Family Starts With Blood

by bjxmas

9.13 The Purge tag – You're Winchesters, your lives will never be normal. You've died & come back so many times because you have a job to do & it's not yet done. Who else knows your history, has been there through the good & the bad? You don't throw something like that away. You find a way to move past the hurt to rekindle the love. 100 word drabbles. Dean's final goodbye.

10. Lonely Battles

Chapter Ten - Lonely Battles

My brother didn't look for me when I was stuck in Purgatory.

For a whole year he turned his back on me.

Left me alone, struggling to survive.

I've tried to rationalize his reasons.

Excuse the behavior.

Still, the reality stings.

Abandonment.

Our agreement was a non-agreement.

Never what I believed or could bear to do.

I sold my soul for him!

Then I surrendered his body…

I'm not saying it's right.

But if it's wrong.

Then it's wrong for the right reasons.

Because we're family.

Because that's worth fighting for.

Even if I have to fight alone.

Weary warrior.

The End

bjxmas

April 2014

All standard disclaimers apply.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I just feel this is how Dean feels. Alone, abandoned and yet he will never desert his brother or give up the fight. Dean doesn't know how to quit. So he trudges on, taking dangerous risks. He is a warrior and the battles have been bloody and grueling. He won't ever stop until his last breath. Taking on the Mark of Cain was the desperate act of a man with nothing to lose. Without his family, that's Dean.

After seeing the season finale, I know Sam has regrets, wishes he could turn back the clock and forgive his brother sooner. Maybe then all this wouldn't have come to pass…

My heart aches for both our boys.

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Thanks again, B.J.