No. 1: Birds of a Feather (https://archiveofourown.org/series/81574) (Abusive!John, death!Dean, John leaves Dean at a hospital and Dean gets adopted)

No 2: Savage Land (https://archiveofourown.org/works/237530) - "When Samuel and Sam return, the Campbells see Dean as a threat and kidnap him, keeping him locked up like an animal without human interaction except to feed him or hurt him. By the time Sam regains his soul and finds him, Dean's mostly feral. Sam just wants his brother back."

No. 4: The Bright Lights of Disturbia (http://archiveofourown.org/works/181007/chapters/266202) (Wincest) - Not all of our scars are worn on the outside ...

Flying Weight (https://archiveofourown.org/works/231283) (Wincest) - Sam wakes after being soulless for three years to discover that Dean and his relationship with him have undergone some serious changes. Through traveling and hunting with Dean, Sam struggles to put his life back together after events he has only limited memory of. A season six wincest AU

Ghost Dance (http://archiveofourown.org/works/129418/chapters/183881) (Destiel) - In post-apocalyptic isolation, Castiel nurses Dean back to something like his former self, but will a time come when Dean's recovered --and rediscovered-- too much?

The Dog That Belonged to Himself (http://archiveofourown.org/works/338959/chapters/548446) (gen, for both no. 1 and no. 4) - Shortly after John Winchester lost his wife to demons, he lost his oldest son to a Skinwalker. Now, twelve years later, he's hunted down every single Skinwalker he could find and killed them, unaware that his oldest is still alive. That the monster that took his child hadn't taken his life, just his humanity. That she'd turned his child on the command of a human slave ring that traded in Skinwalker children. Dean ended up saved and raised by the Hunter Bobby Singer, but what's a young pup to do when his foster father goes missing and the only one who can help him find him, is a Hunter who despises his kind and would kill him on the spot?

Time Has Come Verse (https://archiveofourown.org/series/7241)(one of the best Criminal Minds/Supernatural crossover I've read, gen)

On The Wings of War (http://archiveofourown.org/works/245211/chapters/378117) (Destiel, but very side romance, very plotty) - The four Horsemen are not just people with fancy rings. They aren’t even demons with fancy rings. They are another species entirely, a force unto themselves, and Lucifer is kidding himself if he thinks that they are at his beck and call. They are separate. They are neutral. Dean Winchester is not built like them.

In Reverse (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2787883/1/In-Reverse) (gen) - After Faith, a job has the boys looking for missing hikers in Wyoming. While Sam worries it’s connected to what happened to Dean ten years ago, Dean wonders if Sam would be better off back in the world of normal.

Strangers and Angels (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2748108/1/Strangers-and-Angels) (gen) - Worn out, the boys stop at a remote motel to get shelter from a storm.

No Line on the Horizon (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5079415/1/No-Line-on-the-Horizon) (gen, death!fic) - AU. One-shot. It’s the middle of May when Dean shows up at his door at six a.m. with a huge smile on his face, and Sam knows something is wrong.

Sorry I have a lot of favorites. :)

No need for sorry.. that is an awesome list! Can't wait to get started.. Thank you!!