Amidst the Flames

by Swellison

E/O CHALLENGE DRABBLE Word: Shoe Missing scene from Everybody Loves A Clown. Dean's thoughts at the funeral pyre. Dialogue written by and borrowed from John Shiban.

Challenge word: Shoe

100 words (per MS word counter)

Amidst the Flames

by Swellison

Dean gazed frozenly at the funeral pyre, the flickering orangey-yellow flames wrapping around and slowly consuming his father's body. No one can fill your shoes, Dad... but I have to try. There's no one else left. I've got to save Sammy. He didn't even consider the second half of Dad's last message.

Sam, grieving and crying next to him, spoke. "Before he... before he.... Did he say anything to you," Sam took a shaky breath. "About anything?"

"No." Dean stared at the flames. Dad hadn't wanted Sam to know about this; his actions in the hospital shrieked of secrecy. "Nothing."

A/N: This is my second idea; I couldn't get the shoe to fit on the first one. I was scrambling to get this done on time. The title is last minute – the only other title I could come up with was Shoeless, so I went with Amidst the Flames.