Title: defense mechanisms
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: first
Prompt: Dean, the whole series was a hallucination he had after Sam died and he went off the deep end.
A part of him, deep down inside, knows. That's what Dr. Malloy thinks anyway, and don't tell her I said this, but I think she's as crazy as he is. That boy, poor dear, don't have a clue about any'a this, he's locked so far inside himself.
Sometimes, he does almost seem lucid, I guess. For a moment his face clears and I say, "Hey, Dean," but then he goes back into his mind, and I don't begrudge him that. What's waitin' for him if he comes out... lord, that'd frighten the hardest men I ever knew, and this boy...
Well. It's not his fault, is it? His mama killed when he was only a boy, and they're pretty sure his daddy done it, you know. Not that they could ever prove it. And then his brother, just a baby himself! Barely twenty, I think. Killed in a fire, too.
Yeah, I don't blame Dean Winchester for what he did. He only killed bad people, you know. People who deserved it. Thought they were monsters, and aren't they?
Ah, duty calls. Gotta go give that boy his medicine, if he'll take it.