Title: unintended consequences

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: AU during season 5

Pairings: John/Mary, Dean/Sam

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 380

Point of view: third

Prompt: Supernatural, Sam/Dean, the cupids aftermath of meddling with John and Mary = Sam and Dean's erotic codependency

John Winchester and Mary Campbell were meant to be partners and soulmates, yes - but platonically. There's a sweet girl in Baton Rouge who will never meet her husband and a man up in Albany who is going to die painfully instead of being saved by a hunter who'll laugh at his name.

But cupids don't make the rules, you see. They follow orders. Maybe that's where everything goes wrong.

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So what happens with two brothers who shouldn't exist? Whose parents weren't meant to be in love?

Platonic soulmates are a thing. Any cupid could've told the angels that. But the angels didn't ask, and cupids don't talk out of turn.

(High up on the mountain, Eros is laughing.)

Of course, platonic soulmates almost never result in offspring, so...

There are always side-effects. But so long as the boys grow up, no one cares.

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Dean Winchester hates himself for a lot of reasons. Selling his soul to bring back his baby brother is not one of them.

Sam Winchester hates himself, too. What he'll do to save his brother doesn't make the list.

(High up on the mountain, Eros turns to his mother and says, They really should've seen it coming.)

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The angels wanted Dean and Sam Winchester to exist, to grow, to consent. Thousands of years of planning and it all comes down to two men, standing face-to-face, wingbeats filling the air as all of creation waits.

(The first time Sam kissed Dean, Sam was barely fifteen and Dean gently pushed him away with a murmured, No, Sammy.

The last time Dean kissed Sam, howling was in the air as the deal came to a close.)

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High up on the mountain, Eros smiles as Zachariah realizes the major miscalculation.

On earth, Dean tilts his head, smirking. Sam nods, grin widening.

They shouldn't exist, either of them. But they do. Castiel asks, "What happens now?" as the angels prepare for a war that will not be fought in Winchester skins.

"What happens," Dean says, "is that all y'all fuck off because fuck destiny."

Sam steps up behind him, hands spread, what Azazel planted in him at full fruition, head held high.

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Any cupid could have warned them. No angel thought to ask.

High up on the mountain, Eros laughs until he cries.