It's getting to be that time. So, this is where I am again. Went back and reread this today and thought I'd repost.
Salt and Fire
Summary: Eight times things were not okay and one time it mostly was.
Gen | R | Dean, Sam, Bobby, Ellen, Jo, John | 1900 words
"At first, Sam had thought the realizations were symbolic, like a great epiphany strung across the conscious sky whenever he saw his brother’s back hunched over in labor and sweat breaking out at his temples. At the moment, Dean was hefting a screwdriver and cussing at a wiring harness bracket that refused to budge under his numb fingers in the cold. The heater fan had died again somewhere off of Highway 5 toward Ridgeway and Sam was standing in the cross breeze on the side of the highway holding a Maglight, protecting Dean as best he could from the wind while he fiddled with something Sam felt like he would never understand. Something about a core."