Back Into Place

by Onyx Moonbeam

E/O CHALLENGE If Dean has his brother and his Dad, then it's home. Drabble Challenge Word: Splinter

Back into Place

Word: Splinter

Word Count: 100

Disclaimer: If I owned them, my excitement might cause some sort of small earthquake. Luckily…I don't.

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He'd splintered in two. When Sam had left. To Stanford and 'normal,' whatever that could be for him.

Sam one way. Dad another. And Dean broken between them.

John's hand hard against his shoulder blades, strong against his chest, brings Dean back to now. This room, his dad and brother.

Won't be a minute before there's hunting, and vampires, and, knowing Sam and John, a whole lotta yelling.

But Dean breathes deep as John turns toward Sam, tells him he's sorry, hugs the son he hasn't seen in four and a half years. And it all settles back into place.