If Light had never touched the Death Note, would he ever have found an escape from the depression and boredom that plagued him? Would he have had a future at all? T for dark themes.

AU, SamDean slash. Sam and Dean aren't related. Dean's father sends him to St. Louis to look into a chain of murders he thinks have been committed by a shapeshifter. While there, Dean meets a young man who turns his world upside down.