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SupernaturalSomething of a themed set of recs this time. We got Dean with baby, baby Dean and gender swap fun:Untitled by booniesGen with undertones Very silly but cute story that sees Sam and Dean playing surrogate dads to an orphaned boy."Listen up, kid," began Dean authoritatively, "rule number one"The boy toppled over, snuggling into the seat.”Yeah, okay, we'll finish this conversation when you wake up."Family Comes First by ethrosdemonGenThis has already been recced all over and with good reason - it's brilliant. After a brief relationship Dean fathers a son called Jack and gives up a life of hunting to raise him. I adore the Dean in this story - he's recognisably the same strong, noble jackass from the series but this is a Dean who has finally realised that his life and his identity don't have to revolve around hunting. I love the fact that Dean immediately gives up hunting to raise Jack and that it is Sam who hunts on his own, Sam who wants to train Jack in the same way they were trained by their father. It's an interesting role reversal and one I completely buy into. The story also manages the Herculean feat of making me really like an original female character. Becky just plain rocks and the fact that I finished the story wanting her to commit to Sam shows just how well written she was. Go read - it will really cheer up your day!When Jack starts kindergarten, Dean actually cries. Sam laughs so hard he thinks he's broken something vital. Becky kicks Sam in the ass with her sandal when he doubles over, and Dean jumps on his back as the school bus rounds the corner. Living in Limbo by trollprincessGen This story also features Papa Dean as he becomes a father after a one night stand with a waitress. Rather melancholy in tone this story reads like the flipside of the sweet stories linked above - a dark fairytale full of menace in which you're not sure that there is going to be a happy ending."I had a bad dream about you, Uncle Sammy," she says, a gut punch in words.Sam forgets to breathe."I had a bad dream about you, too, kiddo," he says, and may not remember how to start breathing again for days.Under the Haystack by janissa11GenThe authoress calls this crack fic. This is clearly because she is a humble, humble woman because this story is just plain brilliant. Dean is cursed and wakes up as his seven year old self. It should be silly but isn't owing to the author's tender depiction of Little Dean. Little Dean manages to be feral, smart, foul mouthed, self possessed, and an utterly terrified little boy desperate to see his Daddy all at the same time. Little Dean just about broke my heart into a million pieces. I loved the sequence of him playing with Missouri's dog Duchess - it's clear that Dean didn't have a lot of time to just be a kid - but he can be with Sam. And Sam, oh Sam how much did I love you in this story? His agony over losing his Dean, his terror of having to play protector for the first time in his life, his fierce determination to take care of Dean - beautiful. The brief sequence with John just killed me. The Dean in this story is everything that I wanted Little Dean in the flashbacks sequences in Something Wicked to be and wasn't. It's a testament to the strength of the story that when I re-watch Something Wicked it will be this Dean I'll be seeing in my head.Dean is so small it hurts Sam someplace deep inside. He doesn't ever remember seeing Dean small, ever remember thinking of him as being small. To his little-brother eyes, Dean has always had a bigger-than-me glamour, and it is bittersweet now, while Dean climbs into his crisp new jeans and shirt, struggles with the laces of his stiff new sneakers. To Sam, Dean's always been larger than life. This jars him, makes him feel helpless and scared and overwhelmed with the sudden responsibility.Sew Buttons on Ice Cream (See if they Stick) and ...And the Horse You Rode In On both by trollprincessSam/Dean gender swapFurther adventures with girl/Sam and girl/Dean. Takes place in the same universe as This One Time, In a Michelle Pfeiffer Movie