Mmmm. Yes. Just the right amount of sweet, like a mug of hot chocolate on a cold, blustery day. Thank you very much. *hugs you*

a mug of hot chocolate on a cold, blustery day.... that's a perfect discription!

A very happy birthday to you, poisontaster

awww...that was just so right!! Thanks so much!!

Kinds of eases the S3 mood a little, doesn't it?

And it's funny how the most stubborn part of Sam and Dean meeting on common ground, emotionally speaking, is now Dean. Who has no needs, no problems, no anything, and god but the denial just gets aggravating. Especially when the flip side is him thinking that Sam doesn't love him enough.

awww, boys. i like that dean can let sam take care of him for a change - not just physically taking care of the cuts and bruises and muscle strain, but emotionally too.

i like that dean can let sam take care of him for a change - not just physically taking care of the cuts and bruises and muscle strain, but emotionally too.
It seems to be just nearly impossible for him, and yet that's the only love that really matters to him. Why he insists on pushing it away (and then feeling all lonely and gripey) is a frustrating mystery. We can't help being intrigued by that part of Dean, but on the other hand sometimes I just want him to relax and knock it off.

That was beautiful!!! Comfort and angst all wrapped up in one, wonderfully concise package.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Comfort and angst all wrapped up in one, wonderfully concise package.
It really is both all at once-- which makes the comforting more important and necessary then! (Oh, Season 3...)

But what a nice feeling at the end. It makes me relax into the moment just like Dean, as if Sam will find a way to make it all work out. *Has faith in him*

OH, pretty. I love it.
*cuddles them*

If only Dean weren't so prickly and were easier to cuddle in general. It's not just his hair that has the "hedgehog" issues. *sigh*

Glad you liked it!

Again, you've said so much in so few words, and beautifully too. The blending of comfort and rawness is poignant. It makes me feel snuggly, but not in a sugary way.

I love that we see Dean's despondency, his desperation for comfort and acquiescence to it. *snuggles him*

And I love that Sam sees it all without any need for words. *snuggles him too*

Apparently, I'm a festival of snuggles tonight. No, wait - that's a good thing.

P.S. I haven't forgotten your other poem-drabble. I'm just really really behind with reading. :P

The blending of comfort and rawness is poignant. It makes me feel snuggly, but not in a sugary way.
Love this description-- because there IS a rawness to what Dean's feeling and trying to keep hidden.

P.S. I haven't forgotten your other poem-drabble. I'm just really really behind with reading. :P
Look forward to your reading it-- and I hope you'll drop a few titles into that other meme too. :)

Lovely.

Thank you! :)

Very nice. Would've loved to see it as a full story.

Thank you very much. I had no time to consider a full story today, but you never know. I've expanded a couple of drabbles before, and this one has potential. :)

Yay for poisontaster wanting comfort fic! this is lovely. Dean needs to let go and let Sam take care of him more. I think you nailed Dean's "treacherous emotions" beautifully.

Dean needs to let go and let Sam take care of him more.
God yes-- to stop pushing Sam away repeatedly, and then later angsting over why Sam doesn't love him enough. It's maddening to watch at times, hence the "letting go"-- of his own resistance, or stupidity, or machismo or whatever it is. It's the wanting it on the one hand and rejecting it with the other that makes us all so nuts.

Wonderful! Works as gen for me, good brotherly moment.

It does for me too, either way. I'd love to see something like this on the show sometime (though we won't, because of paranoia over 'connotations').

Given the life they already had-- before the whole S3 angst-o-meter took off-- things were hard enough that a little measure of real kindness (and the grace to accept it) could make a world of difference.

::flails::

omg, you get me every time.

Hee! This made my day! :D :D Thank you! ♥

Oh that is so sweet.... Like it!

Thank you so much!

Just lovely.
A small peek into how much one can be loved ... if they allow it.

A small peek into how much one can be loved ... if they allow it.
Oh, and it's just that last part that... *thwaps Dean* Get over yourself already!

Part of loving people is letting them love you back. Dean really doesn't get that. :(

Ah, this is just delicious. It really feels like Dean, where we left him after "Fresh Blood", with all his callouses warn thin and his heart a little too close to the surface. I adored Sam simply swatting Dean's resistance away, a physical demonstration of what he did verbally in FB. Knock it off, Dean, I know you, so shut up and let me take care of you.

And bless Dean, unwilling to accept the same comfort he gives. I wonder if that's just part of the warrior mentality? Because sometimes my hubby, a former Marine and combat vet, does that. He'll do anything for me, but when he's hurting, he doesn't want to be bothered, just shuts himself away. Buttheads, the lot of 'em. ;-)

Anyhow. Yeah. This soothes away the aches in *me* as well, just for the gentle warmth, the firm caring, the bottomless love it carries. Oh, boys ... :-)
Cheers ~

Erin
*10 hours and counting!* :-D

Knock it off, Dean, I know you, so shut up and let me take care of you.
And that's the thing Dean needs more of and that I wish the show would give us. Dean can't stand to hear that Sam cares... so show him. And don't take "no" for an answer, because Dean's obnoxious like that and you've got just to veto-stamp over him.

And bless Dean, unwilling to accept the same comfort he gives.
I don't know whether it's fear of 'weakness' alone, or whether it's also that Dean doesn't think he deserves it or thinks he shouldn't want it, but damn if it isn't hard to deal with.

Someone once taught me an important lesson that made it through my shyness barrier: If people compliment you, don't deny/ignore/avoid it, because they're doing something nice for you and that reaction doubly punishes them. How would you like someone doing that to you?

*10 hours and counting!* :-D
And I so wish it had turned out more like this drabble! *aches*

So glad you liked it! Thank you very much. :)