CHAPTER 4: Separation and Suspicion

So... yeah... *hides*  

In other news... you get to see a bit more of Sam's family. And how worried Dean is that he'll lose his brother again. It would shred him to say goodbye.

Unfortunately, Sam is forced to realize how dangerous his own brother is to his family, while Dean discovers what the other people that saved Sam are like... at least from a distance, thankfully.

Dean is still living up the self-blame, too.


Inspired by The Borrowers and The Secret World of Arrietty.
 
Story is rated mature for language. I know how sticky these things can get, so I'm playing it safe. There will be off screen character death in it at some point. Just so you know it's coming. 

Story begins after Season 1 Episode 8: Bugs

First: 

Brothers Apart 1Background: In this fic, Sam was hit with a witch's curse when he was 10 and Dean was 14. Unable to find him or his attacker anywhere when the dust settled, John and Dean Winchester were eventually forced to give him up for dead. Unbeknownst to them, Sam was saved from the witch and adopted into a new family, and they've trained him to take care of himself as best he can in the world, and protected him from the witch's gaze all these years. And now...
August, 2005
Sam stood at the entrance to the motel room, surreptitiously scanning to make sure he was alone. The last thing he needed was to get captured by a human on one of his morning forays. Neither of his adopted parents approved of his choice to explore the motel during the day. But he'd found that when a room was vacant, humans weren't likely to 'check in' in the morning or early afternoon. For the most part, people would start to arrive in the early evening and night. It was incredibly rare to see anyone sooner. So,

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Brothers Apart 3Dean couldn't stop staring at the tiny Sam Winchester sitting cross legged on the table next to a slice of pizza far bigger than him.
It was just so unreal.
Not twelve hours ago he'd believed his brother lost, dead years ago. Killed by a witch on the biggest failure of a case in his father's long, storied hunting career.
And now here he was, thirteen years later, sharing pizza with a four inch tall version of his baby brother.
Man, his life was weird.
For the moment, Sam was paying him no mind, completely intent on the pizza he was devouring with a single minded intensity. He must've not been kidding when he said the last time he'd had pizza was when he was a kid. Dean hadn't seen anyone eating pizza with such determination before.
Dean found himself wondering how Sam had lived all these years. Easily thirteen years now, surviving at only a few inches in height, still living in the motel where his father and brother had lost him at. The motel they'd abandoned him at. It was impr

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Brothers Apart 5Sam woke with a start in his slowly warming room. The sunlight fell directly on their home in the morning unless the shades were closed, giving the uninsulated home brief warmth. Luckily in the winter, all the rooms were kept at a livable temperature, so the Watch family didn't have to worry about freezing. But the morning warmth was welcome after the cold of the night. It always sank into his bones, leaving him shivering under thin blankets.
He groaned as he shook off the night terror that had come over him. For some reason, for the last week he'd had nothing but nightmares. He'd be tempted to blame it on being caught by a human, but he'd been having the terrors long before Dean ever came to the motel. Always the same... his family, his mother in their home. Sam was never there with them. And in the end everything was eaten by darkness and flame.
Pushing away his nightmare, he wandered out into the dual living room/kitchen area. His adopted mother, Mallory, was in the kitchen, humming




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