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Title: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Author: [livejournal.com profile] chaletian
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Characters: Dean, Sam
Spoilers: Up to and including In the Beginning
Summary: In the vast Other beyond our comprehension, this place, these men, were chosen to be a battleground.



Did good and evil always play out like this? Did the duality of the ideas lend itself always to a duality of opponents? God and the Devil. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Cain and Abel.

Dean coughs up blood, while his aching fingers scramble for a weapon in the dirt.

It’s not clear when the die was set. When the Fates pointed and made their decision. When, in the vast Other beyond our comprehension, this place, these men, were chosen to be a battleground. Some said it was when the mother sealed her deal. Others said it was a short decade later, when Azazel came to collect, or longer years after that when the elder was raised from Perdition. Yet others say it has always been their choice.

Sam’s eyes are pitiless; he is sure of his victory because he has always understood his brother’s weaknesses.

For those who watched, it was like a train: moving slowly at first, and then faster and faster until it was out of control. That was just what it was like, they said, watching the younger move from light to the dark, watching the older realise. Gradual, almost imperceptible, and then events moving faster and faster until neither man was in control.

Dean stands up, shakily, palms abrading on the rough brick wall of the warehouse. He never takes his eyes off his brother.

And the thing that they noticed, those who watched, was that it reached a point where the men disappeared. There was no Dean, no Sam. They were no longer the sons of John and Mary. They were no longer men. They were simply good and evil, and they fought.

Dean edges forward, every moment painful, every movement an agony, until he reaches his brother, and Sam reaches out a hand, and they touch.

And they died, and in the unknown Other another battleground was chosen. But maybe they – those who watched – were wrong, because in the end Dean and Sam Winchester were just brothers who lived and died together.

Date: 2008-10-07 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com
Ooooooh.

(I still love that they used the word "perdition". It's a good one. It's just sad that Castiel isn't fire and brimstone Southern as well.)

Date: 2008-10-07 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com
I know, it was the most glorious line.

Date: 2008-10-07 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] balooky.livejournal.com
Oh this is good. Not that the others aren't good, but this is thinky-good.

Can you please ask K Stone if OTH was on this week? I cannot find it anywhere & wonder if Mrs Palin usurped it or something.

Date: 2008-10-07 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com
K Stone has this post tracked so you've skipped a step there.

I know that Gossip Girl wasn't on and OTH is on straight after that, so I think it probably wasn't on either. Boo.

Date: 2008-10-07 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] balooky.livejournal.com
K Stone rocks indeed. But boo! I was looking forward to watching it on my day off tomorrow.

Date: 2008-10-08 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taxidryer.livejournal.com
Wooh! Love the imagery and the epic edge to it. Very nice.

Date: 2008-10-08 06:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ewanspotter.livejournal.com
Wonderfully haunting. Thank you.

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