#hc sam

huntercorp sam and dean never grew out of pinkie promising btw

anyway huntercorp is an organisation which, given the nature of hunting, most likely includes medical insurance. which means that while og sam & dean avoided hospitals where possible and did their own first aid, hc sam and dean will have had proper medical care for their entire lives. thinking about the difference not only in the placement of scars but the cleanness of healing. hc sam and dean are lightly peppered with clean, thin scars - they had proper rehabilitation after serious injuries, access to medication and care during healing. og sam and dean have poorly healed, twisted scar tissue all over their bodies - no breaks between hunts, always another hunt unless you’re genuinely unable to function. no time for rehabilitation or full recovery. limited access to medication and care, sewing up their own wounds and relocating their own dislocated shoulders ever since they were teenagers. just something i think about every day

huge plot point in the post-canon “sam visits the huntercorp winchesters” fic i will probably never write is that at one point hc john asks sam to fetch something for him and sam automatically replies “yes sir” and every single one of the huntercorp winchesters goes 😰⁉️

playing savage garden’s “i want you” when huntercorp sam and dean came through the rift was the perfect intro becuz it’s true i DO want them

and what im using that meta for is to think about huntercorp sam touching sam’s scars - the twisted line across his palm from a wound reopened many times, the puckered flesh on his lower back where he died for the first time, the prominent scar tissue he and dean must both be covered in that the show doesn’t bother with - and mourning everything his counterpart has had to live through, marvelling at how much sam has somehow survived while managing to stay kind