Yellow Ribbon - a drabble

[amberdreams]

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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Comments

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

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!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

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.

No why dis so sad!

[yohkobennington.livejournal.com]

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

The last line hurts so much :(((((((

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

Such sadness in 100 words...