I daydreamed this up at work whilst evidently not working and wanted to share it with you… If only I could pitch it to Andrew Dabb…
Okay so picture the scene. A generic MOTW episode with Sam and Dean and no Cas because he is off hunting Lucifer apparently (though since this is MY episode idea instead I am gonna say that the only reason Cas is sitting this one out is because he is currently visiting Claire and Jody for some R&R and the bros are stopping off to deal with this very minor hunt on the way to meet him and the girls. So THERE BOB SINGER.)
Anyway. The hunt is pretty straightforward, its either a Vamp, a standard salt and burn or I dunno, a Rugaru whatever you feel like. The monster isn’t important. What is important is that this is a DEAN centric episode.They roll up into this sleepy little mountain town somewhere in Colorado (or wherever, location isn’t important either) and go to interview the first witness.
The first witness is a guy in his late thirties who clearly used to be a looker but the years have been hard on him. He can be anyone you wanna imagine. (preferably for me I’d say he’s dark haired and blue eyed but that’s my own preference *wink wink*.) the guy immediately recognises Dean. There goes the FBI cover story. Dean is completely taken back by this guy and gets kinda goofy around him much to Sam’s surprise and amusement. The guy (we’ll call him Jake) is really happy to see Dean and starts talking about how long it’s been and how he thought he’d never see him again after Dean left town. There is clearly a back story here hence why we get a nice close up shot of Dean’s face looking all sad and reminiscing before we cut to…
Young Dean, about 17 years old (played by Dylan Everett of course) is in the town with his dad and Sam whilst his dad deals with another hunt and he is skipping school. Through some consequence or another, Dean meets the younger version of Jake and they become friends.
Throughout the episode, the story skips between the past and the present showing just how close Dean and Jake became as teenagers, though the subtext is obvious, the audience is still completely oblivious and thinks they are just friends. In the present time, Dean is obviously awkward around Jake and Sam continuously teases him and tries to get more info out of him about him and Jake’s past, since Dean never mentioned him to Sam. Jake outs himself as gay/bi pretty early in the episode in a similar way to how Jenna did in 11×02. It is never focused on, just mentioned in a passing comment about his “ex boyfriend” or something. No one even raises an eyebrow of course.
Jake either already knows they are hunters (maybe his family were the victims of whatever John was hunting in the past) or maybe he only found out now because he was a witness to the present day monster (or maybe the two monsters are connected who knows) but Jake is determined to help the boys in the case in present day. This leads to him getting hurt bad (maybe he dies but I hate that trope with a passion so since this is my story and not Bucklemmings the gay guy LIVES.) Dean is pretty broken up about it. He goes on about never bringing people with them into the hunt and how dangerous their lives are and this is why they can’t have relationships. Sam raises his eyebrows but doesn’t say anything. The Drs confirm that Jake will be okay but he is sleeping and Dean can’t deal with it. He leaves the hospital with Sam on his heel and gets into the Impala.
Sam asks why they are leaving? doesn’t Dean wanna say goodbye to his friend?
Dean just shakes his head. They ganked the monster but someone got hurt once again. Its best if Jake just forgets he ever met Dean Winchester.
We cut back to the past. Dean is upset that he has to leave another town, another school, because his dad is taking him away again. Jake comes running up to him asking him whats wrong? that its okay because they can just meet up again? He can get a bus and visit Dean where he is moving to. But Jake of course doesn’t understand Dean’s life and it just makes him more upset. The two boys hug and when they pull apart Dean takes the initiative. He kisses him. There is no ambiguity about it. It is innocent and sweet and in no way platonic. The boys relationship was more than friendship all along. When they pull apart Dean tells Jake he will miss him and then he leaves. Young Jake is left watching as young Dean walks away from him.
We cut back to present day Dean. Sitting behind the wheel of the impala clenching his jaw. He doesn’t say anything but Sam just looks at him with a sort of pity. Sam may not know the details of what happened between them like we as the audience do, but he knows something, because Sam always knows. The impala drives off into the night and we cut to credits.
In the next episode everything is exactly has it always has been, Cas is in the next episode and acts as he always does. Nothing else is different, but suddenly the audience has a different perspective on everything they see. Because you see, Dean Winchester kissed a boy when he was 17, and therefore Dean Winchester has been bisexual all along. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has.
🙂
See, but if it happened like that, in the first few minutes of the episode, they’d be under a spell or something, i.e. a problem to solve, like the episode of BtVS where Buffy and Riley were cursed. Can you imagine the wank that would ensue?
Part of me is definitely like, yes, PLEASE, though.
This part of the trailer fascinates me, because who would Dean immediately raise a gun to whilst Sam lowers his???
This is back on my dash and I’m mostly recovered from looking at Jared’s hands here, so I’m going to muse for a minute.
Honestly, I think the only thing we can say for sure that we’re looking at is someone the boys know, who was presumed dead. Because that is the reaction they would both have – Dean: “Fuck, it’s something wearing the face of someone we love gotta kill it right now” and Sam being so stunned to see the person he thought was dead that he’s startled into lowering his gun.
Dean is the protector, the one jumping in front of any given bullet, the one who shoots first to save time and take no chances.
Sam is the negotiator (anyone remember him talking to a certain trickster in Changing Channels?), the one willing to give the person in front of them a chance no matter how badly that person has wronged him in the past.
Obviously I want it to be Gabriel. But it could be so many different people, as long as it’s someone they both knew was six feet under.
Charlie Charlie Charlie Charlie Charlie, etc. Only because I want her to tear both of them a new asshole for getting her killed.
I’d be happy if it was Gabriel, though, too.
Could be Crowley, if he’s looking particularly beat up after his encounter with Cas.
WHY DON’T YOU JUST RUMINATE WHILE I ILLUMINATE THE POSSIBILITIES:
Crowley!Cas is the (highly unlikely) theory that, in payback for this shit, Crowley is gonna possess a weakened Castiel and use him to fuck w/ Dean
not only would this be a SUPER COOL acting opportunity for Misha Collins, it would also be
a bomb ass mirror to the end of s6 and the previous Cas/Crowley team up (though this one, obviously, is non-consensual and Evil)
a great way of firing the Chekov’s gun of Castiel getting an Ex Directory Angel tattoo in s9 but no Keep Out Demons tattoo
the most effective way to fuck with the Winchesters without actually causing them any physical pain/killing them (a la Rowena turning Olivette into a hamster in 10.16, which gave Crowley IDEAS)
A CHANCE TO EXPAND ON THE CROWLEY/DEAN PSEUDO-RELATIONSHIP AND HOW CROWLEY IS A SPURNED LOVER ABOUT IT
in our wildest dreams, this would involve Crowley spilling Castiel’s heart and soul to Dean, while inside Castiel, using Castiel’s mouth and eyes and expressions and hands and it would cause Dean immense pain, especially if the writers finally fucking Went There (it wouldn’t be the first time a character has looked Dean in the face and told him Cas was in love with him, BUT IMAGINE IF IT WAS COMING FROM CAS, GOD)
AND/OR CROWLEY, AFTER POSSESSING CAS, WOULD KNOW WHERE THE BLADE IS AND TEASE DEAN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE HOPING TO MANIPULATE DEAN INTO ATTACKING HIM TO FIND OUT WHERE IT’S STASHED, AND THEN JUMP SHIP AT THE LAST MOMENT THINKING DEAN WOULD END UP KILLING HIM AND HE’D SUDDENLY WIND UP WITH DYING CASTIEL IN HIS ARMS AND BE FUCKED UP FOREVER, HAHA, PAYBACK, BUT
IT WOULD END UP TURNING INTO A, WAIT FOR IT, REVERSE CRYPT SCENE! IN WHICH CASTIEL STOPS DEAN’S RAGE BLACKOUT WITH THE POWER OF LOVE! AND CROWLEY IS WATCHING FROM THE CEILING LIKE “FUCK. I FUCKED UP.”
I got carried away with this but basically Crowley!Cas is everything I have ever wanted, the possibilities are endless, and if it happened I’d die
Or trying to rip him apart? Like, there’s the reverse crypt scene right there, right? Dean trying to get the blade all bloodlust-y and Cas trying to talk him down and knowing he has to get through to Dean before Dean rips him open and touches the blade because then all will be lost.
… Right? I kind of want it now.
(And, yeah, see your point about Crowley. But I’m not sure if Crowley has motivation for getting the blade. In terms of revenge on Dean, retrieving the blade from Cas doesn’t seem like it should be Plan A. I mean, Dean was pretty uncontrollable as a demon. There’d be nothing to stop Dean from killing Crowley if Dean ever got the blade from Crowley. Or even if Dean ever found out Crowley hurt Cas and stole the blade again.)
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