Holler Me Home

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Series Begun:
2019-10-29
Series Updated:
2024-07-26
Description:

AU set starting in S12. Sometimes the fate you *never* wanted is hiding *everything* you ever wanted. Or, long after they'd both given up on it, Omega!You and Alpha!Dean find their match.

Notes:

I wrote the first part of this series, 'A Strange Detour,' after encountering the Alpha/Beta/Omega set of storytelling tropes. It was basically my answer to the things I feel do and don't work about it. It was also a crystallization of my sense of Dean Winchester as a character-- as nasty as he can get, there's a sweetness and a nobility to him that's endured. I finished 'Detour' with the intention to leave it as a one-off. But turns out I had more I wanted to say-- about a world defined by ABO dynamics, about what might form Dean's personality and attitudes towards sexuality under those circumstances (how would someone with an intense physical urge to find a mate and sire children develop into someone who loves sex but is terrified of relationships?), and about how a new personality might intergrate into the perpetual disaster machine that is the Winchester brothers.

I think I'm in the minority of fans who actually enjoyed S12, and it seemed the best time period in the metaplot to work with. As y’all could probably tell, I’m fudging the canon timeline a bit.  If we fix May as Jack’s official birthdate, having Kelly catch pregnant in “early December” doesn’t work, so I’m moving it back to mid-October.  That’s one of the nice things about fic, kids-- correcting little oversights like that.  Besides it fits my sense of the macabre for Lucifer to get kicked out of the Prez on Halloween.

ETA 5/31/22: Reformatting the series to make it a little easier to follow-- none of the text is changing, I'm just splitting Part 3 up and putting the chapter chunks in their proper places chronologically.

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139,198
Works:
12
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No
Bookmarks:
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