The Sound of Silence


E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100

Challenge word: nice

Warnings: Season 9 spoilers. Set immediately after Road Trip ends.

Summary: Back in the bunker, Sam and Cas settle in with the consequences of Dean's actions.


Castiel's scrutiny weighs heavy. Sam doesn't know how Dean coped with…no. Not thinking about Dean right now, if ever. Sam reaches for the whiskey, takes another gulp.

It doesn't help. His mouth tastes of ozone and sulphur and something else he assumes is essence of Gadreel and Crowley, and that's just too disturbing to contemplate.

He's scoured out, hollow, but not clean. Never clean.

Well, there's one good thing to come out of this whole crap-fest. The silence inside Sam's head feels kinda nice.

There's an empty space by his side and in his heart, but at least it's peaceful.


A/N ack! This is a re-hash of a drabble I wrote yesterday and managed not to save! I think I had it better first time round, but who knows? Oh well...
I was just thinking that Sam's hardly been Sam for a long time now - what with Meg and Lucifer and losing his soul and going a bit crazy, so right now it might actually be hard to be alone inside his head.