Thursday - T
So I was thinking of a nice word that began with T to use for today's theme but I am drawing a blank. Hence I am taking the chicken way out and making the theme T. So, words that begin with T, alliterations or maybe even something else I haven't even thought of
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The counselor hadn't spelled it out for him. She'd been talking to a teacher and obviously hadn't known that Sam was there, but Sam could use context clues - it wasn't hard to figure out what the counselor meant.
It was the first time Sam ever skipped school without his brother or his dad having told him to.
"What's wrong with you?" Dean asked immediately. Sam wasn't gone for maybe half an hour before Dean was hurrying through the door of their motel room, proving Sam's supicions true that Dean was keeping an eye on him while they're at school, somehow, even though they weren't in the same classes or even the same building on that campus.
Sam tried not to tell the truth - he did. He didn't know if Dean would make fun of him for what he was feeling, or - even worse - start to feel bad too. But he didn't want to find out.
Dean knows Sam too well, though - knew him even better then. Eventually Sam asked, "Dean... Have you ever heard of a- a 'throwaway kid'?"
Whatever the teachers used to say, Dean is smart. He's quick, in a lot of ways, he just can't stand learning from anyone who hasn't proved that they have something worthwhile to teach. "Who called you that?" Dean asked, eyes and mouth changing. Not quite into Dangerous/Hunter mode, but definitely into Pissed Off Big Brother.
'They didn't,' Sam couldn't say - because he didn't want to repeat what else they'd said about Dean.
'Frankly, I'm surprised he comes to school at all,' Sam heard the counselor say. 'You know how kids like that end up. On the streets, selling drugs or themselves. It's such a tragedy...'
"We're not abandoned, Sam. Dad may not be around a lot, but he wouldn't ditch us," Dean went about reassuring Sam, despite Sam's non-answer. "And even if he did - big 'if' there, Sammy - you wouldn't be alone. You've got me, alright? You'll always have me."
Dean was so worked up about what he was saying, he didn't even realize that he'd basically just initiated his very own 'chick flick moment.' But Sam was too worked up himself to call him on it.
"And you've got me, Dean!" Sam made sure to say. If Dean never let him say it again, he had to know that he'd said it once. That Dean heard someone say that he isn't a thrown away anything. "There's no such thing as a throwaway person," Sam concluded.
"Damn straight," Dean said. "And you remember that, the next time some a-hole says something stupid."
Sam said he'd try, though secretly he knew it would never be okay with him when someone said something derogatory about his brother. The one person who really mattered in Sam's life.
The only person who ever really made Sam feel like something other than disposable.
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