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"Sam?...with me bud...-mmy?"

Sam could hear someone calling out to him. He vaguely recognized the voice. Who was it?

"Sam? Come on kiddo. Open your eyes for me. Please." came the voice again.

Sam frowned inwardly. It was laced with concern and a hint of panic too. He knew that voice anywhere. Dean. He struggled to climb out of his haze filled situation. Damn eyes. Open already! With what seemed like a huge amount of struggle, Sam blinked open his eyes to see Dean's face barely a few inches away from his.

Dean's eyes flooded with relief as he saw his baby brother finally look at him. "Thank God." he muttered. He brushed a hand through Sam's hair. Sam stared at him like he'd gone crazy. Because according to Sam, Dean never indulged in a chick-flick moment.

"Shut up." Dean muttered again, recognizing the look on Sam's face. He felt his heart flood with happiness at Sam's chuckle.

Sam winced a little at the movement. "Ow." he said audibly, instinctively reaching a hand out to his shoulder. Dean immediately stopped the progress, giving Sam a stern look.

"You don't say Sam. And no touching."

Sam rubbed his face with his good hand. "What happened?" he asked in a gruff voice. Dean immediately took the glass of water from the bed side and held it while Sam sipped the water.

"Better? Alright. What do you remember?" asked Dean.

Sam frowned for a minute. "Um, I remember you freaking out about my shoulder and then all went black. The next thing I know, I'm waking up with your face in mine."

"Ok. You scared me there though. Don't you dare do that again." Dean said, sighing and rubbing his face.

Sam looked at his brother. Dean looked like he'd been through a lot. There were circles forming under his eyes and the rims looked red like he'd been crying. "Was it...bad?" Sam asked hesitantly.

"Kind of. You were out for 3 and a half days. It's Thursday. And you'd passed out on Monday morning. I gotta say though, the nurses here are smokin'"

Sam rolled his eyes. Dean was trying to avoid the subject. "Please Dean. What happened?" He looked at Dean with his puppy eyes.

Dean sighed. "I so regret teaching you that look. Um, the nurse, Penny, said you'd gone into sepsis because of the infection in your shoulder. They managed to get it down, but they still haven't figured out why the wound got infected so quickly in the first place. Said it was because of a bacterium or something."

"Polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria?" Sam blurted out. Shit. He cursed himself.

Dean narrowed his eyes at Sam. "Yeah actually. How did you know that?"

Sam ran a hand through his hair. "Um, a guess. I read a couple medical books at Stanford too so I know. They're, uh, infection causing bacteria." Sam lied, hoping Dean would buy it.

Dean didn't think Sam was telling the truth. The way the kid was running his hand through his hair, stumbling over his sentences...He knew something was up. And he needed to find out what.

"Alright. Whatever geek boy." Dean didn't miss the relieved look on Sam's face. Now he was convinced that Sam was lying. "I'm going to get some coffee or something before my stomach eats itself. You will wait here till I get back alright?"

Sam chuckled weakly. "Where am I gonna go?"

Dean walked towards the nurses station, hoping to find Penny. It had been three goddamn days. The hospital had to have gotten the scan results by now. And by Sam's face, Dean had a shrewd suspicion that Sam knew what had happened to him and why. He just needed some proof to counter act Sam's arguments.

He managed to find Penny's desk with a couple of files laying on it.

"Damn it." he muttered, not spotting Penny anywhere. He looked back at her desk and caught Sam's photo sticking out of a file. He looked around the room. No one was there.

"What they don't know, won't hurt them." Dean muttered to himself, picking up Sam's file.

He smirked at the bored expression in Sam's photo. The kid hated having his photo taken. He scrolled through the pages, looking for something that might tell him what is going on. He got to the end of the file and almost dropped it seeing the one word in front of him in the 'Scan results.' section.

Splenectomy

Dean may not be a medical expert but he knew what that meant. Sam had surgically removed his spleen. Everything fit into place. The early onset of infection, the bacteria latching onto it, the sepsis, everything. Dean gingerly put the file back where he'd seen it and stormed out of the nurse's station, intent on confronting Sam about this. How could Sam not have told him? How could he have not known that his baby brother had gone through such a big surgery!?

He took a deep breath when he reached room 2583. He was about to storm in when he heard two voices talking. Thinking he might get what he want, he stood near the door, opening it by a crack.

"Sam, you do know you've gone through a major surgery right?" asked a female voice.

"Yes Doctor Philips. I know." said Sam.

"I have a feeling you know why the infection set on so fast along with the sepsis you went through." said Dr. Philips.

"Yes. I know Doc. I know you've even given me the variety of vaccines I need to take in order to keep the infection at bay. I've taken them myself for the past 4 years."

"Then why stop all of a sudden?"

"Um, I lost a person dear to me and I guess I just lost track of how much I was taking or wasn't taking."

"Alright. I understand. Just be careful in the future. I'll let your brother know about your progress and the scan results." said Dr. Philips, turning to leave.

"NO!" yelled Sam. Susan Philips turned back, eyeing her patient with shock.

"I'm sorry. It's just, Dean doesn't know about the splenectomy and I'd like to keep it that way for a while." Sam pleaded.

Susan frowned. "But I have to report to someone. He's been going through a lot as far as I can tell Sam. He's been questioning my staff everyday if they've gotten the results and every time I've told them to lie to him because I wanted to confirm with you first. I know for a fact that my sister had done your splenectomy. You'd barely made it through."

"I know Doc-"

"Susan." corrected the doctor.

"Alright. Susan, I know that it's bad that I'm keeping Dean in the dark, but please believe me when I say, it's for the best. I had the splenectomy in a part of my life that I want to remember yet forget about at the same time. My brother and I, we've been through a lot of crap and I don't want to dump this on him too." Sam said, looking at Susan with pain filled eyes.

Susan crumbled at the man before her. "Alright. Fine. I won't tell him. But you will have to and soon. I don't think that he's one of the guys that likes to just sit around." Susan gave her ultimatum and walked towards the door. Dean heard her footsteps and backed away, as though he was just coming up to the hallway. Susan smiled seeing Dean.

"You must be Dean Willis."

"Yeah. And you must be my brother's doctor."

"That I am. I'm happy to say he'll be fine. I've prescribed some...medicines for him. The list is with him so you don't need to worry. He should be back on his feet in no time. I'm Susan by the way." said Susan, holding out a hand.

Dean smiled at Susan and shook her hand. "Thank you. And do let me know when the results of the scans come out."

Susan gulped a little, nervous and nodded. She smiled and walked away.

Dean stared behind her and silently walked into Sam's room to find Sam sleeping peacefully. He looked sadly at his brother. He'd heard everything between Susan and Sam. Why was Sam hiding stuff from him? Feeling that the hospital wasn't the best place to confront Sam, he decided to find out more about Sam's condition before he actually talked to Sam about it. And till he did that, Sam was staying put right here in this hospital whether he liked it or not.

TBC

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