Spoilers: For Season two's "All Hell Breaks looses" Part 1 and 2 (Sort of)
Full Summary: This is just a short Drabble-ie thing. You could call it my first Supernatural Fanfic…but technically it's just the first I've been brave enough to post.
On that note: Sam and Dean are not mine and I own nothing. ;)
This story starts after Dean makes his deal in "All Hell breaks loose Part 2", (just as Dean walks through the door and see's Sam alive)
Wisdom of Not Knowing
By, LyNn-6t7
"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
"Sammy?"
Green eyes meet Hazel.
The earth shifts again…tilting, jerking, and pulling. But instead of flinging Dean off the edge and dragging him into the unknown darkness… where nothing exists to hold onto… The eldest Winchester finds himself gently laid back on his feet.
He can feel the level ground beneath his boots again and in this newly recovered balance he has the power he needs to close the distance between them in three long, steady strides.
Colliding with the tall form Dean feels his newly built foundations tremor under their fragile reconstruction. He closes his eyes and breathes in slowly, allowing his shredded heart the time it needs to seal itself back together…to let his mind fully grasp on to the knowledge that the un-losable object had become, once again, un-lost.
With Sammy in his arms, Dean's belief in god isn't any stronger or any less than it had always been… and yet he still finds himself sending a silent thank you to an unseen source.
Because whoever or whatever it was that blessed man with their virtues, Dean knows he was not granted wisdom—but with something much greater.
"God grant me the serenity to accept the thinks I cannot change…."
His fate: He had gathered that into small box, put it to rest in a shallow grave, and sealed its end with a kiss. That he could not change; and Dean easily found peace in that knowledge.
"…Courage to change the things I can…"
His brother's fate: It had not ended kneeling in the muddy earth, blind and deaf to desperate pleas. That he could and had changed; and the bravery Dean had needed to accomplish that act had been the easiest of all to find.
"…and wisdom to know the difference."
Their fate: The wisdom to know the difference between changeable and unchangeable…. acceptable and unacceptable. That had been neither hard nor easy for Dean to find because there had been nothing there to search for…nothing to grab at and think through: There was merely what he couldn't accept and what he could change.
And that in itself is the greatest gift Dean Winchester could have ever been granted.
Because with the absence of wisdom he was allowed to accept an even greater gift in its place…. the steady, strong beat of his baby brother's heart against his own.
Like I said first one. So be Gentle
Nah I can take it. Review with your opinion: Good? Bad? Okay?
Constructive critisim is always welcome.
Till next time ;)