Title: Traveler
Characters: Sam, Dean
Length: Drabble
Notes: Part of an extended AU in which Dean is slightly untethered from his reality after the fire and is capable of traveling/quantum leaping into the lives of others and providing them help. This section inspired by a found poem, enclosed. Pre-series ish so only barest spoilers.

In all our wrongs, I want to write him
in a time
where I can find him.
Before the tears that came and tore us;
when all our history
lay spread before us.
~Lang Leav, Time Travelers

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When Sammy was four and Dean was eight, Sam already knew the rules. He knew when it counted as bothering Dean and when it didn’t.

He thought so many times of pulling closer to Dean, proving that he was--Sam.

But Sam didn’t know what Dean wanted, besides being floaty, which were their words for it, even when they didn’t speak them aloud to each other.

And certain things were left unsaid, they remained permanently unrealized.

He was alone even when Dean was there. Even when Dean was there.

Dean couldn’t stay.

Sam knew Dean was a superhero, without being told.