Tidewaters
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By the time he rolled up to Sam's apartment building, it was going on two in the morning. It was only then, in that dim parking lot, that Dean thought to question coming here first at all. He could go to Jericho. He could figure out why Dad wasn’t answering. Only, a part of him was running down a list of possibilities, and he didn’t want to be alone for any of them:
Scenario one, Dad was fine, his phone had broken, which explained the shitty voicemail, and Dean would be showing up, against orders, like a fretful wife nosing into his business.
Scenario two, Dad was fine, he’d called with bad service to tell Dean to fuck off, and now he was ignoring Dean’s calls on purpose. Finally ready to cut a cord too-long indulged.
Scenario three, Dad was not fine.
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A canon rewrite AU diverging from the events of Some Cruel Tide, in which a shifter disguised as his father used Dean's blind obedience to molest him. By the start of S1, Dean's relationship with his father is more strained, his devotion more intense, and his life consumed by the need to hide the parts of himself he is most ashamed of.
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- Part 2 of Tidewaters
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Following the events of A Cliff That Knew Too Many Tides Dean and Sam must navigate their father's war against the yellow-eyed demon without him. But John hasn't left Dean, not really.
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- Part 3 of Tidewaters
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Four Places John Could Have Taken Dean, One He Did, and One He Never Could by luulapants
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
30 Oct 2024
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An AU of the Tidewaters AU - what if John had taken Dean somewhere else after the events of Some Cruel Tide and the subsequent suicide attempt?
Recommended that you read through at least Chapter 7 of A Cliff That Knew Too Many Tides before reading this one.
"John didn’t have time to really look at Dean until they were across the Minnesota border, too busy looking over his shoulder for cops. He’d pulled a lot of sketchy shit in his life, but kidnapping his own child out of a hospital made the top of the list.
When he finally felt like he could relax – at least, relax as far as the authorities were concerned – he let his gaze slide to the side and take in his son’s pale face, sleeping and too damn similar to the way he looked dying on the floor of that motel room, the empty bottle of painkillers an orange accusation on the bathroom sink.
When Dean was newborn, he slept so soundly that John worried he wasn’t breathing. When he told Mary, she guided one of his fingers beneath their baby’s nose so he could feel his soft, warm puffs of breath. Watching Dean now, slumped against the door of the car, John reached over to do the same.
Saw his own hand reaching toward Dean."
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- Part 5 of Tidewaters
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After Dean's first hunt went terribly wrong, John gave up custody of his sons, sending Dean to live with Ellen Harvelle and leaving Sam with Pastor Jim Murphy. By the time this alternate Season 1 begins, Sam has become an accomplished exorcist while at Stanford, and Dean is still living and working at the Roadhouse, determined that he will never be a hunter.
Then John leaves Sam a strange voicemail and goes missing.
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I think this story stands on its own fairly well, but if you want the full backstory from other works in this series, read both Some Cruel Tide and chapter 1 (Ellen) of Four Places John Could Have Taken Dean.
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- Part 6 of Tidewaters