Title: on the barren road
Fandom: Supernatural/Angel the Series
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: Dean/Lindsey
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 215
Prompt: Supernatural/Angel: the series, Dean/Lindsey, They know wishes have power.
"If you could get your brother back," Hitcher asks one day, turning the radio down and staring out his window. "If you could find a demon that'd deal, what..." He pauses, and Dean waits in silence, fingers tight on the wheel. "What would you sell?"
Power is crackling in the air around Hitcher; he leashes it, and Dean can smell thunder.
For the first time since he let Hitcher into his car, Dean wants to make him bleed. To break him apart into all his little Lindsey parts and hear him weep.
Sammy is sacred, that boy Dean adored and would have died for, if only he'd been given the chance.
"Doesn't matter," Dean says when he has the words. He'd sacrifice the world if it'd bring Sammy back, except he knows that to say it aloud might make it so, and while he thinks it's a fair trade...
There are big brothers out there who still have their Sammys, and he can't take that away.
An hour passes in silence before Hitcher says, "Guess it don't." He turns the radio back up and keeps looking out the window.
That night, Dean bites Hitcher's lip until it bleeds and Hitcher laughs into his mouth, sketching runes onto his skin with the blood.