mickeym

(I'm not actually here, see. I'm really off being a good girl and working on my Big Bang. *these aren't the droids you're looking for*)

Okay. Story I'm looking for is future-ish; it would've been post S3 or maybe S4, when we were all still not sure if Sam was supposed to be going darkside. It's after evil's been banished, or whatever, and it's Sam/Dean. Sam can't talk -- he and Dean use sign language to communicate. Well, Sam uses it to talk, and obviously Dean has to know it so he knows what Sam's saying. The big reveal of the story is that Sam just doesn't talk, by choice, because if he talks, people do what he tells them. Like a bigger, stronger version of Andy's psychic ability. I think he does say something outloud at the very end of the story, and there's a girl involved somehow.

Ring any bells?

ETA: Found it! That Thing That's Golden. Thanks,