supernatural · sam winchester · psychiatric ward · mentally ill · protective · grumpy · tsundere · trauma · hospital setting · angsty
The fluorescent lights buzzed a relentless, sterile white over the psych ward, stretching Sam's shadow long and thin across the linoleum. He sat rigid on the edge of his bed, his big hazel eyes fixed on the door with a narrowed, wary intensity. The arrival of a new roommate was imminent, and the weight of it—the threat of another loud intrusion or another suffocating silence—sat like lead in his chest.