a Dean-focused hurt/comfort comment meme (#6)

[hoodietime]

YESSS. \o/

This wasn’t supposed to happen for a few more weeks, but then we realized there's a mini-hiatus right now. Let's fill it with h/c goodness!

Comments

Re: therapeutic horseback riding

[roque_clasique]

Awwwww ;_;

Re: therapeutic horseback riding

[maypoles]

<333

Re: therapeutic horseback riding

[rbmi_fan]

*loves*

I possibly have a Sim!Dean who lives on a ranch and is a professional jockey

Re: therapeutic horseback riding

[juppschmitz]

Remember how he was in that little scene in Frontierland? When he held the horse for Sammy? Adorable!

FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 1/3

[sw0rdy]

Because I couldn't resist Dean Winchester and horses...

Nothing Else Like It by Swordy

It’s a stupid idea and in a life that’s seen a lot of stupid ideas, that’s really saying something. It’s been almost a year since they stopped moving around, almost six months since he relented to Sam’s request to get some therapy for the many issues he’s stored inside a bottle of whiskey for as long as he can remember and a couple of days since he agreed to his therapist’s suggestion to ‘try something different’ as part of his recovery.

He’d blame it on drink if he hadn’t been dry for the last seven months.

“Dean? You ready to give it a try?”

He blinks, comes back to himself, does his best not to scowl because it’s not this woman’s fault that his therapist is crazy.

“Uh, don’t you have any smaller models?”

The woman, Jody, laughs. “We’ve got a couple of Shetland ponies but they’re not really your thing.”

“Oh, why not?”

“Well, you’re about four feet too tall and one hundred pounds too heavy.”
Now he does scowl because the horse she’s standing there

FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 2/3

[sw0rdy]

Twenty four hours later and he’s aching badly. His right leg, broken by the Leviathan and prevented from healing correctly by his own actions in what feels like a lifetime ago, has stiffened up so much that he’s walking with a limp and his backside is happy to remind him that horse riding is for crazy people every time he sits down. Mentally he tells it to chill because he’s not going back. Sam patiently listens to his bitching, then tosses the Tiger Balm at him. Dean grudgingly accepts it but snorts at Sam’s assertion that he’ll probably go back.

Six days later and he’s sitting aside Balthazar again. There’s only one brief blip, when the horse does one of those full body shakes to try and dislodge a fly that lands on its rump but this time he’s determined to stick with it and by the end of the hour he’s guiding Balthazar around the paddock at both walk and trot.

He goes home that evening with a grin on his face and for the first time in seven months he thinks about something other than alcohol.
He’s been having weekly lessons for a

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[crowley_gal]

Awesome. I just wish it was longer.

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[sw0rdy]

Thank you!

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[sw0rdy]

Over the next few months the vet bills nearly clean them out but Sam knows they’re worth it when he sees the determination in his brother’s face every time he returns from the farm with the news that Balthazar is weight bearing a little better or has moved more than a few steps around his stall.

It doesn’t take Dean’s therapist to tell either of them that his brother sees something of himself in the damaged creature but for the first time since Dean stopped drinking, it’s like his brother’s life has some sense of purpose. For that, it’s worth all the money worries in the world.

While the horse is out of commission Dean finally comes to the decision that he needs to get his own leg fixed, as the pain threatens to push him towards a dependence on painkillers. He has the surgery where his leg is re-broken and pinned and for the next eight weeks he’s a familiar sight at the farm, sitting in Balthazar’s stall with his casted leg resting on a bale of hay as he tells the horse how one day they’re both gonna be fixed up and won’t that be

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[anonymous]

This is so lovely!

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[boothwasframed]

Wow. That was really awesome. I love horses, (and have ridden a few in my time) so I was curious as to how you were going to write this, but this is just...awesome. Really. You might have just saved my day, that's how awesome this is.

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[sw0rdy]

Aw I'm glad I was able to brighten your day! I owned my own horses for a number of years and although I don't miss the financial commitment,I do miss being able to ride whenever I wanted.

Dean on a horse is such a lovely image!

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[maypoles]

MY HEART JUST GREW TEN SIZES <333

Great fill!

Re: FILLED: Nothing Else Like It , Dean and Sam, gen, PG-13, mention of suicide 3/3

[sw0rdy]

Thank you! I honestly can't believe I sat down and wrote this this afternoon after I'd vowed to spend the time working on other things.

On a separate note, did I post correctly because it says (no subject) yet it's got a subject but you can only see it when you actually open the comment.