A/N: currently rewatching SPN (who isn't?) and I'm in early Season 2. Lotsa feelings! And the need, apparently, to write angsty Dean drabbles.
Disclaimer: Not mine, not slash, etc.
Empty people in crowded bars drink because it's five o'clock somewhere.
They drink because they're happy, because they're sad, because something's broken or lost or over.
And though he may drink for all these reasons, or for none, Dean drinks because somewhere, people he won't know are happy. Somewhere, people he can't save are dying.
Like John Winchester died to save him.
Dean drinks to drown the words rising to his lips. Because Dad died for him—as though he mattered—and if Dean lets himself speak, this is the first time he'll let himself say John Winchester was mistaken.