Just Another Night--Coda 5.20
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borgmama1of5Title: Just Another Night
Author: Borgmama1of5
Summary: Aftermath of another night of fighting the Apocalypse
Spoilers: coda to 5.20
Wordcount: 800
Rating: PG-13
Ninety minutes of silence on Interstate 80. Dean thinks he should say something but a) he has no idea what and b) he’s in definite pain from the ass-kicking he took from Brady. He owes Crowley something for that, when this is all over if they ever get Lucifer back in the pen.
He doesn’t realize he’s grunted until Sam finally speaks.
“You okay?”
Truth? Not really. But is there any point in telling Sam that right now?
Oh. Yeah. The whole ‘being honest’ thing they’re trying.
“No. Brady did a number on me while Crowley …” Dean feels the tension from Sam as soon as he says the sonuvabitch’s name.
“Forget it. ‘M fine.”
“Bullshit.” But Sam says it without heat. “You wanna tell me what happened back there?”
No, not really.
“Nothin’ to tell, Sam. Went up to the twelfth floor, did the whole ‘let’s make a deal’ thing, got emphatically turned down and then Crowley bagged the fucker.”
“Where was Crowley” Sam managed to make a curse word out of the name, “while you were getting ‘turned down?’”
“Waitin’ to take his shot – I dunno, Sam, want me to say he played me? Okay, he did. He’s a demon, couldn’t play it straight if his life depended on it.” So that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. He waited for Sam to call him on it.
It told Dean a lot about Sam’s state of mind that he let it pass.
“Trusting Crowley is a bad idea, Dean.”
“Look, I get it. You’re right. It’s the second worst idea I’ve ever had. But you kept me from following up on the worst one …” And Dean is tired and he hurts and please Sammy don’t fight with me …
“I get that you’re angry. At Crowley. At Brady. At me. And I’m sorry if you thought for one minute I was choosing Crowley over you. I wasn’t. I was pretty sure he was playing me. Us.” Dean flashes to the innocent bastards that Crowley took out in the lobby. All the blood from their slit throats … what’s a few more on his conscience? “But I had to play along ‘cause I wasn’t seeing any other options, Sam.”
Silence.
Another stabbing throb down his side as Dean shifted his grip on the Impala’s steering wheel to take a curve triggered a matching lance in his head. Fuck this.
“Sam, if I pull over, you wanna drive?”
Shit. Dean must be hurt if he’s relinquishing the driver’s seat. Sam looked at his brother’s profile in the dim light. The clenched jaw and tight creases at the corner of his eye … Sam should have noticed them sooner.
“Yeah, sure, I can drive. You want some Tylenol?” Sam opened the glove box as the car slowed down.
“That’d be good.”
And Dean saying that is so not good. With the tiniest bit of guilt Sam realizes that he’d been so caught up in seeing Brady tied to that chair he’d barely glanced at Dean.
“Smackdown with another demon … Do I need to check you over? Ribs, cuts – you need any stitches?”
“Naw, just bruises … and the mother of all headaches …”
With the car stopped, Sam flipped on the dome light and reached over to Dean’s jaw. “Let me see.” Dean squinted his eyes from the brightness and Sam could see speckles of dried blood Dean had missed.
“Bastard.” Brady’s taunts crashed back in on him. He’d put Jess on that ceiling … He could’ve killed Dean too …
“Easy, Sam.”
He dropped his hand from Dean’s face. “You missed some spots.”
“I’ll get ‘em when we stop somewhere.” Dean must have seen something in Sam’s face. “Sam, look, I know seeing Brady … finding out about him … and Jess …I’m … I’m sorry.”
“Not your fault, Dean.” Breath. “I’m pissed about Crowley, but I can kinda understand why you did it. I’m not happy about it but I get it. So just take your Tylenol and I’ll drive until I get tired and then I’ll find a place for us to sleep, okay?”
“Sounds good, Sam.”
The routine of switching places took only a moment, and then Sam was pulling back onto the highway.
Not your fault, Dean. But for the first time ever Sam was sorry that Dean had shot the yellow-eyed demon. Azazel should have been his to kill. Azazel who’d given Brady his orders, Azazel who’d created the demon-children army, who’d poisoned him when he was a helpless baby … Azazel who’d backed their mother into making the deal. Azazel was dead.
But his plans, his orders, had come from further down, hadn’t they.
And whatever it takes to get Lucifer back in his cage ... Sam would do it.
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Date: 2010-04-30 01:30 pm (UTC)Bits I loved ...
This: “Nothin’ to tell, Sam. Went up to the twelfth floor, did the whole ‘let’s make a deal’ thing, got emphatically turned down and then Crowley bagged the fucker.”
--- Is exactly how Dean would describe it. ;)
This: But his plans, his orders, had come from further down, hadn’t they.
And whatever it takes to get Lucifer back in his cage ... Sam would do it.
--- Yes. The point of the entire episode. Sam's realization that all of it, ALL of it, every horrible thing in his life ... comes back to Lucifer. [Um, shivering now.]
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Date: 2010-04-30 01:35 pm (UTC)But I'm kinda glad you poked me. 'Cause it made the boys talk in my head and I love when they do that to me.
Thanks!
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Date: 2010-04-30 04:35 pm (UTC)Cat
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Date: 2010-04-30 04:53 pm (UTC)Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad you enjoyed this.
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Date: 2010-04-30 04:35 pm (UTC)Otherwise, kudos!
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Date: 2010-04-30 04:52 pm (UTC)I only meant for one POV switch from Dean to Sam in the middle--can you clarify where you found it confusing?
Thanks, and thanks for commenting. I'm suffering pangs of the whole 'tree falls in the forest and no one hears..." issue.
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Date: 2010-04-30 08:38 pm (UTC)And I will read your other story, but tomorrow as it's late here :)
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Date: 2010-04-30 09:00 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading and commenting! Hope you like my other story when you have time to read it!
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Date: 2010-04-30 10:38 pm (UTC)Sam's controlling his anger, up to a point. Just him thinking about everything that the demons did to him and who was ultimately to blame for that was chilling. Oh, I'm so afraid he's going to blow up and then Lucifer will have him.
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Date: 2010-04-30 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-30 10:45 pm (UTC)I am so nervous about the next two episodes...
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Date: 2010-05-01 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-01 02:05 pm (UTC)I'm worried that us fanfic writers may have a big job ahead of us during the summer break...
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Date: 2010-05-02 02:19 am (UTC)Also though, I like the way you've got that brotherly bond still there. Still ticking away in the background. All those things are so routine for them, they can't stop even when things are in pieces.
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Date: 2010-05-02 02:56 am (UTC)I did watch Angel, though it was a long time ago. But that whole idea of finding out you are just a cog in a master plan--well, that's kinda been the whole season for the boys, hasn't it.
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Date: 2010-05-02 10:49 am (UTC)This made me giggle: Oh. Yeah. The whole ‘being honest’ thing they’re trying.
They are really working so hard on it and doing so very good^^ And you caught the boys like in the show. Very weel done!
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Date: 2010-05-02 03:32 pm (UTC)They are trying. But are you as nervous as I am about what Kripke has in store for them in the last 2 episodes???
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Date: 2010-05-02 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-02 06:05 pm (UTC)So...thanks for filling in this little bit. This one line struck me: "But his plans, his orders, had come from further down, hadn't they." Nice!
:)
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Date: 2010-05-02 06:08 pm (UTC)I am very nervous about the last two episodes. This season has been so uneven--I figure they will either knock it out of the park or be a total disaster, and right now it's 50/50 in my mind...
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Date: 2010-05-03 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 11:44 am (UTC)I see them as really trying to get back in their 'groove' but it's hard...
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Date: 2010-05-03 07:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 11:46 am (UTC)Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2010-05-17 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-17 10:38 am (UTC)I've only been in SPN fandom since August and when I discovered all the amazing writers here I felt like a kid in a candy store!
It means a lot when you leave a comment, thanks!
PS I can give you a rec: if you like my work you will also enjoy sandymg, also on LJ :)
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Date: 2010-12-08 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-08 11:23 pm (UTC)BTW, if you are enjoying my stories, try sandymg, also on LJ. She's my favorite :)
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