Supernatural: gen.
Dean gets cursed and turned into a seven year old kid. The author calls this crack!fic, and the premise totally is, but this is a surprisingly insightful and complex story for a premise as potentially one-dimensional as some writers may have made it. Emily Brunson is in no way shape or form that writer. We all wonder about exactly what Papa Winchester was teaching Dean when he was growing up and this story goes into that in some really interesting ways. Sam is amazing, sympathetic and perfect in the situation because this opens his eyes up to so many things about how Dean must have grown up (something he sure as hell never thought about from Dean’s perspective ever before.) Plus, Dean is pretty much the most adorable thing on the block no matter how old he is, and at seven I just want to pinch his cheeks and play flashlight tag with him until Sam comes to feed him dinner and glare at me like the over-protective brother he is.