#protective!sam

SAM and DEAN WINCHESTER (+ Whump) in random scenes 18/?

“You should go, Sam,” you said softly, not tearing your eyes away from his. “They made it perfectly clear that I’m the one they want, not you. So, go while you still can. Please.” 

Sam checked the slide of his pistol making sure a round was already chambered. “I know what they said and I know what you’re saying right now—and I’d do anything for you,” he squared his shoulders to face the sole entrance, standing tall and strong beside you, “but I won’t do that.”

“Sam—”

He let out a dry laugh and glanced over at you. “I’m here for good, right next to you. You might as well get used to it.”

Hmm... protective!Sam is somewhat neglected in my reading, so I can't think of a specific fic at the moment...

But for protective!Sam moments in canon, my favorites are when Sam absolutely loses it and becomes so single minded about Dean that he'll let someone die. Or torture them, or kill them, or be dying himself telling Dean to run, or manipulate someone to sell their soul-- to keep Dean alive.

Those times when Dean is hurt or in danger and Sam becomes a one-behemoth army to get over to him and make sure he's ok. The way, if he had to do it again with hindsight, he still would've let Dean be healed in Faith. The way he moves the dresser with his mind to get to Dean in Nightmare. The way he tears off in Malleus Malleficarum, to find the witches who are hexing Dean. The way he gets control over Lucifer to save Dean. The way he allows hallucifer "in" to save Dean! The way he will put his large arms and hands on Dean's chest, to get between Dean and danger. The way his huge puppy paws cradle Dean's face when he's bloody or unconscious. The way he saves HIMSELF in Red Meat and doesn't stop striving until he shoots Corbin as he's attacking Dean. The way he carries Dean's body after his fight with Metatron, and tells him he lied. The way he wants to kill Crowley, dead, for stealing away with demon!Dean. The post-its he leaves Dean in Regarding Dean, protecting him by anticipating every move he'd make. The way he stuffs that hex bag into the witch's mouth in Various and Sundry.

(previously I was kaira-the-yellow-turtle, in case you were wondering who this is)

That's a good question!! Let's see.

What i LOVE about protective!sam is how immoral he becomes whenever dean is in danger. He usually cares or pretends to care about doing the right thing, especially in the later seasons. But if dean's life is on the line, he suggests to become organ harvesting monsters, he trades another man's life for dean's without even looking guilty about it, he makes a man sell his soul to find dean, etc. There is NOTHING he wouldn't do for dean!

On the other hand, you have dean "my job is to keep sam safe" winchester, whose desperation when sam is in danger is absolutely delicious. There's something in the way he so easily sacrifices himself every time sam's life is on the line – selling his soul, overdosing, etc. It's tragic and extremely sad and i love it.

What i also really love is how much dean WANTS to protect sam and wants sam to feel safe because of him. When sam is worried about ending up like max and dean answers "you have something max didn't have – me" and when sam tells him he needs god to exist so he can be saved and dean answers "don't worry about that i'm watching out for you" (what's god to a big brother?) and when sam is dying after the trials and dean tells him "i got you, you're gonna be just fine" like!!!! It's not even true that dean CAN protect him from those things! But he NEEDS sam to feel safe and protected and he needs to believe that he can save sam from anything. When he fails at that, like when he thinks sam got infected with the croatoan virus, he literally wants to kill himself over it :|

Bonus : What really happened in my head when Sam died