Point of no return
POINT OF NO RETURN
Dean is not happy to open his eyes and find himself back at Bobby’s place.
“You’re an idiot,” the older man says as a way of greeting. “A selfish one, at that.”
“Why, Bobby, you have nothing but sweet words for me,” Dean replies with sarcasm oozing out of his lips. “Where’s the love?”
“Right here, in the tip of my boot, you reckless loon. What did you think you were doing?”
The sneer in Dean’s face is replaced by pure self-loading and desperation. He takes a moment to get the mask back in place, but its’ already too late.
“Ah, son... it might feel like it, but the fate of the world isn’t on your shoulders, Dean,” Bobby says, hard face melting into the parental love that they both share. “We’ll find a way to save the world, even if it’s the last thing that we do, but we’ll find one that keeps you in it when all is said and done.”
“Will we, Bobby?” Dean counters, getting to his feet and pacing the room.
It’s the only thing that Bobby envies him.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that you’ll try to the last second, and you will fail and we will all die,” Dean says, sounding so certain that Bobby feels a chill up his spine. “And you will die knowing that you gave your best, while I’ll die with a whole world’s worth of lives bearing down on my conscience. So tell me, Bobby, what’s worse? To be an idiot... or to be the man who let the biggest genocide of the all times, happen?”