30 Ages in 30 Days, Day Fourteen
Day Fourteen - Nine (Dean)
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After Sammy has gone to bed, Dad sits him down and looks at him silently. Dean fidgets a little, wondering if he has done something wrong. But then Dad starts speaking, and Dean learns the truth.
Learns that monsters are real and that his mother didn’t die in a house fire. Learns what Dad is really doing when he leaves at night. And yeah, Dean already figured some of that out on his own, but hearing it out loud makes it a lot more real than ever before.
Dad tells him because he’s hunting something important. It’s close but it’s moving fast, and Dad doesn’t want to lose its trail. There’s no time to drop them off with Caleb or Pastor Jim, as Dad usually does when a job will take more than a night.
Dad looks him in the eye and asks him if he can count on him. If he will be okay taking care of Sammy for a few days.
Dean nods, wide-eyed. Whenever Dad leaves them with other people it feels like a really long time until he comes back and that scares him a little. But Dad thinks he’s big enough now, thinks that he can do this, and Dean doesn’t want to disappoint him.
And so the next evening Dad ruffles Sammy’s hair, squeezes Dean’s shoulder and drives off, the familiar rumbling of the Impala slowly fading into the night.
For a moment Dean feels like crying but then Sammy asks for dinner and Dean can pretend it’s just like any other night and that Dad will be back in the morning.
He isn’t, of course, but things go okay. Dad has explained to him that nobody can know they are on their own, so Dean makes sure Sammy doesn’t make too much noise. They don’t go outside, and when somebody knocks at the door, they are as quiet as they can be until whoever it is goes away. Things are under control, but Dean really wishes Dad would hurry.
It's another two days, though, until Dad finally comes back and when he does, Dean learns how to do stitches.
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Note: This is part of the 30 Ages in 30 Days series.