Is it bad that I hate Sam is being tortured but I want protective Dean at the same time?

Yes, hello! You have reached the protective Dean hotline. I am here to help. No, that’s not bad at all. Please enjoy this fine selection of protective Dean moments to tide you over until the season premiere. 

How about when Sam was doing the trials and Dean just wanted to tuck him into bed and feed him chicken soup the whole time?

When Sam was going to close the gates of hell but Dean couldn’t live without him so he was all “haha no”:

Last season when Sam was supposed to take on the Mark because… um… they ran out of story ideas?:

When they were in jail and a guy looked at Sam crosswise:

How about in the cage while Cas was fighting Lucifer and Dean was busy stroking Sam’s silky tresses, apparently checking for hair-related injuries:

Same deal, different episode. Dean has his priorities straight- DON’T LET HIS HAIR BE INJURED. 

Or when Sam was all “SHOOT ME” to Metatron and Dean was like “WTF?? NO”

When Magnus tried to control Dean by hurting Sam (that worked out super well for him btw):

When Dean was threatening demons back in the good old days:

When Dean caught Gordon trying to shoot Sam and then bounced his head off a roof a little:

When Sam was hurt and Dean was a dog thereby giving him an excuse to make licking jokes later:

How about threatening to kill an entire family of scary creeps while he was tied to a chair:

Threatening Crowley is always fun and satisfying for Dean:

And finally, dying to bargain with a reaper for Sam AGAIN. Only on this show could that have happened multiple times:

And please remember that when asked by the Fangasm ladies to do a pose that reflected season 12, this is what Jared and Jensen came up with:

So prepare yourself. 

I hope you found this helpful and please get in touch again if you are ever in need of protective Dean assistance. 

Jared talking about how he called the writers in season 8 to ask why Sam wouldn’t have looked for Dean because it seemed so out of character. YEAH. Go, Jared. (X)

So “Supernatural” is about heaven, hell, faith, revenge… But at its most basic it is about sibling devotion: no pair of brothers or sisters on television is more closely bound — not even the siblings on “Brothers and Sisters.” Proving their intimacy each week, the Winchesters argue as if they were a married couple.

NYT article (February 2, 2011) X

In a show where Dean and Sam are constantly paralleled with married couples, the writers really outdid themselves with the Sam & Dean/Amelia & Don thing. Sam and Amelia found each other because they were both completely broken by the loss of their partner. Don was a soldier missing in action, presumed dead by Amelia and everyone else. Dean is definitely a soldier and he’s basically missing in action too. Sam thinks he’s dead. Then both Don and Dean (really? even their names sound alike) come back. Don finds out about the relationship between Sam and Amelia and although he’s clearly not happy, he leaves it up to Amelia to make her decision. 

Dean is also very much NOT HAPPY about Sam and Amelia. In We Need to Talk About Kevin, they have an exchange where Sam tries to explain why he stopped hunting and Dean gets incredibly hung up on one thing:

Sounds a lot like jealousy to me. It reminds me of the scene in Metamorphosis when Dean finds out about Sam using his powers and gets completely stuck less on the powers thing and more on the fact that he’s working with Ruby. 

SAM: What, are you, are you leaving?
DEAN: You don’t need me. You and Ruby go fight demons.

But this time with Amelia, Dean eventually gives Sam basically the exact same choice Don gave Amelia: It’s her or me. All the way in or all the way out. 

Amelia chose Sam, but of course Sam chose Dean. As always. So I guess maybe it’s not a perfect parallel because apparently Sam and Dean’s relationship is much stronger than that of the actual married couple.