I know it's completely against the creed of Supernatural fans everywhere to associate the Winchesters with anything other than 'Mullet rock', but I recently purchased and fell in love with Evanescence: Fallen. So the 9th track, Hello, gave me this idea of the surviving brother going crazy. Hopefully, if you don't know this fabulous tune already, you can find it on projectplaylist(dot)com and listen to it's wonderful melancholy sound as you are reading. Hope you enjoy it. There's plenty of angst/emo and all that good stuff.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned Sam and Dean, but I don't. Kripke, Warner Bros, etc are the rightful owners of all involved here. No profit is being made from this fic, it just helps me pass the time until Season 3 starts.

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He rolled over and felt the rumpled blankets tugging at him, screaming their protests against the movement. He didn't care. At all. About anything.

He had been holed up in a crappy little backwoods cabin in northern Washington State for a long time. He didn't know how long -- all the rainy days ran into each other -- and he honestly didn't care. He hadn't gotten out of bed nearly the whole time he'd been there. He slept most of the time. Sure, he knew that he needed rest to heal his injuries, but that wasn't why he slept. He slept to shut out the pain. Dean was gone, and Sam was waiting to die.

All he could think about was Dean, and how stupid it was that he was gone.

A stupid mistake...

It wasn't stupid. I did it right. The other guy fucked up.

No, it was stupid. We shouldn't have been racing.

Dude, that jackass needed to be taught a lesson. Thinking his freakin' Mustang was better that my baby.

Yeah, you sure taught him a lesson, all right.

Sam thought about that night, the wreck wasn't too far from here. The scene played over and over in his head like a scratched record. The Mustang cutting them off, the Impala spinning out of control. Dean was a good driver, but no one could have recovered from that spin.

I could have. The pavement was wet.

But you didn't. And that tree was in the wrong place.

No, that kid was in the wrong place. I could have correced but I would have killed him.

So you died instead.

Sam flopped back over on his other side trying to quash the conversation in his head that was tearing him apart. As he landed, a jolt of pain ran through his entire body. His own stupid mistake had been not wearing his seatbelt. He'd had a very intimate introduction to the dashboard, the hard way.

And I'd just got her all put back together, too... the voice in his head lamented.

Sam sat up, breathing heavy in attempt to stave off yet another bout of tears. He reached for the pill bottle sitting on the bedside table marked 'oxycodone' and threw two of the horse-size pills into his mouth, chasing them down with a swig from a half-empty bottle of Jim Beam.

Why does it always rain here?

That damn voice in his head was back. Sam wondered silently if dillusions were a side effect of the pain killers, or just a bonus for someone who had recently lost a loved one.

Lost. He huffed grimmly to himself. What a silly way to say it. I didn't misplace Dean. Dean was dead. His ashes are in a little cardboard box marked 'Temporary Container' under the name John Bonham sitting on the nightstand.

He looked at the clock. 2:19 PM, it glared back in menacing red digits. Out the dirty window he could see the rain still falling as if it never had an end, the sky the bleakest of grays.

Hell, screw it, he thought, and chugged the rest of the bottle.

Hey, remember that girl from the bar in New York?

Sam would scream, or tell the voice to go away, but he was scared to let go of the one last part of Dean he had, though he knew it was verging on lunacy.

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Author's Note: Okay, so maybe I'm just babbling.

Like the title? I thought it was especially clever, myself.

For the record, I own a Mustang, but I know how that ol' Chevy v. Ford rivalry goes.

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