Chess | Sam and Dean gen | ~300
Domestic brotherhood, prose-poem
Sam found this market at Lebanon First Baptist. Mostly members, farm wives, selling surplus from their personal gardens. Corn and green beans, squash, all the herbs.
Strawberry pie—home-grown, real whipped cream—got Dean to ride out with him the next Saturday. By coincidence, Sam swore, Gurley’s Meats pulled up a cold truck.
“Sammy, you been holdin out on me!” Dean buzzed. Rubbed palms and sucked lips.
Sam found an app. Coming off hunts, needing to stretch leg anyway. Amish country: pickles and peppers, mason jars of maple syrup. Five flavors of hand-canned jam outside a strip mall in Kentucky. Broccoli so fresh from an Iowa urgent care, Sam found live inch worms when he cut in.
Pies. Always pies. Rhubarb, peach, pecan, and pumpkin. Ice cream, whipped cream. Sometimes not even a fork, just face and fingers.
Dean finds hot sauce in Georgia, lot of another First Baptist. Three-piece string band—fiddle, banjo, and stand-up bass—picks old-time religion. Fresh eggs. Beef tamales and honey, garnet red.
Flirty forty-something: “One chocolate chess pie.”
“Y’put real cream on this, y’hear me? Not that crap from a can.”
“Yes, ma’am.” Licks teeth.
Later, “Boneless buffalo bites! Grilled, for your precious cholesterol.” Dean bundles his with bacon strips, a lettuce scrap, and a quarter-cup ranch in a wrap.
Sam’s served a salad, ranch on the side.
“You like?” Orange goo plasters his shirt.
“Good, cause you’re doin the dishes.” Greasy napkin arcs, grazes a cheek.
“Then you’re finding us a case.”
Inspired by “time off” and “them just being people.” Much love to anniespinkhouse and onehotmama199. <333