The walls are decaying around him, paint peeling and chips of the changing precariously down, far enough to brush the top of his head as he approaches his destination. The devil's very presence, though contained in a minor vessel, brings destruction. And he is supposed to fight this off? A paralyzing fear slides slowly down his spine as he steps up to the plate, his right hand clenched around the small circles in his pocket.
The devil looks up from the window that he has been gazing out of, his face equal parts expectant and pleasantly surprised. "Sammy," he speaks from his deteriorating vessel's lips. He says the name like they're old friends who haven't seen each other in weeks, like he's missed Sam. And Sam fights it, but in the back of his mind he can feel that missing piece that the devil's voice seems to fill up with that one word. "Where's your brother?" While it is posed as a question, Sam knows he need not answer. They are one in the same, discarded by the ones that they loved- that they love- the most.
"Yes," Sam says simply. His tone does not waver as he thought it would when he finally came to this moment. It is as bold and as strong as it was when he agreed to let Dean drop him on the side of the road. Now, like then, he knows what he needs to do. It's his destiny. "Yes."
The devil smiles, and it's the last time Sam remembers being in control.
Across the continent an angel feels a cold knife in his chest and then a flaring pain that brings him gasping to his knees. His fingers glow faintly and he knows that they know, can feel that Sam is gone, and a part of him breaks. Next to him, a hunter stares slack-jawed and black while simultaneously managing to look impossibly terrified and child-like.
"Cas?" The angel pants from the floor, choosing not to answer for fear of shattering the Righteous Man. "Right." Dean nods and drops his dulled gaze to the floor. As the angel's grace begins to slip away, the Righteous Man's humanity decides to follow.
This is the first in a series that I've been thinking about doing for a little bit. I obviously don't own Supernatural, or any of the characters involved in these little ficlets. I love reviews, let me know if you're interested in me continuing this at all. :)