all duct tape and safety pins inside

Genre: Hurt/Angst/Comfort
Pairing: Gen.
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 4,860
Warnings: Suicide and thoughts of suicide, violence, blood, angst, serious subject matters like depression.
Prompt: The End spoilers. End!verse. "Five months since he got Sam back, he sets an alarm to wake up in the early morning hours."

Author's Notes: This is a sequel to my Endverse fic, The Epilogue in a Very Long Biography! Please check that out first!

Five months since he got Sam back, he sets an alarm to wake up in the early morning hours. He creeps out into the dark world and presses his ear against his brother's door. Sometimes he can hear his brother in the middle of a nightmare. Sometimes, he's sobbing. And sometimes he catches Sam sleep-walking himself out to the fields again and has to turn him around and walk him back home. Or sometimes his brother is already out there.