As always Sam was up bright and early and Dean was still sprawled out on his bed.

"Rise and shine sunshine!" he greeted cheerfully.

"Go away," mumbled Dean under his pillow.

"Dean c'mon dude we should get an early start on research so we can go hang out with Jack and my buddies later on."

Dean managed to get the covers off him and sat with his legs over the bed.

"Jeez, give the kid a couple friends and he's friggin' Ronald McDonald," he remarked slightly annoyed.

Sam smiled and walked over to his laptop which was lying on the table.

"Your breakfast is on the table Dean."

Dean walked over and slouched into the dining room table seat and started pigging out.

"Sammy this food's awesome dude," he blurted out with his mouth full.

"God, Dean don't talk with your mouth full."

"Why, is it grossing you out?" he played as he fully opened his mouth like a 6 year old.

"I swear you're such a friggin kid sometimes Dean," Sam started. "But that's not always a bad thing."

The last comment made Dean close his mouth and gape at his brother.

"Dude…seriously, what the hell. Not that I don't love this whole cheerful giddy attitude, but where the hells it comin from?"

As Dean looked up at Sam he would've sworn he saw him blush.

"Does this have something to do with you smiling in your sleep last night?"

Sam looked up at his brother with a bit of embarrassment.

"I was smiling in my sleep?" he asked.

"Sure were, so I take it you weren't dreaming 'bout the chick that might die or bout Jess?"

"Well I didn't dream about that girl, I haven't even had a vision about her since we were on the road, to tell you the truth it's kind of odd."

"Yeah…owell we'll just keep digging around I guess, something's bound to come up."

"Yeah."

"Ok well imma go hit the shower, when I get back I guess we'll go introduce ourselves to the girl in your old apartment," Dean said as he headed to the bathroom.

When Sam didn't answer Dean turned around to find Sam starring out the window.

"Sammy, if you're not ready to go back to your old apartment yet I understand, I can just go introduce myself, you don't have to come."

Sam turned from the window to look at his brother. To Dean's surprise Sam didn't look sad or even worried, he looked…happy almost.

"No, you need me there to recognize her, when I see her I'll know if she's the one in my visions or not. I'll be okay," he said smiling at his brother.

With that reassurance Dean headed for the shower.

Sam could hear the shower go on and he was glad to have some time to himself. He was having trouble wrapping his mind around his dream last night. It was so vivid and…real, and a complete 180 from the nightmares he'd been having for a week.

Sam had to agree with his brother that this attitude was a little odd considering yesterday all he wanted to do was get as far away from here as possible. And now, now it was almost like he felt at peace here…last night's dream sure had an affect of him.

Once Dean came out of the shower they waited a couple of hours then headed across the hall.

Knock…knock…knock…

"Maybe she's still sleeping," Dean started.

"Dean, it's just after noon, I highly doubt she's sleeping."

"Maybe her and her roommate are busy if you know what I mean," Dean insinuated with a smug grin.

Sam turned to his brother with arched eyebrows.

"Dude…seriously…do you ever have thoughts that aren't dirty?"

Dean had to think about this one for a second.

"Sure I do…they're just few and far between," he replied smiling. To be honest Dean was only trying to distract his brother from the thought of Jessica. And he knew the best way to do that was to say something "Dean-like". It was working too, up until they heard a scream coming from inside.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

"What the hell," Dean started as he looked at Sam. And then a second scream came and both boys forced the door open with all their effort.

The two girls in the room turned to look at the two boys.

"Who the hell are you," asked the brunette.

"Uh…we…uh we heard screaming," replied Sam because Dean was too busy taking in the scene before him. The two girls were hugging each other and looked scared to death.

"So you thought you'd come to our rescue huh?" questioned the blonde as she was eyeing Dean.

"It's what we do, save pretty girls like you," Dean replied walking a little closer to the girls.

Sam just shook his head as his eyes rolled. Seeing that his brother wasn't planning on doing anything besides flirting the pants off of the blonde he decided to ask the questions.

"Why were you guys screaming?"

"There was…there was…o god I can't even say it, Katie you tell him," replied the brunette.

"A RAT!" screamed Katie as the rat ran across the room.

Sam let out a laugh and sighed.

"Dean it was just a rat," he said relieved as he turned to look at his brother. "Just a stupid…Dean! Dude get off the couch!"

"No way Sammy, there's a rat in here, that's friggin grosse."

So demons and wendigos and everything else that's completely and utterly terrifying he'll face, but a freaking rat makes him jump onto a couch. Sam thought to himself.

Once all the commotion settled Sam actually had a chance to look at the place. It was completely different, almost didn't look like his old apartment, and he didn't know if that was a good thing or bad thing. Dean glanced over as Sam was examining the room and decided to ask the girls a couple of questions to get some information, as well as to distract Sam.

"So ladies, has anything weird happened around here lately?"

"Weird as in?" asked Katie.

"Weird as in flickering lights, scratchy doors, you know, that kinda stuff."

Both girls stood there thinking for a minute until Stephanie decided to answer.

"Nope, nothing like that, why do you ask?"

"Oh…we're just wondering…we just moved in across the hall…you know, don't wanna be moving into a creepy building," replied Dean quickly covering up.

"Well you know, if you're ever scared you can always come and stay over with us," started Katie as she moved closer to Dean. Dean would've been all for the flirting session that was about to occur if he didn't see Sam starring into his and Jessica's old room.

"I hate to do this…like really hate to do this…but me and him actually haveta go meet one of our profs in a few minutes…right Sam?"

"Uh…yea...yea," was all Sam could say as he took one last look at the room.

"Sorry about barging in like that ladies, we just had to make sure you two were okay," Dean remarked with a smug smile.

"Barge in any time you want…"started Katie waiting for Dean to fill in the sentence with his name.

"Dean…the name's Dean."

"Barge in any time you want Dean," she finished.

"I'll be holding you to that offer," he said as he winked at her as he and Sam walked out the door.

When Dean didn't hear a "oh god Dean" or "you're unbelievable" coming out of Sam's mouth he turned to face his brother.

"Sammy…"

"Huh"

"You okay?"

"Yeah…yea I'm fine Dean, they changed it around so much that it didn't even look like mine and Jess's apartment anymore."

"Is that a good thing?"

"Yeah…I guess you can say that."

"You sure you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good," he replied with a smile on his face.

A smile was the last thing Dean had expected but he wasn't about to ask questions. That must've been one kick ass dream Sam had last night.

When they got back to their apartment they were both confused at how normal everything was regarding this particular vision.

"Dean, I don't get it, so no flickering lights, no noises, there's nothing man, and I haven't even had another vision about her since the first one, which was about a week ago."

"I dunno man, maybe it's a trick."

"Trick as in how?"

"Well maybe the demon wants us to believe that there is no threat, and then when we give up on the case he'll strike."

"But why hasn't he done that before, I mean with all the other visions I've had, we've stopped most of them from happening, so why wouldn't he have done it then?"

"I dunno Sammy, this is seriously messed up…I guess we just wait it out and see."

"Yeah…"

Just then the phone rang and Sam went to answer it.

"Hello"

"Hey Sam, it's Jack, are you guys still down for hanging today."

"Of course man."

"K cool, come meet us at Parker's Café."

"Alright, we'll be there in a few minutes," Sam said as he hung up the phone.

"Dean you still wanna go out with my friends right?"

"Sure, not like I have anything better to do here anyways."

Both boys put on their coats and headed out.

At Parker's Café

As the boys entered the café, Sam looked around for his friends.

"WINCHESTER!" cam the simultaneous roar from a table in the corner.

Dean couldn't help but smile at the ridiculously large grin Sam had plastered on his face as Sam and Dean headed to the table.

When they reached the table all of Sam's friends got up to give him a hug.

"We missed you so much," replied Tonya as she kissed Sam on the cheek.

"O man I missed you guys too, it's so good to see all of you, by the way this is my brother Dean."

Dean smiled at Sam's friends and exchanged handshakes with the guys. There were about 6 guys n 5 girls there.

"Sam you never told us you had such a hottie for a brother," Larisa said as she eyed Dean.

"He's just embarrassed he's not as good looking," replied Dean with a cocky grin.

"And he has a mouth…mind if I sit beside you here Dean?" asked Larisa smiling.

"Not at all sweetheart."

"O god, you two get a room," laughed Sam as he rolled his eyes.

As they sat there talking Liz, Jack's girlfriend approached the table and sat down beside Jack.

"Liz, baby, this is my bestfriend Sam….Sammy this is my girl Liz."

Dean felt uneasy having someone else refer to Sam as their "bestfriend" and hearing somebody else call his little brother Sammy, and it was quite visible by the way Dean looked up at Jack and the hurt he had in his eyes. This didn't go unnoticed to Sam and he immediately spoke up.

"It's Sam! How many times do I have to tell you that Jacky," joked Sam and he saw Dean ease up a bit.

"How come he gets to call you that then?" Jack asked pointing at Dean.

"Big brother advantages," replied Sam as he playfully elbowed Dean.

"O yeah, what about best friend advantages Sammy!" replied Jack.

For god sakes stop calling him Sammy, and stop using that word "best friend", thought Dean.

"Sorry Jacky, calling me Sammy ain't one of the perks."

"You're a party pooper, Samuel!" retorted Jack as he put Sam in a headlock.

Dean watched the exchange of affection from Jack and he couldn't help but get jealous. He was happy for his brother, he really was, but it hurt to experience first hand the life that Sam had when he left him, and it hurt like hell to see how close Sam and Jack obviously were or...are.

The next hour was spent on everyone catching up with Sam and seeing what he had been up to. Sam was having the time of his life, but Dean, well Dean would've rather been somewhere else. It was like he was invisible, even Larisa had moved so she could be closer to the conversation. Dean really could care less that all these other people barely realized he was there, but the fact that Sam hadn't looked his way in god knows how long, that hurt more than getting beaten up by some supernatural monster.

The whole time that Sam was away at college Dean always wondered what it would be like to be a part of Sam's college life, to get to know his friends and see what he had been up to.

What they were doing now, catching up with Sam's friends, reminiscing about things that they had done at Stanford, the stupid things that they pulled, Dean always thought this is what it would be like if he ever went to visit Sammy at Stanford, but he never imagined that it would hurt this much. Seeing the joy on his brother's face did make him happy but it broke his heart at the same time. Sam had had an amazing, normal life, with friends and pranks and jokes, and Dean was happy for him, he only wished that he was part of Sam's life at that time.

Dean was okay with not having friends, or the normal life, he had accepted it when he was 4. He was okay with it because he always had Sam, his little brother and his bestfriend, the only friend he needed, but Dean was starting to realize that Sam probably didn't feel the same way.

The last straw was drawn when Jack, who had gotten up to go grab the food, came back and sat right between Dean and Sam. Sam didn't notice this because he was too busy taking a trip down memory lane with his buddies, but Dean noticed it. He also noticed how Jack had his back to him while he was talking to everyone; it was as if Jack was shutting him out on purpose, so that he could have Sam to himself.

God Dean get a grip will ya! Stop making shit up and stop being sucha damn baby…so your brother has friends…big deal…you should be happy not jealous! Thought Dean to himself, but he couldn't help feeling hurt.

Dean decided that the best thing to do would be to let Sammy catch up with his friends while he went back to the apartment, not like he was doing any talking anyways, they probably even forgot he was there.

"Hey Sammy, imma head back to the apartment, unpack some more of our stuff," Dean said as he got up.

"You sure Dean?" asked a worried Sam, he had noticed his brother's silence the entire time but was too wrapped up with his friends to talk to Dean about it.

"Yea dude, I'm sure I'll just see you back at the place k."

"It was great meeting you guys," Dean said as he got his jacket.

"You too," several of them replied.

Jack walked Dean out and told him a shortcut to get back to their apartment.

"We'll all hang out again soon man, and don't worry Dean we'll take good care of Sammy here," replied Jack.

Stop calling him Sammy!!! Dean just wanted to yell, but he kept cool and simply smiled.

Dean didn't take the shortcut that Jack suggested and instead decided to walk around campus for a bit because, well, he needed to clear his head, and he needed to cool off.

You knew Sammy had friends Dean, you knew he had a life outside of you, so stop letting it bother you, this is as close to normal as he gets, let him have it! Dean was trying to find any way to make the hurt go away, but it just wasn't working.

No wonder Sam wanted normal…no wonder he wanted this more than he wanted staying with me and dad. Thought Dean

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" Oh Dean, you're making all this way too easy for me. Bold, noble hunter, can't even keep his emotions in check. I could end it right now, your life that is…but your pain…o0o0o your pain is just too appetizing, and there's more headed your way big brother. I plan on draining you Dean Winchester, draining your soul before I take your life, or should I say, before your precious little Sammy hands you over to me! "