WE’VE POSTED!
It’s been a long time and I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks go to a lot of people for this story - @jhoomwrites @formidablepassion @lotrspnfangirl @hermit-writes and also @blue-reveries (for some awesome cheer-leading) and of course - you cannot forget the integral part of a bang - the art :D (the above header is mine but all the art in the story is my artists!)
Written for the @dcjbigbang 2018 Challenge
Story by Me - AO3
Art by @flightoftheseraph - Tumblr
Rating: E
Tags: Victorian era, multiple fires, Hurt/Comfort, past physical/mental abuse, MCD (Not Dean Cas or Jimmy), Grief, Happy Ending, Reunions, Top!Jimmy, Bottom!Cas, switch!dean, injured!dean, Angst, SmutWord Count: 30020
Summary: Life hasn’t been easy for Dean – it never is for orphans – but he reckons it’s a bit harder when you remember you’ve got family out there, somewhere. He’s been beat up, abused, and sold – more than once – for cheap labor, but Dean finds strength in that knowledge. With only a faded memory and a beat-up photograph to guide him, he grows up and gets out, determined to find his brother.But even the stubborn Dean Winchester has to concede after years of searching that those two things might not be enough.
Rudderless, Dean finds himself adrift and alone in an island town somewhere north of the U.S. Taking on make work to keep himself busy, he’s convinced to take some classes at the local college. He agrees, trying to regroup and figure out what to do with his life.
It may have been just the break he needed. He couldn’t ever have expected the twins, or how life seemed to serendipitously drop the exact thing he’d been looking for right into his path.
NOTE - this is a prequel to another story that was written for the DCJ Hiataus Indulgence called “The New Tenants of Echo Lodge”


