Requirements

Zine
Title:	Requirements
Publisher:	GriffinSong Press
Editor:
Author(s):	J.M. Griffin
Cover Artist(s):	JKay
Illustrator(s):
Date(s):	2008, 2009
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Supernatural
Language:	English
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cover of the 2008 143-page version

Requirements is a slash Dean/OMC novel by J.M Griffin.

Series

• Revelations
• Requirements
• Reckonings

Chapters

• Cold Comfort (1)
• Requirements (29)
• Hum of the Universe (104)
• A Song Twice Over (139)

Summary

Like the proverbial moth to the flame, Dean Winchester finds himself drawn back to Savannah, GA again and again. His lover is always delighted to see him. But the relationship shifts and changes between the two men when James gets an up-close glimpse into the scary world Dean and Sam inhabit.

REQ is where things really begin to diverge from canon.

Part One (Cold Comfort): The car wreck from Devil's Trap (1.22) happens in February of 2007. Dean comes to James for comfort about a month later in March (early spring.) Sam shows up at James' house and some of the dialogue on James' porch is stolen from the riverside scene at the end of Croatoan (2.08) and the beginning of Hunted (2.10). The brothers are worried Sam will go Dark Side.

Part Two (Requirements): James meets Missouri. Sam is abducted and Dean shows up at James' house looking for help since he has badly injured both hands. Some of the action of Requirements follows the events of Hunted (2.10),) but things definitely diverge from season two canon here. Ava never meets the Winchesters because Gordon killed her some time back. He (and perhaps others) thinks Dean is the one the YED wants, and he opportunistically abducts Sam rather than Dean, because Sam is conveniently available in the cemetery with the zombie girl from Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (2.04). Gordon takes Sam knowing Dean will come to save his brother. Andy is mentioned in passing by Gordon—it seems in this universe, Sam is the only special child of the YED who has not met an untimely death.

Part Three: (The Hum of the Universe): Though in this AU the events of season 2happen stripped of some of the angst of canon, the tension after Tall Tales (2.15) is evident at the beginning of this part. Due to the mess up at the bank in Nightshifier (2.12) Dean has not been in touch with James. Sam alludes to the events of Born Under a Bad Sign (2.14), Needing a break from each other, Sam and Dean go their separate ways for along weekend. Dean and James meet in San Diego when Sam goes to see Jessica's folks in Antioch.

Part Four (A Song Twice Over): It is very evident here that All Hell Breaks Loose 1 or 2 (2.21 & 2.22) do not happen as in canon. Dean does not need to make a deal with a crossroads demon because there is no Jake and so Sam does not die. In early May, Bobby and the boys trap the YED in the cemetery -and Dean kills him with the Colt. The Devil's Gate is opened on Mid-summer's Night, and John is released from hell, but so are the seven deadly sins -not 200 plus demons. Jo, Ellen, Ash and the Roadhouse are never mentioned in this universe. The reader can figure that pivotal monster of the week episodes such as Heart (2.17) did take place. However, What is and What Should Never Be (2.20) doesn't hold up in this universe because Dean has James -and he is not the broken man we see at the end of canon season two.