"Brothers just the same."


A/N: Thanks to everyone reading and reviewing. You guys keep me motivated!


A/N: So if no one caught when James Winchester's (A.K.A. Soon to be Jimmy Novak's) birthday is it's November 2, 1975 exactly seven years from this date in the future Mary Winchester will die... ANYWAY I thought that November 2 would be a date that stood out for fans and I picked it for James'/Jimmy's birthday for a few reasons...


"Home is a place where your heart can heal."

Zachariah held the baby with disdain, LOATHING, having to touch a disgusting mortal infant at all. Part of him wanted to kill the child, but the boy would have a VERY important role to play where his future brothers were concerned so Zachariah would allow the infant to live as long as he could be the one to mold the boy's future...

The Novaks were good, devout Christians, that had huge hearts full of love for all of GOD'S creations, so when an angel of The Lord appeared to them and gave them a sweet newborn baby named Jimmy saying that GOD had chosen to bless them, they took it as an honor and a miraculous answer to their prayers...

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Zachariah took a new vessel named Tyler Reynolds a young Pastor at the church where young Jimmy Novak's parents attended every Sunday. He baptized the child. He preached to the child and taught him sermon and soon young Jimmy grew to be a man who followed his Pastor's teachings with profound conviction.

When Jimmy Novak met Amelia he knew almost instantly he'd love her for the rest of his life so after only three months of dating they started to go to pre-marital counseling with Pastor Reynold's as their counsler. It was after their daughter Claire was born and been babtised that Pastor Reynolds disappeared only to be found a year later and he was in such bad condition that he could no longer communicate or really do much more beyond being able to sit in a wheelchair and drool which sent Jimmy through a slight bought of depression because Tyler had been his friend and mentor throughout his entire life...

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APRIL FIFTH, NINETEEN SEVENTY SIX...

It had been five months since the WInchesters had lost such an important part of their lives and so much had changed within the household...

Now John worked extra shifts at the garage to avoid being home and Mary spent her days sitting quietly in what would have been her son's nursery. They hardly spoke anymore, hardly touched anymore, at some point the grief they had been battling had just ate away at them until this is the way they were living. Mary wanted counseling and John agreed to try. The counsler suggested that John and Mary try for a fresh start without doing something big enough to turn their lives upside down so John and Mary sold the home they were living in and bought a new house that needed a little tender, loving, care but after it had a new coat of blue paint on it and a few odds and ends fixed here and there, the house quickly became home and it was closer to John's work which was a bonus.

Once they had their fresh start and left behind the house that had felt like foreign ground right after the loss of their child the Winchesters were able to start really healing instead of going through the motions like they started doing only days after going home to an empty nursery five months before.

John and Mary were able to connect again and soon they were even able to start talking about trying for a child again, not knowing that in a little less than two years they'd have another son and this time they'd actually get to bring him home...


A/N: I know I sorta short changed on Jimmy's childhood BUT for a reason as it's more important that it be seen how Sam and Dean's lives could've been different had their big brother not been taken away (Without me having to write as hopefully it'll be subtextual by the way Zachariah just had to have Jimmy/James out of the way so that Sam and Dean could go through all events that follow their mom's death according to plan as if Jimmy/James hadn't been taken away who knows how differently things could've turned out for Mary, John, Dean and Sam and if there was anyway possible for that to interfere with what Zachariah wanted Jimmy/James had to be elemenated but not killed as Castiel still serves a pyurpose (It HAD to be Cas that pulled Dean out of Hell, Just like it had to be Sam to break the last Seal and had to be either John or Dean to break the first Seal as the angels have been manipulating the fates of the Cambells and the Winchesters for the purpose of the apocolypse) and how Jimmy might not've said yes to Cas had he been raised with Sam and Dean AND how if Jimmy/James had been raised with Sam and Dean and said yes to Cas anyway how Cas would've had those memories to go on and therefore might've been on Sam and Dean's side at the very start instead of having to gradually fall into being a part of "Team-Free-Will" ANYWAY... PLEASE REVIEW!