He smiles momentarily at the image before it promptly fades when his cruel mind reminds him that this wasn't the result of a drunken night; this was the result of cancer, the disease stealing his brother's life away. Sick!Dean Protective/Guilty!Sam

John Winchester psychically and mentally abused his oldest son. The hunter was a drunk, lived from hunt to hunt and was barley at the motels the makeshift family called home. Dean can't handle the pressure and ultimately makes the decision to end his life. Can Sammy and their Uncle Bobby save the teenager in time? Completely AU.

Dean Winchester was twenty-six when a car accident killed his father and left him paralysed from the waist down. A year and a half later, Dean is in a wheelchair and lives in a care home in Kansas, where he spends his days waiting to die. It's only when Castiel Novak starts volunteering at the care home that Dean starts to wonder if a changed life always equals a ruined one.

AUish. John doesn't exactly cope well after Sam leaves for Stanford, leaving Dean to pick up the pieces. Abusive!John in later chapters, and Deaf!Dean.

Dean is seriously injured on a routine salt and burn, and it's up to Sam to figure out just what happened. As Sam delves deeper into the mysterious past of a suicide victim for answers, Dean learns his life is no less important because of his injuries