God, this has been driving me nuts all morning, and considering that I got up at 5am to work on an assignment (and actually did assignment *boggle*) it's been driving me nuts for hours now.
I'm trying to remember a Supernatural fic. I'm pretty sure it was a five things fic, and one of the parts has a pre-series Dean and Sam taking off one night from a motel room. John spends months tracking them, and eventually traces them to an abandoned farmhouse/shack etc where they're doing just fine. The exchange is something like:
"Come back, please?"
Dean's grabbed Sammy's shirt to stop him running forward, and says: "We have conditions."
John stares and spreads his hands wide. "I'm listening."
From memory, it made me flail enough with Teh Happy to be
angstslashhope's, but it's not in her fic listing. Anyone? Please?