Life isn't easy and, for the Winchesters, it's always been an uphill struggle. Good times or bad, one thing never changed: they were brothers. Everyone and everything that had ever attempted to change that had failed. And always would. A collection of 50 varied short(ish) stories of the Winchester Brothers through the years. **Chapter 18 now posted**

The bunker goes into emergency, magical lockdown. The occupants are now unable to leave for 40 days

12x02 "Mamma Mia" missing scene/tag/fix-it. Dean Winchester is coming to save his brother, but Lady Toni has a contingency plan... (Basically, my headcanon for what I found OOC in the episode.)

Splitting up in a probably haunted abandoned cabin in the middle of God's armpit seems like the shortest distance to something feisty and/or evil getting a chewy mouthful of well-meaning Winchester. S4 post 4X14 "Sex and Violence." The boys try to get back on track. Rating for language.

No specific series placement, no spoilers. Light language. One brief reference to "Asylum." sick!Dean and annoyed!caretaker!Sam. Feverish, disoriented Dean is good for a laugh, but feverish, disoriented, ARMED Dean is going to put a hole in one of the walls. Or Sam.

Set shortly after the episode 'Book of the Damned'. Sam and Dean discover something that they really wish they hadn't. Complete.

He searches other rooms, pausing in particular to view the electrical room through it's hacked through door, and ends up in the kitchen, watching his brother take a swig of a bottle of whiskey and then toy with a cleaver at the table. There's a bright red gash on the palm of Dean's left hand. Tag to Soul Survivor.

Set immediately post-10.03, so spoilers for Soul Survivor. It's eight days before they actually speak to each other again. A mysteriously appearing marker board isn't the usual way of apologizing for a colossal screw-up like theirs; but then again, they are Men of Letters.

Tag to "Reichenbach," S10 x 02. Just exploring possibilities in how Sam might bring his brother back from the edge of the falls.

In the darkest hours, when they want to act, but can't, the burn of anxiety and anger has to go somewhere. Meme fill for the prompt: nervous habits.

Tag for 8X14 "Trial and Error." Just some good old-fashioned whump and blood and gore and language. Sam wishes Bobby was around. In the chaos, in the adrenaline rush of killing the hound, of initiating the trials, of Dean's side hanging in ribbons to the belt loops of his faded jeans, he'd let a stranger patch up his brother, and he'd forgotten the holy water.

On a cold Friday night in January, a small Oklahoma town is faced with tremendous loss. Then, two rough-looking strangers arrive, maybe bringing more trouble with them. Could be, though, they'll send trouble packing. Outsider POV.

Written for the prompt: Yet another school, yet another dot on the map. Nothing unusual. Or so at least it seemed to Dean. However, for some reason this school is bound to sink deep into his memory. Pre-series story bookended by season 8.

Season 8 Batcave fic. The world isn't ending today, there's not a hunt lined up, and they now have the Men of Letters bunker to store their stuff inside, so Sam decides it's time they cleaned out the trunk of the Impala. Dean, however, doesn't care much for the idea. Thankfully, he has plenty of ways to get out of completing the chore.

Bobby's house had always been their safe haven...until a shapeshifter hunt goes sideways and the hunters become the hunted

Sam storms out in 2012, and gets lost in 1987. Or, procrastinating!Sparrow tries de-aging!fic, kind of.

Sequel to Tabula Rasa. Sam decides that he's not going to allow Dean to just disappear like that. Complete.

Dean bites off more than he can chew when he tries to take on a spider god straight from the forests of the Congo by himself. He sould have known its never a good idea to split up. Hurt!Dean, Protective!Sam

From a promp. What if Dean had no memory of who he is or what he does? Set pre-series. Complete.

Dean lies alone dying in the woods, ready to give up. Sam rushes to save him, reflecting on all that's transpired. And Bobby pays the boys a visit. Set post 7x18. My first ever Supernatural story.

"Ok, I'm going to do something, and you're going to think I'm a girl, but you're not going to say anything, because you're my brother." Sam finds a creative way to deal with Lucifer.

A blown-out knee grounds the Winchester boys in Moon Gulch, Idaho. They get a dog. They discover what a Wishpoosh is. And maybe, just maybe, they become 'people'. Lite S7 spoilers, cussin'. Curtain!fic, h/c, angst, case!fic, schmoop...bit of everything!

Dean contracts meningitis. Sam looks out for him in his always-awesome way. Set before S4. No spoilers, just a basic h/c written for a comment fic challenge eons ago. Some language, that's all. Gen.

The Winchesters never really observed Christmas much. It had been a disappointment throughout their childhood. This year Sam had an invitation to spend it with old friends, and Dean and he went their separate ways for the holidays.

Tag for Episode 2.10. Trust is never easy, and everyone has their limits. Even Superman. Steve's POV. Rated T for language.

-Sam wasn't helpless. If he couldn't do everything, he would do anything to help his brother.- A hunt gone awry leaves Dean missing something very important; Sam finds a way to redeem himself. Post 6x22 AU, hurt!Dean, awesome!Sam, will be a two-shot

Dean has a headache. All Sam wants to do is take care of him. Dean apparently has another idea.

Wherein Rory is a perfectly competent nurse and the Doctor makes a lousy patient.

She's always had a soft spot for strays but there's something different about this one, and more than anything she wants him to find whoever he's lost. Outsider POV with hurt boys!

After a hunt, Sam needs to warm Dean up.

Ben gets an up close look at what family really means.

Just a little moment in time in between Sam and Dean. Set in season 6, somewhere after 6.12. Dean has a fever and some very nasty hallucinations. Complete.

One more Halloween story. Dean's trapped inside a coffin. Sam and Castiel need to find him before it's too late. Complete.

Dean's got a cold, but he's determined to help Sam and Bobby with their research. One-shot, total fluff for once.

Dean finds out the hard way why tempered glass was invented. The old stuff tended to split apart in huge shards when a guy went flying through it. Hurt Dean. Awesome Sam. Comment Fic. Complete.

"The pain in his skull went into overdrive, flying past pain to slam into sheer agony." Dean gets a severe headache while traveling between hunts. Sam comes to the rescue for a change. Hurt-Dean, comfort from Sam, and general brotherly love.

Sam was a Winchester. Winchesters coped. They endured. They didn't get sick in the middle of the Everglades…especially after their brother had been torn apart by a creature that was supposed to be some frat boy's idea of a joke.

Neal is arrested for murder. Chapter 7 Up. Story completed.

Pain and pop culture aplenty. Early season 1. sick/hurtin!Dean

A young visiting princess could use a lesson in humanity. Perhaps it is the cruel streak of Merlin and Arthur’s destiny that dictates she learn it at their expense.

Set mid-season 3. Based on the prompt: The boys, birds, wetlands, hot summer day. Maybe mosquitoes.

Dean gets a migraine that spins out of control. Just an excuse for some hurt!Dean, really.

The boys clean up after a hunt. Dean isn't feeling so hot.

John and Rodney are lost. One emotionally. Both physically. Written for the Sheppard HC Secret Santa ficathon

Written for ga-unicorn and the LJ sheppard hc secret Santa exchange. After an accident in the city, John finds himself trapped and a hair's breadth away from certain death.

When an injured John Sheppard shows up at his door in the middle of the night, David Sheppard finds himself in the middle of a desperate adventure. Hunted by enemies and haunted by the past, can the two brothers survive in a world gone terribly wrong?

Dean hasn’t been called by his own name in what feels like an eternity. Pre-series. Stanford Era. One-shot.

Jack O'Neill is not very good at being retired. Dean Winchester is not very good at staying out of trouble. And something is lurking in these here woods.... Supernatural/Stargate SG-1 crossover

Sam is usually the one who never gets enough sleep, but the current hunt is leaving Dean feeling a little drained. Luckily, Sam has his back. Dean!whump/h/c. Chapter 2 now added. Scene insert expanding Dean!whump.

A post No Rest for the Wicked fic - yet another take on the aftermath, as related by Ellen.

Bobby loves both the Winchester boys. He could never pick between them

After BUABS, the boys take refuge in an abandoned cabin, where they get blindsided by a new hunt.

Dean asked "What did you see in my heart?" Roy LeGrange replied that he saw a young man with an important purpose, a job to do and it wasn't finished. He wasn't sure if he believed him at the time, but later, much later, a series of chance encounters

An explosion leaves Sheppard and McKay trapped and injured on opposite sides of a sealed door. Time is running out, and there is nothing to do but wait for rescue... and to talk. Set after Outcast, and containing spoilers for that episode.

After Faith, a job has the boys looking for missing hikers in Wyoming. While Sam worries it’s connected to what happened to Dean ten years ago, Dean wonders if Sam would be better off back in the world of normal.

Ronon asks Sheppard to join him on a dangerous search unaware that some answers are gained in the journey. DramaActionHC. Spoilers for Reunion

Sam and Dean battle Pod People in rural Nevada.

Sam has a leg wound that won’t heal, and Dean’s inspired by one of his usual resources for finding a cure. Edited December 13, 2009

An Accident leads to a very interesting situation for John, and a learning curve for Rodney. John and Rodney friendship.

How Tony Dinozzo started working for NCIS.

Panic attacks and temper tantrums and Dean just couldn't breathe anymore.

Sheppard becomes the unwilling companion of a malfunctioning Ancient computer. McKay is targeted by a psychotic monk. It's all downhill from there.

A Tall Tales tag. Bobby and a weary, burdened Dean have a little chat after the Trickster is dispatched. Winner of "Best Chick Flick Moment" and runner up "Best Overall Story", round 12: Sensue SPN fanfic awards.

A case of mistaken identity gets Dean temporarily committed.

A series of short missing scenes for the episode Faith.

Something evil is killing treeplanters in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, possibly the same predator that Dean narrowly escaped years before. How Grimm will things get before the brothers figure it out? COMPLETE

PostShadow. A missed exit has the brothers patching up more then bloody wounds.

PostSimon Said episode tag. Sam had visions of Anson's victims. All of them.

Dean is attacked by a strange force. WARNINGS for language and, if I did this right, disturbing imagery. A ONESHOT with major Dean angst.

Pre Series. Dean finds himself in the clutches of a fae, only to find the aftermath's more difficult that he expected when a price has been put on his head. There's only so much help a father can give... COMPLETE

Dean's in trouble again. Dean whumpage. Warning for language.

From the French, 'oublier'. To forget. A trap door or secret prison.

Captured, implanted with Wraith trackers, released to run and die ... such is Sheppard and McKay's fate. Now all they have to do is find each other before the Wraith find them. And Sheppard has this pesky little amnesia problem... Complete.

Worn out, the boys stop at a remote motel to get shelter from a storm.

After the events of Trinity, Teyla has a plan to repair the rift in her team, but what if there is a terrible cost? Friendship, whumping, team fic. Complete.

The aftermath of a curse leaves Sam with a very different version of Dean. Gen no Wincest.

Given a week to define himself, Sam watches Dean.

Some choices are easier to make than others.

My take on why John Winchester left. Companion piece to Coordinates, but you don't need to have read that one for this to make sense.

COMPLETE. What if it wasn't John Winchester sending text messages? PostAsylum.

How far will Sam go to save his brother? COMPLETE

When Sheppard and McKay travel to a planet intent in studying a scientific novelty, a malfunction sends them on an adventure with their lives at stake!COMPLETE

Dr Weir looked from Carson to Aiden, “Gentlemen, we have a hostage situation.”

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them. The curious tale of two strange visitors to MiddleEarth... ::COMPLETE::

When Alec takes one for Max, innocence is reborn. Alec/Max COMPLETE