Fic: Our Own Lives and Nobody Else's

Genre: gen; angst, drama, hurt/comfort, horror; season 3
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5,750
Characters: Sam (POV), Dean
Warnings: language and some gore, non-con and consent issues re: possession, PTSD
Notes: Written for kalliel for the 2020 spn_summergen exchange! ♥

Special thanks to hells_half_acre, whose stellar Supernatural Timeline helped me place this fic chronologically. Takes place sometime after 3x07 Fresh Blood and before 3x08 A Very Supernatural Christmas.


Summary: When Dean is halfway to hell, he and Sam hunt a half-dog, half-man, while Sam struggles with memories and instincts that are only half his own.

Dean’s in a good mood. You’re trying to be in a good enough mood, to find the balance between qualified denial and sober recognition. You’ve been at that for six months—long enough to realize that there is no good balance. Every ratio is destructive; you choose the destruction.

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