#early season 13 would probably be a good placement for this - after Cas gets back but Jack doesn't disappear to apoc world or whatever

[found--family]

 there was gordon and that demon!vessel guy but i want more  i want a case where TFW 2.0 follow a lead to what at first it seems like a human serial killer (Sam wanted to check it out bc ofc he did) but it turns out all the victims are monsters and that splits the group: two of them think it's a hunter just doing their job, the other two think it's a monster on a killing spree. turns out they're all right: it's not a creature-monster though, just a twisted human playing Hunter, someone whose life was adversely affected by monsters in their youth so they grew up to hunt them -- without bothering to differentiate between Bad Monsters and Good Monsters, they just saw /not human/ and killed them. think Lenore and Benny and Garth and Kate. this person is what Dean and Sam almost became, what John was forcing them towards, and how many of their early cases were for not-bad-monsters? how many Good Monsters did John kill on his solo hunts or where did Dean wasn't privy to all the information? basically the whole case dredges up details of the boys' past they'd rather not revisit but they can't not look closer at now. 

#case fic #motw #tfw 2.0 #saving people hunting evil the found family business #hunter husbands #thoughts #angst with a happy ending #early season 13 would probably be a good placement for this - after Cas gets back but Jack doesn't disappear to apoc world or whatever #i know they touched on the whole hunting-isnt-black-and-white thing in canon a few times but they never focused on #a problematic case like this with a problematic human and linked it to their pasts with flashbacks.