Flamingoes
Title: Flamingoes
Rating: Teens and Up
Warnings: canon typical violence as Sam and Dean get hurt
Word Count: ~1790
Tags: Pick a Season, Dean x Reader (loosely), mild flirting, whump, Dean whump, Sam whump, humor, angst, drama, YOU is reader, hunt of the week type story
Summary: You don’t expect to leave your house and find Dean Winchester bleeding out all over your lawn flamingoes…
For @badthingshappenbingo prompt: confined to bed rest
You aren’t expecting to walk out your front door and find someone facedown in your lawn flamingoes.
Not at five in the morning, anyway.
The only time you tend to walk out your door and discover someone passed out on your lawn is when the odd frat boy who partied hard the night before didn’t make it back to their off-campus housing before they lost consciousness.
University is on winter break, however.
All the partying concluded a week ago, in fact.
Without anyone taking a nap in your flamingoes.
Curious as to who this person was, why they were facedown in your lawn display, and how they ended up there, you set your purse and travel mug on the porch and meander over to investigate.
You smell the blood soon as you get within a foot of their prostrate form.
Alarm shoots through you and your belly clenches.
Reports of wild dogs attacking people has been headline news for the last few weeks.
You, yourself, treated a few victims for bite wounds, in fact.
Once you turn the injured person — a man, you quickly realize — over, though, you realize he hasn’t been attacked by wild dogs.
No, whoever this fella was, he’s had the absolute crap beaten outta him.
One eye is swollen completely shut, blood trickles from his nose, and there’s small rips in his lip and right cheek barely crusted over.
He likely had internal injuries, as well.
Most alarming, though, is the large laceration you discover on his right side.
“Shit…” you breathe out as you sit back on your heels, eyes glued to that ugly gash, brain a whirlwind of thoughts, and fingers rattling with nervous energy. “Shit shit shit…”
He needs more help than you can give him so you pull out your phone and dial 9-1-1 while checking that he is, in fact, alive.
His pulse is faint but strong.
A good sign despite the amount of blood he’s clearly lost.
“9-1-1, what’s your emergency?”
“I need an ambulance,” you say as you carefully peel blue plaid and a black undershirt away to get a better look at the gash. “There’s a man in my yard who has been stabbed.”
“Is the man conscious?”
“No.”
“Is he breathing?”
“Yes, but he has lost a lot of blood.”
“Okay, ma’am, what’s your address?”
“1313 Mockingbird Lane.”
“Okay, an ambulance is on the way.”
“Thank you.”
You return your phone to your pocket as you try to think of something you can use to staunch the blood oozing from the man’s side.
The only thing you have that’s handy is the scarf your mom knitted you for Christmas a few years back. Knowing your mom, and how she’d say she can always knit you another scarf, you pull it off and press it to the wound.
A groan pushes by bloodless lips but the man doesn’t open his eyes.
You find yourself oddly disappointed about that.
Something you shouldn’t be given how the guy clung precariously to life.
“Sammy…” you swear you hear him utter. “Sammy…”
If Sammy is a friend, family member, lover or the person who stabbed him, you dunno.
All you can do is keep him calm while you wait for the paramedics to arrive.
“Hold on,” you tell him as you hear sirens in the distance. “Help is on the way.”
“Sammy…” is all he says again
Things become chaotic after the paramedics and police arrive. You find yourself answering questions as paramedics work on saving the man’s life.
It’s not like you can tell them much.
You only found the guy, after all.
You agree to a search of your yard when the deputy asks if it’s okay.
What else are you supposed to say?
Guy is stabbed and left to die in your front yard but no, don’t canvas for clues?
Deputies find a blood trail leading from the side of your house into the forest.
You have no idea if they find anything else as you decide to follow the ambulance to the hospital.
You tell yourself it’s because you need to get to work, anyway, but the truth is you kinda feel responsible for the guy.
He was left to bleed out in your flamingoes, after all.
You feel as if you’ve been hit by a bolt of lightning when Nan comes over to tell you the fella woke up long enough to tell her his name’s Dean.
“Dean?” Your brow furrows as that name bounces around inside your head. You know of a guy named Dean but there’s no way this guy and that one are one in the same. The odds of that are simply too astronomical. “Did he say his last name is Winchester?”
“Yes.” One of Nan’s brow quirks. “I thought you said you didn’t know him?”
“I don’t.”
“How’d you know his name then?”
“One in a million guess.” More like one in a million chances of an event like this happening. “He’s the son of a guy my uncle Brody worked with when he was living in Lawrence, Kansas.” Your lips purse. “John is his name, I think.”
Who, you realize now with a curl of dread, also had a son named Sam.
One that might’ve affectionately been called Sammy by his brother.
“He has a younger brother,” you tell Nan. “Sam.”
“He asked about someone named Sam right before we took him into the OR.” A worried expression crossed Nan’s face. “Do you think his brother might have been attacked, too?”
“It’s a possibility.” You pull your phone from your pocket. “I’m going to call the deputy still at the scene and let him know there might be another victim.”
Another victim is rushed into the ER before you dial the number.
You let out a small gasp as they roll him by on the stretcher.
You don’t need a degree in criminology to figure out this is Sam Winchester.
His face looks as if it was used as a punching bag by Mike Tyson. One eye is already turning black while the other looks as it is not too far behind.
His lower lip is puffy, the top bleeding from a cut in it.
Bruises are already creeping black over the parts of his face not covered in blood.
More bruises form a band around his throat from where he had obviously been choked.
Whoever attacked the Winchesters had done so with the intent to cause them as much physical pain as possible before killing them.
Why, you have no clue.
Sam’s wheeled into a trauma room before you can get an idea of any other injuries he might’ve sustained. If he was as unlucky as his brother, he probably had internal injuries, as well as a laceration to either his right or left side.
They were alive, though, and that’s what mattered, you told yourself.
😈😈😈😈😈😈
“You don’t gotta fuss over us like this,” Dean tells you as you tuck the blanket around him. “Ain’t the first time Sammy and I got our asses kicked and it won’t be the last time, I promise you.”
“Yes, but you got your asses kicked practically in my backyard,” you say as you move the laptop Dean insisted on using despite your repeated reminders of his needing rest. “I still have the bloody flamingoes in my front yard as a reminder of where they dumped you after beating the crap out of you.”
Dean rolls those incredible green eyes of his.
“You still don’t gotta fuss over us.”
“You just hate being confined to bed,” comes from Sam in the other bed. “Admit it.”
“No, I hate being confined to bed rest.” Dean flashes that lopsided grin of his. The one that turns your knees to jelly and your brain to mush. “I’d be perfectly content being confined to bed if I had someone in it to keep me company.”
That someone obviously being you.
A fact Dean’s made absolutely clear in the three days he’s been there.
You initially thought he was pranking you by flirting with you so outrageously.
Especially since guys like him tend to ignore you because you’re the farthest from a Kardashian as one could get.
No, you discover Dean quite means what he says.
Making him truly special in your books.
“You’re in no condition for anyone to keep you company,” Sam teases lightly. “You can’t even walk to the window without her help.”
“Like you can?”
“I’m not the one hitting on our nurse.”
“You two are lucky whoever stabbed you missed your vital organs,” you interject before the argument can escalate. “Inch or two more to the left or right and neither of you would be here right now arguing over .”
“They missed on intention.” Sam grimaces as he shifts himself into a more comfortable position. “If they wanted us dead, trust me, we’d be dead.”
“That’s why you should tell Sheriff Connelly who the people are that attacked you.”
Something you have been urging them to do since they woke up in the hospital.
You’re beating a dead horse, however as Dean replies with his usual gruff answer.
“We’ll handle the sons of bitches our way.”
You let the matter drop.
Not because you in any way are conceding the argument but because it’s how hunters tend to handle things.
Something you found out Sam and Dean are after a talk with your uncle Brody.
Who shocks you when he tells you he’s a hunter, as well.
You take it all in your usual stride, though.
It’s not like you haven’t suspected the monsters in the dark are real.
You just know now there are hunters like Sam and Dean Winchester out there stopping them.
Well, trying to, anyway, you amend as you gather up the dirty sheets and blankets.
“What do you boys want for supper tonight?”
“Pie?” Dean’s eager, hopeful look has your lips twitching. “Apple?”
His favorite you’ve come to find out.
Something you have in common.
Along with a love for classic rock and Scooby-Doo.
“Good thing I baked one after breakfast,” you tease as you glance over at Sam. “Apple good for you, too?”
“With vanilla ice cream?” He blinked those great big puppy dog eyes of his. “And caramel syrup?”
“You got it.”
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