"Air," Sam's barely conscious mind gasped as the monster released him and he smacked onto the ground.
The younger man could feel his body throbbing, but all he concentrated on was the sweet, sweet flowing through his lips and down his aching throat.
Finally, when the pleasure of air seemed to become a natural thing again, Sam realized he was lying face down in the snow. "We should fix that." Sam thought as he got ready to try and flip himself over. But Sam made the slightest move of his body and something close to agony shot thought him like a bullet. His eyes fluttered as he fought the temptation to lose conscious again. Finally the pain passed and Sam laid in the snow, unmoving.
Sam didn't know how long he was lying there, but it seemed like forever, even if it was only a couple of minutes. "Where is Dean? Is he hurt? I have to save him!" Sam thought, but again when he tried to get up, he found himself fighting for his consciousness. "Scratch that, he can save me, again, as always." Sam thought, slightly pouting that he had gotten hurt, again.
About 2 minutes later, the sound of boots crunching was music to Sam's ears.
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A sigh of relief escaped Dean as he finally saw his brother's motionless form. He had been searching for 20 minutes, his heart pounding in his chest the whole time. But it was so hard to look for anything, for the quickening snow was causing a near white out.
"Sammy! Sammy, are you ok?" Dean said running. He knelt down next to his brother and carefully rolled him over.
"Never…better," Sam rasped. He was still in pain, but his body was beginning to numb and he didn't really notice.
"No, no your not, look at you," Dean said looking his brother up and down. He couldn't find any visual prove that his brother was hurt, but he could hear it in the way he was breathing and in the way he talked.
"Dean, is he ok!" Josh yelled running over to the brothers.
"I'm fine," Sam said, sitting up and biting his tongue to avoid gasping out in pain.
"You sure?" Josh said, kneeing down next to the brothers.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Help me up," Sam said holding his arms out.
Dean, still unsure about his brother's health, helped him up anyway.
Sam held his breath as pain shot though his frozen body. He ignored it, for it was now impossible to see three feet ahead of them because of the snow and Sam knew if they spent too much time letting him rest, they would never get to the shelter. He had to convince the group that he was fine.
"No, Sammy, look at you, look you're shaking," said Dean sadly observing his brothers chattering teeth and knocking knees.
"I'm cold, what do you expect? Look, Josh's teeth are chattering, too," Sam lied. He knew it was probably from shock or blood lose, but they really needed to get out of here. Sam's head was throbbing and he just wanted to leave, so he pulled his arms away from the supporting hands and began to walk by himself towards Grayson, Annie, and Hilary, who were all running towards him. He held his breath every time he stepped on his right side in fear of winching, for it feel was holding a searing poker to his right flank.
Dean followed cautiously, prepared to catch his baby brother if he faltered. "How could I let this happen to him! He told me he didn't want to go on this job, but I wouldn't listen. I said I could protect him, but I didn't." Dean thought, wishing he was the one hurt and not Sam. "It's always been this way though, even when we were little. I could never protect him, well at least not from everything," Dean looked up at his little brother and noticed he wasn't even limping or anything. "Maybe I did this time." Dean thought smiling.
So, after the other's checked on Sam and were convinced he was ok, they continued up the mountain. No one even noticed the blood seeping though the wound on Sam's side or though the gash on the back of his head. No one, except Sam of course, who's world was becoming foggier with every step.
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Sorry, this and last chapter have been really, really short. They would be longer, it is just I have major tests this week because it is the week before break, and I figured that you guys would rather have it short than have to wait.