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I should have been revising... but, well... you know how your mind tends to wander when you're stuck indoors with your nose in a book.
"Faith" was on Sunday night.
[Fandom: Supernatural]
Title: Mortality Sucks
Author: sg_crazy
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sam’s thoughts following “Faith”. One-shot.
Spoiler(s): Faith.
Warning(s): Language [mild].
Words: 310
We’ve been demon-hunting, vampire-slaying, spirit-exorcising for as long as I can remember - and yet, it never once occurred to me that one of us could die.
Well, actually, that’s a lie. Of course I’ve always been aware that what we did was dangerous. Lion-taming type dangerous - turn your back for as little as a second and you just might find a huge chunk of your ass missing. But what happened to Dean… it really brought everything into perspective.
That every day could potentially be our last.
I guess I started to think we were the untouchables - cursed to stand by and watch as those around us dropped like flies. It was always them. Never us.
But then things changed… We’re not immortal. We’re just like the rest of them.
Dean’s heart attack proved that much.
They’d said he only had a couple of weeks to live. Naturally, we worked our way around that - familiarity with the supernatural has its perks - but still, the event had thoroughly rattled my cage. As it had for Dean himself, despite his efforts in hiding it.
But, I admit, it was more the prospect of losing my brother rather than death in general that had shaken me more. Granted, we’re different in almost every sense of the word, and I won’t deny he can be a real pain in the ass at times - but he’s still my brother, and despite everything that’s happened, we’ve had fun, and our sibling bond has definitely strengthened in the past few months.
Let’s just say, I have no idea what I’d do without him (though, of course, I’d never actually confess such to his face).
I realise now, though, that luck won’t always be on our side. You never know when the Grim Reaper will rear its ugly head - and regardless of our line of work, neither do we.
"Faith" was on Sunday night.
[Fandom: Supernatural]
Title: Mortality Sucks
Author: sg_crazy
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sam’s thoughts following “Faith”. One-shot.
Spoiler(s): Faith.
Warning(s): Language [mild].
Words: 310
We’ve been demon-hunting, vampire-slaying, spirit-exorcising for as long as I can remember - and yet, it never once occurred to me that one of us could die.
Well, actually, that’s a lie. Of course I’ve always been aware that what we did was dangerous. Lion-taming type dangerous - turn your back for as little as a second and you just might find a huge chunk of your ass missing. But what happened to Dean… it really brought everything into perspective.
That every day could potentially be our last.
I guess I started to think we were the untouchables - cursed to stand by and watch as those around us dropped like flies. It was always them. Never us.
But then things changed… We’re not immortal. We’re just like the rest of them.
Dean’s heart attack proved that much.
They’d said he only had a couple of weeks to live. Naturally, we worked our way around that - familiarity with the supernatural has its perks - but still, the event had thoroughly rattled my cage. As it had for Dean himself, despite his efforts in hiding it.
But, I admit, it was more the prospect of losing my brother rather than death in general that had shaken me more. Granted, we’re different in almost every sense of the word, and I won’t deny he can be a real pain in the ass at times - but he’s still my brother, and despite everything that’s happened, we’ve had fun, and our sibling bond has definitely strengthened in the past few months.
Let’s just say, I have no idea what I’d do without him (though, of course, I’d never actually confess such to his face).
I realise now, though, that luck won’t always be on our side. You never know when the Grim Reaper will rear its ugly head - and regardless of our line of work, neither do we.