[continued from here] @fightingcchance
He didn’t do affection, it just wasn’t his thing. It wasn’t that he didn’t care, he just didn’t particularly enjoy the prying eyes and expectations of other people. Behind closed doors he was still reserved, didn’t feel like his actions needed to speak for emotions the whole. Yet there he was, just looming over the bed at whatever ungodly hour it was in the morning, watching Seth sleep. It probably looked a little creepy, despite the fact that he hadn’t meant to stare. He had been heading out for an early morning run but his attention had been somewhat diverted on the way out. It probably wasn’t a good idea to just leave him there with no explanation, but he hadn’t exactly wanted to wake him up after all the exhaustion he’d been put through. Slowly, carefully, Dean leaned down and pressed a soft peck to his forehead with a quiet “Be back soon” leaving his lips.
Knowing that Dean was there had let him drift off to sleep as easily as he hadn´t in a long time. One could have argued that it might have also had to do with the beating he had taken, but he had taken plenty of beatings in the last year and still stayed awake most of the nights. It was still early in the morning when he first awoke, noticing a shift in the mattress. In a heartbeat he was awake, afraid Dean was going to just sneak out and leave him there. It wasn´t like Seth actually thought that the other would do such a thing, but his body didn´t seem to have gotten the memo. When Dean bent down to press a kiss to his forehead, however, he felt a shiver running through his body and his hand immediately reached out, tangling in the other´s shirt. “Where are you going?” he whispered, his voice thick with sleep.