him grip tight, and let go. "I know." Sam climbed up into the bus ahead of him, and said over his shoulder, "I'm really glad you did."
When You Think He's Half Asleep by teand
Author's Summary: I admit up front that at least a dozen other people in SPN fandom have written fic about Dean and this particular transformation but well, I live in the country and that gives me perhaps a different view of things. Specific things. Things about the size of furry marbles amongst other things. You could call them Thing One and Thing Two. I wouldn't, but you could. (gen)
you and your eyes light the darkest room by that_september
Author's Summary: Three times Lisa asked Dean to stay. (het - Dean/Lisa)
Excerpt: Lisa always remembered the green first. Everything else-the swearing, the embarrassment, the hiss of pain, his startled expression, the faded leather of his jacket, his easy laugh, and all that had followed-came after.
You Promised Nothing (But Gave Me Everything) by mickeym
Author's Summary: Dean always takes care of Sam. (gen - wincesty if you squint I guess)
Your Sorrow for Another Coin by strangeangels
Author's Summary: Winchesters always needed protecting, from themselves as much as anything else - so maybe it was no surprise that Mama added all that thyme and basil and oregano into spaghetti sauce every time a Winchester crossed their doorstep. (het - Dean/OFC)
Supernatural
I went ahead and tried to identify which ones were Gen or Het (no Wincest found here).
40 Years of Sacrifice by Nebula
Author's Summary: Sam isn't going to stand there and let hell have a second more from Dean. (gen)
Excerpt: He always sacrificed for others, and the one selfish act that Hell had forced him to commit was tearing him apart.
Accidents Will Happen by holli
Author's Summary: Some Goth teenagers accidentally resurrect John Winchester. No, seriously. (gen)
Excerpt: "Don't-- that may be the worst advice anyone has given me, ever, and that includes the time in seventh grade when my mother told me to just be myself and people would like me the way I was," I hissed at him.
Adam West Ain't Got Nothing On You by luzdeestrellas
Author's Summary: "You know what the worst part of this whole thing is?" he says, a calculated risk that might end up with him missing a few teeth. "I totally missed all the summer movies." (gen)
Afterburn by henyxie
Author's Summary: Things only carry the meanings we attribute them. (het - Dean/OFC)
All the Sweet Green Icing Flowing Down by kimonkey
Author's Summary: What's outside isn't always what's inside. (gen)
And All But He Departed by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: A primer on Discworld's Death. There is no real character death in this story... except the character Death of course. (SPN/Discworld crossover - I have no knowledge of Discworld and still enjoyed this)
Angels Above You While You Sleep by smilla02
Author's Summary: Mary never forgets. (gen)
Excerpt: She likes to think of an angel protecting her sons. He would be like that other Dean nobody knew about. Fierce and strong and terrible. A true protector.
ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes by musesfool
Author's Summary: Domesticity, Winchester style. (gen)
Bay of Fire by Scullspeare
Author's Summary: A hunt to destroy a vengeful ghost ship leaves the brothers stranded in the cold Atlantic, fighting to survive. (gen)
Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart
Author's Summary:They come from the north, exhausted by the sprawling highways and overpasses of Silicon Valley. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean remembers when he didn't talk in much the same way he remembers the night of their mother's death, when things became too large and scary and all of the words he had learned so early became caught in his throat in the same way the smoke did.
Black and White and Purple and Orange by Maychorian
Author's Summary: Dean makes a friend. Sam rolls his eyes a lot. (gen, some het - Dean/Jaime)
Blind Eyes Open by fryadvocate
Author's Summary: Dean says "trust" sometimes like it's a new four letter word.
Breaking by eloise_bright
Author's Summary: Set Season 1. Sam POV. Dean's hurt. Sam copes. Just about. (gen)
Excerpt: There's no sarcastic quip, no smartass comment, and Sam wishes Dean would call him an asshole, or flip him the finger, something - anything - but Dean is silent.
the broken hand we learned to lean on by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: They agreed to meet at a house by the sea. Apoca-fic. (gen)
Brother's Day by Rose Ganymede
Author's Summary: It's Mother's Day - so what's a little boy without a mom to do? (gen)
But I Never Could Sharpen No Blade, Quite the Way He Say by onelittlesleep
Author's Summary: "homosayswhat?" Dean spat out, grabbed the machete and slammed the trunk. / "What?" Sam said, surprised. (gen)
Can You Picture That? by cofax
Author's Summary: Tickle-Me-Chucky was going down. (gen)
consult the book of armaments by estei
Summary: Sam's sick and Dean proves what an awesome big brother he is. (gen)
Conversational Winchester for Trolls by eloise_bright
Summary: The Winchester men meet up with a troll who lives under a bridge. (gen)
Excerpt: And I have discovered I'm psychic, and therefore suffer not only from my own considerable personal angst, but am tortured by visions of others in mortal danger, which I express by clutching my head as if in the throes of a migraine induced by hair/vision obscurage.
Coeur d'coeurs by lyrawing
Author's Summary: Dean and Sam open a pie shop. Supernatural/Pushing Daisies crossover. (gen)
Corner of the Eye and the coda Here Be Dragons by kellifer_fic
Summary: Sam's sees things that he shouldn't be able to (gen)
Excerpt: "I'm calling you Bob," Sam decides, knowing it's probably ludicrous to name the embodiment of Dean's fierce protectiveness, but sometimes Sam knows you just have to roll with the punches.
credo ut intelligam by fryadvocate
Author's Summary: Dean and language before and after Sam. (gen)
Excerpt: If Dean was a noun, he would be a Latin noun, he would shuttle off each part of himself into a different ending, so that when he smiled a certain way he would mean one thing and when he lied to people it would be ok because the other four declinations of him weren't liars at all.
Days Like This by Kilia
Summary: Dean meets Angel. SPN/Angel crossover (gen)
Excerpt: The whole night had been jacked up from the start, and it only proved what Dean Winchester had always believed: California had it in for him.
Death Vs Dean Winchester: Grudge Match '07 by eloise_bright
Summary: see title (gen)
Excerpt: Dean's teeth flash white in his purple-stained face. "Man, I love me some pie."
The Dearth of the Cool by innie_darling
Author's Summary: Five Errant Dreams of Other Lives (gen)
Excerpt: Sam thinks, without exaggeration, that he'd give his own soul for Dean to be rocking out to some dumb song of his own creation, like that endless version of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song he'd made up, listing all of their exploits on the road in chronological order, from Constance Welch to the Morton House, always including lines about two good old boys.
Destiny by legoline
Author's Summary: Dean thinks that he was supposed to die. (gen)
The Drowning Chain by july
Author's Summary: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has a list of key points to bear in mind to minimise the risk of drowning...Experts have come up with four main reasons why people drown. All these reasons are linked to one another, a bit like a chain. Therefore experts refer to them as 'links' in a 'Drowning Chain'. -BBC (gen)
Excerpt: There was nothing quite like the satisfaction of being right. / "I fucking knew it!" Dean screamed at Canada. "Suck on that!" / Humility was for other people.
Dwellers in Silence by dwarfankylosaur
Summary: After Sam kills the crossroads demon, they drive back to their motel room and bolt the door behind them. (gen)
Even Living Legends Need Eggs by belyste
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean stop for the night in a random small town in Iowa, but it turns out Dean's been there before - and the townspeople have an interesting reaction to his return. Pure humor, and not a speck of angst. (gen)
Everyday Heroes by geminigrl11
Author's Summary: What is the measure of a man? Sometimes, it's found in the midst of epic struggle. Sometimes, it's in the spaces in between. (gen)
My notes: I also recommend the listed follow-up/sequels as well.
Excerpt: Sam reached up, patted Dean's cheek awkwardly. "You're a good man, Dean," he mumbled, already sleeping again. But not before he saw a gleam of something startled but pleased shine in Dean's eyes.
A Family Business by liptonrm_fic
Author's Summary: The Winchesters never stay, and when they go they leave more than burned corpses behind them. (gen)
ficlet by roque_clasique
Summary: Dean and Sam saving a couple of adorbs kids from a fugly (gen)
Excerpt: "I still don't think it's fair that you get to use the flamethrower," Sam whines. / "Dude, I have been waiting for a case that requires an honest-to-god flamethrower since I was fuckin' born. I told you, you can lob the grenade next time we take out a nest of Black Dogs." / "Puppies, Dean," Sam says. "You're telling me I get to explode a cuddly nest of puppies." / "With a grenade."
Fire or Fire by lemmealone
Author's Summary: It took less than an hour in Hell to send Dean mad. Sam doesn't remember what he did to bring his brother back, and in Oklahoma six months later people are burning alive. (gen)
First Hour by merryish
Author's Summary: Dean tries to let go; Sam tries not to. (gen)
Excerpt: "Yeah, well, I still am. I don't see what's so great about a 'normal life', and I don't think it's ever gonna suit you, Sam; I just don't." Dean clears his throat; it doesn't help. His voice comes back low and jagged. "Doesn't mean you're not my little brother. Doesn't mean I don't want what's best for you; you know that. I want you to be happy, and if you can't do that with me and Dad, then I hope like hell you can do it somewhere else."
Five Times Bobby Called Dean to Check He Was Still Alive (and one time he didn't) by Nativestar
Author's Summary: *points to title* (gen)
Excerpt: "Hey, Bobby" The voice was quiet and close to a whisper but unmistakeably Dean, and finally Bobby relaxed.
The Flip Side of the Coin by gekizetsu
Author's Summary: Frickin' angel has to be good for something, right? Dean, Castiel, and Sam. No pairing. Just schmoop interspersed with Dean-flavored suspicion. Takes place between 4.02 and 4.03. (gen)
Friday I'm in Love by thenyxie
Author's Summary: This is… this is a high school first love story, ya'll. No, I am NOT kidding. But it's a high school first love story that's more like an out and out war when Dean finally meets his female match. Oh, and there's cooking! And possibly the longest first!time (first!time for her, not Dean) porn scene ever written. (het - Dean/OFC)
Ghost in the Machine and In the Wires by dotfic
Author's Summary: (SPN/Iron Man crossover) Sam and Dean meet Tony Stark. (gen)
Gift by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: Prompt fic - Sometimes Dean forgets, he loves Sam, has always loved him, but sometimes he forgets that he genuinely likes him, too. (gen)
Haircut by weesta
Summary: Dean gives Sam a haircut (gen)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by eloise_bright
Author's Summary: Sam is determined to have some downtime at Christmas. Dean needs to be convinced. (gen)
Excerpt: "Ow! What? I'm just saying. We wouldn't have to play along with all this Christmas crap. And Hannukah? You at least get to light stuff on fire. My kind of holiday."
heavier things remain by toneskis
Author's Summary: The fallout from "No Rest for the Wicked" will impact more than just Sam. (gen - Lisa, Ben, Sam)
Excerpt: "Dean's always okay," Ben said, going back to his worksheet. "He's like a superhero, you know? I mean, not super in that he can fly or anything, and he doesn't have, like, powers. But he's really good at saving people, and that's what superheroes do. He gets scrapped up sometimes, but it's just part of the job."
Hits the Spot by lyra_wing
Summary: Dean + Rusty = Awesomeness. (gen - SPN/Oceans 11 crossover)
The Hope Verse by ficwriter1966
Author's Summary: What's the Hope Verse? It's my version of the future -- no doubt kinder and gentler than the one Kripke's going to cook up. The boys settle down (off and on, then off, then on), have families ... and nobody dies. No deals, no trips to Hell. Is there angst? Butofcourse. There's also romance, and a little schmoop, and HOME. (some gen and some het - Dean/OFC, Sam/OFC)
A Hundred Hearts by ultraviolet9a
Author's Summary: How far would you go? (gen - SPN/Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog crossover)
Hurl'd Headlong by kellifer_fic
Summary: coda for episode 4.01 (gen)
I Like the Girls with the Boom by innie_darling
Summary: pre-series Dean/OFC (het)
i only sleep with my guns when you're gone by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: A curse brings back someone Dean hasn't seen in years. (gen)
Excerpt: "Dude, I'm not really sure what you're asking me. You're my brother and I loved you like… unlike anything else really but you were also…" / "What?" Dean prompted. / "I don't know. You were kinda my mom too."
I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me by musesfool
Author's Summary: Mary's boys will never hunt by the light of the moon. (gen)
In Harm's Way by dark_roast
Summary: SPN/Veronica Mars crossover. Logan and Dean meet. (gen)
Excerpt: Then in steps this kid. Skinnier than Sammy and nearly as tall. A self-conscious walk half liquid, half lanky like he doesn't know how to work his long arms and legs yet. Dean remembers that age, not fondly. Kid's got hair like he stuck a fork in a toaster and a "come punch me" smirk on his baby face, and Dean thinks somebody will likely oblige him.
In the Long Run by legoline
Author's Summary: Dean has to go and break his leg in the middle of the damn apocalypse. (gen)
In Reverse by sodakey
Author's Summary: 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. (gen)
Excerpt: The rush of affection was abrupt and absolute. Home and safe, and this is my brother. Sam reached, scrubbed his free hand down over Dean's scalp, gripped the short hairs tight between his fingers. / Dean didn't balk-simply untangled his hand smoothly from its wrap in Sam's shirtfront and used it to softly thump his chest, reassuring and calm. Hand then settling flat and strong on Sam's sternum.
Infrangible Road by Dayspring
Author's Summary: infrangible \in-FRAN-juh-bul\ adjective -- not capable of being broken. Although the scenery changes, the path winds onward, and detours always lead back to the main road. A Supernatural Gen AU in which John raises his sons in Lawrence.
Interesting Times by Troll Princess
Author's Summary: Dean doesn't even think about the curse until the next morning, and by then it's too late. (gen)
Excerpt: He shouldn't be able to identify his baby brother from a million different replicas of himself by sound alone but there it is, that pitch and timbre that hits something in Dean's chest that chants, my brother mine mine fuck with him and you answer to me.
Jonah of Dalhart by Oselle
Author's Summary:Dean gets out of the hospital after the thrashing he took in "Head of a Pin" and decides he needs a little space. Castiel disagrees. (gen, het - Dean/OFC)
The lady of the right hand by fleshflutter
Author's Summary: Dean's last night in New Orleans with that voodoo gig (gen)
Land's End and the sequel Man's Allotted Span by janissa11
Summary: SPN/Deadliest Catch xover. Yeah you read that right. Believe it or not, it works beautifully. You don't have to watch the show to read BTW.
The Language of this Foreign Country by ignipes
Author's Summary: Sam has a list in his head. It's a dictionary or a phrasebook, something you can keep in your pocket and pull out whenever necessary: Translation Guide For People Who Spend Every Waking Hour With People Who Never Say What They Mean. (gen)
Lazarus Came Forth by oselle
Author's Summary: Dean returns from hell and finds himself alive and alone in the stark landscape of an America that has gone terribly wrong. Adrift in hostile territory and pursued by hell's bounty hunters, he sets out on a desperate hunt to find Sam. Apocafic and AU for everything after Season 3. (gen)
Let the Games Begin by yesterday4
Author's Summary: Dean's got awhile to think on the drive over. Coda to 4x03. (gen)
Life Before Death by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: Sam doesn't know how to break the silence. (gen)
Life on Mars by musesfool
Author's Summary: Sam finds that without hunting, without television, the internet, or saving the world, he's got a lot of time on his hands. (gen)
(like a you or a me) by lemmealone
Author's Summary:Spoilers to 4.10 - more an extracanonical interlude than strictly Jossed by ensuing eps. Religious themes, bad puns, food porn, one brief graphic zipless het threesome sex scene (Sam/Dean/OFC), extreme indulgence, Sam’s penis, instant coffee, fraternal schmoop bordering on smarm and PIE. Not mine, done for love and charity. One (mis)quote stolen shamelessly from Homer Simpson. Blame Psych for Sam's smoothie fetish and Dexter for the location. Do not look for plot in this. It is H/C without the H. It is the opposite of torture porn. Please check your brain at the door before entering. (gen. Ish)
Little by kellifer_fic
Summary: So there's this curse that neither of them ever talk about. (gen)
Mimeo by mikhale
Author's Summary: mimeograph, a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed. With each duplication, the copy gets fainter and fainter. (gen)
Missus a Deo by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: In October 2008, Mary Winchester opens the door to something that looks like her son but isn't. (gen)
the moon is gold and silvery by ygrawn
Author's Summary: Sam worries he might just run them off the road. Late, late at night, he doesn't worry. He wonders. (gen)
The Most Important Thing by yesterday4
Author's Summary: Wee-chesters. In the month prior to Sam's birth, Dean is having his doubts about the whole baby gig. It's up to Mary to ease them. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean blurts out his great big thought. "I think Baby is a bad idea. Maybe God will let you return it."
A Moveable Feast by musesfool
Author's Summary: Five Winchester Thanksgivings (gen)
My Wingman by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: A SPN/Scrubs crossover. Sam is an attending physician and Dean is a cardiac surgeon at Sacred Heart Hospital. (gen/AU)
Excerpt: "You know he hates us because we're more cut than he is." Dean offered a leer to the girls at the nurses' station as they passed by. Half of the nurses rolled their eyes and half of them giggled, which was about Dean's batting average. You'd think heart surgeons wouldn't need cheesy pick-up lines, but Dean seemed to enjoy using them anyway. Dean added, "Not to mention that we're totally hotter."
Nazareth Verse by Duckie
Author's Summary: After the world doesn't end, Sam and Dean find a measure of peace in a small town in Kansas. That is to say, they scrape together as much peace as can be had with monsters to hunt, padawans to train, and a couple of girls in the house. (het - Dean/OFC)
Night Moves by researchgrrrl
Author's Summary: Porn. For serious. That's it. Porn. Completely gratuitous, completely cracked-out porn. Wincest-free. (het - Dean/OFC)
No Fortress is So Strong by kimonkey7
Author's Summary: Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. - Erica E. Goode, "The Secret World of Siblings," U.S. News & World Report, 10 January, 1994. (het - Dean/OFC)
Not As We by tru_faith_lost
Summary:Coda to 4x17 (gen)
Excerpt: "Yeah. Anything I can do to help." Y'know, since he has no choice. He gets it. Things are going downhill fast. The only way to head them off is to get to the bottom first.
Nothing Quite Like the Feel of Something New by thenyxie
Author's Summary: Devirginizing porn. There had to be at least an hour before Sam and Hendrickson could get all those suddenly un-possessed people out the door. (het - Dean/Nancy)
Now Hollow Fires Burn by dotfic
Author's Summary: The house has no violent history, no cold spots, no strange noises. But there's something not quite right about it.
Offsides by july
Author's Summary: "Take a lap, Winchester!"
Excerpt: They were Winchesters. And if they weren't responsible for each other, who would be?
Old Rebel Yeller by big_pink
Author's Summary: The boys have fun at Civil War reenactments while chasing down a ghost and a possessed family dog. There's plenty of swearing and a tiny bit of angst, but mostly just fun. A ripping yarn in the best Boy's Own Annual tradition. With swearing. I mentioned that, right? No spoilers, really. Set in the summer between when Dean picks up Sam from Stanford and before the first season finale. (gen)
On Warm Summer Nights by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: I actually have no idea how to explain this fic, or how to summarize it. Let's just say…. Mary works the late shift at this diner, and John visits her. Sam and Dean also visit her. (gen with some John/Mary)
One More Mile (Five times Sam and Dean didn't hunt) by dotfic
Author's Summary: Sometimes they find a normal that doesn't need a disclaimer. (gen)
The One Where Dean Turns Into a Talking Cat by ifyouweremine
Author's Summary: "Rub my belly, bitch," said Dean. (gen)
Open Mind for a Different View by insomnia_geek
Author's Summary: Letting Dean loose unattended in a bookstore, while enlightening, can be hazardous to Sam's mental health. (gen)
Excerpt: All he knows is that when he stepped around the giant display for Thomas the Train Engine storybooks, he found Dean, his macho big brother, sitting on a tiny chair surrounded by almost two dozen wide-eyed kids as he read Curious George out loud.
Outside Your Coverage Zone by lazy_daze
Author's Summary: Coda to 422 (gen)
Parts of Speech by mona1347
Author's Summary: When Sammy left, Dean had to learn all the ways to speak again. (gen)
Excerpt: That was before he learned that you can never get people back, you could only try to keep hold of them to begin with.
Paul Newman and a Ride Home by musesfool
Author's Summary: Five books Dean Winchester has read more than once. (gen)
Excerpt: Fourteen years later, as he drives to the crossroads, he knows exactly why Dally pulled his gun under that streetlight.
Permanent Ghosts by kroki_refur
Author's Summary: OK, but Dean's not going to star in Cats, OK? Just so we're clear. (gen)
Phantom Load by Lovesrain44
Author's Summary: Dean and Sam return to Boulder, CO, where they investigate a haunted school. The job seems simple enough to Sam, who has good, although vague, memories of living in Boulder back in 1992, when John Winchester rented a single-wide trailer, and the boys were able to walk home from school together. Dean, however, has altogether different memories, far less pleasant and far more damaging. It's during the investigation that Sam discovers the secret that Dean doesn't realize he's been hiding.
Warnings: Kidfic, underage non-con, not wincest; present day, dark, angst.
My notes: I will not lie, I stayed up til 4:30am reading this and it made me bawl like a baby. It's not an easy read and tears away at you piece by piece. Angst with a capital 'A' awaits you.
The Plain of the Lethe by meyerlemon
Author's Summary: For the first few days, he expects him to remember. (gen)
Playing in Harmony by Pheebs1
Author's Summary: Pre series. Dean finds a guitar and wants to learn how to play. (gen)
Excerpt: Those are his favourite times, when everyone's sleeping, and Dean's alone with his guitar. When Dean can play what he wants, pretend to himself that he's in a band, travelling onto his next gig, girls throwing themselves at him. Lose himself in a world that'll never be his.
Real Men Don't Make Cheesecake by Troll Princess
Author's Summary: Dean takes home economics, and chaos ensues. And no, it's not his fault. (het - Dean/OFC)
Receiver by dotfic
Author's Summary: "When I told Dad I was scared of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45...I was nine years old." In the wake of the events of "Fresh Blood," Sam and Dean find a hunt: a family whose youngest child has a monster in his closet. The Winchesters know exactly how to deal with monsters, but this hunt is a little too familiar. Sam starts to unravel while Dean's show falters. (gen)
Red by BigPink
Author's Summary: 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?
Rest For Awhile Till Our Souls Catch Up by verbalavalanche
Excerpt: "t wasn't that Dean was bad at keeping his promises. It was that he never knew when to stop." (gen/AU)
Ride by july
Author's Summary: "This isn't helping, Dean." (gen)
Riddle Me This by musesfool
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean meet a sphinx. Hijinks ensue. (gen)
Excerpt: He can practically hear Sam's teeth grind. It makes him a little giddy.
Rising to a New Morning by authoressnubula
Author's Summary: He was the only one in the room. Only Winchester left standing. Sam wakes up and feels the pain of what he thinks was only a dream. (gen)
Rumspringa and the companion piece Meidung by july
Author's Summary: I don't know if you notice anything missing, like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over the floor. I don't know if you even notice at all. Cause I was real quiet when I closed the door. -Fink, "This Is The Thing" (gen)
Excerpt: "I'm Uncle Bobby goddammit!" he yelled. Just as fast, though, Bobby wasn't angry so much as something else. "You call me, Dean. You call me no matter what. Jesus Christ. Did you think I'd nark on you? Did you think I wouldn't take you in?"
Run by glasshoe
Author's Summary: "Hey Sammy, wanna race?" (gen)
Same Time Next Year by apreludetoanend
Author's Summary: Pilot AU. Some things never change. When Dad goes missing, Dean comes for Sam. (gen)
The Sea Will Open in Your Veins by musesfool
Author's Summary: "You hate the beach. You've always hated the beach." (gen)
Secure the Blessing by rahmi
Author's Summary: Sam makes a wish. Dean is not pleased. (gen)
Seeing Red by eloise_bright
Summary: Three interconnected drabbles (gen)
Settled down like rain by musesfool
Author's Summary: In which there is a thunderstorm, some cookies, and a pillow fort. (gen)
Shotgun by July
Author's Summary: Dillon, TX. 1996. (SPN/Friday Night Lights crossover, AU)
The Skin Horse by kellifer_fic
Author's Summary: Dean has always been grounded by contact, needing to touch. (gen)
Strange's Country by concernedlily
Author's Summary: Sam stopped focusing on ways to free Dean from the deal and started looking for ways to get him out of hell two months before he was due to arrive there.
SPN Ficlit by kayto1
Summary: Fun little ficlet
Excerpt: To sum it up then, Dean woke up not dead, cold, hungry, and naked
Squirt by innie_darling
Author's Summary: a little pre-series tomfoolery (gen)
Sunday Bloody Sunday by Sojouner84
Author's Summary: Still reeling from the revelation of Dean's deal, the brothers hunt down the Hell Gate demons. But one hunt sends them to a place where secrets kill, sins are punished, and Sam and Dean feel the impact of an ageless war.
Swim Into the Smoke by dotfic
Summary: Coda for 4x04 (gen)
Excerpt: That the slight weight of it, hanging from its cord around your neck, might be an anchor, a reminder. Always tugging, you'd like to believe, between you and your brother's soul.
Telling Myself It's Not as Hard as it Seems by deirdre_c
Author's Summary: After the fire, Dean sifts through what's left in Jess and Sam's apartment. (gen)
There Is No Such Place by ygrawn
Author's Summary: There are days when even Dean hates their itinerant lifestyle. (gen)
Excerpt: Dean does not believe they are rudderless. There is an internal rhythm and logic to their lives. They do have traditions and rituals, a shared history, a purpose to their days and nights. They are a nation-state of two, with a language and culture entirely their own.
Three Gifts by destina
Author's Summary: Three Gifts Sam Gave Dean (whether he wanted them, or not) (gen)
Excerpt: Dean, who could have been any fucking thing he wanted to be, but was sitting on this stupid porch looking out at this stupid street because Sam was here, too.
this road is wrapped around me, and i wear it like a chain by lyra_wing
Author's Summary: There will never be salvation for you. (gen)
Tiger Boy by pdgragon76
Author's Summary: We follow where the bent stalks lead. (gen)
Tis evil in the Wild to Fare by irnan
Author's Summary: You should have known better than to stop to talk to that boy. (gen)
To Bitch, With Love From Jerk by dotfic
Author's Summary: Dean has written to his brother a few times over the years. Sometimes he even gives Sam the letters. (gen)
To Everything a Season by dodger_winslow
Author's Summary: A little piece of good advice: Never hunt a wendigo when you're drunk. (gen with some het/AU)
Tweny minutes, before breakfast by merryish
Author's Summary: Sam and Dean. Coffee and puttering (gen)
Excerpt: He's got Sam; he's got breath in his body, concrete under his wheels, and a hundred-thirty days like this one on the road ahead.
Under a Haystack by Emily Brunson
Summary: As a result of a curse, Dean is regressed back to a child. (gen)
Unexpected Company by dotfic
Author's Summary: The one where John has wings, Sam is a toddler, Dean is seven, and Bobby is in way over his head. (gen)
Excerpt: "Don't want charity from anyone," Winchester said, voice going tight. "I'll pay you for room and board, and for the help." He paused. "If it was only me, I'd wait it out here. But Sam and Dean." The way Winchester said that, it was like he'd said the sun and moon.
Unspoken and In a Foreign Tongue by b_stearns
Author's Summary: For Harrigan, who asked for Sam-whumpage, but no big guilt trips, no Winchesters-as-damsels-in-distress, no total incapacitation. (gen)
Vocabulary by innie_darling
Author's Summary: Given a week to define himself, Sam watches Dean.
voice mail (the rest is silence) by blacklid
Author's Summary: Sam feels alone in their old room at Bobby's and he hasn't checked his messages in over a week. (gen)
We Say Grace, We Say Ma'am by kimonkey7
Author's Summary: It's hard to be idealistic when you're 19 years old. Even harder when you live in a trailer park. Almost impossible when your dad is John Winchester. (gen)
What Kind of Day Has It Been? by musesfool
Author's Summary: Dean thinks this is the strangest job they've ever worked. (SPN/Muppets crossover - gen)
Excerpt: "Have you noticed anything...odd about the manager?" Sam asks as they're checking the dressing rooms for EMF. / Dean shoots him an incredulous glance. "Like the fact that he's a frog?"
When the Hour Turns Over by dotfic
Author's Summary: In which Dean turns thirty. (gen)
Excerpt: "I just. Didn't think I'd get to thirty. Y'know?" / Sam's hand was on his shoulder. He felt him grip tight, and let go. "I know." Sam climbed up into the bus ahead of him, and said over his shoulder, "I'm really glad you did."
When You Think He's Half Asleep by teand
Author's Summary: I admit up front that at least a dozen other people in SPN fandom have written fic about Dean and this particular transformation but well, I live in the country and that gives me perhaps a different view of things. Specific things. Things about the size of furry marbles amongst other things. You could call them Thing One and Thing Two. I wouldn't, but you could. (gen)
you and your eyes light the darkest room by that_september
Author's Summary: Three times Lisa asked Dean to stay. (het - Dean/Lisa)
Excerpt: Lisa always remembered the green first. Everything else-the swearing, the embarrassment, the hiss of pain, his startled expression, the faded leather of his jacket, his easy laugh, and all that had followed-came after.
You Promised Nothing (But Gave Me Everything) by mickeym
Author's Summary: Dean always takes care of Sam. (gen - wincesty if you squint I guess)
Your Sorrow for Another Coin by strangeangels
Author's Summary: Winchesters always needed protecting, from themselves as much as anything else - so maybe it was no surprise that Mama added all that thyme and basil and oregano into spaghetti sauce every time a Winchester crossed their doorstep. (het - Dean/OFC)