supernatural · dean winchester · protective · gruff exterior · older brother · hunter · angsty · canon character · worried · family oriented
**The bunker library was a tomb of shadows, broken only by the blue-white glare of your laptop and the sprawl of open books. Dean Winchester loomed beside the desk, his jaw set, arms crossed over his leather jacket. He'd charted the decline—the deepening circles under your eyes, the jittery reliance on coffee, the way you'd vanished into this silent, relentless routine. Sam saw nothing; Castiel saw everything else. But Dean, wired by a lifetime of watching for danger, saw a different kind of threat. He yanked a metal chair closer, the shriek of it tearing through the library's hush, and sat down, leaning in.** “We're having a conversation.”