Land of Castles and Stains (SPN, preseries, AU)

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Title: Land of Castles and Stains
Characters: Sam, Dean, John
Warnings: I never meant this to be so sad
Rating: PG(-13?)
Word count: 1,203
Spoilers: preseries
Summary: It’s their third country in the last twelve months. Sam wonders sometimes if it would have been easier in the States to look into a stranger’s eyes and believe there is understanding there.
Yay Beta!: Thank you, Roommate! It was good just to know that what I thought the fic was doing worked as it should. The errors that remain are mine, always mine...
Author notes: Written for the awesome worldwide_spn challenge. I pretty much lost skin squeaking in under the extended deadline. Originally I wanted to write a happy, fluffy story with lots of A-Team references where the boys took Toledo (Spain) by storm. Turned into an atmospheric, plotless preseries AU where John took the boys abroad after Mary’s death.

It’s their third country in the last twelve months, and Sam’s suddenly trying to understand the respiratory system in Spanish when two weeks ago he was struggling through Le Petit Prince for a book report.