A/N: Another short one I'm afraid. Stupid block. This was written for the SPN Song Creations Challenge over on tumblr with the prompt 'Over At The Frankenstein Place' from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Hope you guys enjoy!
Sometimes it feels like they'll never escape the darkness.
They spend their lives searching for the monsters that lurk under little children's beds and killing them when they decide to come out to play. Darkness is their friend because shhhh, the people can't know what goes on when their asleep, they can't know what happens in the blackest of nights.
As much as darkness is their friend, however, it is also their enemy. Spend too long living in the shadows and they will start to take over your life. They will squash any form of light that you have left and they will grow and spread like a disease until all you can see is the endless tunnel.
Sam saw the light for a long time. He used to believe that there was something better out there than just hunting for him and Dean and he used to want to find it. He thought he had with Jess and Stanford but then that went up in flames and the light grew smaller. Every year he hoped and every year he the light diminished until his spark eventually died because he had this darkness in his very blood and he can't fight or run for much longer. There's only so many times you can watch people you love die before hope and happiness become futile and irrelevant. He still wants so badly to believe that there is a way out, but he knows that there is nothing left for him in life but darkness and shadows.
Dean admired Sam for his belief. All he's known since he was a kid was hunting, and he knows that that's what he's made for. He had one year away from it all, he let the sun shine into his life for one year and he found that he doesn't belong. He enjoyed the year with Lisa and Ben and he wishes that he could have something permanent like that but once you know the truth about the real world you can never go back to normality. Every time he heard the slightest noise, every time silence descended on the house, he would see the shadows lurking in the corner and he almost wanted to go and join them.
But, though they don't realise it, even in the darkest of lives there is a light. It may be small, it may be weak, but it's there. For Sam and Dean, it's the little things. A quiet night spent staring at the stars in silence. A Netflix binge on the couch in the Bunker. A decent meal that's actually home-cooked. They see the shadows, they see the rain, but they also see the light burning in the distance.
A/N: Shit that's even shorter than I realised. And probably bad. *sigh* Please leave a review if you have a moment and I'll update soon (hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday!) which I can promise because I've discovered something I meant to publish but never did for some reason. Whoops. Bye!
