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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2024-12-11 09:43 pm
iluvroadrunner6) wrote2024-12-11 09:43 pm
Entry tags:
- canon: leverage,
- canon: october daye series,
- canon: original,
- canon: supernatural,
- canon: white collar,
- canon: wynonna earp,
- leverage: sophie devereaux,
- october daye: dianda lorden,
- october daye: patrick lorden,
- october daye: simon torquill,
- prompts: get your words out,
- ship: dean/wynonna,
- ship: dianda/patrick/simon,
- supernatural: dean winchester,
- white collar: neal caffrey,
- wynonna earp: wynonna earp
get your words out { 2025 } challenge tracking
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It’s been about a week since the Ben bomb dropped and Sam has seen more of Elena now that his brother isn’t around. He’s not complaining—he likes Elena—but it’s still a little weird when she’s seeking him out.
“Sure,” he nods as he turns to face her more. “What’s up?”
“Do you guys do Christmas?”
Sam can’t help but wince. “We try, sometimes? When Mary wants to. But … not really, no. We haven’t exactly had a lot of good ones.”
“Fair.” Elena nods slowly. “So I shouldn’t get Dean a gift?”
That makes him pause. Not because it’s a terrible idea but more because his brother doesn’t really get a lot of gifts. He and Sam have their own rituals and will get things for each other occasionally, but other people? Not really. And Elena seems like the kind of person who would get him one with thought and care.
She continues to look back at him expectantly until he finally says: “I wouldn’t expect one back? But … if you want to get him a gift, I think you should.”
A smile stretches across her face, and she nods. “Okay, cool.” She walks away, and Sam thinks of something else.
“And Elena?”
“Yep.”
“He may not have told you, but his birthday is January twenty-fourth.”
Elena seems to catch why he’s saying that, reading between the lines of his awkward attempts for his brother to get some recognition, after all the time he spent building up Sam over the years. She nods again.
“Noted. I’ll remember.”
“Good.”
A few hours later, Elena reappears, looking as though she’s been doing some digging. This time Sam is in the kitchen, making a pot of coffee, and she will go to fetch herself a mug. “So, Dean’s car.”
“Tread carefully.”
She laughs. “The cassette deck.”
“Do not get him an adapter for his phone; he will not use it.”
“Got it,” Elena nods, pouring herself a cup of coffee. Sam can practically see her moving through the gift tree list in her mind of what she wants to get him, before her head tips up again. “So the cassette tapes. Those wear out, right? Are there any he hasn’t replaced yet?”
Sam’s eyes narrow some. “Can you replace them?”
“Oh, the one upside of hanging out with some people who are centuries old is that you get very, very good at eBay. If it’s out there, I will find it.”
“Do you want to? Isn’t this kind of enabling him?”
“It’s a gift,” Elena points out. “And Dean liking cassette tapes for his car doesn’t hurt anyone.”
“Point.” Sam nods. “I can make you a list, yeah.”
“Great. Thank you.” She finishes fixing her coffee to her liking, before flashing him a smile and disappearing back into her room again. Mary comes in, glancing over her shoulder as she watches Elena go before raising an eyebrow back at her son.
“What’s she up to?”
“I’m not sure.” Sam glances back to her. “But she’s planning Christmas gifts.”
Mary smirks at her son. “Worried she’s going to make you look bad?”
He laughs, before shaking his head. “No.” Then he shrugs. “I just think she’s really good for Dean.”
“I think so too.” Mary gives his arm a squeeze. “Does this mean we’re doing gifts this year?”
“Only if you want to.”
“Well, maybe I do.” Mary flashes him a smirk before taking her own cup of coffee out of the room. “You’ll just have to wait and see.”