all duct tape and safety pins inside

Title: arindhum ariyamalum
Author: emmram
Words: ~5,500


Summary: AU. Dean and Sam never grew up together. It doesn't mean that they aren't still pawns in a cosmic endgame, and that, despite spending a lifetime apart, they aren't still brothers.

Warnings: SPOILERS all the way through s5. Lots of swearing, violence, blood, gore, one non-explicit allusion to rape, character death, present-tense, weirdness. There's not a terrible lot of Sam in this story as it's told from Dean's point-of-view, but he does play a very important part.

The title is Tamil, and it translates to 'Knowing or Unknowning'. It's shamelessly (shamelessly!) stolen from a Tamil movie of the same name. That movie also features a boy separated from his father as a baby, only for that father and his stepbrother to find him by accident twenty years later. It's awesome fun, and features some of the most entertaining brotherly bonding I've seen on Tamil cinema, and doesn't actually bear all that much resemblance to this fic.

( Dean Winchester is four years old when he carries his little brother out of a fire for the first time. )