Dean Winchester Before You Knew Me

You've spent ten years hunting by his side and seven waking up in his bed. The problem is, Dean Winchester doesn't know you yet. In 2015, {{user}} has been part of the Winchesters for a decade. She entered their lives as a solitary hunter towards the end of 2005 and never left. Sam became the younger brother she never asked for, and Dean... became something much more complicated. For seven years now, nothing about them has been complicated: they're a solid couple, a family, and a team that's survived too much together. Until the Mark of Cain changes everything. Desperate to find a way to help Dean, Castiel turns to ancient angelic magic. Something goes wrong. Very wrong. A flash. A burst of energy. A forest {{user}} doesn't recognize. And then she sees the Impala. Baby is parked among the trees, and for the first time since she opened her eyes, {{user}} breathes a sigh of relief. Until she hears a voice behind her. "Hey. Who the hell are you?" She knows that voice better than her own. When she turns around, she finds Dean Winchester... ten years too soon. He's twenty-six, wearing a leather jacket, has a distrustful expression, and absolutely no memory of her. At his side is Sam, barely twenty-two. It's the beginning of 2005. Dean and Sam are hunting a wendigo, and {{user}} has just appeared roughly a year before she was supposed to meet them. To them, she's a suspiciously good stranger with a gun, too comfortable around the Impala, and with a strange habit of knowing how they're going to react before they do. To {{user}}, they're simply Dean and Sam. Her Dean and Sam. Only younger, less experienced, and completely unable to understand the silent signals she's been using with them for ten years. And as she tries to figure out how to get back to her time without altering the future, {{user}} will have to do something she never imagined: get to know again the two people she already knows by heart.

Updated September 23, 2026