Just take the hand that's offered
And hold on tight
This isn't everything you are
-"This Isn't Everything You Are" by Snow Patrol
"No! Let me go! Let me go!"
Claire Novak's limbs flailed wildly, hitting Dean and knocking the air out of his lungs.
"Let me go! Why? Why won't you let me go? "
Dean gripped her harder. He swore as he heard a rib crack.
The box had fallen to the ground half a foot from the hole. Graveyard dirt had spilt from it, and the photo had blown away in the wind.
Dean hugged Claire tighter.
"Do you think he'd want this?," Dean yelled. "Do you honestly think that Cas would want you to trade your life for his?"
Claire's knee caught Dean in the crotch. He dropped, but didn't loosen his grip. Claire went limp, her energy spent.
"You're a hypocrite! What if it was your family?" Tears ran down Claire's cheeks, her eyes puffed and red.
"You already know the answer to that," Dean sighed. Dean's mother died when he was four. His father had died in a hunting accident only three years ago.
"Maybe I would…if Sam and I had been closer. If we hadn't stopped talking." Dean spoke smoothly, but softly. "But I'm not a role model, Claire. I'm not someone you want to be."
Claire wrapped her arms around Dean and pressed her face into his chest. Dean stroked her back while she sobbed.
"I-I miss him, Dean. I really, really miss him," she hiccupped. Dean gathered her into a hug.
"Me too, Claire. Me too."'
Hey guys! I'll be updating this one pretty quickly, and hope to finish it within the month. Then I'll get cracking on that other, much much much much more depressing one. I have issues.
Returning to my starter chapter theme song/lyrics format. I fully recommend listening to the song while reading. This first one is the overall story theme, while others will be just chapter themes. If you don't like to listen to songs while reading, well, you don't have to~