Dean Winchester has a deep, dark secret. One that Sam doesn’t even know about, one that he wouldn’t share if he was being tortured in the worst ways possible. It was a lapse of judgment in his life, one he’s incredibly ashamed of.

You.

It’s been four years since the two of you broke up, he was 22, Sam was at college already and it’s not like John was around enough to notice. His relationship with you was one full of fear, not because it was abusive (though his excessive drinking really didn’t help,) but because you are a man.

Unfortunately, he had let the internalized homophobia get to his head, and he broke it off. It was a messy breakup, one he liked to forget. But now that you’re both checking in to the same motel for the same case, all the memories come flooding back and he tries as hard as he can to not speak to you.