To restart life

Chapter 9 - thunderstorms

It was the day after Halloween, Sam was very regretful about his decision of letting dean watch a horror movie last night as it was practically a sleepless night for the both of them and as a result of this Sam was stressed especially since dean has regressed to the youngest he has since the accident. Sam was running out of supplies for dean and was due for a shopping trip and due to the youngest age dean has regressed to he needed new supplies and new stuff. Sam knew that dean was non verbal meaning that he is going to struggle to understand what dean needs and that he is going to be more sensitive and need more care. Sam was wondering how long he was going to remain this young mentally but there was nothing he could do about it even if he tried.

It was now 11:00am, Sam had just about managed to wake dean up from a nap and picked him up. He carried him to the bathroom where he changed dean out of his pyjamas and washed him. Sam changed dean into his last diaper and some loose joggers and hoodie. He then carried dean down to the kitchen where he made him a bottle of milk and then sat down in the living room where he fed dean. After a bit Sam put shoes on dean, grabbed a list that he had created, a blanket and stuffed animal for dean plus a few other things, and left for the shops. Once they reached the car Sam placed dean into the passenger seat and buckled his seatbelt. He than gave dean a black pacifier, his stuffed animal and a red throw blanket. Dean had fell asleep almost instantly indicating his exhaustion. Deans soft snores could be heard throughout the background of the radio playing in the car. The peace could only last for a certain amount of time. After about twenty minutes or so, they had arrived at the shop and parked as close to the door as possible. Once Sam had pulled up in the parking lot he had woken dean up who slowly stirred awake. He let out a small whine and rubbed his eyes with his hands. Sam got up out of the car and went around to deans side of the car and unbuckled him from the seat. Dean was doing grabby hands towards Sam, due to them being out in public, he had to tell him no which didn't end up well as dean was about to bust into tears. Instantly, Sam pulled him into a hug hushing him before getting the attention on them which would cause even more problems.

After a couple of minutes Sam managed to calm dean down before they were ready to enter the store. Sam grabbed the bag and then grabbed deans hand before heading into the shop. Sam noticed how dean struggling to walk and was stumbling, realising the younger mentality was affecting his physical abilities as well. They grabbed a shopping cart and Sam made sure dean grabbed onto the cart for extra support. It must have been about ten minutes and they've only got 2 things of their 8 items. Dean was struggling to walk and it was delaying them. At this point, Sam was beginning to feel a little bit stressed, and they both went to turn a corner when a stranger barged into dean, scoffed and walked away. This seemed to be the breaking point for dean, his eyes started tear up edging to come out which didn't go unnoticed by Sam, who hugged him once again in an attempt to hush him. Sam calmed him down and placed him in the shopping cart in an effort to make the shopping quicker and prevent anymore inconveniences. They had finished their major shop which included the following; diapers, pacifiers, bottles, sippy cups, baby powder, baby wipes, soft clothes, pyjamas .Once sam had grabbed those he decided to grab dean some toys designed for younger kids/toddlers and let him choose a stuffed animal. Dean had chosen this fluffy, curly haired teddy bear. Once dean had chosen the teddy Sam lifted him out of the cart and let him walk next to him. They went up to the checkouts where the cashier scanned the groceries and packed them while Sam payed.

Once they reached the car Sam buckled dean into the seat again giving him a new pacifier, which was red and black, and handed him his new teddy bear and gave him the blanket again. Dean had fell asleep while Sam was unloading their shopping into the back of the car. The car ride was quite quiet, dean snoring and Sam was listening to the radio playing in the background. It was all good until Sam heard the weather warnings for the evening and has realised that there is going to be a thunderstorm storm which is bad timing as dean had never liked thunderstorms despite denying it and even worse now that he was regressed very young meaning his senses are much more heightened and he was more sensitive to sound. Other than that the drive home was good. Once they arrived home, Sam woke up dean up who carried him inside grabbing the shopping bag with his other hand. He unpacked his bag with dean still cradling into his side, content with his teddy and the comfort of his brother. Once Sam had finished unpacking he took dean upstairs where he changed his visibly wet diaper which earn an annoyed whine. He powdered dean, put him in a new diaper and then changed him into a new Scooby doo onesie. He then decided to just chill with dean and watch a few movies. After the second movie, Sam fed dean a bottle and some mushed up bananas. Once dean had finished that he changed his diaper and carried into the living room where he put the next film and sat dean down on the floor, where all of his toys were and decided to let him play with them while he made himself some food. Once Sam had eaten his dinner and washed his dishes up he joined dean in the living room where he sat on the couch watching the jungle book. Dean whined and made grabby hands towards Sam which caught his attention, so Sam picked up dean who was holding his teddy in one hand and the same red blanket in his other hand.

After a while the peaceful atmosphere that the two brothers were relaxed in was suddenly disrupted by a repeated loud noise coming from outside. Sam realised that it was the thunderstorm that he had heard about on the radio earlier. The thunder and lightning was too much for little dean and the unnecessary loud noises cause dean to start sobbing from fear. Sam felt so bad for dean because he never liked the storms and knowing that he is mentally younger he dislikes them even more, dean was starting to hyperventilate due to the panic, this caused Sam to feel slightly panicked, but he told dean "deep breaths" breathe in, hold, breathe out". It took what seemed like forever but in reality was couple of minutes for deans breathing to regulate and his hyperventilation to turn into sobs again to which he gave dean a pacifier . Sam was cradling dean and covering his ears to calm him down walking around the apartment. After a painfully long ten minutes the storm had passed on on Sam could now successfully calm dean down which took a while before it actually happened. After the course of events today Sam decided to movie night short and go to bed as both of them has had a limited amount of sleep over the past couple of days. Sam had made a bottle of milk for dean for before bed. Once it was done they headed upstairs where sam placed the bottle on the nightstand and headed into the bathroom to check deans diaper despite him changing him not so long ago. When he notice the diaper was wet he had realised that the storm had cause so much fright to dean that he had an accident resulting in him changing the boy's diaper for what felt like the 100th time today. He then headed back to their bedroom where he fed dean and thy had both settled down in the large bed. They had both instantly fell asleep due to the stress of today's events and the exhaustion of the boys lack of sleep recently.