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[Endverse!AU] After his phone call with Dean in “The End,” Sam is exhausted. Still recovering from his near-relapse when hunters Reggie Hull and Tim Janklow tried to force him to drink demon blood and unwilling to fall into bed because Lucifer is waiting in his head, Sam sets off running.
He runs straight into the end of the world, where Zachariah tells him that this is where his choices will inevitably lead him unless he plays his part. Sam finds unexpected allies in the survivors at Camp Chitaqua, and maybe―just maybe―there's still reason for hope. Maybe they won't always wind up here. Not if Sam has his say.
In other words: BAMF!Sam does not know when to give up. I've always thought the end!verse needed more Sam. Plus some much-needed sorta-reconciliation between 2009!Sam and Endverse!Dean, because reasons.
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Bars make Sam think of November 2nd, how John always spent the anniversary of Mary's death as far away from Sam as he could get. Sometimes, when he came home, red-eyed and saturated with the odor of cheap beer, he'd look at Sam like he didn't even know him, and he'd start to say something, spit out "You—" before he bit his tongue and buried his face in a pillow.
Sam doesn't have many good memories of bars, but maybe he can make some. Brady orders beer and Sam orders ginger ale, much to Brady's amusement.
"It's too early for me. Later," Sam says, and leaves it at that.
Brady just shrugs and throws back a third of his drink like he was born to do it.
In other words... Right before Thanksgiving break of his sophomore year, Sam follows Brady to a bar. A part of him knows he shouldn't involve himself in other people's business, but he can't help it—he can't ignore the unfairness of it. He never could have expected what would come afterward, though.
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In a second, Dean is at his brother's side.
When they were little, they sparred. They both took some punches. This isn't just-got-punched-in-the-face Sam. This is something else.
He looks exhausted, eyes sunken and bruised, and there's blood on his lips and in the corners of the mouth, flecks of it still lingering in places down his chin (Cas later tells him that he tried to wash most of it away). He looks pale as death, near-transparent and dwarfed by a big, rough blanket.
Sequel to The Long Dark.
In other words: After Sam's seizure, Cas shows up at the bar where Dean's drinking himself stupid and demands his attention and immediate return. Dean, of course, panics.
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They say hell hath no fury, but they've never seen Dean when he's pissed. And Dean calls Sam a girl. Not that Dean was scorned. By anyone, really. Certainly not by Sam. There was no scorning. Just an ill-advised trip to a bar, and Sam only had a few drinks.
Dean is not his brother's keeper, as much as he'd like to think so.
But hell hath no fury quite like Dean when he's angry. Or maybe it does. Maybe he learned it there.
SEQUEL: The Cruelest Lies
For the prompt: Gen, Season 6. After a huge fight, an angry Dean takes off. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but Sam suffers a huge seizure right after and Castiel has to take care of him. Sam is convinced he's too broken and that Dean would be better off without him. Castiel shows him otherwise.
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With Sam, "no" means a lot of things.
There's the no that means he's had just about enough, thank you, and next he'll start yelling or throwing things or even worse—looking at Dean with those eyes. There's the no that means that if Dean asks him again he'll actually say yes. There's the no he uses when he's just trying to put something off, and the one he uses when Dean is doing something really annoying like tickling his feet but Sam actually kind of likes the attention even if it makes him angry.
And then there's this one. The worst one, the raw, throat-rending scream of fear Dean's only ever heard in Hell.
In other words: Sam is delirious with fever and Dean doesn't know what to do to make it better.