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Summary:
Castiel leads Dean to a small town in Vermont for a routine hunt. It just so happens that Stiles and Derek are already there with their own purposes. Spoiler alert: they don't part ways when the case is over.
Roamers is a story of bromance. Dean has reached a dark point in his life after Sam's retirement from hunting. Worried for him, Castiel helps him cross paths with Derek and Stiles. Together, the four of them take up the Winchester family business: saving people, hunting things. Derek and Dean see a lot of themselves in each other, but Dean knows Derek's hiding something from him. Derek has no plans to tell Dean what he is, but he knows it's only a matter of time before Dean learns the truth.
Additional Notes:
Rated M for gore and disturbing content. This work includes graphic depictions of violence, gore, emotional turmoil, profanity. Nothing worse than what you would see on Teen Wolf/Supernatural. Well, maybe a little worse. Okay, it gets worse than what either show shows.
As much as I'd love Destiel and Sterek to become canon, this is a story of bromance. There's a b there. It'll be more than your average friendship, but they're not hooking up with one another in this story.
I began writing this during season 8 of Supernatural and before season 3 of Teen Wolf. I've tried to stay canon compliant, but it's been drifting away from that. I feel comfortable saying that this was canon up until the end of Teen Wolf Season 3A and Supernatural Season 8. It's canon until that point and then it's hit or miss. I'm likely to use aspects of the show that come through, but I'm officially picking and choosing.
I've planned out season two and begun to plan out season three. So this fic really isn't going anywhere any time soon. I will be writing this until I'm driven out of the fandoms I imagine. Regardless of where canon goes, I'm going ot keep this going. I love my babies too much not to hurt them.
Roamers Timeline:
In terms of timelines, Roamers begins the summer before Stiles goes to college. It's meant to be just after canon. It's hard to make them line up. I'm going to say it's summer of 2014. In the small amount of time between the present time in the seasons and Roamers, Sam, Cas and Dean sorted out the angel expulsion and put them back in Heaven. Castiel did get his grace back.
Canon Discrepancies: (contains series spoilers)
Derek's Camaro was in storage. He was concerned for it when the Alpha Pack came to town. But since then, he's got his car back. Because there's no way he'd be driving around in that soccer mom car. Chris and Derek are not chummy, but at least Chris isn't trying to kill him.
Castiel still has his sex hair and his grace isn't stolen. As I said before, the three of them got the angels back in Heaven. Future Roamers Season Spoiler: it's something else that's messing with Cas's powers. Most of season nine hasn't happened. I'll probably draw from it. In this season, it's safe to assume that: Dean never took the Mark of Cain, Garth isn't a werewolf, Charlie never went to OZ, and Kevin never died.
Guest Stars: (in order of appearance)
Sheriff Stilinski
Sam Winchester
Scott McCall
Chris Argent
Charlie Bradbury
Isaac Lahey
Melissa McCall
Peter Hale
Allison Argent
Additional Warnings:
panic attacks
suicide
torture/gore (arguably some quite extreme)
coercion
low self-worth
death scenes
unwanted seduction (aka, overly flirtatious monsters)
If any of these things are triggers for you, please contact me on tumblr and I will be happy to discuss the circumstances/level of detail. If there's anything you want to know (at all), please feel free to contact me.