My hand on your shoulder 2
| pairing: Sam Winchester x reader (f)
The monster of the week turned out to be a siren. After another victim, the trio of Sam, Dean and Her, finally put one and one together and quickly got to killing the creature. It took blood and sweat and some effort but since they make a good team, they made quick work of the monster that compelled humans to commit horrible acts while disguised as a loved one.
The Winchesters and Her decide to settle in a tranquil bar for the evening to let loose for one night after a successful hunt.
The bar is rather small and just a few people are sipping on drinks, a small group of younger guys are gathered around the pool table, and the other customers are scattered all around.
Sam and Her settle in a booth on opposite sides while Dean took it upon himself to get their drinks. The reason for that seems pretty obvious when looking over to the bar counter. Behind it is a woman with blonde hair in an intricate updo, which She guesses Dean was going to use as his opening.
“Looks like someone’s about to have a good night.” She comments, nodding towards the bar before glancing at Sam with a half drained and half amused smile. “Looks like it.” Sam agrees, smiling in amusement at the woman opposite of him. “See her hair? That’s good material for him.” The youngest Winchester adds.
She nods and hums in agreement. “Definitely.” Sam eyes his brother for another moment before turning back to Her. “Let’s hope we’ll get drinks today.” That earns him a chuckle along with a nod from Her and it makes Sam’s own smile widen. “Yeah, let’s.”
Luckily for the two, Dean actually ends up getting three beers and joins them in the booth. He sits down next to their female companion and hands her and his brother the beer with a happy smile.
“So, what’s her name?” She turns her head and looks at Dean with a knowing smile before taking a sip from the brown bottle. “Valerie,” Dean answers with a proud grin “but she has to close this place down, so…”
Sam laughs at that. “Man, now you’re gonna have to spend time with us.” The tall man on the other side says sarcastically before glancing at Her again to see if she was amused as well. Of course he was right to assume that she was. She chuckles to herself and catches Sam’s hazel eyes on her. They always somehow seem to find their way to her own.
Dean rolls his eyes and sighs in annoyance, taking a long sip of his beer too. He wasn’t just annoyed by getting turned down or that the other two make fun of him for it, it was more about the other two looking at each other like that. Again. It happens often enough to piss him off.
Her eyes shift again, scanning around the bar and spotting the pool table with the guys gathered around it. A grin settles on her face. “Hey, wanna see me hustle those guys?” She looks at both brothers with raised brows. “Hell yeah.” Dean instantly agrees with something close to proudness within his expression.
Sam on the other hand keeps his reaction more light. He nods and gives her that soft smile while shrugging his shoulders. “Yeah. Definitely.” He says even if it doesn’t sound as enthusiastic as his brother’s answer was.
She smiles and takes a big sip of her beer, emptying it halfway before climbing over Dean’s lap to walk over to the group consisting of four guys in her and Sam’s age probably.
“Hey guys, this looks so fun. Interested in another game?” She asks them with a sweet voiced to sound more innocent and inexperienced. The guys look at her with raised brows at first but they quickly come to smile at the woman in front of them.
“Sure. But we bet, so… got something to bet?” One of the guys, a man about Dean’s height asks, stepping closer to her. His deep brown eyes look down to her, seizing her up with an easy smile.
She acts as if she has to think for a moment before reaching into the pocket of her dark washed jeans. She pulls out a small stack of folded twenties. Half of it She shoves back into the pocket and holds up the rest of it. “80 bucks enough?”
The man tilts his head and glancing at his buddies. They smirk at him and it encourages him to ask for more. “That, and your number, sweetheart. You in?” He crosses his arms over his chest.
For a second She seems to think about it before shrugging her shoulders and nodding. “Why not. You’re on, but you’re gonna have to bet at least a hundred. Since… I mean you seem like you do this often and I really don’t.” That charming smile on her face remains and it seems to work on the guy, getting him to believe she is just another dumb girl with enough confidence.
“Sure.” He pulls out 150 dollars and sets them next to her 80. “I’ll even let you start.” The guy says, leaning in for just a few seconds.
On the other end of the room, both Sam and Dean are watching, watching Her charm her way into the game. Dean has an amused expression on his face, the beer meets his lips every other minute as he is quite intrigued to see how She’s gonna do it, even though he has seen it plenty.
When he looks over to his little brother though, a deep sigh escapes his lungs. “You gotta stop doing that, man.” He tells his brother.
Sam turns his head and looks at his brother in confusion. “Do what?” Dean gives him a look that said nothing less but ‘really?’. “Dude, you’re looking over there like she’s gonna get stabbed by that guy.” Sam’s brows knit and he shakes his head in denial. “I’m not.”
Dean takes another generous sip of his beer since this was already getting on his nerves. “Sammy, just grow a pair and ask her out. Make a move for god’s sake, it’s painful to watch.” His voice expresses the urgency and annoyance Dean feels towards this situation.
The younger Winchester drops his head for a moment, staring at the dark wooden table with endless scratches in it from years of use. “Just leave it alone.” He then mumbles, looking up at his brother.
Dean in return rolls his eyes and shakes his head. “What? You don’t think she’s into you?” He takes another sip of his beer, finishing it. “Because I’m telling you, she is. And obviously your dumb ass is into her just as much so go for it.” At this point Dean is doing the exact thing he never wanted to do, hold speeches, monologue like in a chick flick. On the other hand it is also painful to see his brother sickly in love without doing anything about it.
Said brother eyes Dean for a moment, hearing him say that the girl he has been into might also be into him makes him think. Then Sam looks over to Her again, who’s now celebrating her win.
“So that’s 150 bucks, and my 80,” She says with a grin on her face, once again successful in hustling unassuming, overconfident men. Might be her favorite kind of activity. The guy who lost against her rolls his eyes but then goes back to smiling.
“You totally played me,” he says, “was pretty hot, to be honest.” Once again, the dark haired man leans closer into her space and his voice lowers. “Do I get to keep your number? Y’know as consolation.”
Sam watches from their booth, seeing how close the man is to Her now. Despite the fact that he in now way shape or form has anything to say about Her dating choices, the weird feeling spreads in his chest again seeing the scene unfold.
She scans the guys face, not doing anything yet. Suddenly her eyes shift and meet Sam’s across the room. She shakes her head then, looking back at the guy. “No. No consolation for bad players,” she answers, a corner of her mouth pulling up into a grin. “Bye.”
With that she steps away from the pool table and makes her way over to the Winchesters. “Easy as always.” She says triumphant as she holds up the money she hustled.
Dean grins up at her. “That’s my girl. How much you won?” He asks her, making room so she could sit down next to him. Instead of taking up the free space on Dean’s side though, She decides to sit next to Sam.
“150.” The money gets tucked into the back pocket of her jeans. “You’re awesome.” Dean tells the woman opposite before glancing at Sam who is wearing a smile on his face as well. Just a little more scaled back, yet no less proud. “Definitely.” He says.
Dean of course takes the opportunity to tease his little brother since he now knows for sure how Sam feels about their companion. “Yeah, definitely.” Dean mocks his brother, “Sammy here drooled a little watching you.” The older brother states with a grin that always earns him an eye roll.
As expected, Sam does roll his eyes. “Shut up.” He shakes his head, hoping She won’t take it to heart. She glances at Sam, who’s seemingly annoyed and perhaps even embarrassed, before shrugging her shoulders. “My pool performance is worth drooling over.”
“I think that was just you, though.” Dean adds before getting a kick to his shin. A low laugh only follows from Dean who successfully pushed his brother’s buttons. She takes notice of the defensiveness from Sam’s side but decides not to talk about it for now.
The three spend another hour at the dim bar, drinking away the money She has earned them with skilled hands, a cue and charm. Then the Impala makes its way back to the motel. Dean leaves Her and Sam alone to still his hunger for a greasy diner burger, or so he says.
Upon getting back to the motel, they settle in the boys’ room. While she washes the filth of the day away from her face over the bathroom sink, Sam stands in the doorway, watching and listening to Her talk.
After she is done and dries her face off with a towel and gentle taps, she thinks about the bar again. “Hey earlier at the bar,” She starts to say as she puts the off white fabric away, “was Dean serious?”
Sam looks down at Her slightly confused. “What do you mean?” She steps past him through the doorway, brushing his arm. “When he said you were watching.., y’know, me.” She turns to face Sam again. Her expression is twisted with curiosity, Sam can tell she wants to know.
The tall man mildly chuckles before shaking his head, not meeting her eyes at first. “No, he just said that. You know him.” He tells her then, meeting her eyes with his own briefly. The way he reacts to the question makes her suspicious.
“Yeah?” She asks, brows slightly furrowed in suspicion. “Seemed pretty defensive about it. You don’t usually give a shit about his comments.” The hunter then adds as she leans against the edge of the table the room provided.
“Yeah because he was annoying. And yeah maybe I was watching you but just because of that guy getting in your space like that. Didn’t wanna miss the chance to tell him to piss off.” The words just seem to flow from his brain straight out his mouth, like lava flowing down a volcano.
Sam doesn’t realise what he had admitted until a few seconds later. His hazel eyes meet hers, which are now widened a little at the admission.
Her brows are raised slightly. She doesn’t say anything for a minute. “Sam were you jealous?” She says, leaning forward a little, her eyes never leaving his face. Her eyes read him with curiosity and even faint excitement.
“We’re not together.” Sam responds.
“That’s not what I asked.” She then counters, prompting him to answer what she has asked him.
The tall man in the bathroom doorframe takes a long breath as if he needed the courage the oxygen gave him. “Maybe I was.” He then tells her, meeting her eyes. For a moment they just look at each other and neither move.
“Sam…” She calls his name lowly yet gentle but before she can continue to speak he goes ahead. “No, look. I know you can do whatever you want. And I don’t want to be jealous because we’re not together, as I said. But I just don’t like the thought of you with someone else.”
As he finishes speaking, he is suddenly standing in front of her. She looks up at him before standing slowly, as if the statement made her hesitate to act quicker.
“Yeah?” She then asks a little quieter than before, almost perplex. Sam doesn’t avert his eyes this time and gives her one nod. “Yeah.” His voice matches her volume and dropped into a tone of quiet confidence now.
For another moment, the two just hold eye contact, as if trying to read each other fully. Then in a split second decision, Sam tries his luck and leans down to meet her. His big hand settles on the side of her head, tilting it upwards. He ends up so close that their noses brush, yet their lips don’t.
That half a centimetre is getting closed by Her. As soon as she felt Sam so close she knew she wanted closer, and so she took what she wanted. Their lips meet, Sam’s soft and gentle at first before they turn more explorative. Her hands connect with his upper arms, getting hold of him while pulling herself closer.
Sam pulls her closer by the waist with his other hand while his lips work to make her understand his feelings.
Suddenly, the jingle of keys sound through the room, making them part. When they look at the door, Dean stands there with raised brows and a proud look.
“Oh don’t mind me.” The oldest Winchester says, receiving annoyed groans from both Sam and Her.
Slowly, Sam’s hand slips away from her waist but the one on her jaw just settles lower onto her shoulder. Despite his brother, he had something that could easily trump Dean’s comments.
She squeezes Sam’s arm once more before walking away. “Goodnight.” Because she was definitely not staying for Dean’s teasing. For one she was annoyed, but Sam assumed she might feel too exposed to stay right now.
Sam is left with a smile on his lips before it gets washed away by his brother’s slap on the shoulder. “Don’t just let her walk away now, Sammy. You already came this far.” The grin on the man’s face was wider than the Grand Canyon, Sam swore.
Back in Her own room, she still felt Sam’s hand on her shoulder and his lips wrapping her up in bliss. And even a soft line of a smile holds itself up on her face, despite it usually being pretty hard to entertain.
a/n: a little longer but hopefully just as good.