A collage of edits I made back in 2020

Title: Once Upon a Supernatural Time

Word Count: 6,792

Summary: Henry Mills needs help convincing his new-found mother, Emma Swan, to believe in magic so she can break Storybrooke’s curse. Could Dean and Sam Winchester be just the help he needs to get Emma to believe? Or will they also need some convincing? Dean’s dealt with a lot of things - demons, angels, witches, werewolves - but magic may be a bit out of his belief system.

Chapter 70: Resetting the Board

“What, you’re not going to fight with me? No clever nickname or violent threat to punch me in the face?”

“Nope,” Dean shook his head, continuing to follow Neal as he checked their surroundings again to make sure they weren’t being followed.

“Well, that’s refreshing.”

Dean breathed out a short laugh, “I’m not your enemy, Neal. And you’re not mine. We both want the same thing – to find Emma and Henry and their family and make sure they’re safe.”

“Good,” Neal responded, still a little suspicious, but Dean could tell his shoulders had loosened up slightly. “Because I—“

Dean stopped, holding up his hand for silence as if he’d heard something in the distance. When nothing else was heard, they continued forward, Dean one step behind Neal.

He kept waiting for Neal to continue with his thought, but when he didn’t, he decided to ask something he’d been curious about since he learned about this ridiculous place.

“So,” Dean started, still trying to keep his voice low as they went, “how exactly did you end up here before?”

Neal chuckled, “What, you didn’t get the chance to read my story in Henry’s book?”

Dean hummed sarcastically. “Um, no. Between the curses, dragon, Enchanted Forest trip, the devil, the apocalypse, losing my brother, flying to Manhattan find you, and oh yeah, literally flying to freakin’ Neverland – I didn’t get a chance to check out Henry’s story book,” he replied with a little bite in his voice. “I know the gist – mainly the stuff with your dad, but I must have missed the Neverland episode.”

“Fair point.”

Mary had gone.

Well truthfully given past experience with parents what had Dean really expected? That was why he didn’t do parents. They all ended up sucking.

It had gone 3AM and he was still outside, just sitting in baby. She was one of the only places he could feel calm in and yet right now he didn’t know what he was feeling. Anger, sadness, betrayal. All of them seemed like a logical option at this moment in time. How could she? Surely any parent would choose their children over..anything? Surely a parent was meant to put them first? Then again they weren’t kids anymore. He still felt angry, because of her, because of John he’d never been a kid, not even for one single second. He didn’t regret taking care of Sammy, he’d never regret something like that but all that pressure still hurt. 

He hit his hands on the wheel as he felt his eyes start to tear up.

When the Black Fairy attempts to kill Emma, Dean makes a tough choice to save her and all of Storybrooke.

Emma: Dean?

Dean: Yeah Emma it me.

Black Fairy: You let the archangel in. Why you’re enemies?