Title: Moments In Life
Series: Good Intentions
Pairing/Characters: Haley James (Scott)/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Brooke Davis, Jaime
AN: Started out as a One shot but than as I was typing I got the idea for a Dean POV companion piece as well as a sequel that would contain a healthy dose of Brean and Lucifer!Sam…So I may just possibly expand. Unbeta'd all mistakes are my own :)
They leave Tree Hill on a Tuesday, exactly sixty six days after they had arrived, packing up in the middle of the night and leaving a envelope slipped under the door of the apartment next to them.
Sam is quiet, sullen and withdrawn, for two months he'd found everything he'd ever wanted, family, friends, love and stability but like the story of his life; one phone call from his dad had ruined everything.
The way he feels will fester, the resentment towards his father always present inside himself, growing and spreading. He doesn't know it at the time but the moment they pass the 'You are now leaving Tree Hill North Carolina' is the moment he begins hating his father for real and it's a hate that will slowly eat away at him for the rest of his life.
It isn't the first time the Winchesters are leaving behind people that mean something to them and it won't be the last but it is the only time Sam will look back on and know it for what it truly is, the day he lost all faith in the man that called him son.
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There are defining moments in a person's life, moments that shape you, moments that break you, moments that teach you the lessons you need to learn.
Like waking up on a seemingly perfect day and finding your roommate/ best friend sitting in the lounge room of the apartment you share reading a letter meant for the both of you with tears running down her face.
The instant Brookes eyes lock with Haley's, she knows exactly what the letter says and something inside of her breaks, and that something feels undoubtedly like her heart.
Sam and Dean are gone; Brooke doesn't have to say the words because Haley can feel it and when she slumps down into the seat beside her best friend and the darker haired girl clutches her hand like a lifeline she learns one of the most valuable lessons she's ever learnt in her life.
That a broken heart always negates any good that comes from falling in love.
The second most valuable lesson in her life she'll learn a few weeks later when she looks down at a little plastic stick in her hand and her whole world changes.
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Every hunt and every town blur together in Sam's mind and the only thing he wants to do is break away from his fathers rule and go out on his own. Several times he comes close to packing up his things in the night and taking off back to the town he wants to call home more than anything.
But obligations are hard to shirk and no matter how much he resents his father he loves his brother more so he sticks it out a little longer and remembers all the plans he and Haley had made together late at night lying in each others arms.
College isn't too far away and he knows exactly where she planned to be because he planned to be there with her.
He works hard and applies in secret and at night he dreams of rich blonde hair and big brown eyes and the chance to live the life they'd planned together in those two short months he'd called her his.
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James Davis Winchester makes his appearance a week before his mother and Aunt are set to graduate from high school, right smack bang on midnight.
When Haley hands him over to his godmother to hold for the first time, Brooke says that it fits that he'd be born on the Witching hour because there's something special about him.
When he's back in her arms and she gazes down at him she can't help feeling that her best friend's words are the truest she's ever heard spoken, because he's absolutely perfect and her heart is so full of him already that he feels like the most special thing in the world.
For the first time since seeing the letter in Brooke's hands she finds herself thanking instead of cursing the day Sam left her life, because he may have broken her heart, but his son, their son has pieced it back together.
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He leaves his father and his brother and faces his new life as a college student, looking for her round every corner.
He sees a flash of blonde hair and for a second his heart stops beating and he can't seem to breathe. His legs move on their own, each step getting quicker and quicker.
Disappointment hits like a semi truck when he realizes that the girl he's chasing isn't who he wants her to be, her hair is too blonde, she stands to tall and her eyes are clear and blue, not the chocolate color he'd envisioned.
But he introduces himself anyway, and the girl, who will later come to mean so much to him, introduces herself back.
They become friends first, and fall in love slowly and Sam is happier than he's been for awhile but it doesn't stop him from dreaming about the other girl and he still cant give Jess the parts of his heart that will always belong Haley.
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Duke University isn't anything like Stanford, not by a long shot, but she finds herself not caring all that much and consoles herself with the fact that he probably didn't end up going there anyway.
Brooke and her stick together and help each other through and they both joke about the fact that they're practically a married couple, living together, raising a child and not having sex and life is relatively peaceful for their little family of three.
Jaime's first word is 'Ma', his second is 'Bookie' and before either of them notice he's speaking almost full sentences and the have to watch what they say in front of him incase he picks up an unsavory word or two.
Sometimes she comes home from class and thinks she spies a sleek black car parked across the road, or she'll spot someone out of the corner of her eye that reminds her of her son's uncle but she chalks it up to lack of sleep and an overactive imagination.
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The world comes crashing down around him again and like the time before its indirectly because of his father, his family and that hell of a life he just cant seem to escape.
The remains of Jess' body get wheeled out and rolled into the back of the coroners fan and he is filled with so much guilt and vengeance that he can't see straight and he can barely feel the weight of his brother's hand as it settles on his shoulder.
He should have told her, should have told her everything about himself instead of the half truths he'd fed her to make her believe he'd been brought up as normal as possible. He should have loved her with everything in him, instead of holding back parts of his heart that were too firmly attached to someone else.
He should have loved her enough to save her instead of mourning her enough to avenge her.
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The dreams start when Jaime is six years old. Haley and Brooke have both finished college and have settled back in Tree Hill. Haley is teaching at their old high school and Brooke has started up her own little boutique, they're still living together and everything is blessedly stable.
The first time she hears her son shriek in the night she's certain someone or something is trying to attack them so she rushes into his room brandishing a silver cross and holy water, Brooke three steps behind holding a bag full of salt and an iron fire poker because if the Winchesters taught them anything it was that the things that go bump in the night are very much real and it doesn't hurt to be prepared.
But he's alone and whimpering and when she wakes him up he utters a sentence that cuts straight into the deepest part of her soul.
"Daddy's in trouble"
She tries to calm him down, tries to make them all believe that it's just a dream, but part of her knows that it isn't the case.
When the dreams become more frequent and more gruesome as time goes on, she feels utterly helpless and she doesn't know how to fix whatever's happening to her son.
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They finally get the demon the caused the death of their mother and Jessica but not before more lives are destroyed and more pain is brought upon them.
Dean sells his soul so that Sam can live and he's sent to hell only to be brought back again.
Sam trusts in the wrong people and Dean fights tooth and nail to keep his brother from becoming inhuman and they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between heaven and hell and not even the angels can save them.
Michael wants Dean, Lucifer wants Sam and it's inevitable that one of them gives in eventually.
Sam knows it's going to be him and he thanks God that Jess isn't around to see what he's become and he hopes with everything in him that somewhere out there Haley is living her life happy, safe and untainted.
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She takes to sleeping in the same bed as her son with the vague hope that her presence will be enough to keep his inner demons at bay but it's not enough.
His dreams hit hard and fast, every time he closes his eyes, every night until suddenly they change and he's not screaming because his father is in pain but because he's causing it and she has no idea what any of it means.
Salvation comes knocking on her front door on a particularly rough Tuesday night and its kind of fitting that he picks this day to waltz back into town.
Brooke looks like she's seen a ghost and Haley feels somewhat disheartened by the fact that it's Dean Winchester, not Sam that's sitting at her dining room table drinking whiskey laced coffee.
Until he opens his mouth and begins to speak.
Than all she feels is horror.