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Three Supernatural drabbles. Inspired by the clips I saw this morning, but in no way spoilery. Based on the supposition that Dean has gotten out of hell.
What lies beneath?
1.
Bobby Singer knew that life wasn’t fair. He learned that at his daddy’s knee and had it beaten into him at every opportunity thereafter. He knew it when he hunted with John and saw innocent men used and discarded by demons who saw them as nothing more than raw materials. He knew it when his wife was taken from him; hatred in her eyes and no trace of the gentle woman who’d loved him. He knew it. And yet, as he hugged his welcome to Dean, even then he couldn’t suppress the voice that asked ‘Why Dean and not her?’
2.
You’d think, with all the God awful things he’s seen; the scary assed monsters, the evil, the filth and fury and the fear; you’d think that Sam Winchester could sleep without seeing flames. The nightmares, the presentiments, should have stopped with the realisation of the act, but Sam, after all this time, still struggles with nightly visions of Jess pinned to the ceiling as she burned. Sees her face morph into the mother he never really knew. He feels the guilt and the burden and wonders why they weren’t considered worthy of a get out of hell free card too.
3.
Dean doesn’t understand why he’s been brought back. John Winchester did exactly the same thing as him; sold a soul and sacrificed a life he didn’t really value, in exchange for a person he loved. But John went to hell. Went to hell and stayed there. At least till the gates were opened and all hell, literally, broke loose.
If this were possible, If some great entity could pluck a Winchester male from Hell and throw him back to the earth, then why not John? Why had they waited till now when they could have given him back his father?
What lies beneath?
1.
Bobby Singer knew that life wasn’t fair. He learned that at his daddy’s knee and had it beaten into him at every opportunity thereafter. He knew it when he hunted with John and saw innocent men used and discarded by demons who saw them as nothing more than raw materials. He knew it when his wife was taken from him; hatred in her eyes and no trace of the gentle woman who’d loved him. He knew it. And yet, as he hugged his welcome to Dean, even then he couldn’t suppress the voice that asked ‘Why Dean and not her?’
2.
You’d think, with all the God awful things he’s seen; the scary assed monsters, the evil, the filth and fury and the fear; you’d think that Sam Winchester could sleep without seeing flames. The nightmares, the presentiments, should have stopped with the realisation of the act, but Sam, after all this time, still struggles with nightly visions of Jess pinned to the ceiling as she burned. Sees her face morph into the mother he never really knew. He feels the guilt and the burden and wonders why they weren’t considered worthy of a get out of hell free card too.
3.
Dean doesn’t understand why he’s been brought back. John Winchester did exactly the same thing as him; sold a soul and sacrificed a life he didn’t really value, in exchange for a person he loved. But John went to hell. Went to hell and stayed there. At least till the gates were opened and all hell, literally, broke loose.
If this were possible, If some great entity could pluck a Winchester male from Hell and throw him back to the earth, then why not John? Why had they waited till now when they could have given him back his father?