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The tightness in his chest of the first three days had been irritating enough, but now things were just out and out gross. The island was temperate enough that Dean couldn't remember ever taking sick here, but it seemed his body had decided to make up for lost time. He was achy and sore, not enough to be flulike but enough to be annoying as hell. On the third day after waking up feeling like ass he'd wandered down for his shift at the clinic and promptly hacked a big blog of green gunk onto Rollie's shoe. Thank god he hadn't been wearing sandals, or Dean thought there might have been some actual kicking involved when Rollie turned him out again.

So now he was shiftless, and, by virtue of his roommate, temporarily homeless. Dean would cut off his foot before he got Roger sick, and had wasted no time in gathering up his necessities, bundling them into a bag slung neatly over his shoulder.

But where would he go? Twerp didn't need his hacking, so that ruled out his father's hut. Jess and Sam probably didn't want their perfect love punctuated by the sound of rattling phlegm, so that ruled them out, too. That really only left just one place Dean could go and stay near to his family.

"Cas!" he shouted, doubling over in the next moment for a bout of inspired wheezing. He lifted a wobbly hand to bang on the door. "Hey, you in here?"