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omg this is so adorable
So I just had a thought...
Dean had to be "normal". He had to act like he was boringly stereotypically normal to everyone.
He had to act like he hated reading and classic stories because you didn't need those for hunting. And he certainly didn't need those at school where he would be branded the weird kid on day number one. And little 6 year old Dean couldn't do that. Because unlike Sammy, Dean had no one to stand up for him at school. He could beat the first graders, sure. But what about their older siblings? Dean had no support at school. He couldn't even talk about how adorable his baby brother was because that would be weird too.
By the time Sam is old enough to understand what is going on around him, Dean has already crafted this perfect "stereotypical male american" persona and rolls with it on every turn. Because he feels he has to.
And now, I bring you this: what if Mary lived and they grew up normal?
Because let me tell you, this time Dean has all the support at school. An upperclassman shoves him a bit too harshly? You gonna bet Mary Winchester will be there the next day bringing hell down on the poor boy. Mary is the ultimate soccer mom but she's scary. She builds up such a reputation that no-one dares touch Dean.
So Dean gets to be geeky and overly obsessed with TV series and books and whatever else he finds.
Sam, getting double the defence (both from Mary and Dean) grows up to be the biggest nerd possible.
Mary has them sitting on the kitchen table talking and she can only understand half of what they are saying. Dean is going on a tirade about a movie that had ONE scene about a sea elephant and Sam has brought out a whole book on sea elephants and is trying to prove that the movie is inaccurate. But Dean insists that within the supernatural confines of the movie it's accurate. And they are having a full blown scientific debate about it and Mary is just standing there cleaning the dishes and thinking about that one sea elephant pagan god she killed twenty years ago and is biting her lips because she wants to tell them about the funny story but can't.
Not because the kids don't know about monsters. She told both of them when Sam turned 10. But she can't find enough leeway to interrupt because the boys' conversation just keeps escapating and now Dean is stomping on the kitchen table and Sam is throwing the heavy book on Dean's head and Mary has to stop them but loves watching them fight.
When John comes home an hour later, Dean has a big bump on his head as he has Sam pushed down against the coach and Mary is holding onto the door frame of the living room wheezing. He rolls his eyes like this happens every day, seperates the boys and solves the whole scientific debate by a whomping: "I will take you to see a sea elephant" before stomping off to his room to change clothes.
Mary is seriously considering buying a videocamera and recording.