The Life We Didn't Have

Prologue

They were just little kids, they didn't deserve any of this.

On the night of little Sammy's sixth month birthday, his nursery caught fire. Resulting in one casualty. Mary Winchester. John Winchester, her husband, told four year old Dean to take his little brother outside. John never told the boys what really happened that night but he told Dean that there was an electrical fire to get him to quit asking. Dean never believed it, he was only four but he knew his dad wasn't telling the truth; he was afraid he'd never get the truth.

That night John was lost. He had no idea what to do with himself or his two boys. He didn't think he could raise 'em right without Mary, she was always the brains of the operation. John decided that he wanted to get revenge for the passing of his wife, but he knew that the life he was going to start was no way a kid should live. He thought of taking the boys to a friends house. But he thought Bobby didn't want kids, especially a 6 month old and a 4 year old. He thought he only had one way to keep his sons from this life. Giving them up.

He took them to a McDonald's right outside of Lawrence, Kansas, and gave Sam a bottle and got Dean a happy meal and he enjoyed one last meal before he would leave them. He took them back to a motel and told Dean that he had to leave for a while but he'd try to come back in a few years but he couldn't make any promises. John told little wide-eyed Dean to always take care of Sammy and never lose him, he told Dean to never let them get split up. The Winchesters stick together he told him, except John was leaving and who knew when he'd be back.