Out of the Frying Pan…
E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100
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Warnings: Spoilers for Season 6. A return from Exile doesn't necessarily mean everything in the garden is rosy (or even that the grass is green…)
Knowing that his little brother didn't stumble and fall, but jumped of his own accord; that Sam wasn't pushed, but willingly leapt into terror and darkness with his own reluctant blessing; none of that made losing Sam any easier.
The pain had been with him every day. Unabated, lodged like the Snow Queen's splinter of ice in his still beating heart.
Now Sam was back, yet the ice was still there, and Dean was having a hard time figuring out why that was.
But a chill emanated from that familiar face - gripped him and would not let him go.
Isaiah 8:15
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared