Summary: Sam had never bothered to ask, and he had never corrected him, Bobby thought sadly. To Sam and Dean, he had always been a cranky old bachelor. Why would Sam have expected Bobby's heaven would be anything other than solitary?

Episode Tag: 10.17 - Inside Man

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Shared Heaven


Sam had never bothered to ask, and he had never corrected him, Bobby thought sadly as he stood outside the escape hatch to his personal heaven. To Sam and Dean, Uncle Bobby had always been a cranky old bachelor. Why would Sam have expected his heaven would be anything other than solitary?

But as Bobby closed the entrance to his heaven – his shared heaven, he was met by a pair of eyes across the room and, quickly thereafter, a pair of arms wrapped desperately around his neck.

"They got out," Bobby said simply into her hair, breathing her in. Then, after a long sigh, "I'm sorry."

She pulled back slightly and reached up to cup his face, gently making him meet her gaze with a sad knowing smile, "Sorry? For protecting the boys?"

"We were supposed to have more time," he said resting his forehead gently against hers, "We were supposed to have eternity."

"Helping our boys will always be right. You never have to apologize for that," she said quietly against his lips, "we will face whatever comes together."

When the angels came, she was pulling a peach cobbler out of the oven and he was watching her from his chair, committing her every movement to memory, knowing this shared moment was likely to be their last.