CHAPTER 6: Brothers

I am so so so soso sorry. I loved his little parents, they're so cute and adorable And they'd do anything for Sam.

Dean will always be there for Sam, no matter what happens. And Sam needs him more than ever now, even if he won't admit it.

Brothers.


This was honestly a part that I knew would happen even before I started writing the story itself... When the story came to me one night, this was one of the foremost parts that I saw. And it makes me just as sad every time I read through it. It just wasn't meant to be...

One more chapter left to go after this...



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.

Story begins after Season 1 Episode 8: Bugs



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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 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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Brothers Apart 7Sam sized up everything he'd piled up in his brother's hand before deciding he was done packing. It wasn't like he was going to need any food now... he could live off whatever Dean came home with fine. So he could leave the stale crackers - all his family had at the time for food - behind. Though he didn't like the dependency it forced on him, it was far better than trying to start over here... living alone, or with a family he didn't know too well. Still avoiding humans as much as he could. At least this way, he'd have his brother with him, and out of all the people that had been in his life, he'd always depended on Dean the most when they were together.
Not to mention the fact that his brother was a human, and a very big one at that. Couldn't hurt to have someone with size on your side in a big and scary world. Even just seeing how huge Dean's hand was - just his hand! - in the remains of Sam's home took his breath away. Everything he had known for so many years was dwarfed by its pr


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