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tigriswolfTitle: we play the final showdown scene
Fandom: “Supernatural”
Disclaimer: John, Dean, and Sam aren’t mine. title from George Strait.
Warnings: takes place during season one
Pairings: OFC/OMC
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 540
Point of view: third
Notes: same 'verse as "last goodbye's the hardest one to say"
Prompt: Dean/OFC, happy ending
They met during a Friday rainstorm, she and the new boy. She was late and he was lost, and they had first period together. She showed him the way and expected to be forgotten in the shuffle, but he sat next to her at lunch.
When he and a gruff older man he called Dad saved her from Grandpa Malachi’s ghost three weeks later, she honestly wasn’t that surprised.
o0o
“I can’t stay,” he’d told her from the beginning. “We’ll move on soon.”
“Okay,” she’d said.
If he’d wanted more, she would’ve willingly given it, but he never asked. They were friends, nothing more.
o0o
After he left, she sank into a depression she didn’t crawl out of for three years. But by her freshman year of college, she’d found herself. She’d become a math teacher and lived in the same town as her parents, and always wondered about him, that boy she knew for five months who saved her life. But she had dreams—to write a novel, to change the world—and he was gone.
o0o
She met Jake during the Fourth of July firework show. He had blue eyes and black hair and taught karate. He called her Darlin’. He was a good man, kind and funny, understood her horrible math jokes and held her in the night when Grandpa Malachi’s ghost visited her dreams.
They married in the spring and adopted a son two years later. Jake, Danny, and her students were her whole world. She wrote half her novel before losing the thread and knew she changed the world by teaching the future. She honestly didn’t want more.
o0o
She was twenty-seven when Jake died, killed by Donavan, Grandpa Malachi’s father, a man she’d never even met. She took Danny and fled to her parents, but Donavan had already killed them, too.
When that boy she’d known saved her life again, she still wasn’t surprised. A part of her had always expected to see him again.
o0o
He had a new partner, a tall man she didn’t recognize, but his eyes were still the same.
“Stay down,” he said; her head rang with the shots and she wrapped herself around Danny. Then his partner(“Sam!” he yelled) carried both her and Danny out. Sam made a circle with salt and told her, “Stay inside.”
She held her sobbing son and waited.
o0o
The next morning, a day after she’d become a widow and orphan, the two hunters took her and Danny back to a hotel room.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “Dad and I really thought it was over.”
She had no strength for fury or despair; she was just tired, so tired, and cold. She clutched Danny close.
“I missed you,” she said. “For a long time.”
“I’m sorry,” he repeated.
Sam shifted uncomfortably and said, “I’ll go get us some breakfast.”
o0o
“Are you happy?” she asked. Danny lay beside her beneath the comforter and her twice-over savior sat on the other bed, a thick journal in his hands.
He looked at her for a long moment, and she saw that boy she met, lost on campus, soaked to the bone.
The door opened and Sam barreled in, bringing some of the lashing rain with him.
Dean grinned and answered, “I am.”
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Date: 2008-10-18 09:36 pm (UTC)YAY!
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Date: 2008-10-19 02:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-18 10:57 pm (UTC)Favorite lines:
knew she changed the world by teaching the future.
Very nicely phrased.
“Are you happy?” she asked. Danny lay beside her beneath the comforter and her twice-over savior sat on the other bed, a thick journal in his hands.
He looked at her for a long moment, and she saw that boy she met, lost on campus, soaked to the bone.
The door opened and Sam barreled in, bringing some of the lashing rain with him.
Dean grinned and answered, “I am.”
Aww. :) Lovely ending.
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Date: 2008-10-19 02:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-19 03:44 am (UTC)Dean grinned and answered, “I am.”
PERFECT ...
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