Title: Test Drive
Author: Mad Server
Rating: T
Characters: Dean, Sam
Word Count: 100, on the nose
Summary: Dean takes some crutches for a test drive.
A/N: Happy birthday, Supernoodle! This is for you! It wouldn't exist without SciFiRN, who gave me the idea a few weeks ago as I was pumping her for medical info with which to terrorize Dean. E/O Challenge, prompt word: "numb."
Disclaimer: I don't own these guys.

Dean looks a bit numb as he tucks the crutches into his armpits, exploratively thumbs the crossbars. Hospital whites stretch tight across his chest, bunching under his arms as he shifts forward, plants a plaster-wrapped foot on the floor. A nurse and an intern are watching, bored and mildly horrified.

Slowly Dean unfolds, leans into the crutches. He makes it most of the way to standing before he blanches, freezing in place.

Yeah.

"No, huh?"

Sam coaxes the crutches away from Dean's damaged ribcage; Dean drops onto the bed, gasping, shiny-faced.

"Walker it is," rules the intern.

Dean just whimpers.

end