If He Stays_
Tag to "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here"_ Sam completes the Trials. The angels fall out of heaven and land in Hell where the doors are slammed shut. Because of this, no one is left to lift Sam from his coma. Except for a choice Death gives the younger Winchester. Parody of the YA novel If I Stay
"Don't feel so bad…" Sam hears his own voice saying as Dean pulls him into the car.
He's not aware that this was hours ago. That Dean is currently sitting beside him in the hospital. That the world spun out of control.
"I mean, it was always pretty clear it would end up this way." Sam is smiling at his brother in the light of some other world's golden afternoon. And it only now occurs to him that he's standing beside the road somewhere. That he's standing up to his bare ankles in the snow that somehow isn't cold. There are tears on Dean's cheek. He's shaking him with all his might.
"Sammy!" Dean really is shaking Sam. Sam is coding again. For the third time in two days. The doctors are fighting for him, but there's no way to know if he will hang on.
"You know that he can't really hear you, don't you?" It's Bobby's voice. Sam turned to face Bobby. When he turned back to look at Dean, his brother was gone.
"Bobby? What…" Sam stares at the cold and open road ahead of him. It's like the road is cold but the snow under his feet is as soft as the feathers from a pillow fight. Soft, sleepy, mesmerizing. He could lay down right here… He could slip away into the quiet of this ethereal place that is both winter and summer. Sunlight and shadow…
"Sam, let me show you something, son." Bobby holds out his hand. Sam holds his breath, wondering how he's here. He comes to Bobby's side. Bobby nods over his shoulder.
That's when Sam sees the inside of a hospital room.
"No! Get off me!" Dean is fighting with the doctors.
"Dean! Wait_Sorry, he's my um...He's our brother_let us in." Cas, Kevin...And Charlie all crowd to the bed.
"Dean, you gotta let go so the doctors can do what they need to do." Charlie's voice is incredibly calm as she grabs at Dean's shoulder. Cas takes Dean around the waist and pulls him away from the bed.
That leaves Kevin staring down in horror at a body in the bed that Sam already recognizes. It's his own.
"You've got some pretty tough choices to make, kiddo." Bobby smiles. Sam feels the strength go out of his legs, but he nods.