the rain song
Pairing: Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester Rating: Explicit Tags: Series/Season 06, Mental Instability, Mildly Dubious Consent, Canon Divergence Part 2 of Physical Graffiti
Dean can hardly stop looking at him. It's getting ridiculous.
Portland is all damp leaves and sudden misting rain, the smell of wet grass and pavement and coffee. They drive down a quiet street in the late afternoon, looking for a motel Dean remembers being mostly decent, and he tries to focus on the way the trees are slowly slipping over to yellow, how the air hits him in the back of the throat cold and wet and sharp. Sam's on the passenger side, where he's been for six months. There's no earthly reason why Dean should be so hyperaware of his every move. Dean reaches out and flips over the tape and Sam sighs, says, "Santana? Really?" like he has a hundred times, and Dean almost crashes the car with how much he wants to just reach over and haul his little brother into a hug, never let go.
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