I'm going to use this as a place to post my oneshots that are written about Haley, because I've had a few people PM me and ask me to write something with her.

Like this, for example, was a request for a Dean/Haley moment from before she left. I have a couple more that I'm working on right now as well so I'll post these on here as well in new chapters. I'll always say at the top if there are any spoilers or if it relates to any chapter from Saving Grace. (You don't really need to be up to date with that either for a lot of the oneshots)

Hope you enjoy! :-)

In this fic, Dean is 17 and Haley is 15.

St Louis, Indiana — 03:54 am.

Dean stirred out of his light sleep and rolled over onto his back, a hand pressed firmly over his eyes in some attempt to trick his mind into not accepting the morning had come. He released a deep sigh and pulled a hand down his tired face as he cracked open his eyes. It was only then that he realised everything was still dark around him. He glanced to his left and narrowed his eyes at the clock beside him, frowning as he wondered what could have woken him up at that time, before he noticed the light shining through the crack under the bedroom door. He looked over towards Sam's bed and squinted through the darkness, he could see that he was okay, sleeping soundly as his steady breathing sounded throughout the small room. That only left two solutions—Haley was up or their dad was home early.

He reluctantly pushed himself from the warmth of his bed and dragged his feet towards the door, his curiosity getting the better of him. He narrowed his eyes as he headed out of the dark bedroom and into the bright light of the main room of the motel, closing the door softly behind himself. He rubbed a hand down his face in some attempt to adjust to the sudden change of light and let out a short yawn.

His eyes fell to where Haley sat on the couch. One leg was pulled up to her chest while the other leg was stretched out to the table in front of her. She was focused solely on the knee in front of her, not giving the slightest reaction as he entered the room. She seemed to be far too lost in her own thoughts to have even noticed he was standing there.

"Hales?" Dean called over to her, tentative as he looked her over slowly. "You okay, sis?"

At that, she seemed to snap out of it a little. A small nod came from her, barely noticable, but she didn't look up at him, or even away from her lap. "I'm fine." she answered quietly. Her voice was small and quiet, like it had taken all of her energy to manage the response.

Dean just frowned at her, he didn't buy it for a second. "Yeah," he said lightly, making a move to sit down beside her. "Of course you are." She didn't move at all as he dropped down on the couch next to her, tilting his head to the side to get a better view of her face. "What's going on, hm?"

"Nothing." She opened and closed her mouth, for a second he thought she wasn't going to say anything, but she knew better than that. She knew that if she didn't give an answer he would only become more and more insistent for an explanation. "I just..." She shook her head and let out a small, tired sigh. "Bad dream." she mumbled.

It was as she seemed to think back to what it had been that Dean noticed her face change dramatically. It went from stoic and blank to completely broken in the space of a couple of seconds. There were tears shining in her eyes, mixed up with a sadness that he couldn't remember ever seeing on her face before. It honestly scared him a little. He could see that her jaw was tightly clenched, obviously in an attempt to keep her emotions at bay and hold back the tears building up and threatening to fall. She may have only been fifteen but she had always been undeniably strong. Dean had seen her fight back her emotions and keep it together countless times in the past. Sometimes he wondered how she did it.

"Haley?" he pressed softly, confused. He reached out and gently placed a hand on her shoulder, but the slight show of affection and comfort only seemed to push her further. The tears silently rolled down her cheeks, Haley now unable to hold them back. "Hey, come on," He looked over her slowly, anxious to know what could have her in tears at that time of the morning. "What are you crying for?"

It was a rare thing, if ever, that Haley would let anyone see her cry. Even him. She would hide it away the best that she could, she would push it down and cover it all up until she couldn't take anymore. And when everything got too much and she just couldn't hold it back anymore, when her walls finally broke down, she would lock herself away in her room and break down in the quietest way she could. Dean knew that she did it, he had a feeling she knew he did, but they never spoke about it. When she emerged from her room again, as put together as she could make herself appear, he would give a small smile. He would squeeze her shoulder gently as he passed or playfully ruffle her hair. Anything he could to let her know that he was there without having to say it, because neither of them wanted to have that talk. She would give him a grateful smile of acknowledgement and nothing more would be said. Not unless it needed to be.

She barely let them see her show anything she considered to be weakness, she wouldn't allow their dad to think that she couldn't handle the job. She wouldn't let Sam see that she wasn't as strong as he thought her to be. And she wouldn't let Dean see that sometimes she couldn't stay strong and hold it together in the same way that he always appeared able to.

Her tears didn't stop as Dean placed an arm around her shoulders and shifted a little closer to her, rubbing a hand up and down her arm comfortingly. He pulled her towards him and rested his cheek to the top of her head, saying nothing while she cried into his shoulder. A part of him thought that maybe she just needed to get it out, that the best thing she could do was cry and let it all go, but something else told him that something had happened to put her in that state.

"What could be so bad that it has you this upset?" he asked her softly, a little unnerved by the fact she was apparently so upset she couldn't be bothered to hide it anymore. He couldn't think what she could have dreamed about that had put her into the state she was in.

Haley seemed to calm slightly after a couple of minutes and sat up a little straighter so she was looking directly at him. "It's...I mean..." She trailed off and shook her head slowly, like she wasn't sure how she could put whatever it was she wanted to say into words. "Dean, I couldn't do this without you, you know that, right?" Dean just frowned at her, clearly not following what she was talking about. "I had this dream, and you guys, and Dad, none of you were around..." She sniffed and pulled a hand down her face, composing herself slightly. "And it just freaks me out sometimes when I think about the stuff that could happen to you."

Dean looked over her, he wasn't sure he bought that was all she had dreamed about, he got the feeling that whatever it'd been had been so much worse, so much more graphic than how she described it, but he also got the indication that she didn't want to go into anymore detail about it. It wasn't a secret that they all worried about each other, and about what could happen to them. Truth was, he worried about the stuff out there getting both her and Sam, but a lot of the time he just refused to let his mind go there, because they were dark thoughts that he just didn't need.

He reached out and gently wiped the tears from her cheeks. "Hales, you've got me," he assured, taking a hold of one of her hands in his. "And you are always going to have me, I promise you, Haley, no matter what happens, I am never going anywhere, okay? Ever. And, you know what, I don't think I could do this without you, either. You and me, we're a team." His voice was sincere in a way she knew meant he was being completely serious with her. "You know that, right?"

Haley nodded slowly and pushed up a small smile to him. "Yeah, I know." she answered, her voice small but confident, because he knew that she trusted him.

Thank you for reading! I've done so much writing this past week I'm amazed at myself, haha! I'm working on another couple of oneshots for this and a couple of updates for other stories, as well as Saving Grace!

I really appreciate you taking the time to read my work, hope you enjoyed, and don't forget to leave a review! :)

If you have an idea for a oneshot for this just send me a PM and let me know, I'll be happy to write anything for you! (It can be totally AU from Saving Grace, too!)