I posted this more than a month ago and got no responses... and it's really killing me so here goes (I hope I'm allowed to do this because I got absolutely no responses last time, mods):

I think it was set about season 2ish (at least, it was written about then). It`s been a while since I’ve read it so I`m not that clear on how things were ordered (or whether I`m mixing 2 stories).

I think it started with us seeing Sam and Dean on trial (in different rooms because they hadn’t seen each other since Hendrickson arrested them). Bobby and Ellen were one of the jury members for the trials (one was at Dean`s and the other was at Sam`s). Bobby or Ellen saw how sickly Dean had become. During the trial, Dean was quiet and drawn within himself. Dean`s chair was knocked over and he broke his arm. (& I don`t think he made a sound when it happened... He didn’t cry out or whimper or anything and that just broke the heart of Bobby/Ellen even more). I think there were flashbacks that showed how they got to this point.

Bobby and Ellen broke Dean and Sam out of their cells (I don`t remember if John was still alive or not). They had a van and once they got the second brother into the van, the boys snuggled under a blanket (it was a gen story and they had a blanket because Dean was sick.) Bobby and Ellen took the boys to someone`s(?) house/cabin (someone they couldn't connect to the boys). Sammy bounced back quicker than Dean. Dean would only talk to Sam and he had to sleep with the door open (Sam and Dean slept in one bed together *again, not wincest*). Now I don`t remember what happens for the rest of the story but I think at the end of it, the first time Dean talks, he asks about the Impala and everyone laughed...