Prelude

Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering

Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they are owned by their respective companies none of which are me. Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering belongs to Flogging Molly, again, not me… which is sad for me, but nice for them.

Author's Note: This is a sequel of sorts to "You're Already Gone" if you didn't read it you wont be horribly lost or anything, but I wont be covering the break-up scene in too much detail, since that's all the other story is.

AN2: This story will have flashbacks to cover the "good times" of Willow/Dean and how they met. The date at the beginning is the day All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 aired in the U.S.

AN3: The title is from a Flogging Molly song: Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering, lyrics are provided at the end of the Prelude.

Setting: Just after Season 2 Supernatural. Four years after Season 7 Buffy. Two years after "You're Already Gone"

Pairings: Willow/Dean, Sammy/? (will be secondary to plot and W/D love… maybe Faith or Dawn?)

Prelude:

May 17th 2007

"I guess I'm gonna have to save your ass for a change" Sam said with a half smile.

"Yeah." Dean whispered in return, his voice husky from holding back the tears that had been threatening to fall since Sam found out that his big brother sold his own soul to bring Sammy back from the dead. Dean made a move toward Sam, needing to make sure he was really alright after the battle. Both stilled as they heard something crunching through the underbrush. Sam and Dean began to reach for their guns, but relaxed as two familiar forms came into sight.

Bobby and Ellen limped to where the Winchester boys were standing; the Devil's Gate was closed, and the Yellow Eyed Demon was dead. Bobby looked resolutely between Dean and Sam,

"I hope to hell you boys are ready," he said, cutting short any celebration at the group's reunion. "'Cause the war has just begun…."

Dean looked at his brother and flashed one of his thousand watt smiles.

"Well then," he began opening the trunk of the Impala and tossing in the Colt. "We got work to do."

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Flogging Molly-Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering

I walk these streets where my soulless feet
Haunt the ground where it was I once tread
On Grafton's Arcade pours the rich commerce rain
Though the voices I no longer hear speak
Heaven's to blame so on that I'll abstain
Best clean the church from my cracked fingernail
But don't let me die still wondering
What it was I left behind

From God's golden plate begrudges they eat
Till their belly's burst ignorance bliss
Never they roam a wanderless home
Is as far as their sorry eye sees
Give me a rusty ol' coat well trampled and soaked
Until these ashes and blood mingle deep
But don't let me die still wondering
What it was I left behind

Though I've been that face before
Slammed every open door
Squandered once scattered beliefs
So when the waves come crashin' in
I'll swim as the ocean swims
Out with the morning tide
Then back for my tea

So I'll do as I please like the well-tempered breeze
Blowin' which way I see fit
And I'll grey with the clay seven days till the day
When they throw me on the potter's scrap heap
But take my advice; you'll have to bury me twice
Cause the first time I won't rest easily
But don't let die still wondering
What it was I left behind

So don't let die still wondering
What it was I left behind
I want a race well run ahead of the gun
With a dance before the far finish line
So no life long regrets, only well feathered steps
Until these shoes I can longer shine
But don't let me die still wanderin'
For the love I left behind