verucasalt123 | Tiny little birthday ficlet

Title: Tupelo Honey
Rating: PG
Summary: Appreciating the good times.
A/N: Wincest but not graphic. Tiny little ficlet written for my girl

rozabellalove for her birthday.

You can’t stop us on the road to freedom
You can’t keep us ’cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor bent on chivalry

The Winchester brothers felt their losses like deep, deep cuts. They didn’t always show up in time to save everyone. They never stopped trying, though. Busting in with guns blazing or knives in hand, going up against creatures that could easily have killed one or both of them, for the sake of keeping total strangers safe. (Safer, whatever.)

But the ones they had saved would never forget it. There were families in Michigan and Illinois and Tennessee and Colorado who lived every day thanking these brave men for whatever it was they’d done – rid their homes of a vengeful spirit, recovered their children from a monster, stopped a ghost from killing them in their sleep.

Those were the times they treasured. Gave themselves a moment of rest to clink together their beer bottles in celebration of a job well-done, a morning to stay in bed late kissing and holding each other, enjoying the feeling of having saved someone before they moved on to the next town, the next job, the next creature.

It never lasted too long, but Sam and Dean held on to those times to help them get through the days that weren’t so good. They weren’t big on self-congratulation, generally, but those stolen moments in bed together, the quiet nights to rest and reflect, were pretty damn sweet.