[spn] Just This Once - Sam & Dean gen - G

[doughtier]

Title: Just This Once
Rating: G
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/pairings: Sam, Dean
Genre: Gen, drama, Stanford!Era
Length: ~300 words; complete
Spoilers/warnings: 1x01 / none
Beta: teromain/teromain
Disclaimer: SPN does not belong to me, alas.
Notes Happy s6, SPN!! You've come a long road. Written for smilla02. Us GMT-positives need to stick together. ;)
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Summary: The next time Sam sees his brother, almost four years down the road, Dean asks him if he would've picked up the phone.



Dean calls him exactly once, about a month after Sam's classes start. "How you doing?" he asks, nonchalant, and Sam can hear Led Zeppelin playing in the background, the volume just low enough for them to be able to talk. Too loud for Sam, too low for Dean. It used to drive Sam crazy.

Sam looks away from his notes. "Fine," he says. For some reason, he's looking at the floor.

"There's no need to tell me everything all at once, Sammy," Dean says after a moment.

"It's Sam," he says and grits his teeth.

Dean ignores that. All's as usual, then. "You doing good, there?"

"Yeah," says Sam. There's a paper he needs to hand in tomorrow, but he still has time. He'll make it. "I am."

"Good. That's good."

"Yeah," Sam agrees, tensing and loosening his muscles, seemingly at the same time.

Dean doesn't say anything more after that. Neither does Sam, when he realizes nothing is coming. Christ. He wishes he could hang up, but at the same time he can't bring himself to do that.

Dean then clears his throat. "Well, I'll catch you later, all right?"

Sam says, "Yeah."

He's surprised to hear Dean chuckle. "Can you say anything other than 'yeah'?"

Sam smiles and lets go of the phone, keeping it in place with his shoulder. "Yup."

"Take care, Sammy."

"You too, Dean," he says after biting the inside of his cheek. "Talk to you some other time."

They hang up. Sam does have homework to finish, after all.



The next time he sees his brother, almost four years down the road, Dean asks him, if I would've called you, would you have picked up?

Sam doesn't have an answer.



~end

Comments

[kalliel]

;______;

One of my favorite things ever is awkward phone conversations, and this really brought that out phenomenally. And that tag scene--great tie-in with quite the loaded Pilot line.

Thank you for writing this!

[doughtier]

♥

Thank you! I love awkward phone conversations as well, and I'm glad it worked for you. <3 I wanted to play with that pilot line since watching it, and I kept wondering why Sam implied by silence that he wouldn't have answered.

|Meduza|

[smilla]

PERFECT. The awkward conversation, Sam's smiles (Sam: your brother can't see them through the phone, just sayin'), and the gutting closing line. Would Sam have answered?

Thank you, sweetie, thank you! *squishes you and fic*

[doughtier]

Glad you liked! :D /squishes back

Sam is so used to Dean being able to read him {aka: read his body language}, that it doesn't register to him that Dean won't pick up on him finally getting into the conversation. :(

Would Sam have answered?
I like to think that he would have. But he'd never have called Dean himself.

|Meduza|

[sistabro]

LOL. Oh awkward phone convo FTW. I love how Sam has no idea how to verbally converse with Dean. I can just picture them in the car having entire conversations via sighs and smiles and punches and bitch faces and pointing and spastic jazz hands. But when they can't do that, they don't know what to communicate cause Winchesters kinda fail at small talk..or really any sort of talk besides case research and logistics :D

[doughtier]

OMG I NEVER ANSWERED. I WAS SURE I DID. SORRRRYYYYYYYYYY. ;_;

I love awkward phone convos! They're hilarious, when they happen to someone else. Andyes, you're totally right about them not being able to communicate through phone.

Thanks for commenting! ♥

|Meduza|