Pane - SN fic - PG

[tigriswolf]

Title: Pane
Fandom: "Supernatural"
Disclaimer: John, Jessica, Sam, and Dean are not mine.  They're just lots of fun to torture, is all.
Warnings: none, really
Pairings: Sam/Jessica
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 340
Point of view: third

           

           In another world, Dean died when he turned twenty-four.   Sometimes Sam dreams about it. He sees the day he gets the news, a broken, worn message from Dad left on his voicemail. He hears his dad’s shattered voice, the tattered words pouring forth in a waterfall, and then Dad loses control—John Winchester, dangerous hunter, sobs into his phone and then the line goes dead.

            He can feel the floor painfully meet his knees as he falls, the receiver tumbling from his hand. He can hear his roommate Alton asking what’s wrong, rushing over, supporting Sam as he slumps down further.   He can smell the salami Alton had for lunch, taste the gum he’d been chewing when he listened to the message, see the world dimming with the knowledge that Dean’s gone forever.

 

            In another world, Dean died when he turned twenty-four. It was quick, brutal. Almost painless. 

            Sam stayed at college, got into law school, married a lovely blonde named Jessica. They had three children, two daughters and a son. Jessica named all three, Sam content with her choices: Hope, Victoria, and Benjamin.

            Sam became a well-respected lawyer and Jessica wrote a popular series of books. When Sam was thirty-five, he received word that his father died. He thanked Pastor Jim kindly and then went to court where he got his guilty client off scot-free.

 

            In another world, Dean died when he turned twenty-four. His niece Hope over-dosed on ecstasy during her freshman year of high school. His niece Victoria was raped her junior year of college and shot the man dead three nights later. His nephew Benjamin was in an automobile accident weeks before his college graduation and woke up six months after, paralyzed from the waist down.

            His brother Sam was the best defense lawyer in the western US and his sister-in-law Jessica cheated every night.

 

            In another world, Dean died when he was twenty-four. Sam can see it, hear it, taste it, smell it, feel it—and he wakes, nearly ashamed, because he knows he’s relieved Jessica died instead.

Comments

[ultraviolet9a.livejournal.com]

Huh...dude. I never thought about it this way before. Man, you should get brownie points for shifting my perspective.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!