Title: Bait

Summary: In a world where the ‘unknown’ is common knowledge and ‘hunters’ are relegated to merely survivors, humanity is dwindling. With human lives traded as currency, John and Sam Winchester find themselves with a new tool for their arsenal – a ‘bait’ named Dean.

Pairings: Gen

Genre: It's an AU but I've tried to keep everyone in character as best I can. Could probably pass as a slavefic as well.

Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Abuse, Slavery, Memories of child abuse. Abused!Dean, Hurt!Dean, Scared!Dean etc etc. Protective!Winchesters Character death (NOT Dean or Sam).

This was written for the sickdean commentfic meme but it ended up getting very long. I just can't write short fics! Dean is sick and Castiel is out of his element trying to care for him.

Dean & Castiel friendship - gen. Feverish!sick!Dean, worried!protective!Cas

Spoilers for Season 5 - set during the beginning of 5x04, Castiel's phonecall goes a little differently.

Title: Bait
Summary: In a world where the ‘unknown’ is common knowledge and ‘hunters’ are relegated to merely survivors, humanity is dwindling. With human lives traded as currency, John and Sam Winchester find themselves with a new tool for their arsenal – a ‘bait’ named Dean.
Pairings: None yet but either way, it's still going to be Gen. No Wincest here folks!
Genre: It's an AU but I've tried to keep everyone in character as best I can. Could probably pass as a slavefic as well.
Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Abuse, Slavery, Memories of child abuse. Abused!Dean, Hurt!Dean, Scared!Dean etc etc. Protective!Winchesters Character death (NOT Dean or Sam).

Bait – Masterpost

AN: Hi everyone, first things first, this chapter is unbetad so apologies for that.

Secondly, I am moving back to university tomorrow so I probably won't have internet until Thursday so I won't be able to respond to stuff until then.

Thirdly I just wanted to put in a little bit about Robby cos I've been getting a lot of messages and things about him. The reason that I put Robby into fic as Dean's cellmate was something I found pretty unavoidable. I felt that if Dean hadn't had someone actually nice, someone to share positive emotions like love and trust with then he would have grown up to be either feral or just a complete sociopath. I just didn't feel that I could write a convincing recovery for a character like that and this fic is all about Dean's journey of healing. Creating an OC gave me the freedom to tailor his personality to whatever characteristics I felt would be appropriate and also give him a backstory which I hope will be intersting to some people. At the moment he is playing a prominent role in the fic but I felt that that was inevitable given the relationship of him and Dean, which as I said, I thought was essential to have. But, although at the minute he may seema little Stu-ish, let's not forget that both Dean and Robby are very, very socially dusfunctional individuals - their relationship is not just going to be sunshine and light all the time. Sam has different things to offer Dean both as a friend and a brother, things that Dean could never get from Robby, but Dean just doesn't know how to trust him enough to see that yet, if you follow? Anyway, this is getting really stupidly long now so I'm going to cut it off but I hope that answers a few questions people might have, Robby's role will not always be so predominant I promise.

Title: Bait
Summary: In a world where the ‘unknown’ is common knowledge and ‘hunters’ are relegated to merely survivors, humanity is dwindling. With human lives traded as currency, John and Sam Winchester find themselves with a new tool for their arsenal – a ‘bait’ named Dean. 
Pairings: None yet but either way, it's still going to be Gen. No Wincest here folks!
Genre: It's an AU but I've tried to keep everyone in character as best I can. Could probably pass as a slavefic as well. 
Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Abuse, Slavery, Memories of child abuse. Abused!Dean, Hurt!Dean, Scared!Dean etc etc. Character death (NOT Dean or Sam).

Thank you very much to aquaesulis76 for an absolutely fabbo beta! She is officially a star! 


AN: Hi everyone, I hope you're all well. I am going away tomorrow for just under a week so I won't be able to respond to any reviews or anything until after then. Thank you so much for all your support over the last forty chapters! I've been writing this for more than a year now and it's so nice that people are still interested after all this time. Another milestone for this chapter, Bait is now over 100,000 words, hurray! :D

Title: Shelter Me 12/?

Pairings: None (Genfic)

Spoilers: Nothing major or recent but I'll post a warning at the beginning of a chapter if there are any potential spoilers. This MAY go into season 1 later on in the fic, but an AU version of it.

Summary: At the time, Sam hadn't even wanted an older brother and John had wanted another son for all the wrong reasons. Over the years, Sam came to accept his unwanted, unloved big brother as one of the family and John....just didn't.

Warnings: Child abuse, non-graphic references to past sexual abuse of a minor (not by John), lots of Dean whumping, language. John is not a good father to Dean in this fic so if that might upset you, please don't read it.

AN: Okay, this is a little self indulgent but, meh, we all deserve a little self-indulgence once in a while right? As I said before, John is a bit of a bastard in this fic, that's not how I see him in the show but it's how he is here.

Title: Bait
Summary: In a world where the ‘unknown’ is common knowledge and ‘hunters’ are relegated to merely survivors, humanity is dwindling. With human lives traded as currency, John and Sam Winchester find themselves with a new tool for their arsenal – a ‘bait’ named Dean.
Pairings: None yet but either way, it's still going to be Gen. No Wincest here folks!
Genre: It's an AU but I've tried to keep everyone in character as best I can. Could probably pass as a slavefic as well.
Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Abuse, Slavery, Memories of child abuse. Abused!Dean, Hurt!Dean, Scared!Dean etc etc. Character death (NOT Dean or Sam).

Thank you sooo much to aquaesulis76 for a fabbo beta!

Title: Bait
Summary: In a world where the ‘unknown’ is common knowledge and ‘hunters’ are relegated to merely survivors, humanity is dwindling. With human lives traded as currency, John and Sam Winchester find themselves with a new tool for their arsenal – a ‘bait’ named Dean.
Pairings: None yet but either way, it's still going to be Gen. No Wincest here folks!
Genre: It's an AU but I've tried to keep everyone in character as best I can. Could probably pass as a slavefic as well.
Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Abuse, Slavery, Memories of child abuse. Abused!Dean, Hurt!Dean, Scared!Dean etc etc. Character death (NOT Dean or Sam).

AN: Thank you very much to Rae Artemis for a BRILLIANT beta!

Bait – Masterpost

Title: Shelter Me 11/?

Pairings: None (Genfic)

Spoilers: Nothing major or recent but I'll post a warning at the beginning of a chapter if there are any potential spoilers. This MAY go into season 1 later on in the fic, but an AU version of it.

Summary: At the time, Sam hadn't even wanted an older brother and John had wanted another son for all the wrong reasons. Over the years, Sam came to accept his unwanted, unloved big brother as one of the family and John....just didn't.

Warnings: Child abuse, non-graphic references to past sexual abuse of a minor (not by John), lots of Dean whumping, language. John is not a good father to Dean in this fic so if that might upset you, please don't read it.

AN: Okay, this is a little self indulgent but, meh, we all deserve a little self-indulgence once in a while right? As I said before, John is a bit of a bastard in this fic, that's not how I see him in the show but it's how he is here.


AN: Hi everyone. sorry about the wait, I've had a really big writer's block with this fic and I've been sitting my end of year exams, not fun. They're all done now so hopefully I hsould be able to update quicker (and better- this chapter is a bit meh). If anyone is actually still reading, I hope you enjoy.