Socially Ignorant Winchesters

[gluisa88.livejournal.com]

So I was thinking, growing up without any female influences in their life, moving around constantly, never forming attachments, always being on the outside- I would imagine that the Winchesters have no clue how to behave in normal social circumstances.

Sam learned a little bit because he spent a couple years at college but Dean didn't have that advantage.

Anyway, the show has never addressed this topic much and I was wondering if there are any fics out there that do. Like maybe Sam at Stanford not knowing things that normal people know, not knowing what to do in certain social situations. Or Dean and his year with Lisa.

I mean, I'm not talking about basement dwellers, after all, they did go to public school. But just a fic that addresses the fact that they aren't socially normal.

I prefer it to Not be Outsider POV I would love fics that have the boys in non-canon situations (ie, something other than Sam @ Stanford or Dean w/Lisa) but I'll take whatever I can get :)

Please no slash :)

Comments

[rbmi-fan.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I hope people post some. I'd like to read more of these, too. Here's a couple that might fit:

Do I Love You, Do I? Doesn't One and One Make Two? (http://yourkidney.livejournal.com/4857.html) - Sam doesn't know how to make room in his heart to love Jess, since his family monopolizes all his capacity for obsessive love, and he's never known anything besides that.
Just a Normal Day (http://flawedamythyst.livejournal.com/146822.html) - Sam takes Jess to the fair, but he's having some trouble adjusting to normal.
Ex Aequo (http://northface11.livejournal.com/7125.html) - Sam moves into a Stanford dormitory and stands in the hallway, watching the hustle and bustle.
License (http://july-july-july.livejournal.com/6960.html) - At 14, Dean knew more about cars than most mechanics. It was one of the things John had tried to pass on. Not just because it was part of the family business, but because it was normal.

[gluisa88.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Those are awesome :)

[rirren.livejournal.com]

Probably too late for the OP to still be around but I just read a fic that fits your request so well I couldn't not post it.

Alien (http://brightly-lit.livejournal.com/5176.html) by brightly-lit
- This is the story of when Sam went to Stanford and figured out, with a lot of difficulty, loneliness, and false starts, how to make his way in the normal world without the family that had defined his whole life for 18 years.
"If there was one thing he’d learned at college, it was that you could take the boy out of the hunter’s life, but you couldn’t take the hunter’s life out of the boy."

Also brightly-lit has quite a few fics about how the boys's upbringing wasn't normal and how it has messed them up, so you should check out her journal too.