I'll Express How Angry I Am With This Piano.
Due to my gums, throat and digestive system cunningly ganging up on me, there is now not one aspect of eating that isn't painful. I do not think this is as funny as you think it is, body.
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Dean doesn't even need to think about it. "Stanford."
"Stanford the planet?"
"Stanford, California," Dean says. "There's a planet?"
"Oh," the Doctor says. "That's not very exciting, is it? I mean, California's great, but I've been on Earth for ages. Don't you want to see the stars?"
"There's someone I gotta check up on," Dean says.
The Doctor pauses, then shrugs. "All right. I'm choosing the next place, though."
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"I could invite him along," the Doctor says, quietly.
Sam's grinning broadly, chatting to someone, his arm around the shoulders of a pretty blonde. He's got friends. Somehow, Dean's been imagining him leaving his family and walking straight into nothing. Turns out Sam's got other people in his life.
"Nah," Dean says. "It's all right."
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Travelling with the Doctor isn't much of a holiday. Things try to kill them even more than they did when Dean and Dad were actually looking for monsters. It's good, though. Dean thinks he'd go crazy if he didn't have anything to hunt. He doesn't know how Sam's not losing it.
It gets kind of annoying when the Doctor cockblocks him again with a 'hello, sorry to interrupt, but I forgot my Telraearnian etiquette for a moment and there's a very angry fifty-foot caterpillar coming this way', but Dean can deal with that. Most of the time he gets on pretty well with the Doctor, considering Dean tried to shoot him the first time they met.
What gets him in the end is Dad's voice in the back of his mind. The people on these planets need saving, but they have the Doctor. Earth needs hunters.
Dean's half-expecting a you walk out that door, don't you ever come back when he tells the Doctor he has to go, but the Doctor just smiles a little, sadly, and says, "I know."
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Dean doesn't realise he left Dad's leather jacket on the TARDIS until after it's gone. He swears loudly at a nearby bird, because it's the only thing around to hear him, and stalks back to the motel. The Doctor's dropped him off a day after he left; it'd be hell trying to find Dad otherwise.
When he gets to the room, Dad's not there, but the jacket is lying on the bed, neatly folded, with a note.
Always wondered where this came from. Sorry for not giving it back straight away. I mean, it's straight away from your perspective, but I've actually been wearing it for an entire incarnation. Didn't know it was yours at the time, but I did know when I went back and gave it to myself. Look, point is, I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. I loved that jacket. Plus paradoxes, you know.
This makes less than no sense to Dean, but he puts the note in his pocket anyway.
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Aw! HUGS FOR DEAN!!!
Also, Dean's complete and total bafflement at the paradox is awesome!
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