|"Unhealthy sense of possessiveness."| |Chapter 2.|

PREVIOUSLY….

He can hear the panicky and frightened jackhammering of Sam's heart and it makes him give his brother an evilly twisted grin full of dark promises of horrors to come as he leans in just a hair's breath away from the shell of Sam's ear and whispers "You really should have left me, while you still had the chance, Sammy. Because, now… I'm never gonna let you go."

TWO WEEKS LATER…

Dean smiled gleefully as eyes full of fear and sadness peered up at him from the bloody mass of flesh in the corner of the room.

He took a step forward and his grin became wider and more wicked as he was rewarded by how the unrecognizable figure flinched and tried to scurry away from his approach, and the reward became even sweeter as the rattle of steel chains, the hiss of electricity and the groan of pain told him the tale of just how well Sam was starting to learn that an Eel Skin Collar with engraved symbols for powerful incantations could beat a regular shock collar any day of the week… Because a regular shock collar might be able to keep a dog from barking or leaving the edge of the property, but it couldn't keep a dog from THINKING about barking or trying to escape.

Which is what the new collar his sweet little Sammy was now sporting would do, it would keep Sam from even thinking about leaving, it would keep him from even thinking of talking back, because if Sam did think of trying to escape, of trying to voice a complaint… ZAP! He'd feel like he's being repetitively struck by lightning unless he let the thought that was getting him disciplined go.

Clearly, just now, Sam had thought to try to escape him and the collar had affectively put him right back in his place and apparently Sam had also been quick to let the thought of trying to get away go, or the jolt would have lasted longer which meant that the newly made collar was serving its purpose well… But, still, Dean was not about to let the shock from the collar be nearly enough to punish such an infraction of his rules.

Sam knew he wasn't allowed to so much as even try to think about getting away at all, not even from the pain.

"Sammy.." He made his voice sound filled with sadness despite knowing his eyes displayed the truth of his joy. "We, talked about this." (well actually HE had talked about this, but he knows Sam had heard him at the time, he still remembers all the ways he had made Sam scream just so he could be certain that Sam was conscious enough to hear and understand everything he had said)

Sam started backing away again… Apparently he needed to make one more engraving on the collar, one that would shock Sam just for having the animalistic instinct to try to move away from pain and danger, as Sam was moving away from him, but not getting shocked all because Sam wasn't thinking about trying to escape, he was just moving away on instinct and Dean couldn't allow that to continue.

"You know I have to punish you and you know why, so come here." Dean commanded as he pointed to the floor at his feet. Now Sam tried to move away again with a shake of his head, but the collar zapped him for both of his transgressions.

Dean watched impassively as Sam writhed around in pain on the floor… Apparently now that Sam had thought about trying to get away from the pain again, he couldn't stop.

Dean huffed out a frustrated sigh and snapped his fingers causing Sam to go still… Oh, he was pretty sure that the collar was still shocking the ever loving hell out of his kid brother, but now he didn't have to hold down Sam's seizing body so he could get to the collar and add the forgotten engraving so now the collar would 'help' condition Sam's instincts away from 'fight and flight' and towards 'submit and resign'. Once the engraving was added, Dean stepped back and snapped his fingers again and watched in annoyed amusement as Sam's body began to flail in pain from the electrical shocks again.

"Sam.." He cajoled in a reprimanding tone "You know how to stop the pain, Sam… Just… STOP thinking about trying to escape me and the collar will stop shocking you, Sammy."

It took Sam passing out from the pain before the collar finally ceased the electrical shocks.

That was okay, Dean had all the time in the world, he could wait until Sam woke up before he punished Sam for breaking the rules and this time he was going to add yet more engravings to the collar, ones that would keep Sam's thoughts and instincts from finding an escape through unconsciousness as well….

TBC…