Hey I made this for my Christian Ethic's class. If it wasn't it would have probably turned out wincest oriented.
May post a wincest version, but for now its just gen.
Warnings: None, except the whole no own/no money one.
Pairings: None
Dean's life was ruled by rituals. Little things that made life a little more bearable. Always take the bed by the door, so who ever came through it in the night had to go through him before getting to Sam. Lay salt down in front of the door, so with any hope nothing will be coming through that door. Carry extra packets of M&M's, in case Sammy gets hungry. Driver picks the music and shot gun shuts his cake hole, because as much as Dean loved his brother, Sam had horrible taste in music. And always protect Sam, because without Sam he would die.
When Dean's mom and dad first told him he would have a baby brother, Dean was angry. He didn't want a baby brother. Jimmy from his day care had one and now his parents had no time for him anymore. Dean didn't want that to happen and told his parents so. They just laughed and said when his little brother came he would be happy. Dean assured them that that would never happen. But when he saw his brother for the first time and saw how tiny he was. Dean vowed that he would do anything to keep Sam safe and he has. He protected Sam that night when Sam was six months old and he was four from the demon's fire, when the demon took his mom. He tried to protect him from all the things that went bump in the night. He even protected Sam from the bullies that didn't like that Sam was smarter than them, even though he was younger than them. It broke him when he had to act like a mediator in between their father and him during the teenage years. But what really broke him was when Sam packed his bag on the eve of his eighteenth birthday, to go to a college in California, to try to get his normal. It didn't really bother him that Sam never told him. No what really bothered him was that he couldn't protect him.
So Dean adapted. He learned to rely on himself, because whatever semblance of a family he had before Sam left was gone. His dad had him doing solo hunts, while he dove deeper into his obsession with the demon that took his wife. It wasn't until four years later and no word from his dad in a while that he could bring himself to see Sam again. What he saw surprised him. It seems Sam had found his normal with a little blonde slip of a girl named Jessica. So they struck a deal, come on this one hunt, but Sam has to get back by Monday. Then the demon took Jessica. And he had Sam back.
Even though he had Sam back, it wasn't quite the same. Sam was quieter, angrier, and sadder. Dean had to make up a new set of rules. Ones like, Sam has to eat at least once a day, because Sam will forget. Don't let Sam have more than 5 coffee's a day or he'll never get any sleep. Another is when you do convince Sam that sleep is necessary, he can't sleep very heavy; because if Sam has a nightmare and he will, someone has to wake him up. But Dean's alright with it because he has Sam back and that's all that matters.