SPN Fic: and when you laugh, laugh like hell
Title: and when you laugh, laugh like hell
Rating: PG-13
Category: Gen
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester
Warnings: Up to ‘Jus in Bello’. You’ll live if you read this.
Disclaimer: If I owned this show, I'd be writing episodes and not fic, which I write for fun not profit.
Summary: Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. -- William Saroyan
Sam can’t concentrate. That’s nothing new when he shares a room with a guy like his brother. When Dean’s not working, he’s watching TV. Loudly. Sam can hear him like he’s a foot away instead of in the other room. He’s been laughing for the past five minutes. Straight. It’s not an exaggeration. He timed it.
Sam’s not being a jerk for being annoyed over Dean’s laughing for five minutes. It’s just he’ll be quiet and then laugh again, quiet, laugh again and so on. Sam really needs to concentrate. He’s not trying to rain on Dean’s parade by being pissed that he can actually laugh when he only has a couple of months to live.
“Dean!” Sam yells. Dean ignores him. Sam tries again. “DEAN!!”
“WHAT?”
“SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
“BITE ME BITCH!” He’s laughing again, louder than before. Basically, ‘fuck you and leave me alone’ in one.
That’s it. Sam is up out of his chair, it falling back and hitting the carpet with a hard thump. When he’s within a foot of Dean, he can see there are tears in his eyes, face flush a hot pink. Dean thinks fart jokes are funny so Sam doesn’t think much of Dean’s sense of humor. Then again Dean hasn’t laughed this hard since he was kid, Sam thinks.
“What the fuck is so funny?” Sam asks, plopping down on the bed next to Dean, purposefully landing somewhat on him. Instead of pushing him off, Dean laughs harder. Weird.
Sam moves off of Dean, gets comfortable and really starts to listen to what Dean’s watching. It’s not long before he’s laughing so hard his stomach hurts and he thinks he might be a racist for finding the movie funny. He can live with that what with the FBI thinking they were serial killers and Dean’s deal to worry about. Besides, to hear Dean like this and to laugh with Dean? It’s the next best thing in the world right about now.
SERIOUSLY MINOR SPOILER FOR ‘SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL’ AHEAD.
Notes: I got the idea from Dean’s line in 5x1: “How did we end up on Soul Plane?” I have never seen this movie so I have no idea if it’s funny. Anyway, I think Dean and Sam have probably seen a lot of movies on crappy motel TVs over the years. I’m sure that’s how Dean knows about this movie. Here are a couple of quotes:
Captain Mack: This is your soul plane chauffeur Captain Antoine Mack speaking. Welcome aboard NWA flight 069 from the 310 to the 212. It's time to bust this coney y'all. In a hot second, I'll be hittin' them switches and gettin' this bitch pumpin' and jumpin'. So screw your sh*t on tight and enjoy the flight.
Captain Mack: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have reached our cruising altitude of 33 thousand feet... 33 THOUSAND FEET? Oh shit, man! We fuckin' higher than Redman at the Source Awards!
So you can understand Sam’s concern.