* The Crow on the Cradle (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3303894/1/The-Crow-on-the-Cradle): On October 2, 2005, Sam Winchester walked out of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Jess in the middle of the night, and didn't come back.

* The Art of Pulling Pie from Thin Air (http://battleroad-fic.livejournal.com/2432.html): It's been four years since he disappeared from Stanford and Sam is wandering. Oh, he knows who he is, no amnesia involved (anymore), but he's not fully human (he's sure) and with that whole "if you walk out that door, don't you come back" still hanging between him and his family, Sam doesn't think they'll view his new demigod status any different than college (except there might be more guns involved). With the vague and mostly frustrating guidance of trickster Coyote, his blunt and sarcastic teacher Fred (female, half-god), alcoholic berries, homicidal non-Winchester hunters, and pie, Sam comes to find that insanity brings the best clarity, and maybe you can go home again.

* Further and Further Out (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3740163/1/Further-And-Further-Out): John never disappeared before the pilot episode, so Dean never went to Stanford to find Sam. Two months later and they discover the demon went after Sam after all... and Sam is now in a mental hospital, catatonic and potentially schizophrenic.

* and its sequel, Rearrange Me 'Til I'm Sane (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3956847/1/Rearrange-Me-til-I-m-Sane): Set a few months after the events of ‘Further And Further Out’. Sam is still not entirely himself when a vision of their father in trouble sends a reluctant Dean off to track down John Winchester.

* In Media Res (http://archiveofourown.org/works/857784): Dean wakes a day after dying with no memories of Hell, and no idea what has happened. His only clues are a catatonic Sam, and whatever his brother was doing when they were separated. He follows the clues Sam left him back to a strange reclusive college professor who may have the answers, if he can only figure out the questions he needs to ask.

* The Way Back (http://archiveofourown.org/works/488010): AU in which Dean gets between Lucifer and Cas, preventing Castiel’s death and eventual return to full-blooded angel-hood. In the following months, a mostly human Cas gets a job at Taco Bell, Dean recovers from wounds given to him by Lucifer, and a silent, shell-shocked Sam wanders in from the cold.

* The Other Brother (http://kettle-o-fish.livejournal.com/57817.html#cutid1): They come back wrong. Ok. *Sam* comes back wrong. Sam says that the important part is that they came back. At least, that’s what Adam assumes he’s getting at.

* and its sequel, The Other Brother Christmas Special (http://kettle-o-fish.livejournal.com/67198.html#cutid1): “So.” Adam is high on Benedryl. He fucking told Dean that he was allergic to pine trees. Dean went out and bought a small forest of red, cinnamon scented pine tree air fresheners and hung them on the boughs among the musty old ornaments that Bobby brought down from the attic, the dream catchers from the Impala’s trunk, and the random shit that Sam stuck on the branches: pop-tabs and bottle caps, shoelaces tied like ribbons around hearty green branches. Adam rolled his eyes and told Dean, “That’s not how fucking allergies work.”

Thank you for the recs! The Crow in the Cradle and The Other Brother are a couple of my favourites but I don't think I've read all of the other ones :)

I think this one could be mine :)

Delicate Arguments of Faith and Murder (http://archiveofourown.org/works/943071)

This is it! Thank you so much, you are such a talented writer :)