Author name: wonderfulwrites
Artist name:jkivela
Genre: Gen
Pairing: Some past Dean/Lisa
Rating: R (mostly for language)
Word count: ~120K
Disclaimer: If I owned this, the boys would happy. Alas.
Warnings: Show level violence and consent issues, lots of bad words, very brief suicide ideation, and a failed suicide attempt.
Summary: Dean thought he was keeping Ben and Lisa safe when he asked Castiel to erase their memories. But when he comes across Ben at a gas station in Florida, memories intact and claiming that Lisa is missing, Dean realizes that the monsters were always going to come for them whether Dean was in their lives or not.

The Winchesters aren't the only ones who can't stay dead.

Written for the 2014 spn_j2_bigbang.

Prologue -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Eight -- Nine -- Ten -- Eleven -- Twelve -- Thirteen -- Fourteen -- Fifteen -- Epilogue -- Final Author’s Notes

Also at AO3.

The amazing ART POST can be found HERE.

Note: Set during Season 8 in the week or two before 8x19 Taxi Driver, and there are allusions to the events of Season 9. The internet is my source for the medical knowledge presented in this story, so any blatantly wrong information is entirely my fault for ever believing anything the internet says ever.

Acknowledgements: I have to give my heartfelt thanks to harmony_bites for her cheerleading and excellent beta services. She has read and reread pieces of this story more times than I care to count over the last 16 months, and she’s probably happier to see it posted than I am. I also need to thank my beta candygramme for agreeing to tackle this whole monstrous thing only a couple of weeks before my posting date. I am so appreciative that she made time to help out some poor soul crying out for help on the internet.

Any and all mistakes within are mine, not theirs.

And last but not least, I want to thank jkivela for the amazing artwork he did for this story. It’s the first time I’ve ever had any of my fic illustrated, and I’m am beyond thrilled at what a great job he did.

See the end for further notes.

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I've decided to give schmoop_bingo a try. Here's ( my card.Collapse )

Yeah, that's right, schmoop_bingo. Hey, remember when all I used to write angst and dark fic and hunted down the Fluff!Muse then locked her in the laundry room? Good times. And now I feel compelled to write schmoop. This is what living in a state that is more green than not all year long has done to me, I guess. Is this what joining the dark side of the force feels like?

(Yes, I did have to drop out of this round of startrekbigbang. I couldn't finish in time. I'll keep plugging away at that, too.)