Tipping Point - a drabble

[amberdreams]

Yep, it's Sunday drabble time...

SPN100 Drabble Challenge: word count 100

Challenge word: scale

Warnings: Season 10 spoilery(ish)

Summary: Sometimes reassurance feels a bit hollow.

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Sam says – the Mark, everything else. We’ll figure it out, we always do.

Inside Sam hears an echo, hollow as a brass bell. I won’t let you die, Dean. You won’t go to Hell.

The Dean in that ghost of another time was younger, more hopeful – yet even so Dean didn’t believe Sam could save him.

Dean hears a different echo, sees Sam’s haggard face, trial-worn. Hey, listen, we’ll figure it out, okay, just like we always do. Let it go, brother.

Both of them wait to see which side of Blind Justice’s scales will tip them out this time.

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Comments

[phenar-21.livejournal.com]

Oof. Right in the heartstrings. I hear tiny undertones of Dean thinking Sam's going to fail, just like he did the last time keeping him out of hell.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think it must be in Sam's mind too, somewhere. Maybe buried deep but a niggle of doubt.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

You are actually trying to make me cry, aren't you! *sniffs and snuggles down in her blanket*

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Well I know you'd be safe inside your blanket fort... :D

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

It's amazing these two aren't in padded rooms with the amount of physical and emotional trauma they have been through! You've hit the nail on the head here, as I can imagine them both thinking "crap, here we go again..."

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks and yes, I agree about their mental states...did you read the Dean one in the mental hospital from the last few days?

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

I'm still working through LJ from the past few days, it rings a bell and I think I saved it but could you do me a huge favour and send me the link in case I've missed it? Thanks!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Phew found it (of course I couldn't remember where I'd read it...LOL)
http://hoodie-time.livejournal.com/954742.html?thread=12483446#t12483446

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks so much my dear! I'll be reading it shortly :)

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Awe my poor boys I worry for them *hugs them tightly *

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

They need all the hugs!