âïœĄ Ë war crimes in the name of pranks
summary ËËđąÖŽà»ÖŽ after deanâs pranked you one too many times, you decide youâve had enough and go all in. pairing ËËđąÖŽà»ÖŽ dean winchester x reader ( gn ) ft. sammy wordcount ËËđąÖŽà»ÖŽ 2094 genre ËËđąÖŽà»ÖŽ deeply unserious warnings ËËđąÖŽà»ÖŽ prank war, sam trying not to die laughing
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dean winchester is a dick.
thatâs not an insult anymore. itâs a fact, filed neatly beside other undeniable truths, such as salt burns ghosts, vampires need their heads removed, and sam gets that tight little forehead wrinkle when heâs two seconds away from pretending heâs not judging everyone in the room.
dean being a dick is, unfortunately, also kind of your fault.
you worked hard to get him to trust you. months of hunts, patched-up injuries, late-night diner coffee, standing shoulder to shoulder in graveyards while ugly things crawled out of darker corners than neither of you wanted to talk about. you earned the version of him that doesnât flinch when you reach across him for the weapons bag, the version that tosses you the impala keys without acting like heâs handing over his firstborn child, the version that grins too openly when you insult him back.
and what do you get for all that patience? intimacy? vulnerability? a tender breakthrough? no.
you get a plastic spider in your boot at six in the morning. you get a fake bloody hand in your duffel. you get your shampoo replaced with dish soap, your favorite jacket hung from the motel ceiling fan, and one deeply traumatic morning where every single pair of your socks had been dampened just enough to make you question the mercy of god.
dean thinks this is love language.
you think he needs consequences.
sam knows something is coming before dean does, because sam has survival instincts and dean has whatever the opposite of that is. he watches you from the motel table while deanâs in the shower, your expression calm as you hide the supplies back inside your bag: green food coloring, red hair dye, a bottle of body wash you found in a sad little drugstore clearance bin labeled classic musk, and one large box you have been guarding for three towns.
sam lowers his laptop screen by an inch. âshould i ask?â
âno.â
âis anyone going to the hospital?â
âemotionally, maybe.â
he looks at the box. âis that for the car?â
you smile.
sam closes his eyes for a second. âi donât want to know.â
âcorrect.â
the setup takes precision, spite, and the kind of quiet focus usually reserved for summoning rituals or assembling ikea furniture without crying. youâd inject the toothpaste with enough green coloring to make the inside of the tube look cursed, swap deanâs shampoo for a violent red rinse that promises temporary color in letters so cheerful they feel legally suspicious, and replaced his body wash with the elderly musk gel that carries the aggressive aura of mothballs, dusty church pews, and a man named eugene who owns three cardigans.
then comes baby.
you move fast in the parking lot, heart beating with the kind of joy that feels criminal. hello kitty steering wheel cover first. pink seat covers next. matching floor mats. a soft blanket stretched across the backseat. tiny headrest bows. one dangling charm from the rearview mirror that swings innocently in the dark, completely unaware itâs about to become the focal point of deanâs psychological collapse.
when you get back inside, sam is sitting exactly where you left him, hands folded beneath his chin.
âiâm not involved,â he says immediately.
âyouâre a witness.â
âwitnesses can be killed.â
âthen maybe keep the poker face.â
he makes a strangled sound and goes back to pretending to read.
dean emerges from the bathroom twenty minutes later with a towel around his waist, red hair, green teeth, and the full confidence of a man who hasnât yet processed that he looks like christmas tree coming to life. the red is not subtle. it clings to the short spikes of his hair in damp, furious streaks, especially near his temples, where it has taken on a cherry-cough-syrup intensity that makes your soul leave your body for one beautiful second.
his teeth are worse.
bright green. radioactive. cartoon-villain green.
you stare.
sam makes one tiny noise from the table and immediately turns it into a cough so violent it almost deserves an emmy.
dean narrows his eyes at both of you. âwhat?â
your mouth trembles. ânothing.â
âwhy are you looking at me weird?â
âiâm just admiring,â you say, voice thin with restraint, âyour commitment to personal grooming.â
dean points at you with the hand holding his shaving kit. âdonât start. i have a date.â
that nearly ends you.
samâs shoulders start shaking.
dean looks at him. âyou got a problem?â
sam presses his lips together so hard they almost disappear. ânope.â
dean accepts this too easily. he tosses the shaving kit onto his duffel and keeps moving around the room, utterly unaware that every step sends that tragic old-man body wash clouding behind him. he gets dressed anyway. jeans, boots, dark shirt, leather jacket. somehow, horribly, he still has the posture of a man who thinks he can pull this off.
you sit on the edge of your bed with both hands folded in your lap, nails digging into your palms.
âso,â you manage. âbig night?â
âabsolutely,â dean checks himself in the mirror, then stops. properly stops. his face goes still in that dangerous little way that means his brain has finally caught up to his reflection, and for one beautiful second, the whole motel room holds its breath.
sam sinks lower behind his laptop.
dean leans closer to the mirror, lips parting just enough to reveal the green. bright. wet. horrifying. his eyes move up to his hair next. red. aggressively red. not cute copper, not sexy auburn, not even passable under bad motel lighting. just red in the way emergency exits are red. in the way cough syrup stains your tongue red. in the way warnings are red.
you press your lips together so hard they hurt.
dean turns slowly. âyou.â
you blink, angelic. âme?â
âdonât me me!â he points at his own mouth. âwhy do i look like i ate a glow stick?â
sam makes a noise so high and strangled that it barely sounds human.
dean whips his head toward him. âyou knew?â
samâs face is pure suffering. âi didnât know about the teeth.â
âbut you knew something.â
sam looks at you, then at dean, then back at his laptop with the dead-eyed survival instinct of a man who has spent his whole life between two disasters and learned to choose silence when necessary. âi wasnât part of it.â
you finally lose the fight and smile. big. bright. no shame.
dean stares at you for another second, furious, hair red, teeth green, and somehow still carrying the wounded dignity of a man betrayed by his own kingdom.
ârookie work.â
you blink. âexcuse me?â
ârookie,â he says again, rummaging through a duffel with unnecessary aggression. âyou think this is my first rodeo? food coloring in toothpaste? hair dye in shampoo? come on. i practically invented bathroom warfare.â
âyou invented bathroom warfare?â
âask sam about the nair incident.â
sam closes his eyes. âplease donât.â
dean disappears back into the bathroom with all the purpose of a man going to war. water starts running. drawers open and slam. something clatters into the sink. you hear him muttering to himself, low and offended, and thenââsammy! iâm using your toothpaste.â
âwhy mine?â
âbecause mineâs been violated.â
you snort so hard you nearly choke. you sit on the edge of the bed, swinging one foot lightly, joy humming through your whole body.
the bathroom door opens again ten minutes later, and the worst thing happens.
dean looks good. of course he does. idiot. absolute curse of a man. the green is gone from his teeth, scrubbed clean by samâs betrayed toothpaste and probably half a bottle of mouthwash. his hair is still red, but damp and pushed back now, the color settling into something annoyingly intentional under the yellow motel light. it should look ridiculous. it sort of does. but dean has the unbearable confidence to make even bad decisions look styled.
he steps out, jacket on, boots tied, jaw tilted in that way that says he knows he has recovered far too well. âsee?â he says, spreading his arms. âstill hot.â
you hate that you agree. deeply. personally.
dean catches the tiny shift in your face and grins. âoh, donât look so disappointed. you made me hotter.â
âyour hair looks like a traffic cone.â
âa sexy traffic cone.â
âthose donât exist.â
âiâm making history.â he checks himself in the mirror one last time, turns his head left and right, then nods with disgusting self-satisfaction. âyeah. dateâs still happening.â
you keep smiling too much.
dean notices.
his eyes narrow. âwhat?â
ânothing.â
âno.â he points at you. âthatâs not nothing. thatâs your evil face.â
you fold your hands in your lap, sweet as a hymn. âhave fun tonight.â
dean studies you for another second, suspicion flickering over his face, but ego wins. he grabs his keys from the table, twirls them once around his finger, and heads for the door.
âdonât wait up,â he says.
âwouldnât dream of it.â
he leaves. the door shuts.
for two seconds, thereâs silence.
sam slowly looks at you.
you look back at him.
outside, deanâs boots crunch across the gravel parking lot. thereâs the faint jingle of keys. a pause. another step. thenââSON OF A BITCH!â
youâre already laughing by the time the door flies open again.
dean storms in with the kind of rage usually reserved for demons, betrayal, and people who put dents in babyâs doors. his face is red now too, almost matching his hair, which feels thematically excellent. he points toward the parking lot with a shaking hand.
âm-my car.â
you gasp, delighted. âis something wrong with baby?â
âdo not call her baby right now.â
âwhy? sheâs dressed so cute.â
âshe has bows on her headrests.â
âyes.â
âpink floor mats.â
âmhm.â
âa hello kitty steering wheel cover.â
âlimited edition.â
dean stares at you as if youâve personally rewritten the laws of nature just to hurt him. âmy car looks like it got stolen by a twelve-year-old.â
sam makes the mistake of laughing. not much. just one sharp little burst he tries to smother immediately with a cough.
dean turns on him. âoh, you think this is funny?â
samâs eyes are wet. âno.â
âyouâre crying.â
you lose it again, falling back against the mattress while dean glares at both of you, his date forgotten, his dignity in ruins, his red hair glowing under the cheap motel light. for a second, he holds onto the anger. really tries. you can see him fighting for it, clinging to the righteous fury of a man whose soulmate-on-wheels has been degraded by pink polyester and cute cats.
then his mouth twitches. âiâm homicidal.â
âyouâre smiling homicidally.â
that breaks him.
dean laughs, sudden and rough, one hand bracing against the doorframe like even he canât believe how badly heâs been played. the green teeth are gone, which is a shame, but the red hair and the old-man body wash still do plenty of work. he laughs until sam finally gives up pretending to cough and just laughs too, shoulders shaking over the table.
âokay,â dean says eventually, pointing at you. âtruce.â
âno.â
his smile drops. âno?â
âbeg.â
âi will absolutely not beg.â
you lift your eyebrows. dean glances toward the parking lot. you can almost see him picturing baby sitting out there in all her hello kitty glory, exposed to the public, vulnerable to witnesses, one stray pedestrian away from permanent humiliation.
his jaw works. his pride takes a knee. âplease,â he says tightly, âremove the tiny cat cult from my car.â
you beam. âand?â
âandâŠâ he exhales through his nose, already planning murder behind his eyes. âiâll stop pranking you.â
sam snorts again.
dean does not look away from you. âtemporarily.â
âthere it is.â
âiâm honest.â
âyouâre a menace.â
âyou started car crimes.â
âyou put a rubber finger in my cereal.â
âthat was funny.â
âso is babyâs soft era.â
his grin comes back slowly, dangerous and warm at the same time. âenjoy it while you can.â
you should be scared. honestly, you are a little. dean winchester with a wounded ego, and red hair is not a safe man. but heâs laughing, and samâs still wiping at his eyes, and for once the motel room holds nothing sharp or haunted or waiting to kill you. *just thisâ*dean looking ridiculous and happy and too fond of you to hide it properly.
âworth it,â you say.
his eyes linger for half a second longer than the joke needs. âyeah,â he says, quieter under the laughter. âweâll see.â
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