Specific fic and general search: Kindness of Strangers

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Hi! I'm looking for a specific fic I read quite a while ago, it was outsider POV of an older woman who was awake late on Christmas Eve and finds a boy (Dean) climbing in her window to steal presents for his little brother (Sammy). There is a follow-up section where she meets Dean again as an adult.

My general search is related in that I'm looking for stories of the boys meeting with kindness from strangers. Of course the classic is reading's Strangers and Angels and I love long fics but I'll take just about anything - long, short, wee!chesters, future fic, AU, any pairing except parent/child, etc. I'm not picky. :)

Thanks!

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[grasshopr-molly.livejournal.com]

If you'll pardon a self-rec, The Kindness of Strangers (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1847044). Be warned, it contains mention (though not description) of non-consensual sex.

[qa99.livejournal.com]

Self-recs are just fine! And I'd read anything by the author of Every Man's Got a Right (http://archiveofourown.org/works/981795/chapters/1933470)- it's one of my favorites. :)

[bluestar3317.livejournal.com]

Letters From the Dead by water4willows
Sam's words cut him deep and in the confusion and anger of their aftermath, Dean flees. He thinks some time apart might do them some good. How very wrong he turns out to be.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10134989/1/Letters-From-the-Dead

The Christmas Spirit by Noxbait
S1. After a hunt involving dueling poltergeists leaves the boys broke and almost out of gas in Arizona on Christmas Eve, they discover their troubles have only just begun. Making matters even worse, Dean's sick and Sam isn't doing much better. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and they just may have to accept help from a few strangers in order to survive this.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10905035/1/The-Christmas-Spirit

MIA by Madebyme
She's always had a soft spot for strays but there's something different about this one, and more than anything she wants him to find whoever he's lost.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7065918/1/MIA

Safe Haven by Madebyme
She knows something is off with these two and it's not just because Dean got sick and Sam got hurt. An outsider POV featuring Alice from my fic MIA.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7985004/1/Safe-Haven

[(Anonymous)]

Self-reccing here...I wrote a story exactly to your first request called, "Give." Was that it? :)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10074722/1/Give

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That's it! Thank you! I've bookmarked it this time so I won't lose it again. :)

[qa99.livejournal.com]

Thank you for taking the time to rec so many. I'm looking forward to reading them.

[(Anonymous)]

Try these?

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3224205/1/Hope-for-a-Child

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3535939/1/Recovery