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  1. Public Bookmark 47

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    "The first time Sam Winchester died, he died leaning on his brother, and hoping for heaven.
    The second time Sam Winchester died, he knew better.
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    A prayer was a strange thing, especially the prayer of a dying man. All the wishes of a life, blurring together, undefined and unfulfilled. The most desperate pleadings of the soul.
    Sam’s final prayer was not truly to die; it was for a chance to set things right.
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    Somewhere deep in the universe, a cosmic gear clicked as it turned. The sand of an hourglass flowed backward.
    — — — —
    Sam Winchester, age 22, woke with a gasp in the passenger seat of the Impala."

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    When Sam is killed on a hunt in season five, he denies Lucifer so strongly that the archangel can't fulfil his threat of reviving him. Instead, Sam is sent back to season one. What else is there to do with a second chance but try to fix everything that went wrong?
    Things go a bit off the rails from there.

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    19 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    A full Sabriel rewrite of the show, beginning in Sam’s first year of college. Involves a lot of angst with tender moments to come.

    “Kid…what the hell are you doing in my basement?”

    Sam opened one lazy eye, blinking sleep from his recently closed lashes. Inhaling deeply, he stretched and yawned loudly before turning to address the intruder. Based on the ring of keys in his right hand and the mop held defensively in his left, he was the Crawford Hall janitor. After all, that was the building he was hiding out in.

    “Well, would you believe me if I told you I was just a student who couldn’t afford housing?” Sam said, voice rough from what had been more of a nap than actual human sleep. He’d fallen asleep around 1 a.m., and the clock above the janitor now barely sometime past 3 a.m. “‘Cause that’s pretty much it.”

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    15 May 2026

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    15 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 78

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    "Sam stared at their father. Dean recognized that look. It was the look Sam wore when he finally identified what they were hunting. When he realized the nature of the beast. When he knew the name of the monster. But this time, Sam was staring at their father." A teenage Sam learns something he wasn't meant to, and now Dean must figure out how to save him from everyone-including himself.

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    25 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Dean didn't think Sam would take it seriously when he had said they should pick a hemisphere and stay away from each other. After nine months of searching he has finally found his brother, but he was just a shell of the man he once was, separating himself from the rest of the world in a self-made prison of solitude. Dean has no idea how to put him back together again.

    Sam knew he was a disease that destroyed everything around him. He has spent a long time trying to convince himself otherwise, but now after starting the apocalypse, Dean kicking him out of his life, and a few weeks of extreme torture by a group of hunters, he has finally accepted who he is. He gets as far away from humanity as he possibly can with plans to live out the rest of his unworthy existence in isolation. The world would be better off without him.

    Dean disagrees.

    Dean POV. Canon divergence from when Sam calls Dean at the beginning of Episode S05E04 The end.

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    23 Mar 2026