a happy place to dream about (slice of life horror, multi-chaptered)
Dean's rudderless when he limps ashore in West Cibola. 23, with nobody and nothing but a couple bucks and a broken-down old car to his name. It's October. Nothing's been right for a long time.
He turns 24 in a rundown long-stay motel room with an under the table turned actual job at an washed-up dive bar— the only place that'd take him without a real job history or a permanent address. It’s way off the tourist strip and the money’s terrible, but it’s steady.
Two years and some change later, just as the restlessness really starts to seep in, he meets Chuck Shurley for the first time.
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Adam’s alarm drags him from his nap twenty minutes before the bus he has to catch— except it’s barely been an hour, and that’s when he realizes it’s not his alarm at all.
And Adams knows it's not telemarketers or some overeager solicitor, because every once in a while, his dad does this. Calls a million times in a row. His mom never gives him the time of day, especially not since the trial. She’s never told Adam why he was calling— if she ever spoke to him long enough to find out— and never, never lets Adam pick it up.
But his mom is at work. John’s letters have been at the back of his mind for months, and the phone’s just ringing and ringing and ringing off the hook—
The phone cuts off, and Adam looks down at the receiver in his hand. He’s not even sure when he got up.
There’s a sharp click, and then a flat mechanical voice cuts through the static.
“This is a prepaid call from— John Winchester —an inmate at Stillwater Correctional Facility. This call is subject to monitoring and recording.”