everything i did, i did to protect you. /from uhhhhh dean/hellazrus
the haunting of hill house. / accepting. / @hellazrus
THERE ARE SPLITTING PATHS HERE. sam can visualize them in his minds eye when he tries; he’s standing at a crossroads (ha! spine aflame and wet with tarry blood, leaking demonic and crude, am i evil?) and each patchy dirt path intersects right here. it ticks down the back of his tongue, a stil-beating heart cascading toward his own. dean was a fucking hand grenade, and sam wasn’t sure if he cared about blowing his fingers off anymore–he had to take a stand, didnt he? that was north. he could tread back, become demure, slip into his easy anxiety that big brother chased away (hands reedy with hunting, rubbing at the top of his freshly cut hair, this is a good look, sammy!), acquiesce, give him what he wants: i know you did.
sam was kind, and gentle, and giving to a point of starvation, but he was not stupid, and he was not so worthless that he couldn’t find his own steel backbone. it was all full of razors under that plush. dean had just been lucky enough to rarely, if ever, dig it out. he wishes he had the fangs and claws that he swore his big brother sometimes saw him with, just to drive it in, make it hurt, make it stop, forever.
he makes a choice.
his eyes crinkle with twenty some odd years of an undisputed and held-to-heart rage. what the fuck did dean know about it? daddy was mean and cold and vicious, shaped him, bent him, but he wasn’t born that way. he wasn’t born to be firmly molded into something else.
sam was.
that itch crawls up his veins, blue at his hands. better than mothers milk. his fingers furl into his palms, squeezing until they go white. ‘ no.. you didn’t. ‘ it wasn’t a truth sam wanted to know, to explore, to even be peripherally aware of–it was like shutting the door in his face, and opening others to long, dark, forgotten hallways. it scared him. dean scared him. his heart rushes with the realization–was that trepidation or joy? ‘ you do what you think is protecting me. or you do it because you don’t want me to leave.. because you don’t know who you are if you can’t.. figure it out on me. ‘ did that make sense? sam’s bracing for the punch. his jaw’s tightened up, all hard and straight. ‘ and that’s not your fault. you— .. dad. made you that way. ‘ he squeezed until they shattered. the fighting wasn’t love, but neither was the negligence. dean wasn’t his fucking dad. ‘ but its the truth. you don’t know whats good for me.. you’re just doing what you think you should because you don’t know what else to do. you want to keep me here. but its dad, the part of him that he pushed on you, thats talking like that. ‘
sam’s throat dries. he’s not sure where this is coming from, or where its going to end. the shag carpet scuffed with their boot marks, he imagines. his breath anxiously patters out of his chest, squeezing hard, verging toward panic territory. ‘ i love you. and i know you love me. but how much of that is because of dad? how much of it isn’t love? dee.. don’t be mad at me. ‘












