[ sms ; mccall ] oh. i haven’t been home. it still good you think?

// now that is even more annoying.

iknowthatfeeling.

// talk to them do the do

one hunt that Chris and John argued for hours over beforehand because Chris and Victoria argued for hours all day

"He's still a child John! "

" He hasn't been a child since he was four years old. You don't want him to go, you tell him, he won't listen to me."

And Chris is like, that's bullshit. Dean would listen if John told him to stop breathing.

except Dean doesn't listen.

he nods and obeys and says all the right things, but he stows away in the car all the same

and it's him that gets the werewolf attention when it jumps the trap.

it's Dean the thing tries to crush and bite and chew and kill.

it's Dean who pumps it full of silver bullet after silver bullet.

it's Dean who smiles up at both John and Chris, even as he's covered in blood--some of it his, most of it the wolf's--and wheezes because the impact did something to his ribs.

Dean gets hurt.

and Chris and Victoria don't know how to tell a small child he can't hug his brother because he'll start bleeding again.

John does.

and Victoria has to be bodily removed from the room before she injures John too. He doesn't notice. Or maybe he doesn't care. Or maybe he's used to people's reactions.

Dean is content with his broken rib and job well done and pat on the shoulder. He promises to get right back to work for Mr. Argent the next morning and then Chris has to leave before he injures John.

It's not their place, he has to remind himself. These are not their children.

What would you do if you had a child, Chris? And something evil and malicious took Victoria away? Came after your baby? He'd like to think he'd put his child first, but fooling yourself is a bad hunter habit. Gets people killed. If Dean hadn't been able to defend himself, he'd be dead. If he hadn't been there in the first place, he wouldn't be in danger to begin with. One day, Dean will have to be a soldier. But should that mean he never gets to be a little boy?

I started on battle.net rooms, in the Starcraft multiplayer area.