Author: Reflections at a Funeral Pyre
Disclaimer: Don't own anyone. *Pouts*
Drabble Challenge Word: "Spent"
Word Count: 100 words. *Give the Word Count a shoulder to cry on*
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Spoiler Alert: Season Four, events taking place after the battle in "Jump the Shark"
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He tosses the spent can of lighter fluid away, turns back to the body
(My brother – no – the thing that wore his face)
wrapped in cloth.
He wants to get this over with and find a bar.
He also wants to run into the woods, scream until his throat is bleeding.
A sliver of his heart mourns his brother.
(That I've never met
That lived the life I couldn't
That died before I could save him)
He steals a look over at Sam.
(Another brother I failed)
The unshed tears are from the smoke.
Dean Winchester keeps telling himself that.