Soulless Sam in ‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’ trying to keep his cover but Dean keeps asking sappy questions.
“Hey, Sammy, you remember when you were 8 and you scraped up your knee at school? You wouldn’t stop crying until the teachers came and got me from my class…” Dean asks, soft voiced and timbre, the motel dimly lit by the street lamps outside and Sam’s luminescent laptop screen.
No. “Yeah, De, ‘course.” Sam hums. “New school, unfamiliar people- just wanted you.”
“Sammy?” He asks, for what feels like the millionth time. “Yeah?” Sam answers.
“Do you love me?”
Jesus Christ. Sam has to close his eyes so he doesn’t roll them- hard. Not that he’d be able to see it. “Yes, Dean. I love you.”
“Are you- are you in love with me?” Dean breathes. Sam can really only see his silhouette in the darkness, propped up on the other bed, that and the nervous glint in his eyes.
Sam can’t remember what it felt like to love, but he knows he used to. Answering that question- in any caliber- will undoubtedly distract Dean from the hunt and cause a whole litany of problems.
From the drowsiness in Dean’s voice, Sam thinks he can get away with disobeying the compulsion pattern. Dean probably won’t remember a word of this in the morning.
“Go to sleep, Dean. I’ll keep watching the tapes.”
And he does.









