Prologue
An angel and a demon on your shoulders. Helping you, guiding your decisions. Growing up Sam had often seen this depicted in cartoons so he had never really thought of it as strange. Sure, his were a little different than the ones in the cartoons. His demon didn't have a tail or carry a pitchfork. And his angel didn't wear a toga. But it wasn't until the first time he mentioned to his older brother that his angel and demon seemed to be bigger than the ones in the cartoons that he found out that not everyone had two supernatural beings helping them make all their choices in life.
Dean called him a liar. When Sam insisted it was true, Dean told their parents. His father told him to stop being ridiculous. His mother cried. They all told him that there was no such thing as literal angels and demons. He told them they were all wrong, that his angel and his demon always came around when he needed to make an important decision, just like in the cartoons. The look his parents then exchanged was the beginning of a long difficult time in young Sam's life.
The next few years were a blur of therapists and psychiatric visits. They tried to convince him that his friends were all in his head. At first he fiercely denied it, but with everyone telling him it was true, it was hard for a ten-year-old to stay his ground. Slowly his angel and his demon stopped visiting him and he sadly decided that his therapists, his parents, and his brother must have been right after all.
Then Sam was all alone with his thoughts. It was weird, for a while, to have to make all his decisions without the input of anyone else. Sometimes he tried to imagine what advice his angel would have given him (which led him to some strangely bad decisions). But then, as every child does eventually, Sam forgot about his imaginary friends. He grew up. Went to college. Became a lawyer. He was respectable adult in every sense of the word and his life was right on track. His angel and his demon were all but forgotten.
Until he came home one day after a particularly tough case, looking forward to unwinding in his small, but well-maintained apartment to find his angel and demon back and arguing with each other in his living room.
A/N: Short prologue is short. If this story actually interests you, please review. I want to know how people feel about it before I continue.