Title: Engulfed
Author: Enkidu07
Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me.
Challenge Word: dirt
Summary: Sometimes just a smell can bring back a memory. Dean's having a hard time coping. Sam gets them out.
Undercover on campus. Parties, girls, no actual classes. Dean's on it.
"They're not doing it right." Dean whines.
"Go help them."
Strategic placement, a flick of the wrist. Dean's the hero of the bonfire.
Girls and beers and back-slapping laughter.
Night falls fast. Flickering fire, shadowed jeering faces over glowing embers.
Dean wavers, stomach clenching.
"Dean?"
Dean can't talk, just sees the frame of the palates like a funeral pile, silhouetted in the fire.
Dean's dirty hands shake. "We're supposed to stay at TKE."
Shrugs, "They'll think you got lucky."
"What'll we say for you?"
The smack settles his nerves.
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