Outside of Dreams
Theme: #6, the space between dream and reality.
Disclaimer: Not mine :)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for sexiness
He only comes to her after dark. When Jo goes to bed and closes her eyes Dean is by her side, holding her, kissing her. It doesn't matter that Jo is in a rundown, one-and-a-half room apartment in Minnesota and Dean is driving down back-roads in the middle of nowhere. He always finds her in the space between dreams and reality.
After Dean saved Jo's life for the third time (or the fourth, she had lost count) he promised that he would call, but she knew him better than that. He would chase after his brother and save the world and she would be left with the memory of his scent and the sound of his voice. It wasn't fair for Dean to have such a hold on Jo when she had none on him.
Her dreams always start the same. Dean grabs her arm and presses her against the wall. Jo sighs and he smirks. He kisses her and she closes her eyes and pretends that he's really with her. Dean slides his hands under Jo's shirt, unhooking her bra with practiced ease and she unbuttons his jeans. When he pushes her down onto the bed she shivers at the contact. His skin is warm and soft and Jo pulls him closer, desperate to feel something besides all-consuming loneliness.
The dream ends much too soon. With a smirk or a smile Dean vanishes in the blink of an eye and Jo is left behind, alone and unsatisfied. When she wakes, Jo stretches her arm across her cold bed—too large for a girl her size. She chokes back tears and hugs her pillow, pretending that it has the arms to hug her back.
Jo hates herself for missing Dean—for loving him even though he doesn't love her back. She hates herself for the way her heart skips whenever her phone rings, even though he's never on the other end. Most of all Jo hates herself for crying as she falls asleep, wishing Dean came to her outside of her dreams.