"They didn't have much, but they had each other, and somehow, that was enough."
In a small-town American home on a small-town American street, the Winchester family lived an apple-pie life. That was until November 2, 1985, when Mary died at the hands of something inexplicable, paranormal. As John watched their home devour into flames, he swore he would make it his life's mission to hunt down the monster responsible for his wife's death. His three children, Sam, Dean, and Lily, were raised on the road, from motel to motel, trained in weaponry, folklore, and hunting.
But when Sam goes off to college, Lily moves to Boston, and Dean is stuck in the family business, what brings them back together will inalterably change the courses of their lives.
Told through the perspective of the youngest Winchester sibling, Lily Winchester, a silver-tongued, humane, and selfless twenty-year-old girl who is oddly bonded to the earth. Her preternatural abilities were what she was trained to kill, but she has since learned to silence it, all of it, traveling across the country with her brothers with a bottled up secret. But how long can her feigned normalcy last before she must face herself?
Largely cannon compliant but with some plot twists. In this story, Sam is three years old when he receives demon blood from Azazel (yellow-eyes) and Mary dies, making Dean six and Lily an infant.
With a new name and new life, Nathan must learn to fit in at an Academy of the Feral Investigation Bureau, or risk being sent back to prison.
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Escaping prison was only the beginning for inmate C41. Now on the run and going by Nathan, he's enrolled in an American Academy for training agents and joins the Feral Investigation Bureau, charged with hunting down criminals and sending them to the same place he just escaped. But after learning how blurred the distinction is between feral and non-feral, Nathan is forced to flee with his sister and his boyfriend, only to discover their safe house hides a secret that might cost Nathan his freedom.
Content and/or Trigger Warning: sex and violence. [Note: failed suicide attempt]
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