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Dean sat where Angua had deposited him, staring after Angua's back as she went to rummage for pie ingredients. Sam was still at the bar, still hunched over his glass, shoulders tight and too long hair falling over his ears and into his eyes.

It made him look younger than he was, younger then the new lines around his eyes and mouth betrayed, and Dean's heart twisted a little tighter in his chest.

Sam would be okay here. Somehow, Dean could make that happen, and if not Dean than Jess or Dad or Twerp or any combination of people left on the island that loved him. The only person in the way of that was Sam himself, but Dean would find a way around that, too.

He just had to find a way around whatever it was that stood between them, first.

Sam had arrived on the island spitting words like apocalypse and Lucifer from his mouth, and those scared Dean, but not nearly as much as the look in Sam's eyes when he said them.

Dean sighed, tucking himself further into the booth, watching with an anxiousness barely contained while those around Sam came and went. Occasionally he looked away, out into the jungle beyond the Winchester, to his hands and the small but growing marks on his palms his own fingernails had left behind, but always Dean's focus shifted back to Sam at the bar.

"Fuck," he murmured, twitching helplessly as the long line of uncertain questions restarted themselves in his head. What the hell happened to us?

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"The island's a kick in the nuts at the best of times," says Rollie, and he knows just enough about Dean's life before the island to know it wasn't exactly the best of times. "Whatever you need. He come from the same time as you?"

"Not even close," said Dean. Best guess, not much more than a year stood between them, but a year could hold a lot where they were from. It was evident that Dean had a lot of catching up to do, and he wasn't sure he wanted it.

"Things are extra pear shaped," he said, motioning for Rollie to sit if he wanted to. "He's kind of fucked up about it."

Rollie does sit down, at least as long as it takes for his food to be ready. "Fucked up like we're all fucked up when we get here, or fucked up in a special way? What kind of situation did he come from?"

Rollie doesn't have any experience with their world, but he did arrive from a war zone so he has an idea how things can be.

"End of the world fucked up?" Dean said, clutching his bottle a little harder. "Apocalyptic, Lucifer running free, standing right at the epicenter fucked up."

"Oh, that's definitely a special kind of fucked up," says Rollie. "Shit, I'm sorry, man. Nobody should have to deal with that kind of world. It'd fuck up the best of us, I think."