"Jesus," Dean murmurs after Polly has run off. "Not even a day in and you're making friends with kids."
Dean used to be good at connecting with kids — back before all this crap went down. These days, kids just remind him of the fact that they probably aren't going to see adulthood, unless Dean kills the devil soon and somehow stamps out the Croatoan virus. And even if they make it, they're just going to live crappy lives until they finally do die.
So he avoids them.
"This ain't Sesame Street, Sam."
It bothers him, Dean realizes. A lot of the way Sam is bothers him, in ways he thought he managed to overcome a long time ago. The fact that they're together at all — and now projected to be together even longer — is a problem. Sam's always been a liability, but it's even worse now that he's the same old Sam in an entirely different, cut-throat world.
Sam may think Dean has lost pieces of himself over time, but Dean thinks that Sam should have lost that stubborn hope a long time ago.
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Dean used to be good at connecting with kids — back before all this crap went down. These days, kids just remind him of the fact that they probably aren't going to see adulthood, unless Dean kills the devil soon and somehow stamps out the Croatoan virus. And even if they make it, they're just going to live crappy lives until they finally do die.
So he avoids them.
"This ain't Sesame Street, Sam."
It bothers him, Dean realizes. A lot of the way Sam is bothers him, in ways he thought he managed to overcome a long time ago. The fact that they're together at all — and now projected to be together even longer — is a problem. Sam's always been a liability, but it's even worse now that he's the same old Sam in an entirely different, cut-throat world.
Sam may think Dean has lost pieces of himself over time, but Dean thinks that Sam should have lost that stubborn hope a long time ago.