14×01 Coda: Standstill

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Michael messes with Dean. Meanwhile, Sam’s not exactly holding it together.

There’s blood on the bunker’s stairs.

No.  Nonononono.

Dean takes the stairs two steps at a time, his heart roaring in his ears.  Michael’s last words still ring in his head– you kick me out, Dean, and you lose everything.  

He comes across Jack first.  He’s slumped across the map room table, the gash in his head leaking sluggishly across Asia, soaking towards Europe.  Dean falls forward, like he’s in a dream Reaches for his pulse.

No.

His legs feel like lead as he staggers towards the door, following another trail.  Mom, in the hallway, an angel blade still clutched in her fist. Her eyes are open, but the light behind them is dead.  Dean swallows back vomit.

“Sammy!”

The library looks like a tornado blew through it.  Dean closes his eyes, thinking of his brother’s painstaking filing, his card catalog.  He’s slumped across it. If he could, Dean knows his brother would be bitching about the stains.

Instead, he just lays there, unmoving.  This time, he throws up, hands on his knees, hands shaking.

Dean knows all too well what he’s going to see next.  But it doesn’t stop him from running towards his room.

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