Shark Teeth (Jean Hobbs)

Chapter 4

Jack's POV

Something definitely seems different with Dean. I can't quite put my finger on it, but he just seems so...distant. He's not as talkative as he used to be, only responding with occasional grunts or one word sentences, It's probably nothing. As we walked to my house, I put my arm around Dean's shoulders, making him flinch. I looked at him, confused.

"Are you okay?" I said raising an eyebrow, he nodded, not meeting my gaze.

"You know you can tell me anything right?" He nodded again. I sighed, it's best not to pressure him into telling me. I noticed that he seemed a lot thinner than usual and he looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. He looked up at me.

"What?" He said, he seemed scared.

"What?"

"Why do you keep staring at me?"

"No reason, I just zoned out." I lied, he hesitated for a second before he turned his head, looking at the ground as he walked.

We arrived at my house and I unlocked the door, Dean seemed to relax a lot more when we stepped inside.

"Smash bros?" I grinned at him.

"Obviously." He said with a wink, I walked into the living room, Dean closely following behind me. We sat on the sofa together, Dean leaned his head on my shoulder as we played, I couldn't help but think about how adorable he looked. After a few hours of playing, we were interrupted by a knock at the door. We looked at each other and smiled, Daniel was here! I jumped up and went to answer the front door.

"Dan! Hey! I've missed you!" I greeted him warmly, pulling him into a hug.

"Hey! I've missed you too!" He smiled happily. It was so good to see him again, I can't actually remember the last time I saw him.

"So Dean's okay?" He said, pulling away from the embrace and putting his bag down next to the door.

"Yeah, he's just in here." I said, walking into the living room again, gesturing for him to follow me.

"Dean!!" He cried, practically jumping on him, I noticed the expression on Dean's face as he hugged him, he seemed happy but he also looked like he was in pain..? I didn't think anything of it.

"I've missed you so much!" Dean said, smiling.

"We were so worried! Carlos was talking about sending out a search team to try and find you!"

Dean laughed. I absolutely love hearing Dean's laugh, that's not weird right? It just makes me happy knowing that he's happy.

"So, smash bros?" I said, smirking, Daniel's eyes lit up.

"Sure! I call Link!" He smiled.

We all tried to cram on the two person sofa, making Dean sit in the middle as punishment for not talking to us for two weeks. As we were playing, I looked over at Dean. The sleeve of his shirt had ridden up a tiny bit and for a second I swore I saw a red mark, he pulled the sleeve back down, I noticed that he'd done that a lot today. Surely it wasn't... That..? I shook the thought out of my head, he would tell me if it was, he tells me everything... right? My mind went back to when I heard him and James arguing, what James had said...

"Don't tell him"

Don't tell me what? There was something he was hiding from me, and I'm determined to find out what it is.

"Jack? Jack!?" Daniel's voice snapped me back to reality.

"Hmm?"

"Are you okay? You kinda zoned out there..."