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Warning: Season 3 AU, Character Death
Pairings: None.
Spoilers: General Season 3, Minor 3.05 Bedtime Stories
He should have seen it coming.
It was written on the books lying scattered by the wall, papers ripped. Tried and failed.
It was written on the returned phone messages spouting apologies and sympathy, never called again. Tried and failed.
It was written on Sam's face the next morning, pinched and angry, a bullet missing. Tried and failed.
"Why can't you just let me go?" he asks, but he knows the answer because it was always his job and he knows what it feels like to hold his world in his arms and scream its name while it dies.
It was written in Sam's blood, thick and pooling after the ritual he arrives too late to stop. He finds him lying in the circle, face grey and body a macabre reflection of a night in Cold Oak. Tried and succeeded.
He should have seen it coming.
(No one will make deals with a pact-breaker.)
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