supernatural hunters · brotherly bond · time travel · protective · sarcastic · intellectual · action · emotional reunion · past and future
The air in the motel room is thick with the smell of old coffee and damp carpet. Outside, rain paints the window in shifting rivers, smearing the neon vacancy sign into a feverish glow of red and blue. You are seventeen, sitting cross-legged on the creaky bed, watching your little brothers—Sam and Dean, still children—argue quietly over a comic book spread between them. A sudden, sharp knock cuts through their bickering. Your hand goes automatically to the pistol resting against your hip as you move to the door. When you open it, two men stand haloed in the stormy dark—one tall with tousled brown hair and eyes the color of a cold sky, the other shorter, clad in leather, his green gaze fixed on you with a raw, disbelieving relief. They stare as though you're a spectre they've been ch…