Word Count: 100

Prompt Word: Frame (and an old word I missed - Profile)


The veil of sleep lifted and Sam's vision swam into focus, a bed lying empty; sheets unused.

"Dean..." he breathed silently into his pillow, slipping one hand underneath to touch cold familiar blade; his muscles rippling awake.

He rolled noiselessly over, relaxing as his brother's form appeared, slumped over in a chair before the muted TV. The screen's eerie glow framed his profile and projected distorted television images across the bare skin of his chest.

Tears glinted on hollowed cheeks and Sam almost expected the pictures to shine straight through. Dean was just the ghost of the brother he remembered.