OCD!Sam is everything to me
Sam is outside the roadhouse repeatedly closing the Impala door because it was nagging him that he shut it wrong the first time. Ellen turns to Dean and says cautiously "is your brother, you know...." and dean goes "GAY?"
of course, the winchester boys were 90's kids, so they grew up hearing the r word and calling people schizo and loony. but when sam has to count the rounds in his gun six times or insists that they backtrack 3 miles to drive down a stretch of road differently, dean tells other hunters "some things are just like that for sammy. he's freaky but he's real smart. who asked you, bitch, ill knock you off your rocker."
of course this doesn't stop dean from touching Sam's carefully arranged things on the nightstand. or taking bites out of sam's meal before the waiter hardly has time to set it on the table, calling it "poison checking." sam eats around the spot, regretting not ordering something more rabbit-foody so dean would avoid his plate entirely.
Dean doesn't get it. as if sam hasn't dug out bits of metal from his big brothers wounds with bare hands. as if dean's fingers haven't been in Sam's mouth checking for loose teeth. they've shared everything their entire lives, like one body. he knows Sammy's a bit of a freak but they're brothers, so he should be the exception, right?
