This is going to be a set of one shots spanning a week for Convergence Creation week. Each day had a prompt, and today, it is Beginnings: It's time to start something new and trust in the magic of beginnings.

I took this to mean different beginnings for the Winchesters. It's a different style that I'm used to, but I decided to try it out. Each paragraph roughly represents a season. NOTE: There are spoilers for ALL twelve seasons, although I tried to be vague with names, it's not hard to figure out, so read at your own risk. Thanks for reading and stick around for more!

Disclaimer: Don't own Supernatural

Most stories only have one beginning. Something starts, it has a middle, it peaks, and then it ends. Beginnings in life, in relationships, in views…none of them tend to come too easily or too often. That wasn't the case with the Winchesters.

Where their story even begins is hard to fathom. One could say it began with the bloodline leading back to Cain and Abel, or the millions of chance moments that let John and Mary meet. One could say it began when John bought the Impala, but he was prompted to do so because his son from the future came and gave him advice on it, which created a whole loop of beginnings in itself.

Officially, the story began with a woman on the ceiling that was set ablaze and changed the lives of her family forever. Even that story has its own set of beginnings, but we're sticking to the brothers. Their life of hunting began that night, and through the breaks and twists and turns, it never fully ended.

Sam's new life began when he left for Stanford, leaving his father and brother behind in the dust. He made something of it. But that life too was shed upon the new knowledge that Dad hadn't been home in a few days from a hunting trip. That new, picturesque life ended fully the same way his hunting life had begun, which someone he cared about on the ceiling.

Both Sam and Dean's lives seemed to start over when John died. It was truly just the two of them against the world, and that was that. New beginnings and endings followed deaths for the Winchesters. Sam's death led him to new life, but at the cost of Dean's new life all leading up to going to hell.

Sam has to adjust to a new life without Dean, and when he got back from hell, Dean had to adjust to life with the memories. What they knew also suffered a new beginning when Castiel claimed to be an angel, beings that had never existed to the brothers before. A new chapter was written in the Winchester gospel, a new beginning in their relationship, which nearly signaled the end on many occasions. The rift between the brothers grew, as did the demon blood and Lillith's influence until both were no longer. When that was done, it was time for a new beginning: the beginning of the end.

The apocalypse brought the beginning of the two true vessels and the promise that one brother wouldn't make it out alive. Through it all, some of the rifts were bridged over until the portal in the earth opened and swallowed Sam, Lucifer, Michael, and Adam all along with it. The apocalypse was averted, but at the cost of something Dean didn't want to think about.

Dean's new beginning lasted an entire year as he tried to fulfill the promise that he had made to Sam. He began again, got a new job, got a new car, got two new people that he found love and hope in, but he never truly found a new family because nothing could replace what he had lost. Even when Sam got back, it took months for him to really be back and their relationship could begin again. Once again, Dean's new beginning ended, this time in the form of lost memories in order to keep the people he cared about safe.

Ups and downs followed the Winchesters, as they began a life filled with Leviathans and ooze and a prophet and no angel on their shoulders. Sam was forced to begin a life without the wall in his head to protect him from, well, everything. The hardest new beginning of that year came when they had to adjust to life without their prominent father figure. In truth, neither one really adjusted. Dean turned to booze and revenge while Sam turned to research. It all stopped with a bone, some blood, an explosion, a missing angel, and a missing Dean.

Much like his brother before him, Sam's hunting life stopped and his 'normal' life began after everyone he knew and cared about was gone. Of course, Dean was beginning his new life in the new world filled with new problems but old creatures. Eventually they did manage to get back together, but an unfamiliar face that belonged to none other than a monster to Sam kept driving them apart. Their mission, although they disagreed on who should take the burden, became unified once again as the trials were completed one by one. They could see a new beginning in a world without demons…but it didn't come to pass. Because Dean couldn't see a new beginning in a world without Sam. At the end of the day, the beginning faded because the brothers chose each other, as they always did.

And because they chose each other, Dean made a choice for Sam that drove them further apart. The angels had to begin their lives without their wings, and because of an angel, the brothers had to begin their lives without their extended family member and prophet by their side. Eventually, Dean's new beginning came in the form of a mark to end a demon. That's all it was, a means to an end with no other choice. The mark turned into something more for Dean when Sam carried his body into his room and lay him down, only for Dean to wake up, his green eyes clouded with black.

Beginning a new life as a demon was easy for Dean, and as expected, not so much for Sam. Eventually the blackness was cured and they went along, killing and saving as they always did. But, as the mark exhibited more control over Dean and they lost yet another extended family member, a deal for a new beginning had to be made. They had to push the 'restart' button and the only way for that to be done was for one of them to die. The 'restart' only ended up starting another beginning of the end for the world, and an end for the being once known as Death.

The Darkness began with Dean and the mark, but eventually it ended with God and the promise of something better. The road there was paved with monsters, as it always was, some bigger and badder than others. There was an unlikely alliance between a reaper, God, a witch, the king of hell, one ex-blood junkie, a high school dropout with six bucks to his name, an angel, and at one point even Lucifer himself. But, like everything, all great beginnings came to an end, but this one led to a new beginning.

A woman in a white nightgown opened the way for old memories to resurface and new beginnings with family to come into place. At the same time, adjustments had to be made for a new, overseas threat that over time tore the family apart. The new beginning provided to them soon turned into what they had always known, the two of them against the world. Sam was faced with a new beginning as he looked at Dean and Dean looked back, not remembering who his brother was. They thought about new ways to work with hunters, and found new ways of getting their family back. In the end, however, their story ended as it always did: with death and pain and loss.

Just a few short hours before, their family was complete. Now, it took Dean two hands to count how many people they had lost in one day.

And still, they began again. Because there was no getting off the 'saving the world wheel'. There was no hanging up the job that they had been destined to do. At the end of the day, it came down to the Winchesters, to Sam and Dean, and to the decisions they made together.

So they'd pick up where they had so many times: solving the case and finding out how to return what had been lost that day. They could always begin again, but it was much easier to do when they had each other to lean on.