Title: Soldier's Grin
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/Characters: Dean, Sam, OFC
Word Count: 1269
Summary: Whatever he sees, it's not a dinner waitress with a minor cut. - PTSD!fic, outsider POV, set early S4. Written for our
Dean-focused h/c fic and art challenge, based on
this anonymous prompt.
No one would've noticed before how tightly he's been keeping himself together, but now the tension drains out of him as if someone’s released a bow's string after holding it at the ready for too long. He exhales, closes his eyes and mumbles something to himself; from what Greta knows about these things, it's most likely a reprimand, a reminder that he's got to keep his chin up and pretend he's fine.