Master Post - Faith, Love, and Sin

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Epilogue

Waiting to move until January allowed Sam to finish the current semester at the farmhouse and gave Dean a chance to say his goodbyes to his students.  Dean knew it would be hard for the students, so many of whom already had issues with abandonment and self-esteem, so he wanted to give them every chance possible for closure.

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Chapter 11

Sam tried to keep himself busy, hoping that if his brain, or at least his hands, were occupied enough he wouldn’t count down the days and hours until Dean returned.  Of course it was all futile; the only things his mind could focus on were his brother and that letter.

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Chapter 10

It crushed Sam to stay away from Dean, but he kept his distance as much as he possibly could.  The only thing that hurt more than being apart from Dean, was having to see him.  It had been a Saturday when Sam had left Dean alone in his apartment, so he had a full day without classes and thankfully his chores were in the house.  He was ( Read more... )

Chapter 9

The mid-morning sun filtered through the hotel curtains, falling over the bed where Dean slept curled around his brother.  Dean slowly blinked his eyes open as the warmth seeped through his lids.  When he realized he was still tangled around Sam, the events of the night before came back to him in honey-slow replays.  Dean searched his ( Read more... )

Chapter 8

The next day Sam was so excited about his date with Dean that he could barely focus to get through his session, and even Lanie commented on his frenetic energy.  He was mostly working with a cane at this point, using crutches when he was tired, and he hardly ever required the wheelchair anymore.  She kept redirecting his attention to the ( Read more... )

Chapter 7

“Rise and shine, Sam!”  Lanie, Sam’s primary physical therapist, was always just a touch more cheerful than the teen thought was healthy.  Lately her pep bordered on psychotic.  Sam groaned and pulled his pillow over his head.  He’d tried, and it wasn’t that he didn’t care about getting better, but it was so much harder than he’d thought ( Read more... )

Chapter 6

Though Dean made the trip back to Blue Earth in less than half the time he’d made the trip away, Sam had still already been in the hospital for close to twelve hours by the time he got there.  He made at least a dozen calls to Pastor Jim, and all he knew for sure was that Sam was alive, but hadn’t regained consciousness since the ( Read more... )

Chapter 5

Dean was surprised the next day when he went to Pastor Jim’s and found that his father had indeed left early that morning.  He was even more surprised when months went by without John trying to call or otherwise insert himself into Sam’s or Dean’s life; it appeared John Winchester was going to respect his sons’ wishes.  Dean was relieved ( Read more... )

Chapter 4

Three days after Pastor Jim’s revelation, Father Winchester was still trying to wrap his mind around it.  Sam was his brother, the baby he’d saved from the fire? He looked for distraction in his books and research, but wasn’t able to concentrate, and although he had to some degree been looking forward to the diversion of teaching classes ( Read more... )