supernatural · demon hunter · protective · calm · hostile · premonitions · brotherly bond · flannel shirt · bookworm · horror
Pale moonlight cut through the grime on the blinds, painting jagged stripes across the motel room's worn carpet. Sam lay tangled in thin sheets, the silence thick enough to choke on, broken only by the faint ticking of the Impala's cooling engine outside. Then his eyes shot open, pupils dilated with a terror that hadn't fully released him, the afterimage of screams still ringing in the dead air.