Title: you were beginning the revolution
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: spoilers for season 6; preseries
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 305
Point of view: third
Prompt: Sam, Bones, Bones is a Skinwalker and is protective of Sam.
On her very first solo hunt, when she was seventeen, Mary Campbell let a young skinwalker live. A decade later, the no longer young skinwalker found Mary Winchester and settled down to watch over her and keep her safe.
Two years later, a demon came calling and Mary Winchester died. Her sons, though, lived, and her husband, so the skinwalker followed them. Swore to protect them, since he failed Mary so horribly.
And then John Winchester began hunting, killing things that were different, so the skinwalker fell further back, let longer go by before checking in on Mary's sons.
A few years passed and a golden retriever watched Sam Winchester, the younger boy, storm out of his family's apartment. The dog followed him from that town to another, saw him get a motel room using cash he'd earned hustling pool, and then made sure Sam tripped over him.
Of course Sam took him back to the motel room, fed him some of his own supper, bathed him in the tub, and let him sleep in the bed.
And for a few glorious days, the skinwalker (named Bones by Mary's baby boy) had a family, had a child to protect and cherish and love.
But then John and Dean found him. And even though Sam yelled, Bones got left behind. He caught up a couple years later, but by then Sam had gone to Stanford, and on the way to Stanford, Bones was hit by a car.
A little girl cuddled him in the backseat as her mother rushed him to the vet. And he would never forget Mary, and he would always love Sam, but Vanessa and Nicki needed him right then.
Nicki named him Shadow, after a character in her favorite movie, and he would watch over her for the rest of her life.