amberdreams | A Salute to the Fallen

A Salute to the Fallen

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E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100

Challenge word: Ridiculous

Warnings: Spoilers for Season 5 finale – again.

Dean faces his first Memorial Day without Sam.

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It was achingly hard to be back in Lawrence, even if this cemetery wasn’t Stull.

Dean slowly approached the sarcophagus-shaped memorial to the fallen of the 1863 massacre. He’d thought it’d be easier here, where the dead were so long gone they were largely forgotten. Now he wasn’t sure it was such a good idea to be here at all.

Feeling faintly ridiculous, he was about to lay the single red rose he’d been clutching on the monument, when a simpler, smaller marker caught his eye with one heart-piercing-word.

Samuel.

Vision suddenly blurred, he dropped the flower there and fled.

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A/N. Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence has only four individual grave markers remaining from the 1863 Quantrill’s Raid massacre victims, one of which is dedicated to a Samuel Jones… I doubt it is actually right next to the main monument but hey, that’s what you call poetic licence!