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A Supernatural drabble
by mew-tsubaki
Note: The Supernatural cast doesn't belong to me, sadly. I've been watching too much of this show lately… ;P Read, review, and enjoy! *Written for autumn midnights for the Gift-Giving Extravaganza 2014 forum with the request for sibling bonding (and Destiel, because I could sneak it in here).
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Sam wakes up one night, in the middle of the night. He's in the hotel room, and it's fairly quiet. There's nothing outside except the sounds of the town.
So he lies there, wondering why the hell he woke up in the first place.
He closes his eyes, thinking about the job that brought them out here. Everything goes back to the leviathans these days… Even Bobby's getting sick of them… Either way, Sam would be surprised if his phone didn't buzz with another text about more leviathan-related news. That's all they ever hear about these days.
The younger Winchester stays on his back and looks to his left, at the other bed, where Dean's been tossing and turning all night. Oh. That makes sense. His rustling probably woke Sam up. After all, Sam's rather a light sleeper these days, even after Cass took Lucifer out of his mind…
"Cass."
Sam blinks…and frowns. So that's what it was.
Dean turns over, away from Sam, and grumbles something else in his sleep. But he says "Cass" again, and it sounds so pitiful.
It's hard, hearing that. Losing Cass and then regaining him only to lose him right after…
Sam wonders how many more times he'll hear Dean call for the angel in his sleep. He's not surprised that it's happening at all. Sam has come to see Cass like a brother. Dean…well, it's complicated.
And when his older brother murmurs the name once more, Sam muses on the first time Dean had ever said that.
Huh. That's right. They barely knew Cass then, Sam even less so than Dean. And they still hadn't made up their minds about the angel—makes sense as there was so much going on at the time. And Dean had learned Sam's little [Ruby] secret, and yelled at him for it, and told him that it was God's plan for Sam to stop and that "Cass" had even arrived because of this—
Sam grins halfheartedly to himself. Figures. Dean yells at Sam and gives the angel a nickname in the same breath. Sam knew he should've seen it sooner, Dean and Cass.
Instead, he saw it a while after that, and now things have come to this. Him and Dean in a hotel like old times, working a case. In truth, Dean's been muttering the angel's name in his sleep for years, so that's like old times, too.
Sam hopes for one thing that night as he drifts back asleep: He wishes that all the "old times" would return…his brother's happiness, angel and all.
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And this is what you get from binge-watching SPN and watching s4e3 "Metamorphosis." I died when I noticed when Dean first said "Cass"—while yelling at Sam about Ruby. XD Gods, you could already see the ship coming from half a world away. ;P So some inspiration from s3&4, Jess, but worked into s7. Hope that works, *lol*.
Anywho, thanks for reading, and please review!
-mew-tsubaki :]