This conversation happened yesterday on twitter that I wanted to respond to, but twitter is a horrible platform for nuanced discussion because of the character limit, so here I am back on the blue hellsite instead.
I wrote this up really quickly so it’s not proofread or anything. But that pic of Sam sitting at Jack’s bedside from 14.08 really motivated me to write something for once, so… here you go?
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“So, what can we do?”
“Watch over him. Stay by his side. As he dies.”
The last three days have been like something out of a nightmare, Sam thinks. It’d started the second Dean had called him, and Sam could barely hear him over the panicked yells of “Jack’s sick, Sam! He’s coughing up blood and he’s passed out and – I don’t know what to do. I need you here. Jack needs you here!”
Sam barely remembers getting back home at all, just running down the bunker stairs two at a time with his heart in his throat to Jack’s room. He’d been in a daze, seeing Jack’s prone form, his white shirt still stained with droplets of blood. Cas arrived a few moments later, and Sam had reluctantly followed Dean out to let Cas try and do what he could.
But it hadn’t been enough. None of it had. Angelic healing, the hospital, the Archangel grace from Gabriel, Rowena… nothing. There was no quick fix it, no miraculous solution.
Is witch!Sam growing more and more on anyone else? Like studying books and doing spells for even just things around the bunker, like mundane things, like helping with laundry… or making sure the stray puppy he brought home out of the rain doesn’t bother Dean’s allergies or shed.
I just want Sam surrounded by books and ingredients, idly making things float around him so he can multi-reference easier as he works, maybe with light twining between his fingers like tread.
And Rowena is amazed, because Sam is unlike any witch she’s ever seen, his power is different, both natural, but changed by the demon blood and grace that infiltrated his body, making him able to do what shouldn’t even be possible and she’s never heard of. But he’s getting more powerful the more he uses it, so that she kindly and gently sets out to be his teacher and help him learn to control she views as a beautiful thing to be marveled.
artherra 