Supernatural One Hundred Drabble Challenge:
Word: Coarse
Spoilers: None
A/N1: It's been so long since I've done one of these, and I'm not even sure where this came from. Thanks and love to my wonderful betas Kailene and LoveThemWinchesters.
Summary: Maybe this is why they never threw it away.
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For It Holds Their Lives in Its Weave
The fibers are coarse from repeated washings with too much bleach and cheap detergent. Yet, stains remain; life indelibly painting its stories in blood, tears, and loss.
There's comfort, too. Memories of nights spent huddled beneath its warmth in the backseat or stretched out atop its drape on the hood: those threads are stronger, the weft and warp suffused with Safety, Security, Home.
Maybe that's why they never threw it away. It holds too much of their lives in its weave.
Their deaths, too.
But, not tonight, Dean thinks as he tucks their old army blanket around his sleeping brother.
