Title: Echoes
Genre: Gen
Characters: That'd be telling
Rating: K+
Words: 331
Summary: People don't come here for the truth. They come for good news.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the snot in my brain.
A/N: This is what happens when you watch season 5 and season 1 reruns at the same time.
Spoilers: Oblique references to themes in seasons 4 and 5.

ECHOES

By Irismay42

I've always been able to sense things, ever since I was a little girl. Good things, bad things. Right things, wrong things.

Evil things.

When I was nine, I told my older brother his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend. He didn't speak to me for a month. Then he caught them fooling around under the bleachers. He called me a freak and bought me candy for six weeks.

When I was seventeen I knew the boy who took me to the prom was lying when he said, "I love you." He was after something I wasn't ready to give. So I left him standing by the punchbowl with his damn fool corsage stuffed down his throat and his pockets full of egg salad.

Funny, I didn't get many dates after that.

When I was twenty-four I knew the exact second my baby died inside of me. Cried so hard I nearly went out of my mind.

When I was twenty-five I knew he was going to leave me before he did.

When I was twenty-eight I met a man who lost everything and just needed answers. I showed him what was really out there in the dark.

Today I told a boy how sorry I was about his girlfriend.

And when I took him by the hand I sensed the echoes of the greatest evil I had ever experienced.

Evil like that? Leaves wounds. And this boy was wounded. I could feel it in his veins.

Should I tell him? While he sits there on the porch steps asking, "What's happening to me?"

Should I tell his brother that the kid he'll sell his soul for will one day end the world?

Should I tell his father that if he can't save him, maybe he'll have to kill him?

People don't come here for the truth. They come for good news.

Sam Winchester is not good news.

Someday I'll warn his father.

That day won't be today.

The End

That's all I've got. Ta for reading!