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#16 Dean – Mist filled hallway with doors leading to alt!realities – 344 words

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There's a door that leads to a world where Sammy never drank demon blood. When Dean first found it, he was so happy, so glad that Sam could be saved, had saved himself. Happy, right up until the world ended in fire because Sam didn't have the juice to end the apocalypse Dean started.

There's another door behind which Mary listened and Dean and Sam Winchester were never born. In that world, the Devil's running around in Adam and Michael wearing John because blood is blood and one suit fits as well as another. They duke it out across the globe, burning anything in their wake. Mary lives alone, hiding, desperate because of all she lost and the looks on the faces of men never born, thinking that anything but this would have been better.

There's a door behind which John never became a hunter. A world in which Mary Campbell never made a deal. A world where Azazel died from a bullet to John's heart and his plan went up in flames with him. A world where Dean got out of his deal and Sammy never wavered. A world where the angels pulled their thumbs outta their asses in time and actually did something. A world where John lives, one where Mary lives, one where Samuel and Deanna live. One without Lilith and one without Ruby, one with Dean as the younger brother, one with Sam as the loyal son. On where the goddamn sun rises in the goddamn west and sinks in the east.

All those worlds have one thing in common. Only one. In the end, they all burn.

Dean slips in and out, stays just long enough to figure out what's going on, to taste the fire and brimstone on the air, the weight of death all around him. He comes and goes and returns to the misty hallway between worlds, heading for another door.

Searching.

Somewhere, there has to be a world where it turns out alright.

Somewhere, they all live. He just has to find the right door.

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