When I think about it now, I don’t know if a brother hug would have fit. They weren’t celebrating being reunited or escaping because they knew what they had done to get out. They could barely look at each other and when Sam tentatively brought it up, Dean wouldn’t even talk about it. Dean was obviously planning on making sure it was him that was thrown into the nothing so Sam could go on. Of course, Sam was probably working up a lawyerly case with all the reasons it should be him that makes the sacrifice instead of Dean.
Don’t get me wrong- I would have loved to see a brohug but instead we got all these layers of angst and sadness about who would die for the other. When I rewatched it, I kept noticing how upset and hopeless they looked even after they were out of the prison and since I now understood why, it broke my heart.
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