2. life mask
Dean hides his feelings well. That macho man act wears Sam down sometimes.
It's Dad's fault, of course.
Sam's seen Dean at his weakest. Feverish, broken and bloodied.
Dean never had a childhood. Spent his days learning how to kill all manner of fuglies. He cared for Sam, taught him everything, more like a Dad than a brother.
Sam carefully ignores the part he played in creating Dean Winchester.
"That righteous indignation of yours is gettin' kinda old there, Sammy," Dean tells Sam one day.
It's a bad day, sharp, hard, and tense.
Sam leaves.
But he doesn't go far.
The third and last one is next: And now for something completely different…