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WARNINGS: SPOILERS for 6.01 Exile On Main Street. Dean's thoughts at the end of Street.

Uncertainty

by Swellison

Dean watched Sam's back as his miraculously and unmistakably alive brother walked away. He ran a rough hand through his short hair, shaking his head. What's wrong with this picture?

Everything.

The brother he knew wouldn't have let him suffer needlessly through grief, despair, guilt and loneliness for a day, let alone an entire, miserable year. Would have seen Dean's offer of the Impala's keys as the olive branch and bridge that it was, not dismissed it out-of-hand.

How certain are you that...what came back is 100% pure Sam?

God help him, he wasn't certain at all. And that leaves...what?