dashboardlite: ('Scuse me?)

Sam?!


[It's playing on a loop in Dean's head.]

Mom?  Mom!  Dad?!  C'mon, this isn't funny!

[The...the Dean in the television had been screaming.  For an hour.]

Bobby?  Dad!  You guys, please!  Don't just...don't just leave me here.

[Until his voice was raw.  Until he couldn't scream anymore.  Until he curled up and sobbed.  Dean can remember it distinctly enough.  Something that was him.  But not him.  Alone in a room.  It was dark, and quiet.  And no one was answering.  No one was there.  Not even-]

Cas?!

[Dean sucks in a shaky breath, settled in the corner of his childhood room in his old house.  The entire kitschy motel room looks like his house, down to the gash in the paintjob from when Dean ran his Hot Wheels cars into the wall, repeating some movie stunt he'd seen on tv when he was four.  Cradling a small statue of an angel - one of the only things he found in the room that was completely unscathed, and a gift from his mother - Dean sends a terrified, sidelong glance at a family portrait, framed and hung on the wall.

Hairline fractures have snaked through the infrastructure of the bedroom, the window panes split and spider-webbed, the photographs of everyone close to him torn.  His mother is ripped from every single one.  Sammy has slashes through his face; white scrapes made with an Exacto knife in anger.  And Dean isn't even next to his father in any of them.
]

Someone...  [He croaks, looking down at the statue of the angel in his hands.  Dean can't remember when he first noticed it was in his room, on his shelf, but he definitely remembers that his father thought it was sort of silly.  His mother believed otherwise.]

It's okay, baby, it's all okay.  Angels are watching over you.

[Dean swallows before trying again.]

...anyone?
dashboardlite: (The hell...?)
As he stands there, staring, Dean Winchester wonders why he's never noticed this door before.  It's not anything normal, by any stretch - it's just a huge door; tall, foreboding, made of something that looks like solid oak.  He hasn't touched it yet, he's simply been waiting.  Waiting for it to open, waiting for someone to go in or come out. 

It doesn't even have hinges or a knob or a lock, but he knows it's a door, and not some giant slab in the middle of the foyer.

Without dragging his eyes away, Dean slips a hand into the pocket of his coat, pulling out the comm unit he'd warped into an EMF reader.  Something this big and unexpected had to have a spike off the charts.  Switching the device on with a little click, he takes careful, precise steps towards the door, holding his electro-magnetic-frequency measurer up to the offending object - He really shouldn't be feeling like a gorilla out of 2001: A Space Odyssey right now, but he does - and his eyebrows shoot into his hairline as the EMF lights up and squeals, obnoxious beeping echoing through the front hall.

"...sonuvabitch," He mutters, tucking his little invention away and running his fingers over smooth wood.  "We chased our pleasures, here...dug our treasures, there, but can you still recall..."  Dean hums quiety, squinting at the grain and scratching a fingernail over it, half-expecting sulfur to come away.

"...the time we cried...break on through, to the other side, break on through, to the other side..."
dashboardlite: (ohhh that's nice)
[Dean is sprawled in a large, plush (but well-worn) chair, a deep scowl etched onto his face.  Led Zeppelin's Traveling Riverside Blues can be heard playing in the background.  He looks pensive and brooding, which isn't unusual, but considering how he normally sports a cocky, self-sure smirk, this doesn't bode well.  He shifts a little, uncrossing his legs and slouching further in the seat, fingers clenched in the armrests.  If it isn't already obvious how tense he is, the wrinkle between his eyebrows is a dead-giveaway.]

...Jesus fuck, I'd kill for a massage.

[Just remembering how good the Magic Fingers on those crappy motel beds felt is making his back knot up even more.  He needs a break, he needs to loosen, particularly after all the leftover, residual stress from Fear Factor: Fucked-Up Mansion Edition.  Dean runs a shaky hand through his hair and lets out a slow, long breath.  Rolling his eyes, he finally looks at the camera.]

Okay, look, if anyone's there, and listening, and wants to - I dunno - hang out, or somethin'...I'm in my room.  Again.  [The Dean Winchester everyone knows and loves actually quirks a little smile.]  I was thinkin' of hittin' up the liquor cabinet, if this shitty joint has one.  If you're sane, and game- [He resists the urge to add "Attractive" to that list.] ...then you should get your ass over here.

Drinking alone sucks.

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