Sam and Johanna
"How did you even say that with a straight face?" Sam asked, cracking a smile. He knew how unstable his family was, and there was no point denying it or even pretending otherwise. But he was back in town, he couldn't deny that either.
"I'm actually glad to be back," he told her. He wasn't happy Dean was missing in action, but maybe it was for the best. He and Dean hadn't been on great terms in Madison, because without the hunt to bind them together they invariably drifted apart.
"Madison is like an oasis in the shit storm that is my life. Even though it can be a shit storm in an of itself," he said with a shrug. Madison tended to put its residents through the wringer from time to time. But whatever hell they experienced usually passed within a few days or a week. Life in Madison was stressful at times, but the good, normal, uneventful days made it worth it in Sam's mind.