I think to some extent that though John encouraged Dean to be Sam's protector, Dean would've done it without prompting. Just because that's who Dean is, and who Sam needs him to be. (And because wee!Dean crawled into wee!Sam's crib to hold him after Mary died, otherwise known as the show canon most likely to make my uterus explode.)
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Date: 2006-06-01 05:43 pm (UTC)Thanks!