Season 5 codas
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All the angels and demons and devils and vessels and scared stragglers looking to him for a salvation he wasn’t even sure he could spell, could go fuck themselves. Or take a number at the very least. Who was he kidding that this was something he could put aside till later?
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- Part 1 of Season 5 codas
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It takes everything he has to sit at the picnic table and wait it out. It’s an hour before he realizes he doesn’t even know what ‘it’ is, and that whatever the fuck, ‘it’ is not going to pass.
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- Part 2 of Season 5 codas
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It’s not as if they don’t have shit to talk about. They have an entire planet of shit to talk about. Literally. Only Dean doesn’t want their very first conversation to be about Sam breaking his neck with little more than the casual press of a Gucci loafer. Or why they are never going to Detroit. Ever.
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- Part 3 of Season 5 codas
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He’s twenty-seven, he started the apocalypse, he’s Lucifer’s one and only, he’s exorcised more demons and burned more bones than he would ever care to count, but apparently Dean giving him a set of car keys at this particular point in time, is what makes him feel like an adult. Go figure.
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- Part 4 of Season 5 codas
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Sam is haunted, Dean knows this. A part of him held to that wall and squeezed felt nothing but vindicated to hear Sam say the words out loud to Jesse. But Dean is also the Winchester who has been to hell and back, the Winchester who has seen the end of days in a ruined garden, and as such, he is the one who knows all about bad decisions made for entirely the right reasons.
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- Part 5 of Season 5 codas
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They sit there a while, the buzz of diner-life around them as Dean finishes the fries and Sam sips his coffee. Sam thinks about the way the world let him keep all this with four fours and finds he can’t quite let it go yet.
“You think we’ll get to grow old, Dean?”
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- Part 6 of Season 5 codas
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He glances across at his brother, broad shouldered and huge in shotgun, and Dean wonders when he got used to Sam filling the car with muscles and silence. A sudden pang for the boy who once superglued Dean’s hand to a beer bottle and enjoyed the joke for an entire day makes him tighten his hands on the steering wheel.
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- Part 7 of Season 5 codas
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“Barnes and Damien,” corrects Sam absently when Dean trails off. He’s trying to figure out just where the events of chapter thirty three might have taken place.
“Whatever, but did you know they...you know, that they were...”
Sam bites his lip but keeps his head down so that Dean won’t see. His big tough brother can apparently hold off the forces of heaven and survive those of hell, but saying the word ‘gay’ out loud right now is too much for him.
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- Part 8 of Season 5 codas
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They’re two states over and in a grocery store when Dean has the chance to undo a few things. He’s got shaving cream in one hand and a packet of Oreos in the other, and he rounds aisle three to see Sam with tissues in one hand and a four-year-old in the other.
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- Part 9 of Season 5 codas
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“You’re right, Dean. It has been a while,” Sam says finally. “Too long. I...I didn’t think you wanted this.” The ‘anymore’ isn’t said, but they both hear it. Sam leans sideways until his bottle finds Dean’s. He keeps it there till Dean looks at him, and Dean’s heart catches at how nervous Sam appears. “So,” says Sam, taking a deep breath, “to you, me, and a beer or three.”
Dean makes his voice soft. “Absolutely.”
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- Part 10 of Season 5 codas
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He fixes his gaze on Dean and slowly but surely, his heartbeat slows and the bile in his mouth disappears. He narrows his world to those green eyes in that pale, concerned face and wonders, not for the first time, how he ever let Ruby do this to him.
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- Part 11 of Season 5 codas
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"We can’t come back here, Dean. You know that, right? Can’t call him, can’t ask him for help for anything. I mean, shit, all of this happened right here—to Bobby, to the Sheriff, this town—because of us.” He swallows. “Because of me.”
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- Part 12 of Season 5 codas
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Dean lied. He does remember when they used to hunt Wendigos together, when ghosts stepped out of mirrors and hallways to be met by a swing of iron and a blast of salt. He remembers when the worst thing in the world was the FBI, and when the bottom line was Latin, lighter fluid, and a box of matches. And he also remembers a boy hanging on his every word with wide eyes. That same boy who gave him a present because Dean had stolen Christmas and told him the truth.
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- Part 13 of Season 5 codas