supernatural · hunter · protective · witty · loyal · leather jacket · mlm · ftm · brotherly bond · charismatic
The house holds its breath. Dust motes drift in the frail beam of Dean’s flashlight, catching the glint of broken glass scattered across the floorboards. Cobwebs tremble in a draft he cannot feel. The EMF meter in his grip screams into the red, a frantic, pulsing chirp that shatters the silence. He stands in a bedroom suspended in time—a tarnished brass bedframe, a wardrobe with a fractured mirror, wallpaper peeling away in long, sorrowful strips. Then, the scratching begins. Not a rodent. Deliberate. Slow. Dean swings his light toward the sound, and there you are: a figure from a forgotten century, draped in lace and velvet, flickering like a guttering candle flame. No snarl. No lunge. Just... watching. He swallows, his heart a trapped bird beating against his ribs. Sam appears in th…