SPN 9x5 - Dog Dean Afternoon

[pocochina]

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[cuddyclothes]

I can't defend Dean's actions in any way, shape or form. Especially now, when Sam is clearly on the mend. My feeling is that if he rejected Ezekiel now, he might get horribly sick, but he is no longer in danger of dying. Ezekiel's healing people all over the place, not to mention bringing them back from the dead. Dean saw Cas in that situation many times. By which I mean being weakened by his own angelic actions. Dean's co-dependent (is that the word I want?) terror of losing Sam has him preferring perpetually confused Sam over the increasingly unlikely scenario of Sam dying.

For one thing, Zeke healed himself/Sam this week! Who's to say he hasn't done most of the job by now?

Also, I wonder if Zeke is intentionally pretending to black out in order to carry on the pretense of being too weak leave Sam, and vice versa?

[pocochina]

Yeah. IMO at this point the major risk isn't so much about Sam possibly rescinding his "consent" to Ezekiel and dying, as it is about Ezekiel can just leave if Dean challenges him (even obliquely by letting Sam in on the whole thing), and there's no margin for error. I mean, I think Dean's rationalization is still about how he's trying to keep Sam from making the wrong (by Dean's standards) choice, because then at least he still feels in control of someone. But what's going on here is that he's scared of Zeke.

Also, I wonder if Zeke is intentionally pretending to black out in order to carry on the pretense of being too weak leave Sam, and vice versa?

Oh, I totally think Ezekiel is screwing with him to some extent. I believed his stagger away from Cas back in 9x3, but I do kind of doubt that he was unconscious in that final scene in this episode. He could very well have just been letting Dean work himself up so he'll stay unsettled and compliant.