Five times Dean ate healthy - SN ficlet - PG

[tigriswolf]

Title: Five times Dean ate healthy, and one time Sam didn’t

Fandom: “Supernatural”

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: spoilers for season four

Pairings: one blip of Dean/OFC

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 420

Point of view: third

Notes: not in chronological order

Dedication:gypsy_atavarito the prompt of 5 times Dean eats healthy and 1 time Sam doesn't.

 

 

 

 

 

I

Look, she was a vegetarian and had legs up to here, okay? Don’t judge.

 

II

In the weeks after the heart-attack, when Sam followed him around like a puppy and monitored everything he ate, he decided to humor the kid. Just for a bit. 

 

It’s not like scarfing down salads hurt him, right? And it made Sam happy.

 

III

Whenever Dad was home, Dean tried to cook supper. Something simple and easy, like Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, or some spaghetti. 

 

Dad liked carrots. Dean always tried to figure out a way to fit them in with whatever meal he fixed, and then he ate at least two helpings, just to see Dad smile.

 

IV

Just before he left for Stanford, Sammy went through a health-food craze. To keep the peace, Dean ate whatever Sam put in front of him.

 

It didn’t work, and Sam left anyway.

 

V

When he was fifteen, Dean spent three months in the hospital due to a broken leg and then complications with appendicitis. It sucked hard, since the nurses were only average in looks(and most of ‘em were older than Dad) and he had to eat hospital food. Sammy refused to sneak anything good in; his eyes were still wide and frightened from Dean falling off the roof(and okay, yeah, that was pretty frickin’ stupid of him—not like he’s Batman or anything) and then Dean nearly flat-lined in surgery. So, not surprising Sam wouldn’t go against the doctors. Even when Dean pouted.

 

Which he didn’t. At all. Really. 

 

But three months of hospital food, and then on the day Dad and Sammy sprang him, Sammy puppy-eyed him into getting grilled chicken and steamed vegetables instead of a cheeseburger. 

 

And the one time Sam didn’t eat healthy

They survived the apocalypse.   Lucifer agreed to return to Hell and resume his place, instead of being locked in a cage. The angels retreated to Heaven and Castiel took over in God’s place, since God had been a long time gone.

 

“Sammy,” Dean said in the silence after all combatants returned to their places.  The world was just like it had been, no sign of the war.

 

Sam looked at him and held out a hand; Dean pulled him up. “Dean,” he murmured, shaking his head. He’d never looked so tired and Dean just wanted to take him somewhere he could sleep for years. Sam clutched Dean’s arm and Dean led him away.

 

“Let’s get pie,” Dean said. “Any kind you want.”

 

“Okay,” Sam agreed.

 

 

Comments

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Dad liked carrots? Dad likes carrots? :D

No IV breaks my heart.

[tigriswolf]

They were Mary's favorite.

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