Summary: Canon divergence post season two where Sam doesn’t die and Dean doesn’t make any deals, and their lives take on completely new turns. Sam goes back to college and Dean keeps hunting...but can they stay apart? A get-together story in a universe where the forces of Heaven and Hell left them alone.

Authors’ Notes: Each of us took one character's POV and wrote him from start to finish. Part of the story is told only through text exchanges between Sam and Dean, while the other features a few text exchanges but is mostly in narrative form with alternating POVs. A lot of material ended up on the cutting room floor only because it didn’t quite fit within our frame; we feel some of it might be of interest to readers, so there’ll be some Special Features at the end.

Our sincere gratitude to analineblue for the enthusiastic and thoughtful beta and milly_gal for the gorgeous graphics.

Special thanks to frozen_delight for introducing us to each other. She was the first to know about the story and we are excited to share it with her at last! Canon wishes to add her particular thanks to frozen_delight for convincing her to watch the show in the first place <3