Title: Drawing Outlines (of Us, with Chalk on the Asphalt)
Characters: Sam, Dean, Bobby
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 5218
Warnings: Some violence, OC death
Spoilers: Set between 5.16 and 5.17.
Summary: Dean's inability to trust his brother becomes life-threatening when Sam is injured fighting demons.
Note: For the
ohsam h/c challenge. Prompt by
khakigrrl: (hidden for story spoilers) In Season 5, after Dean knows about the demon blood, Sam is hurt on a hunt but is trying to hide it. However, he starts coughing up blood, for whatever reason, and Dean, seeing the blood around Sam's mouth, mistakenly thinks it's evidence of Sam drinking blood again.
In the end, Dean had to admit that he couldn’t bear the thought of Sam all on his own. Because he didn’t trust the world not to destroy his brother, and because he didn’t trust his brother not to destroy the world.