This is another one of those what’s happening if it’s not Dean flirting scenes for me. I mean, Sam freaking clears his throat to get them to stop making smirky head bobby, head tilty staring faces at each other. Dean’s little bounce as he holds the morgue guy’s attention. And the morgue guy’s little whoa, was I just lost in this FBI dude’s eyes shit. Dean’s let me just look over here at the dead body while Sam gives him the classic seriously, Dean, right now? We’re working. {7.13}
Flirting? I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s not like less than one minute later Dean talks about having a job with crazy hours and good benefits with a woman
Does anyone else find it incredibly frustrating that Dean is clearly hurt by Emma’s death, and yet it’s never mentioned again? If they hadn’t put this scene in, where he explicitly states that Emma was his daughter, I might not be so bothered. But they did put it in and yet… nothing more is ever said of it. {7.13}
I feel like this is more about the grief that comes with losing a family he might have had- something Dean has always felt. It’s just more acute with Emma. I’d say his grief here is more like the grief of a parent whom loses their child at birth. He didn’t actually get to really know Emma, so the might-have-been is all he has left.
And when has Dean ever been open about what he feels, except when he’s at his lowest?