He’d had to drive out to get her in a thunderstorm- it was her own stupid fault, pride and foolishness, and determination to get to the damn meeting outside of town, even though with the weather it was going to be cancelled, and Dean had known it, he’d said it, but every time he said it, it just made her want to get to the stupid meeting more.
She didn’t even like these people, they were obnoxious, and most weeks she didn’t bother to go, but the moment someone said she shouldn’t try, fuck it, she was determined to try.
And, of course, her tire blew, on the edge of the woods, in the dark, and the wet, and after spending half an hour trying to get the spare on, on her own, again hampered by pride, she gave up, sulking in her car as she called Dean with a sigh, waiting for the gloating.
But when he got there, there was a shade more concern than gloating- there had been flash flooding in the area, apparently- and something about the look in his eyes made her launch herself at him, in the goddamn rain, arms wrapped around his shoulders, face buried in his neck, breathing him in, trying not to start crying about how silly she felt about the whole thing. She nearly broke when his arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her tightly against his chest, and she realized she was shaking- nerves and wet and cold, and when she tried to pull away, meet his eyes, apologize for dragging him out when all he’d wanted to do was stay in, he silenced her with a gruff ‘shut up’.
She sputtered, eyebrows furrowing, and a pout threatening to tug her lower lip forward when his fingers brushed a stray wet curl from her forehead, and the simple gesture took her breath right out from her lungs, her heart stopping, eyes widening, and when the tips of his fingers lingered there, she couldn’t resist just one little kiss.
She had never kissed him, but she should have known that the touch of his lips would feel like falling into the ocean, the floor taken out from under her, threatening to drown her, holding onto him to keep herself upright. And any breath she had left was stolen when he kissed her back, the arm still around her waist seemingly aware it was needed to keep her there, pressed up against her, lest she fall away.
The rain, or lightening, or thunder, all crashing down around them, didn’t really seem to matter, for one long, elastic moment, as she finally figured out why Dean had that horrible reputation for making all the girls weak in the knees. Because this changed everything.
[ secondchancewinchester ]