Title: O golden child the world will kill and eat
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for early season 6; future!fic
Pairings: past-Dean/Lisa
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, any, daddy issues
Ben Braedon grew up without a father. On his eighth birthday, he met the coolest dude ever, and tried to pretend that Dean was his dad. Two years later, Dean came back and moved in, and Ben knew his dad was home, and Mom was happy, and everything would be awesome now.
He was wrong, and Dean had changed. He was harder, now, and sharper, and scary sometimes. So scary. And Mom kicked him out, and wouldn't tell Ben why, but Dean didn't come back. Not for the longest time.
Ben Braedon grew up without a father. His mom was the best ever, but Ben wondered sometimes. He still pretended that Dean was the hero he first knew, who saved him from monsters and told him how to deal with bullies and grinned so bright.
On his twenty-second birthday, only a few months away from graduation with an engineering degree, most of the paperwork done for grad school, Ben dreams about a woman with yellow eyes. She tells him he looks like his father.
He tells her to go to Hell.
She laughs and says she's already been, and they've got a nice spot picked out for the darling son of Dean Winchester.
Ben wakes shivering and calls a number he memorizes years ago, and when Bobby Singer answers, Ben says he has to talk to Dean.
Four hours later, Dean knocks on the door and Ben lets him in, and they're the same height now. Dean looks him over and smiles and says, you grew up good, kiddo.
He says, tell me about the dream.
He says, I'm so sorry, Ben.
Ben Braedon grew up without a father, and a part of him wishes he'd never met Dean Winchester.