Bonds between Brothers
Title: Bonds between Brothers
Author: stretchedmonkey (deliriousjunkie on tumblr)
Rating: PG
Genre: Season 4 AU.
Pairing: Uhm, none, really.. it's Adam-centric.
Length: 500
Disclaimer: I make no profit from my feelings.
Summary: Adam receives life changing news and has to tell his brothers.
Adam sat in the waiting room at the clinic. His mind began racing through all of the “what if” scenarios and outcomes. The moderately sized waiting room held back-to-back rows of wooden chairs inside its tan walls. Small circular tables littered with health related magazines, condoms, and lube stood between the rows of chairs. Phones rang, staff had conversations, and someone coughed. No one was speaking. If you dropped a quarter your might hear it hit the ground.
Nervously checking the watch on his wrist every several minutes a nurse called him back into the exam room. This all started as a routine trip into the clinic to get lab results back. It quickly felt increasingly tense and different from previous visits. The nurse wrapped a cuff around his arm and took his vitals. Moments later she scribbled them into his chart and exited the room. Their usual friendly banter was non-existent today. Closing the door the nurse smiled in a way that said, “I’m sorry.”
Adam began pacing back and forth across the tiled floor ignoring the wooden chair against the wall and the pea-soup green exam table. The room felt cold and had that lingering sterile hospital smell. While pacing and not being able to think about anything there came a light, rapping knock at the door. His doctor motioned for him to have a seat while pulling her rolling stool out from under the desk.
Sitting across from him she asked, “Adam? Are you with me?” He nodded, not looking up at her. His eyes remained fixed on his torn, dirty sneakers. Taking his hand into hers she delivered the news that no one ever expects to hear. “Adam, it’s not good news this time. You’re positive.”
Silence.
He had always thought this could never happen to him. He had used protection with every guy or at least the ones he could remember. How would he tell Sam and Dean? How would he deal with the side effects of the medications? Would he even need medications?
His doctor pulled her prescription pad from her lab coat and wrote a prescription for him for anti-retroviral pills. “You’re still undetectable and this medication will keep you that way for a long time. You can still have a relatively normal life, Adam. Just make sure you take the pills every day on time.” She tried to reassure and comfort him.
Dean waited outside the clinic leaning on Baby’s hood to drive Adam home. Clinics and hospitals gave him the heebie-jeebies and he refused to go inside. But he didn’t mind driving Adam around when he had the time to see him. It gave them a chance to bond with each other.
Opening the passenger side door Adam threw the white pharmacy bag onto the floor of the Impala and got in. Shrugging, Dean climbed in turning the key in the ignition, “Well?”
Adam glared up at him before proceeding to punching Dean in the torso and breaking down into tears.
Author: stretchedmonkey (deliriousjunkie on tumblr)
Rating: PG
Genre: Season 4 AU.
Pairing: Uhm, none, really.. it's Adam-centric.
Length: 500
Disclaimer: I make no profit from my feelings.
Summary: Adam receives life changing news and has to tell his brothers.
Adam sat in the waiting room at the clinic. His mind began racing through all of the “what if” scenarios and outcomes. The moderately sized waiting room held back-to-back rows of wooden chairs inside its tan walls. Small circular tables littered with health related magazines, condoms, and lube stood between the rows of chairs. Phones rang, staff had conversations, and someone coughed. No one was speaking. If you dropped a quarter your might hear it hit the ground.
Nervously checking the watch on his wrist every several minutes a nurse called him back into the exam room. This all started as a routine trip into the clinic to get lab results back. It quickly felt increasingly tense and different from previous visits. The nurse wrapped a cuff around his arm and took his vitals. Moments later she scribbled them into his chart and exited the room. Their usual friendly banter was non-existent today. Closing the door the nurse smiled in a way that said, “I’m sorry.”
Adam began pacing back and forth across the tiled floor ignoring the wooden chair against the wall and the pea-soup green exam table. The room felt cold and had that lingering sterile hospital smell. While pacing and not being able to think about anything there came a light, rapping knock at the door. His doctor motioned for him to have a seat while pulling her rolling stool out from under the desk.
Sitting across from him she asked, “Adam? Are you with me?” He nodded, not looking up at her. His eyes remained fixed on his torn, dirty sneakers. Taking his hand into hers she delivered the news that no one ever expects to hear. “Adam, it’s not good news this time. You’re positive.”
Silence.
He had always thought this could never happen to him. He had used protection with every guy or at least the ones he could remember. How would he tell Sam and Dean? How would he deal with the side effects of the medications? Would he even need medications?
His doctor pulled her prescription pad from her lab coat and wrote a prescription for him for anti-retroviral pills. “You’re still undetectable and this medication will keep you that way for a long time. You can still have a relatively normal life, Adam. Just make sure you take the pills every day on time.” She tried to reassure and comfort him.
Dean waited outside the clinic leaning on Baby’s hood to drive Adam home. Clinics and hospitals gave him the heebie-jeebies and he refused to go inside. But he didn’t mind driving Adam around when he had the time to see him. It gave them a chance to bond with each other.
Opening the passenger side door Adam threw the white pharmacy bag onto the floor of the Impala and got in. Shrugging, Dean climbed in turning the key in the ignition, “Well?”
Adam glared up at him before proceeding to punching Dean in the torso and breaking down into tears.