Alternate pre-college timeline FOUND
I got back into spn since the 15th season came out on netflix and now I have the storyline of a fic stuck in my head that I can't figure out if it was an actual fic I read, or an idea that I never wrote, so any help will be appreciated!
It was pre-season 1 after Sam had gone to college. Dean was hunting on his own and somehow got basically a job offer (I think by Gabriel/Loki) to run a boarding house for monsters that don't want to hurt people and are trying to fly under the radar of hunters.
That's all I got. Pairing was either Dean/Cas, Dean/Gabriel, or Dean/Benny but I'm getting nowhere with AO3 tag searches. Thank you!
UPDATE: After Ty Olson made Denny cannon via twitter, I decided to go see what was new in its tags. While scrolling along, low and behold, THE FIC THAT HAS BEEN HAUNTING MY MIND.
Safe as Houses, Safe in Arms by anarchycox on AO3
Summary: The Winchesters are hunters. They have been since Mary was murdered by a demon. It took them a couple years but John Winchester found it and killed it, but as like most, got sucked into the Hunter Life. He trains his boys to hunt and they excel but Sam hates it. He gets a full ride and heads off to Stanford, keeping sort of in touch with Dean (they see each other every six months). Eventually Dean and John just go their separate ways, their hunting styles are too different. Dean is a damn good hunter, but word is slowly leaking out that he occasionally lets monsters go, other hunters start to distrust him. He lets a vampire Lenore go, and Gordon Walker beats the hell out of him. Dean is alone, tired, and a little broken and sitting in The Roadhouse when a stranger offers him a very strange job.
Words: 30,367
Pairings: Dean/Benny, Cas/Balthazar, Charlie/Glinda, Sam/Sarah
If the fact that this story was the first thing to pop into my mind after being nonactive in all things SPN for 5 years isn't a good enough recommendation, I don't know what is.
It was pre-season 1 after Sam had gone to college. Dean was hunting on his own and somehow got basically a job offer (I think by Gabriel/Loki) to run a boarding house for monsters that don't want to hurt people and are trying to fly under the radar of hunters.
That's all I got. Pairing was either Dean/Cas, Dean/Gabriel, or Dean/Benny but I'm getting nowhere with AO3 tag searches. Thank you!
UPDATE: After Ty Olson made Denny cannon via twitter, I decided to go see what was new in its tags. While scrolling along, low and behold, THE FIC THAT HAS BEEN HAUNTING MY MIND.
Safe as Houses, Safe in Arms by anarchycox on AO3
Summary: The Winchesters are hunters. They have been since Mary was murdered by a demon. It took them a couple years but John Winchester found it and killed it, but as like most, got sucked into the Hunter Life. He trains his boys to hunt and they excel but Sam hates it. He gets a full ride and heads off to Stanford, keeping sort of in touch with Dean (they see each other every six months). Eventually Dean and John just go their separate ways, their hunting styles are too different. Dean is a damn good hunter, but word is slowly leaking out that he occasionally lets monsters go, other hunters start to distrust him. He lets a vampire Lenore go, and Gordon Walker beats the hell out of him. Dean is alone, tired, and a little broken and sitting in The Roadhouse when a stranger offers him a very strange job.
Words: 30,367
Pairings: Dean/Benny, Cas/Balthazar, Charlie/Glinda, Sam/Sarah
If the fact that this story was the first thing to pop into my mind after being nonactive in all things SPN for 5 years isn't a good enough recommendation, I don't know what is.