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[familybusiness]

[ ♪ bury your head - saosin ]

WHO || Sam and Dean Winchester
WHAT || Sam confronts Dean about what he's learned.
WHERE || Dean's Room
WHEN || November, shortly before leaving on the Thanksgiving Mission
HOW || spam~

[Fortunately for Sam, this time around, when Dean arrives at the Castle? Sam hears about it.

He's made friends since back then, ones that know their relationship, and know that he would want to know. And they're right, because he's been waiting for this awhile, wants to know what took his brother so damn long to come home, wants to know if he'd being avoided on purpose or...no, it's probably on purpose.

Well, that was going to come to an end in a hurry. He doesn't particularly want this conversation, because it'll probably be uncomfortable and angry and horrible, but it has to happen. He can't sit on any of this forever.

Not when he's not the only one who knows.

So that afternoon, Dean will hear a rather...forceful knock on his door, following quickly by a voice.]

Dean, it's me. Let me in.

[Because he's not going away. Sorry, bro.]

Comments

[likedillinger]

[ oh hey, with a really high wisdom check and a really poor will save, that anger's back here too. ] ... Just how much talking have you been doing with this devil broad? Because for somebody who wasn't part of this, you sure as shit sound like you've been drinking Hell's Kool-Aid enough to get an opinion.

[familybusiness]

[Watch him try to avoid that question by addressing the latter part. Poorly.]

I'm not drinking anything, Dean. If it was something else, feel free to clarify. I don't exactly have any details on whatever it is you were doing.

[likedillinger]

It was about proving what mankind was capable of. Resisting temptation, standing up to evil, not folding in the face of this shitty world of ours.

And yeah, it was bullshit, alright, fine. But it wasn't just the Angels playing that game. It was all of 'em. They don't give a crap about us, except as far as we can prove something that they already wanna believe.

[familybusiness]

What is it they want us to prove?

[likedillinger]

[ he doesn't answer for a long moment. but when he does, his response seems to say why. ]





That we deserve to be forgiven.

[familybusiness]

[He lets that hang in the air a moment, brows furrowed in deep thought, but in the end he just shakes his head.]

So, what, one side believes we do, one side believes we don't, and everything else is just...a game to see who wins?

[likedillinger]

It's a metaphysical pissing match, is what it is. A bunch of supernatural beings who don't even go here tryin' to act like they know what's best for us.

[familybusiness]

What happens when one of them wins?

[likedillinger]

I don't know if they even know. Heaven had six hundred and sixty six chances to pass one of us through. If they hit the magical number of the Beast without doin' that, they saw Hell wins the bet.

... I was their thirteenth to last shot.

[familybusiness]

Oh. [Give him a moment.] Wow.

[More beer was a good decision.]

Sounds like that would make both sides...pretty desperate.

[With one finally so close to winning, and the other trying frantically not to lose.]

[likedillinger]

You better believe it. They had to be, to go thinkin' I'd fit the bill.

[familybusiness]

Dean...

[That wasn't what he'd been going for. Not even kind of.]

...there's nothing wrong with wanting to be a hero. It's what they're doing that's wrong.

[likedillinger]

Yeah, well they can have it. Cas said sometimes decades go by without a Prospect popping up. By the time the next twelve roll out, we'll be long gone.

Maybe that sounds cynical, or like giving up, but unless I find a way to break their little system before I kick it, I'm not sure what else to say.

I should've known. You can't save everybody. Doesn't work that way. Never has.

[familybusiness]

I don't think it sounds like either of those things. You shouldn't have to shoulder everyone's fate like that. No one should.

But if you want to try and find a way to break the whole thing, you know I'll help you.

[likedillinger]

Honestly, right now? All I want is nothing to do with any of it, ever again.

[familybusiness]

Do you think they'll really leave us alone?

[likedillinger]

Aren't you the one who just arguing that's what they told you?

[familybusiness]

I wan't arguing anything. I said that's what I was told. There's a difference. I'm asking for your opinion.

I've wanted to believe what she's told me, but she also can't know everything. And considering she's withheld information on the reasoning that I'd have to talk to her Dad about instead isn't exactly the most comforting thing.

[A beat.]

I said no to that offer, by the way.

[likedillinger]

But she tried. She told you she didn't want to drag you into this and then dangled that carrot in front of you anyway. Because she's a liar, Sam. She's Lucifer's daughter, and that means she learned from the best there is at how to pull peoples' strings.

[familybusiness]

She said she dragged me in so I wouldn't be in the dark. So that when I did find out what happened, I wouldn't make the same mistakes and go on some kind of angel-hating vengeance thing. She told me she just wanted us to...'kiss and make up.'

[And he doesn't want to think she was lying. And yes, he did the air quotes with his fingers.]

The last person who cared about me like that was Madison. I guess I just attract monsters, huh? [A beat.] Did that even happen over here?

[It's a...valid question.]

[likedillinger]

You can't compare this to what happened with Madison. [ so that's a yes. ] Madison used to be human. Glasya's never been anything but she is, and that thing is incapable of caring about you the way you're so desperate to think she is.

[familybusiness]

[He could argue this point forever, and he knows that Dean will never believe it. He doesn't for a second believe there isn't something there, but he also doesn't know how truly selfish it is, or if she has ulterior motives.

He trusts Dean more than anyone, and he's instilled some doubts in him.

And even if he hadn't, it wouldn't matter. They both had known it would come to this, at some point. Maybe she'd thought he'd choose differently. She probably should have known better than that.]

I'll deal with her.

[likedillinger]

You better. Or else I'm gonna have to.

[familybusiness]

[He manages to mostly keep his cool, though his shoulders get a little tense as he internally bristles.]

That won't be necessary. Pretty sure she has had a feeling this was coming since she first saved me from getting shanked.

[likedillinger]

If you're lookin' for me to thank her for that, you got another thing coming.