imnot_likeyou: * dean, + text (and give your life)
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Neither of them would concede who actually pulled the first prank, but they both knew it was Sam.

Sam would deny it until the day he died, but for once, he was the one who set off the war. He needed to. There was too much tension in the air, too much bad blood between he and his brother, and he needed it to stop.

It was Life Day. From what he could remember it was the Star Wars equivalent to Christmas, and while he never had been big on the holidays, instead of getting on Sam’s case to get him to participate, Dean was sulking around and avoiding him, and he needed it to stop. He was crawling out of his skin, trying to figure out how to get his brother back on his side again. He knew he screwed up. He did. He knew he was holding more secrets than he should. But there were so many things that Dean didn’t need to know. So many things that Sam didn’t want to share, because he knew how Dean would look at him if he did.

It would be worse than this.

Sam always ran away, but Dean was still his big brother, and Dean was still always proud of him, somehow. He couldn’t disappoint him any more than he already had. So he did what any sane little brother would do.

He superglued his hand to his beer bottle.

Again.

“Sam!”

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Everyone knew that Sam was the brains of the Winchester operation.

It wasn’t that Dean was stupid. Dean was sharp. There was a lot more to his upstairs brain than people gave him credit for. But Dean was also still Dean, and he didn’t always use that upstairs brain to the best of it’s ability. In fact, it was a pretty solid fact that both Winchesters stopped maturing somewhere in their early teens—old enough to get a grasp of the world, but still young enough to be prone to fits of boyish stupidity. When it came to things that you probably shouldn’t try at home, there wasn’t a lot of protesting Sam could do before he started to get a little curious himself.

Boys will be boys, after all. And these boys were bored.

They had been recruited to help Bela out as a favor for helping them out when Sam was regressed to his younger self. They screwed it up when Dean wound up getting caught by the competition, trussed up by his ankles by a slender blond who didn’t look happy to see them. Max, for one, was thoroughly embarrassed, and their shameful attempt at thievery, but Dean didn’t seem to care, which lead Sam to believe that the two of them were on the outs again. Sam was starting to get sick of the up and down, especially when it lead to him getting banished to the motel room with his brother, and Mary keeping an eye on them while the girls finished the job.

Sam wasn’t pleased that they had been regulated to the bench, but they had been made and that meant it was time to call in the auxiliary. So now they were just flipping through the channels, trying to keep themselves from getting bored, when Dean’s attention came to a stop on a guy who was destroying a blender. Further review indicated that he wasn’t necessarily destroying the blender, just trying to see if certain objects would blend.

“Dude, can we watch something—”

That was met with an elbow to the side. “Shut up.”

Sam rolled his eyes, but did as he was told. After a few minutes, he found himself just as entranced as his brother was, when this man just … abused the hell out of his blender. It was vaguely moronic and probably still highly dangerous but also … really, really cool. There was a long period of silence as they watched, before Dean turned to Sam, with a look on his face that could only be considered dangerous.

“You know—there’s a blender in the kitchen.”

They had started staying in larger places ever since they had picked up Mary from wherever she came from. They looked out for places with a kitchen area, like when they were kids, because Mary liked to cook, and Sam and Dean liked being cooked for. Sam was pretty sure he had never been this well-fed ever in his life, but the point of the matter was that the kitchen was Mary’s territory. They tended to stay out of it, or suffer her scolding them for breaking something they shouldn’t have been touching in the first place. It only happened once, but they learned their lesson well enough.

At first it didn’t quite click for Sam. “So?” Then there was a beat as his brain turned that information over again. “Wait, what?”

Dean had a stupid grin plastered across his face, and raised an eyebrow at his brother. “We’re hunters, dude. We’ve got some weird shit. Let’s see if it’ll blend.”

Dean apparently missed the giant Do not try this at home. that was plastered across the screen. Sam knew that his brother didn’t always think before he acted, but Sam also knew that he shouldn’t have even been thinking about considering it himself. But he was. Because boredom was a powerful motivator, and the things they were doing with that blender looked really cool.

“ … Okay.”

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Sam had long since given up on trying to predict where Dean’s farewell tour was going to take them. They had already hit the great burger joints and one night stands of Dean’s short yet eventful life, and none of them had seemed to convince Dean that fighting to get out of this deal was worth doing. Sam kept hoping that one of them would smack some sense into him, make him see that there was something worth living for, but so far, none of them have seemed to work. Each stop only proved to make Sam more and more frustrated, but as the days were counting down, the stops seemed to get more and more poignant. There had to be something along the way that would snap Dean out of it, so Sam had to just keep hoping and keep digging.

The last stop was the one stop that he hadn’t expected.

They were driving straight down Route 56, when Sam’s head had to practically whip around as they passed the sign informing them what state they were entering. “Kansas?” he frowned. Dean tended to avoid Kansas like the plague, but his brother didn’t glance at him to acknowledge the question.

“Smallville.”

It was enough to confirm, no, they were not going to Lawrence, but still not enough to give Sam any idea as to what was going on. “Okay,” he said softly, turning his eyes back to the road, and trying to figure out what his brother could have possibly left behind in Smallville.

By the time they actually hit town the next day, Sam was still no closer to having an explanation. They had stopped over for the night the night before, and Sam had used the time while his brother was in the shower to do some quick research, but other than a high penchant for the unexplained, though nothing that seemed to be up their alley, he had no idea what would draw his brother to that particular small Kansas town. But he had given up trying to ask about it, and figured that this would be revealed to him as Dean felt like revealing it.

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