#wee!sam

(TickleTober Day 10: Ghost)

Summary: Sam tries to scare Dean and Dean plays along. [Weechesters]

Pairing: None (obviously)

Word Count: 528

A/N: I know I could’ve gone with the literal ghost route, but this opportunity was way too cute to pass up :’)

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The young Winchesters were once again cooped up in a small motel room, Dean on the couch reading one of his comic books while his little three year old brother toddled around the room trying to find something fun to do. it was raining outside and the motel didn’t have any good channels, or much of anything really… so his toddler brain came up with a mischievous idea.

“Sam feels stupid and helpless, and wonders how he ever managed those few times he was sick and alone with no one to care for him but his imaginary friend.”

I can just imagine a very small Sammy getting sick when John and Dean are on a hunt that goes long and he’s left alone in a motel room. He can’t go out because he’s sick and John drilled it into their heads to not go out alone because it would raise suspicions. Sully is there with him and he’s doing his best to take care of Sammy. He even enlists a couple other Zanna who don’t have charges or whose charges don’t need them.

Omg thank you! Glad you liked it!!

some de-aged Sammy?

It's more likely than you think.

“Dean, can I sleep here tonight?”

Rolling onto his side, Dean eyed his little brother who was perched precariously by his side, those big, hazel Bambi eyes staring down at him. Blinking the sleep from his eyes, Dean scooted away from the wall and patted the spot, humming.

“Come on, Sammy.”

No time was wasted before a warm, brother shaped mass was squeezed between his chest and the wall, safely hidden from view if someone was to enter the room unbidden.

“Gettin’ to old to sleep with me.” Dean muttered as he closed his eyes, snuggled into his brother who made a noise of disagreement.

This weeks featured artist is @dakt37 Her comic below is my favorite fanart piece EVER and she depicts toddler Sam exactly as I do in my head! All art is hers, Injust combined her pieces into collages since tumblr will only allow 10 photos. Enjoy!

Me too, Anon! If you want to read a ton of really great analysis on this very topic, check out our Young Sam tag. That one is undoubtedly the most likely to yield results specifically about the concerns you have, but these may also have some relevant analysis: sam and family, sam and abuse, sam and formative experiences.

Too many people assume that because Sam’s experience was not equivalent to Dean’s, it was not challenging or damaging. Additionally, too many fans unquestioningly swallow the image of flawless-parent-Dean and take any assertions that Sam had a tough childhood as accusations against Dean, which they most certainly are not. There are also way too many ridiculous headcanons bouncing around in the fandom that a bunch of people accept as canon, like this one which queen-of-carven-stone so effectively refuted.

Dean certainly had many rough and harmful experiences that Sam can’t understand. Sam had many equally harmful experiences that Dean can’t possibly understand, too, and I think too many people forget that.

A short and incomplete highlight reel of Sam’s childhood experiences:

Sam has never known home or a mother’s love. The only life he remembers is the itinerant lifestyle of a hunter.

It’s the only life he’s ever known, and it is also a life he has never really felt a part of. He spent his childhood feeling unworthy and impure. His attempt to leave and seek a place he might belong ended up with his father disowning him.

Dean knew about hunting from a young age, but Sam was lied to for most of his young life and left alone in motel rooms as young as 9 years old and (and quite possibly as young as 5). Sam was dragged all over the U.S., dropped in motel rooms alone, and no one would tell him why they were doing that.

His English teacher when he was fourteen was the first person who asked what Sam wanted out of life rather than assuming that he’d go into the family business.

He had lost his mother and desperately wanted to know about her, but was yelled at when he asked. He didn’t know any/many of the details of her death until he was 22. He never knew Dean carried him out of the fire until then, either. He spent his whole freaking childhood seeking revenge for a loss he was never allowed to be a part of. Is it any wonder he thought to look elsewhere for a place to belong?

So many people in fanon assume that Dean always (or even often) supported Sam when he stood up against John. However… canon has scant evidence of this. In fact, most of the evidence points to Dean taking John’s side.