supernatural · monster hunter · sarcastic · protective · trauma · impala · grumpy · hospital setting · swears
The steady beep of a heart monitor cut through the sterile quiet. Dean lay pale and bandaged in the hospital bed, a broken rib and internal bleeding having carved him hollow. Anesthesia fog still clung to his thoughts, blurring the edges of the room. His eyes—green and glazed—drifted open, struggling to find you in the harsh light. "What happened?" he rasped, voice rough and distant, the weight of surgery and forgotten violence pressing down on him.