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amberdreams ([personal profile] amberdreams) wrote2014-06-22 08:35 pm

Yellow Ribbon - a drabble

Yellow Ribbon
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E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100
Challenge word: strike
Warnings: none
Summary: Dean tries to find ways to cope now Sam’s at Stanford, and John is off who knows where doing who knows what.
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Dean works the job like always, except everything’s different now.

Sam isn’t the only one to strike out that September. Dad takes off too. Says he’s got something to attend to, that Dean’s old enough to work cases alone – Dean can’t argue.

Sam’s in California and Dean’s everywhere Sam isn’t.

He kills two black dogs and gets his leg chewed up bad, spends two weeks in a fever-dream while infection rages and nearly sweeps him away. Dad checks on him while he’s out of it; he never knows.

He survives, but the Impala’s as empty as the long road ahead.

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[identity profile] jj1564.livejournal.com 2014-06-22 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch that's painful, you really capture the loneliness and isolation dean felt when left alone by first Sam then John too. Sweet as well with John checking in on him, but I wish Dean had known!

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
You get the feeling John was shutting both his boys out, maybe for the best of reasons but how it must have hurt!

[identity profile] roxymissrose.livejournal.com 2014-06-22 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh--it makes me feel a little sick every time I think of Dean being on his own those years. He's just not made to be alone, but he'd work cases just like you write here and never stop.

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder whether one of the reasons Dean loves his car so much is that she was the only thing left he could take care of during those years... Ack you are right, it makes you feel so bad for him.

Re: No why dis so sad!

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
i don't know.... Blame Kripke!

[identity profile] chomaisky.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
The last line hurts so much :(((((((

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Sniffle...

[identity profile] borgmama1of5.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Such sadness in 100 words...

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2014-06-23 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you...Dean breaks my heart....