A/N: Guess what time it is! Yeah! New fic time! Anyways, this is just the introduction so, hopefully, not all the chapters will be this short. Also, this is an alternative timeline set at some point in season 8, before any of the trials were started.

I should probably warn you now that there will be smut, Destiel, Dean/Abbadon, MXM, Demon!Dean, much angst, some romance and, probably, feels.

Anyways, enjoy~

Dean was dead, he had been killed during his last hunt. And there was nothing anyone could do to change that. Sam had been devastated, of course, where as Castiel had just gone very, unnaturally, quiet. But that had been months ago.

Life went on, like it had since, as always, there were still monsters to hunt, demons to kill and tablets to translate. Even if said tablets had been all but forgotten about after all that had happened. Even if life hadn't gone on, not really. No one really admitted this though, and they especially didn't want to admit to just how much things had changed after Dean's death.

It started when Cas appeared inside the bunker, looking thoroughly heartbroken, and ended up moving in with Sam and Kevin. He was a sad sight, spending most of his time either standing or wandering around aimlessly or sitting in Dean's old room and staring off into space. He rarely spoke, and when he did he seemed to be either angry or out of it, which just made things all the worse. Sam didn't know what to do apart from just leaving the angel too it, knowing full well about the angel and his brother's "profound bond" as Cas put it.

Speaking of Sam, he seemed to through himself into hunts more, much like he did after his brother had first gone to hell. He didn't look into ways to bring the older Winchester back though, not because he didn't want him back, no. More because any of the efforts he made last time never worked; well, that and the fact that he had no clue where Dean had gone this time around. There was a chance that he was in Heaven and Sam didn't feel like he could bring him back if that were the case. That left Kevin, trying his damn hardest to find the older Winchester.

Out of the three of them, Kevin was probably fairing the best. He was probably the most level headed at this time and so, under Sam's request, spent most his time helping either helping with hunts or crawling through the Men of Letter's archives to see if there was any way to locate a person after they had died. He preferred the bunker and knew that he probably wasn't the best help on a hunt, but he was learning. Unfortunately he'd still hadn't found anything useful in his searches.

Now, they would have started trying to interrogate demons, but that leads into the other big change. The shocking lack of demon activity since Dean's death. Considering just how often Sam was having to deal with demons before, now they were just as uncommon as the dragons, which was definitely saying something. Sam had contacted Garth to see how many other Hunters had had demon problems. The answer was none.

He was yet to see if this was a good thing or not.