Dean Winchester

Dean Winchester is the son of John Winchester and Mary Campbell as well as the older brother of Sam Winchester and half-brother to Adam Milligan. He lived until the age of four in Lawrence, Kansas where he lived with his mother and father where he apparently played T-ball and where Mary would sing him to sleep with the Beatles song "Hey Jude" and make him tomato soup when he was sick. She also used to tell him every night before he went to sleep that angels were watching him.

Early Life/Pre-Series

Dean was only four years old on the night of November 2nd, 1983 the night a demon visited his younger brother's nursery and fed him demon blood. His mother ran into the nursery after realizing that John wasn't the one in the there. He heard the commotion and ran into the nursery only to have John thrust Sam into his arms and tell him to take Sam outside and "don't look back." Dean did as he was told and he watched along with his father as fire fighters fought to control the blaze inside the house. After hearing from Lawrence based psychic that demons existed and that was what killed Mary, John took Dean and Sam and started a twenty-three year quest to find the demon that killed her. Almost immediately, Dean assumed the role of protector for Sam. It was something that John never told Dean to do, it was just something that Dean felt like he had to do, that that was his one job.

Over the years, John started leaving Dean in charge of Sam when he would go out on hunts. Often, these hunts would take him away from Dean and Sam for long stretches of time. During these times, Sam would often ask Dean where John would go when he left, why they didn't have a mother, why they had to move around so much. Dean would often reply by saying, "Quit asking, Sammy. You don't want to know." During one hunt their father was on in 1989, Dean was haunted by his failure to protect Sam after a Shtriga almost harmed him after Dean left Sam unprotected to go play games. When he came back, he saw the shtriga about to take the first fatal bites. Just as Dean was about to shoot it, John showed up and shot it out the window.

His father demanded to know what had happened, Dean admitted that he had been out when the creature had shown up. Enraged, John reminded Dean that he had told him to never let Sam out of his sight. Immediately after that, John packed up the boys and took them to Jim Murphy's so he could return to Wisconsin to kill the creature, but it was gone. Dean was haunted by this, knowing that he caused the deaths of other people by not listening to his Dad.

One Christmas in 1991, Dean, in an attempt to make Christmas special for Sam, stole some presents from a neighborhood they were near while John was out hunting. The presents all turned out to be girl presents, Sam was bummed and was furious that John hadn't shown up. He gave Dean the necklace that he had originally intended for John. The necklace was a little amulet that Bobby had given Sam to give to John. He told Sam that the amulet was special and to take care of it. Dean was touched by the gift and has worn it ever since.

Dean was present for most of John and Sam's fights. As Sam gold older, he started to rebel against the life that he led. Dean for the most part just accepted the status quo and tried to impart his wisdom upon Sam, but Sam was having none of it. He wanted school, friends and a home but John told him that if he was going to be a hunter, he couldn't have those kinds of connections, that they would only bring him down and put people he loved in danger.

Shortly after in the fall of 2002, Sam got an acceptance letter to Stanford University. When Sam announced he was leaving, the fight that followed between him and John was one of the worst fights of their entire lives, with John yelling at Sam to never come back if he left. Sam still chose to leave. Dean described this night as "one of the worst nights of my life." Following Sam's departure, Dean kept in contact with Sam until about a month after when he announced that he had cut off contact with him, too.

After that, John and Dean hunted together, spending everyday together solving cases. During this time, they helped a man with a poltergeist problem. After a bad hunt, John pulled Dean aside and told him that he had another brother by the name of Adam. Dean reacted furiously to this news, demanding to know why John hadn't told him sooner. John retorted by saying the Winchester name was cursed and he didn't want to give the same life to Adam that he gave to Dean and Sam. Dean met Adam for a few minutes and furiously interrogated him about his relationship with John, becoming more hurt by the second as Adam told him all of the fun things they had done together.

2006-2008

Late in 2005, while John and Dean happened to be on separate hunts, John mysteriously disappeared. Dean was in New Orleans taking care of a case, and when he tried to reach John, he couldn't. He looked everywhere for him before admitting defeat. His next option was going to Stanford to get Sam. When he showed up, he and Sam engaged in a short physical combat before Sam realized who he was fighting. Dean tried to convince Sam to go, explaining that their Dad was missing and had been for some time. Sam was still skeptical, remembering certain times in which John had gone missing before.

"Not for this long," was Dean's reply. Sam hesitantly agreed to go with him and he and Dean headed out to John's next known location: Jericho, California where he was investigating a "woman in white" legend. When it became apparent that John wasn't there, the boys still stuck around to solve the case. Once Dean had dropped Sam back off at Stanford, he remarked that it felt nice to hunt with him, that it was just like old times. Sam ignored the comment and reminded Dean to call him when he found John.

However, shortly after Dean left Sam, he noticed the tell-tale signs of a spirit or demon. He turned around to head back to Stanford, only to discover Sam's apartment on fire and his girlfriend, Jessica, dead on the ceiling in much the same way his mother had died twenty-two years previously. After that, Sam and Dean stay briefly in Palo Alto long enough to attend her funeral and try to figure out exactly how she died, and what they could dig up on the demon. All of their investigations reach a dead end, though and the boys are forced to leave their mission.

A few months after, Dean gets a message from Adam, telling him that his mother is missing and he's currently at the police station. Dean, to Sam's immense surprise instantly volunteers to go on a plane to fast track it to Minnesota. Once there, they search the house and find traces of sulfur--an indication that a demon has been there. They are about to decide their next move when Dean's phone rings, his face instantly changes when Adam tells him that his mother is dead, her body had been found in an abandoned field partially buried.

Dean takes the news of Adam's mothers death hard. To him, Adam was a normal kid who had a shot at a normal life unlike his family. Dean and Sam pick him up from the police station. Shortly after, they try to convince Adam to go to his mother's funeral. He doesn't want to go, saying that all he'll be saying goodbye to is a corpse. Dean tries to argue with him but shuts up after a quick look from Sam.

Later, once Adam is out earshot, Sam and Dean try to decide what they are going to do about Adam. Sam wants to start training him, teaching him to fight against the various supernatural baddies they encounter. Dean, however, is not as convinced, knowing what his dad wanted for Adam. However, Dean soon realizes that they have no choice and begin training Adam up. Dean insists on teaching Adam all that he possibly can about the weapons and fighting while Sam takes on the role of teaching Adam the more technical and complex areas of hunting, specifically the area of research.

A few weeks after Adam comes into their care, Sam and Dean (hesitantly) travel to Lawrence, Kansas where their old home is. Sam had picked up mysterious signs happening at their home and wanted to check it out. Dean, however, is less than thrilled at the prospect and questions why they have to pick the case up. Sam explains that something is in the house, something that he had seen in several recent nightmares. Dean questions the sanity in traveling to Kansas based on a nightmare, but Sam is adamant about going.

Dean admits to Sam and Adam that he swore to himself that he would never step foot there again after what happened to his Mom. Sam is sympathetic but reminds Dean of the fact that they have to save whomever is in danger. When they get there, they meet a psychic, Missouri Mosely who knew their father and who first told him about the supernatural. Dean, overcome with emotion at the return to his old homeland, calls John tearfully and begs him to come and help them if he gets the message.

He and his brothers meet the woman who is now living in the house. She informs them that there are several problems with the house including bugs and leakings. Her young daughter tells them that she also sees things in the night--including something in her closet. The boys leave the house and come back later with Missouri who tells them that they can cleanse the house, make sure the spirit is out. They do that, but before long it makes its reappearance: Sam and Dean and Adam rush into the house, get the woman and kids out but Sam is trapped before he can get out.

Dean frantically tries to get to him, and finally manages to break the door down before rushing into the kitchen where Sam is frozen against the counter. Dean begins to shoot the thing before Sam yells at him to wait, telling him that he knows who it is. Dean watches as the spirit of his mother appears in front of him. She walks toward them, sharing a touching moment with them before saying she was "sorry". Before she could answer them and tell them what she meant, she turns and faces the spirit, telling it to stay away from her sons before she and the spirit end up cancelling each other out, according to Missouri.

Approximately one week after that, Sam is desperately trying to reach their father, complaining to Dean that he would think John would call them at least if it concerned Adam. He starts calling all of John's old contacts and friends, but they have heard nothing. Soon after, Dean receives a text message from John containing coordinates. They trace the coordinates to Rockford where they speak with the partner of a police officer who died after chasing a few teenagers into the south wing of an asylum.

The three brothers go back to the motel where Dean looks up a reference in John's journal to a case that originated back in 1972. After they visit and explore the asylum, they track down a psychiatrist named James Ellicot whose father happened to be chief of staff at the time of the killings, Sam decides to pose as a patient and learns that the house was actually used for the criminally insane people. The brothers return to the asylum where they find a young girl whose boyfriend was missing. Sam and Dean insist that she remain behind while the three of them look. She, however, is insistant that she accompany them. Sam finds the missing man who is terrified and rambling about how a ghost tried to kiss him.

Meanwhile, Dean and Adam are walking with Kat (the girl) when she suddenly gets locked into a room. The ghost, before it leaves, whispers the word "one thirty seven" which the boys think means a room number. Eventually, they figure out that the spirit haunting the place is really Ellcot. They manage to successfully get rid of the spirit. The next morning as they are sleeping, the phone rings. Sam answers it. It's John.

Sam is stunned to hear from him and demands to know if he's alright. John answers that he is, and that he wants to know how the boys are. Sam reassures him that they're all fine, but wants to know where John is. John won't tell him that and tells him that it's not safe for him to know. Dean awakens by that point and grabs the phone from Sam where John tells Dean to listen to him and follow his instruction. Dean does, infuriating Sam. On the way to their next job in Burkittsville, Indiana where couples are mysteriously vanishing, Sam and Dean argue about John. Adam wisely stays out of the discussion but knows how Sam feels, he barely got to say two words to John before Dean had ripped the phone from him. Sam tells Dean that he can't understand the blind faith that Dean has in him. Dean retorts that it's called being a good son.

After that, Sam demands that they separate. Sam takes Adam and Dean goes on the hunt by himself for the first time. Dean ends up working the job by himself. In Burkittsville, he starts handing out photos of the missing couple to the locals, but gets nothing. He follows the route the couple took out of town and when his EMF starts reacting, he investigates the nearby orchard where he follows the signals to a scarecrow.

He returns to the township and speaks with Emily, who lives with her aunt and uncle. He soon finds a young couple at a diner and tries to get answers from them before they began to get suspicious and a sheriff orders him to leave. The case ends when Sam decides to return to Dean just in time to see Dean about to be killed by the scarecrow after the towns folk decide that they must sacrifice Dean and Emily so the monster won't come after them.

About a week later, Dean and the other two pick up a case in Nebraska. A rawhead is terrorizing a group of kids that had found shelter under some cupboards. Warning the kids to run, Dean and Sam begin to fight the monster before it grabs one of the kids, Dean and Sam get the thing away from the kids, and Sam goes with them to make sure they're okay while Dean remains behind to kill the thing. Knowing that he only has one shot with it, he aims but misses. Tripping backward, he is immediately electrocuted by the rawhead. At the hospital, the doctor paints a grim portrait for Sam and Adam, telling them that their brother suffered a massive heart attack from the electrocution and that he only has weeks to live.

Sam and Adam research, and even call John to no avail. Finally, one of John's contacts tells them of a faith healer in Nebraska. Dean is skeptical of this, and is even more skeptical awhen the faith healer, Roy, invites him onstage for a healing. Dean goes up and is almost instantly healed of his ailment, much to the outrage of one mother whose daughter has been hoping for a miracle for months at that point. However, Sam and Adam are confident that she'll get her turn sooner or later, and all they're thankful for is that Dean is finally okay. Soon, though the brothers figure out that every time Roy saves someone, another person dies of the same ailment the other person was saved from.

Dean was saved from a heart attack, so another man died of a heart attack at the same time that Dean was saved. The brothers figure out that his wife is controlling the reaper that is coming to claim the victims. During another service, the brothers interrupt it--coincidentally interrupting the service that Layla was about to be saved at. After a brief struggle, Sam stomps on the alter that Roy's wife is praying to and stop the bad streak. Dean, though feels bad that he has stopped Layla from having her miracle. She tells him that she is at peace with what is going to happen to her. He tells her that he will pray for her. She tells him that that's a miracle itself.

A few months later, Sam, Adam and Dean get a case: A few people had recently died in Chicago, all from locked apartments, no security alarms had gone off. They travel to the windy city where Dean and Sam pose as reps from the security company. They enter the apartment and find blood stains that they trace around to an unidentified signal. At the bar that Dean and Sam go, they discover Meg, Sam's friend whom he had met back when he and Dean had had their fight. She is rude to Dean, telling him that he lugs Sam and Adam around like their luggage and tells him that he should leave them alone. Dean is stunned by this and doesn't know what to say to her

Later on, Sam calls Caleb and Caleb informs them that the symbol they've found is a symbol for a deava. A zoroastrian demon. Sam is suspicious that Meg's appearance in the city isn't completely coicidental and he decides to follow her to her apartment--Dean and Adam rib him about wanting a hook up but he brushes off their comments and follows her anyway. Meanwhile, Dean and Adam check out Meg's past and discover that her story checks out. Dean calls Sam and informs him of this, and then discovers a startling similarity to the victims: They're all from Lawrence, Kansas. Thinking that it might be the demon that had killed their mother, Dean calls John and asks him to come to Chicago and help them.

Later, at the apartment, as the boys gear up for battle, Sam muses about what they would do if they were finally able to kill the demon. Dean tells him that it will never be over, that there will always be others out there. Sam tells him that he wants to go back to school, and that once it was over, he would have to let Sam go his own way. Sam, Dean and Adam then go to the warehouse where Sam had tracked Meg and find her leaning over an alter, chanting to the spirits. They sneak in where she tells them to come out of hiding, that it's rude to hide. She quickly overpowers them and ties them up. Once they awaken, she informs the brothers that they have unknowingly fallen right into her trap, a trap, she also adds, that wasn't meant for them. Dean knows that she's talking about John and reacts strongly with anger.

All three Winchesters react strongly when Meg reveals that she is the one that killed Adam's mother several months previously. She begins to taunt Adam, telling him that his mother never really loved him and he was the worst mistake she ever made. Dean and Sam implore Adam to never believe her, that she was lying. Eventually, Dean and Sam get away from her and watch as the spirits she was controlling, turn on her and throw her out the window.When Dean, Sam and Adam return to the apartment, they are shocked to discover John standing there. He and Dean share an emotional reunion before John turns his attention to the other two kids. Dean apologizes to John, knowing now that the demon had planned a trap for him.

John reassures him that it's alright, that he thought that's what it might've been. He reveals to them that he plans on killing the demon that killed Mary, and not just exorcise it, actually kill it. When Dean presses him for answers, he only says that he is working on it. Shortly after, the shadow demons attack them, almost killing them if Adam hadn't gotten the flair out of Sam's bag and thrown it at them. The sudden light drove them away long enough for the Winchesters to get out. Out on the street, Sam is all ready to go with John, but Dean stops him, knowing their dad and Adam are weaknesses and that the demon would go after John and Adam because of them. Dean tells John that they have to separate. Sam fights againsts this but eventually realizes that Dean is right. Dean watches as his Dad and brother drive off into the night.

A few months after, Dean and Sam are sitting in a diner in Nebraska sifting through papers looking for jobs when Sam mentions something about a Daniel Elkins dying. Dean recognizes the name from John's journal. He flips through the journal until he finds it. The death came from Manning, Colorado. Sam and Dean travel to Colorado to check out the death, and investigate Elkin's place, unaware that John and Adam had taken on the same case, unaware that they were on the same hunt as each other. Sam and Dean find a letter addressed to John, they take it back to the Impala before John raps on the window, scaring Dean and Sam before John climbs into the back of the car and explaining that he and Adam had gotten there as fast as they could once they heard of the death, John reads the letter and is angered to learn that Daniel Elkins had the gun he was looking for the whole time.

Sam and Dean accompany John back to his motel where he further explains the legend of the Colt gun and tells them that this gun has the capability of killing any demon it shoots, the catch is that it only has four bullets left. John also reveals that the thing that killed Daniel Elkins was a vampire or vampires. Dean is shocked by this and reminds John that he said before there was no such thing. John tells him that he thought they were extinct, that Elkins and other hunters had hunted them to extinction. He was wrong, he admits. He spends the rest of the night and morning listening to his police scanner looking for signs of the vampires, and finally finds them when a couple who called 911 was missing. He assumes it's the vampires and wakes his three boys up before going out and talking to the cops.

He confirms that it's the vampires--he tells them they'll have to find their location and stake out the place. He decides to leave Adam with his truck, while he, Dean and Sam go check out the forest. When they return, they discover that Adam is missing. When they finally find him with a badly broken leg, Dean drives Adam to the hospital with John. Dean supports John's decision when he announces that he's going back after the vampires while Adam is in surgery. Dean and Sam accompany John for backup and watch as he successfully kills the vampires and retrieves the colt.