Title: According To Dean
Series: Good Intentions
Pairings: Mentions of Sam/Haley and slight Brooke/Dean
AN: Next in the good Intentions series, events set in and around the events of the first fic, but following Dean.
Next up the sequel.
They settle for a time in a small town in North Carolina where the tree's are always lush and green and the people give a friendly smile.
Sammy makes himself two little friends on his first day at Tree Hill High and Dean almost blows a gasket when he see's who little brother walks up the apartment block steps with.
Because it figures his too tall, ultra geeky little brother would find the two prettiest girls in town and become friends with them, it also figures that both of them would be strictly placed in the hands off category, at least until the came of legal age.
Brooke Davis and Haley James both 17 years old and in a surprising twist of fate, the occupiers of the apartment three doors down from the Winchester bachelor pad.
It'd pretty clear which one Sam is into by the end of their first week in town, he's always with Haley and if he isn't with her, he's talking about her, and Dean suspects thinking about her too when he's not doing those first two things.
And if Dean knows woman, which he really, really does, Haley is just as into little brother as he is her.
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Brooke's somewhat of an enigma, a party girl, flippant and flirty who acts like she hasn't got a care in the world, but one glance into her murky green eyes and you can spot the sadness lurking deep within. She's fiercely loyal and basically a pussycat when it comes to her roommate/slash best friend and Dean curses the fact she's not at least 3 years older, no girl is worth prison time no matter how gorgeous she may be.
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Life settles into something resembling normality, which Dean isn't all together unhappy about and Sam flat out adores but he cant tell if that's because his little brother is now living the life he'd always wanted, or if it's because he's getting laid on a regular basis.
It's probably a little of both.
They end up telling the girls the family secret and the talk doesn't go all together that bad, minimal tears, only brief looks of disbelief and than a quiet kind of acceptance from both Haley and Brooke that reassures Dean that despite their small town backgrounds both girls are just a little bit jaded around the edges.
At least jaded enough to accept tales of monsters and demons like they'd accept the weather report on the nightly news.
Dean takes it upon himself to teach both girls a little self defense, Brooke is a pretty quick study which he finds himself thanking the lord for, getting up to close and into her personal space is like holding a piece of steak and dangling over the edge of a fence in a lion exhibit – You just don't do it.
Haley though he takes some extra time with because the girl is seriously tiny and she's not always going to have somebody around to protect her, even though you've got the distinct feeling that Brooke Davis would give it a good try.
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Everything comes to a grinding halt two months in, when their dad turns up and tells them to pack their stuff.
Dean puts on a brave face and tries to act like leaving doesn't bother him as much as it does Sam, but he knows that he's going to think about the two girls they've left behind for a long time to come.
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Sam become moodier than he's ever seen him be before and dean feels a slight twinge of guilt because he knows he's the only thing keeping his little brother from racing back to Tree Hill as fast as his legs can carry him.
Sometimes he wants to do the very same thing.
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He does leave, Sam that is, not Dean and part of the older Winchester brother applauds his brother for going after what he wants, the other part is envious and so angry that he can't bring himself to do the same.
Harsh words are spoken, and threats are made and Sam hurtles out of their life, leaving nothing but dust on some nameless old highway, on ward and forward to bigger and better things.
And Dean is left alone, truly his fathers son.
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He spots Haley and Brooke completely by accident on his way through Charleston around a year and a half after he and Sam had left Tree Hill.
Both of them look older and Brooke in particular stands out for him in the same way she did back in Tree Hill when he had to daily remind himself that she was very much underage.
He see's the baby perched securely in Haley's arms and realizes that the kid looks too much like a Winchester not to be Sam's.
Something stops him from approaching them, a feeling he gets that they're better off without the mess anyone with the last name Winchester undoubtedly brings.
But from than on, when ever he can find the time spare, he makes the trip to North Carolina, just to make sure they're safe, secretly watching over his longed for family and wishing he could find the courage to just be with them.
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John Winchester goes missing and Dean is just frightened enough to seek out Sam for help and once again his brother has to deal with losing someone he loves.
The head out on the road and follow lead after lead, and finally end up killing the son of a bitch demon who took away any chance they had of a life when it killed their mother all those years ago.
Their father dies for the cause, so does Sam, only Dean makes the ultimate sacrifice and one year later with Sam very much alive, Dean gets sent down to hell.
He holds out as long as he can, but he weakens and gives in and finds himself slowly turning into the very things he can't stand.
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An angel of the lord yanks him back out and the world he crawls out of dirt to return to is a much darker place than the one he left.
Sam's got a lovely little blood addiction and a nasty black eyed skank for a sidekick and Dean almost kills himself trying to stop his brother from becoming a monster.
He fails, kind of, and Lucifer is let out of his rusty cage and ready to party like it's the end of the world, and he wants to make use of Sam's freakishly big frame to do so.
And Michael wants to make use of his to do the same.
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Turns out Michael didn't need him after all and isn't that just great news for him.
Not so much for half brother Adam, that's brought back to life by certain angels only to have it ripped away again.
Lucifer manages to lodge himself inside of Sam, and for awhile it seems like the fight is well and truly lost. Dean makes the mistake of underestimating Sammy and the powers of good old fashioned bro-mance and for a second he's actually surprised that Sam manages to take back control of his functions long enough to plunge himself down to hell.
Dean's heartbroken and directionless; losing the brother he's protected and cared for all his life as well as the brother he never got a chance to.
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He's at Lisa's no more than two days when thoughts of Brooke and Haley hit him like a Mack truck for the first time since his ass was dragged out of hell.
He'd promised Sam he'd live a normal life, settle down with a job and a family, but Lisa and Ben are not the family for him, as much as he wished they could be.
The family for him are miles away, in a small town in North Carolina where the tree's are lush and green and the people give a friendly smile.