Summary: AU. Dean Winchester has a hard life. He has a hard life living with a drunken father, and an ambitious brother who he is desperately trying to raise school funds for. In the midst of all this, he constantly tries to battle his feelings for the daughter of his father's best friend. All it takes is one night for his life to finally take a turn down a more positive route. Please R&R!

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural or its characters. I only own Ella Singer.

A/N: I may continue this, I may not. I may change the title, or I may not. I got inspired by watching 'Dear John' and to be honest, I crave love and romance at the moment. I have someone in my life but he's all the way over in America and it hurts that we can't spend time together apart from on Skype or Facebook. It's suckish but anyway, here is a romantic fic about a girl helping Dean deal with his hurt. Hope you enjoy.

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One Night Could Change It All

Chapter One

Eighteen year olds should not have to deal with what Dean Winchester was dealing with.

Dean Winchester was supporting his house when he should've been going out having fun and focusing on his studies. High school completely sucked because he was too tired from working his ass off at the ranch of his father's best friend to concentrate on his studies, and he got every kid talking about him behind his back because of his father and his reputation as the town drunk who wasn't strong enough to deal with his wife's death. He had to deal with the crap that his little brother Sam got because of the Winchester family's situation. He had to deal with the fact that he was head over heels in love with the daughter of his father's best friend and deal with the feeling that he wasn't worthy of her.

Ella Singer was just beautiful. Beautiful actually was an understatement. She had this amazingly golden blonde hair with hazel eyes and a smile that was the most stunning thing Dean had ever seen. Her lips were full and pink, and when she smiled they curved up at the corners leaving small dimples in her cheeks which made her look gorgeous. But Dean found her the most beautiful when she was bonding with the horses on the ranch.

There were more than just horses at Ella's place. A dog named Rumsfield and several chickens, and a little kitten that Ella had been given for her eighteenth birthday named Coco also lived there. Bobby, Ella's father, had built his ranch carefully so that the animals had a large protective shelter should there be bad weather or storms. If the weather got severe, Bobby, his wife Karen and Ella (on a few occasions, Dean as well) would go out to the animals and get them to safety. During one storm, Dean had been lucky enough to have his father and Sam with him at the ranch, and he and Ella got very comfortable under a blanket by the fire. As usual, his father ruined their moment.

Bobby and Karen Singer were very kind to Dean, and had given him a paid job at the ranch to help support the Winchester house. Unbeknownst to Dean, Karen and Bobby were paying money from the profits Bobby made from his salvage yard, which was just beside the house and cut off from the ranch by a large chain link fence, into an account for Sam's college fees. The kid wanted a great career as a lawyer and Dean was working his ass off in the ranch and the salvage yard almost every day to give him the opportunity he needed.

At that particular point in time, Dean's life was hard. He knew he had Bobby, Karen and Ella and he always had Sam, but his mother had been taken from them when he was just four, and his father had just disappeared after that and become a totally different man. John Winchester wasn't the man he used to be and Dean needed his dad back so badly. He needed his father to support him but with John getting fired because of his repeated absences, that wasn't going to happen, and John just crawled into a bottle as he usually did to forget his problems.

And John crawling into a bottle was how Dean's life took a positive turn. This particular Saturday evening started out pretty normal for Dean. He picked up Sam from his friend Jessica's house on his way back from Bobby's, and as it was early February, the darkness of the evening was already settling itself nicely into place. Dean drove quietly, listening to Sam talk about Jess as he did every time he visited her. Jess was the girl that Sam had a huge crush on and was too scared to ask out. Kind of like Ella, who was the girl that Dean was madly in love with and was too scared to ask out.

But as he turned the corner onto their street, both boys felt dread begin to settle in the pits of their stomachs. A crowd of people surrounded an ambulance and a small team of paramedics were working on someone right on the lawn of the Winchester home. Dean's heart stopped as worry flooded through him and everything else became a blur.

John Winchester had been found unconscious on the lawn of the Winchester home and was still unconscious after having his stomach pumped due to the amount of alcohol and pills he'd taken. It had been a suicide attempt, and Dean felt nothing but guilt because he hadn't seen the signs. Their father was obviously depressed, but the boys never suspected that he'd attempt to take his own life. He'd clearly given up on everything.

"Things are gonna be alright, Sammy." Dean whispered, keeping his arm around his little brother who sat sobbing into his hands.

"Dean!"

The brothers looked up and sighed with relief to see Ella, Bobby and Karen heading in their direction, and Ella suddenly broke into a run, throwing her arms around Dean and running her fingers through the back of his hair as he buried his face in her neck. Karen watched the teenagers with sad eyes as she found herself with arms full of Sam, who held onto her almost like a child would to their mother, and she kept him close and hushed him as he broke into tears again.

"God, Dean..." Ella breathed, "Are you alright? How's your dad?"

"Still out." Dean whispered, "We can't lose him, Ella...I can't support us on my own."

"Hey, it's gonna be alright." She whispered, "It's gonna be okay. We're here for you if you need anything, and you know that."

She pressed her lips to his cheek, keeping him close and holding onto him tightly as he lost all control of his emotions and began to cry into her shoulder. She stood there still and hushed him, not running away or leaving him like he thought she would, but holding him and soothing him, promising him that things would be alright and that he had people who would be willing to support him and help him.

And as he pulled back to look at her, she reached up to wipe his eyes and the way they looked at each other just told Karen and Bobby that finally, something was about to happen between the two of them. Dean leaned down, cautiously and carefully, and he pressed his lips softly to Ella's. She deepened the kiss and was shocked when he broke it, even more so when he began to apologise.

"Don't say you're sorry." She told him, "'Cause I'm not."

With that, she pressed her lips to his in return and broke the kiss quickly, pulling him closer again and holding onto him, realising he was a little confused. She knew it would be a lot wiser to leave things until there was more news on John and until the initial shock of the situation passed.

But both teens smiled as they held onto each other, and neither Bobby or Karen missed it.

-TBC-

Hope you enjoyed!

Thanks for reading so far!

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