13.11: Coda
takes place immediately after the end of the episode. 893 words. Sam and Dean. h/c.
They don’t talk for the rest of the drive. Sam keeps his eyes fixed on the road outside, barely illuminated by the sliver of the moon that peeks out from behind the clouds overhead. Dean hasn’t even turned the radio on to fill the silence, and it speaks volumes about where his head’s at.
“It ends bad.”
It’s the story of their lives; an endless cycle of loss that hits a little harder every time, even though he feels like he should’ve long become numbed to its ache. It never gets easier, and every new hurt piles onto the others, layers upon layers of scar tissue built up on his heart until it starts pressing on his lungs and making every breath he takes a little bit harder to justify.
This, though- Mom and Jack being gone, and even Castiel, who’s been off the radar for weeks- this might be the hurt that finally breaks him.