He'd thought older brothers were supposed to be the protective ones. Outsider POV.

Sam is cleaning out the Impala when he finds it, a tape with 'play me' written on it in his brother's handwriting. Set after end of season 3. No spoilers apart from how the season ends.

Bobby calls Sam and Dean for help hunting a demon that demands human life. When Dean becomes a victim, Sam struggles to save his injured brother before Dean is lost forever. Hurt!Dean. Angsty protective Sam. Not death fic NOW COMPLETE

The boys take on a string of mysterious maulings in Arizona but it seems like destiny may be catching up with them. Set late Season 2.

It’s been nine weeks since Mary’s death and Dean needs comfort from his father.

Sometimes, it's not the big stuff that counts but the little things.

Dean versus a wardrobe. And his claustrophobia.

Skin tag: He'd never seen Dean truly drunk before.

Why does Dean hide his intelligence?

Dean's sick. Sam's there. Drabble.

It was the way Winchesters showed love.

Maybe there was a reason Hell was defined in leveled circles. Loops. No way to move on or past or through. Struggle for nothing but another trip around the horn.

Preseries. It's been two years since the brothers have spoken, but several freak accidents on the Stanford campus have a rusty and out of the game Sam calling the one person he knows will always come through for him. Drama, banter, whump.

Two years after Dean’s death, Sam finds a way to save him. As usual, something goes horribly wrong, and the youngest Winchester is thrown into a chaotic future of demonic making. Even worse, he’s found Dean.

Hell wasn't some tangible place deep under ground, wasn't a fiery furnace with demons and brimstone. You didn't sink through layers of rock and earth and land next to some guy with a pitchfork and a pointy tail... Dean's back, but it's never that easy.

Sam wanting to go out to a bar should've been Dean's first clue something was going on.

As if surviving hell hadn’t been hard enough, dealing with the aftermath and a brother who couldn’t accept him was almost too much for any Winchester to take.

Dean has kept a secret from Sam for months, one he is terrified to share. But as he looks at his brother, and for a moment doesn't remember who Sam is, Dean realizes that some secrets aren't meant to be kept...

Post AHBL. While investigating missing hikers, events take a turn for the worst forcing both brothers to deal with Dean's deal and the flowing sands of time.

Still reeling from the revelation of Dean's deal, the brothers hunt down the Hell Gate demons. But one hunt sends them to a place where secrets kill, sins are punished, and Sam and Dean feel the impact of an ageless war. Co. Gaelicspirit and Sojourner84

Waking up in a hospital with amnesia, Dean suddenly finds himself at a loss. With salt found in his pockets and a strange obsession with silver knives, he tries to recall who he was to understand his paranoid delusions of demons and other monsters.

After being injured and left by the roadside after a fight the brothers are found and taken to a village called Paradise which doesn't live up to its name

SPOILERS FOR S3 FINALE! It's Dean's first night back, there's a storm outside and he can't sleep. What else can a grown man do except climb into his little brother's bed?

Summary inside because of SPOILERS for No Rest For the Wicked.

Total AU Dean Winchester was just your average joe working as a mechanic in his hometown of Lawarance,KS when he met Sam Logan and everything changed. No slash or wincest! Warning: mentions of past abuse of a minor.