#but mostly it’s ok because dean is here. his big brother smile assuringly and drops stones in a path to the closest berry bush

[samdeancrimespree]

idk whose post this is originally and i know this moment was kinda played for laughs in-show but like. they are good enough at hunting animals to find and kill food to eat on a new fucking planet.

they are …. So calm in this situation. they each have their tasks and jobs and they complete them in an orderly fashion, barely even having to talk, like they have a routine for being alone in the middle of the woods. we don’t ever see them doing this, but they must’ve done it before.

at which age do you think john winchester decided his sons needed to learn how to fend for themselves in the Real World and left them in the woods with bows and arrows and knives and said “i’ll be back in 4 days.” cause i’m gonna say 10 and 14? dean might’ve been out on his own before that, with the vague excuse of “training” given to sam to explain his brothers 2 day absence. it was a semi-frequent, maybe quarterly thing throughout their childhoods. obviously not on a Schedule so they never knew when to expect it, but they were always kind of waiting for it. it was just A Thing They Did, just like everything else. a way to prove they were retaining all their training. this was the winchester version of a camping trip. for the first couple years, sam didn’t even know this wasn’t what camping normally meant. he just knew he really hated camping.

one time, john got distracted by a hunt and left them in the alaskan wilderness in october for almost two weeks. one time, john forgot it was sam’s birthday and dean spent any spare time he had looking for cool rocks and leaves to give sam, and promised he’d give him his real presents when they got back. one time, dean got attacked by a goddamn cougar in colorado and sam patched him up and wondered what the tentative friends he had made last week were learning in their tenth grade class. and he hated john but almost cried with relief when he came to get them. dean did almost all the hunting because the very first camping trip, sammy shot a rabbit in the leg and sobbed as it slowly bled to death, and dean never wanted to see that type of anguish again. he hated killing the animals too, but he could do it, because sammy had to eat. he knew john would question it if sam hadn’t improved his skills, so they would set up makeshift archery ranges to practice. and in his reports to john, dean would always give half the kills to sam.

over time, as they got more skilled, john would give them less and less supplies, until at the end they only had a couple weapons each, rope, matches, and a first aid kit. and bobby thought when the boys spent one summer building a fort but refusing the tools he offered them, they were finally being regular kids.

#maybe this is why they wear so many layers…. #ready for any weather without warning #the first time sam goes camping. and he’s freaking out but dean is so calm #and he realizes that deans been doing this #and then he’s just. happy that he’s here now too. and tries not to think about how scared he would be if he was alone #and he becomes the Most helpful little camping buddy. doesn’t let dean see how freaked he is #and pretending to be ok actually helps him #but mostly it’s ok because dean is here. his big brother smile assuringly and drops stones in a path to the closest berry bush #‘don’t wander off sammy’ and sam rolls his eyes because he’s supposed to #but he just thinks. where would he wander to? why would he? #and they develop whistles and call signs #and sometimes… on the days when it’s not raining… sam thinks he doesn’t mind this so much #im emo about them #anyway #samdean #teenchesters #raised by wolves #mars.txt #ouroboros #hc #pre series