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.