Walk These Well-Known Ways Alone

Part 3 (final part) of my Stitches series. "Behind the scorn and flippancy and pain, he really does want it to be good, really does want Sam to be living his life, to be anywhere but sliced up by a ghost in a motel room, bleeding out onto a filthy floor, still trying to be too manly for tears." Hurt!Dean, alone. NO SLASH (of course). Major angst.