Title: Not Okay.
Author: Supernoodle.
Disclaimer: As always, sadly, I only own the order that the words are written in.
Challenge Phrase: Collapse(d)
Word Count: 100, on the button!
Posted: 24th Feb 2009
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A/N: Angsty, plotless, Hurt!Dean... I have no excuses. And late cuz the site was down.
And reading this back, I'm not sure I'm expressing myself properly here... Dean doesn't have all these injuries now - I'm not sure a person would survive all that happenening at once. It's meant to be Sam reflecting on the things that have happened to his brother over the years, going back to the injuries that Dean suffered when the Impala got totalled at the end on Season 1.
Now, I'm a firm believer in the fact that if you have to explain what you have written, then you haven't done a very good job - but I'm going to let myself off the hook here because 100 words is a very tight limit and at the end of the day, this is just a bit of fun :-)
Collapsed lung, broken ribs, dislocated shoulder-
Sam listens to the doctor speak until it hisses out into white noise. Lists of hurts – he'd heard them all before.
Concussion, broken nose, detached retina-
Intangible words that mean nothing until he sees his brother in agony in a hospital bed. Then they become real.
Haemorrhage, internal bleeding, lacerations-
"I'm okay. I've had worse." Dean jokes as morphine drip-drip-drips into his veins. Sam can see it hurts him to breath.
It's not bravado. Dean has had worse.
Cerebral oedema, internal contusions, cardiac arrest-
But he's not okay and Sam can't do this anymore.