A Waking Dream of Life and Light


E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100

Challenge word: safe

Warnings: Season 5 spoiler – a possible future meeting and a gift returned.


Dean closed his eyes, his whole body stiffly-speaking a denial of hope. This apparition wasn't Sam, couldn't be. He knew it; couldn't allow even the smallest tendril of doubt or he would be undone. He would unravel, dissolve: lost forever.

Not-Sam (but he sounded just like Sam – impossible, inconceivable – unimaginable, yet imagined every night in his dreams) was saying something, but Dean blocked him out, blacked him out, eyes tight-shut barriers against fulfilment of his heart's desire.

Something small, hard, sense-memory familiar was pressed into his hand.

His amulet.

"Dean, it's really me. See, I kept it safe for you."


In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed -
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Edgar Allen Poe

I know, this amulet idea has probably been done to death by now, (and by authors a lot better than me) but it just fitted with the WOW…