weary_head: Serious (Everybody look what's going down.)
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?
weary_head: (Dirteh.)
It was nearing the end of what Dean had come to think of as his shift at the clinic. In some ways, his help there was as informal as it ever was - Dean came in, Rollie let him observe minor injuries and illnesses as they were tended to, let Dean help when he was qualified, and barked him away again when Dean wasn't. But laid back as it was, there was a definite change in the air now. Shifts felt less like work and more like school, with Rollie explaining his every move in detail, giving Dean's not just the hows, but also the whys and the maybes.

Truth be told, it felt really damn good. Even when Dean was asked a question and got it wrong, that he'd been asked at all felt like acceptance, and when he was asked a second time, it felt like confirmation.

It felt like Rollie actually thought he might get somewhere with this. Hell, he gave Dean homework, though they didn't call it that. Familiar as the blood and stitches and splints and fevers were, there was a whole other side to tending to them when they didn't come at the end of a hunt, and Rollie thought Dean might reach it. At least, Dean had begun to think he did.

Dean shifted his balance, wiping down one of the scalpels inbetween sideways glances at Rollie. "So hey," he said finally, because Rollie was a straightforward guy. He'd tell Dean if his progress was little more than a pipe dream. "How'm'I doing here?"

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