I have made a similar request before but I was so thrilled with the results that I wanted to try it again :)

I am looking for tearjerkers with with happy/hopeful endings. Please no death!fics! I'm not up for that kind of pain! (And I'm at my work desk, I need to be able to keep up my poker face!)

But other than that, I'm good with nearly anything. Some specifics to maybe narrow things down a bit:

1. Multi-chapters are strongly preferred
2. I love AUs (though not necessary)
3. I love the brotherly relationship
4. My favorite era is pre-series to pre-season 3 but again, this is a very broad search so I won't say no to anything that is post-season 2.
5. And if John is featured in it heavily, I prefer that he be portrayed as either neglectful or an a-hole (not that I don't love John or anything, it's only that I prefer a focus on the brothers' co-dependency without having a third party to rely on.)
6. Hurt!Dean, hurt!Sam, doesn't matter- it's all good :)
7. And last, please no slash :)

Thank you so much for any help!