Title: Choke
Author: Mad Server
Rating: T
Characters: Sam, Dean, Bobby
Word Count: 100, on the money
Summary: Just some grieving, fresh-from-the-hospital Dean. With the Heimlich maneuver.
A/N: This takes place between IMTOD and ELAC. It's for Lia Walker, who wrote me sick Dean.
Disclaimer: I don't own these guys.
His first day out of hospital, Dean crawls under the Impala and doesn't come out. Sam loiters by his knees, leaving medications, offering food. He and Bobby are playing Scrabble by lamplight when Dean ghosts in, greasy, red-nosed, wiping his eyes - cuts past them to the shower.
The next night, Bobby cooks stew, and Dean eats. One mouthful, and he starts coughing - stops, face flushed, eyes bulging. Sam thumps his back, squeezes up against his diaphragm; a carrot chunk goes flying. They're still patting his shoulders well after the hacking's done.
"You OK?" Sam asks later, in the dark.
"Kinda."
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