Challenge Word: Passion

Word Count: 100.

A/N: See, this is what happens when I break out my Season 1 DVDs and pause to start writing after the first scene of the first episode. I can't help but get my sad on. Ah, well. Gotta return to my roots sometime, right? Posting this (and two others) late because it's Father's Day, and my brother and I had to go see the old man. We watched Iron Man; great film.

Summary: E/O Challenge: Passion. At age 26, Dean can still sometimes catch the scent...


Mother


At age 26, Dean can still sometimes catch the scent of passion fruit shampoo. It comes crashing over him like a tidal wave, trailing the unmistakable woody smell of ash almost like an afterthought.

Today he's in a house somewhere in Boulder. A man stands in front of him, eyes red-rimmed, shoulders sagging. Behind him, a small girl sits on the carpeted floor before her baby brother, keeping him entertained with a rattle.

Something bends inside him at an awkward angle. He flashes the badge, and a calm smile.

"FBI, sir. We're here to talk to you about your wife."