Uncertainty
for rem @suncaptor, with the prompt liminality. A tiny thing on what makes someone human, in the eyes of the oldest being in the universe.
“Would you like me to be honest?” Death said, crossing his arms.
Dean weighed his words, realizing that he was probably going to regret saying them.
“Uhm. Yes?” he asked, wincing.
“I don’t know...where you’re going to go,” Death said slowly, “When you die.”
Dean blinked. “I beg your pardon?”
Death sighed.
“When you, and your brother, inevitably ‘kick the bucket’ without standing it right back up again,” Death said, a sliver of contempt in his voice, “Where you’ll go? Is anyone’s guess.”
“I, uh, assumed the options are, uhm, Heaven or Hell,” Dean said, eyes darting back and forth, “Right?”
“Ohh, no, no, no,” Dean said, smiling condescendingly at Dean. “No. You and Sam are not quite...human enough for that to be a guarantee.”
Death toyed with the ring on his finger.
“You’ve been...altered. Changed. Possessed, unpossessed, built, rebuilt…”
He finally looked up, and stared Dean directly in the face.
The oppressive weight of the type of thing Death was, crowded around Dean's existence. The edges of his soul shrank back from the sheer perception.
“You could go to Heaven. You could go to Hell," Death said simply, his speech laced with the slow surety of the inexorable march of time, "Purgatory isn’t off the table, either. You could simply wink out of existence. I won’t know, until I have your soul...in my hands.”
Death stood up.
“We will find out together, one day, the results of this little experiment,” Death said, “But not today.”
And he was gone.
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Can I just say that I absolutely love the fact that Dean is so nervous every time he talks to Death, but not when he talks to Chuck. Like it shows that he is very clearly capable of being reasonably afraid of cosmic, all-powerful beings, just not That One.
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"what's gone should stay gone"
Ok mister cheat death. Ok mister "I have died too many times to count". Ok mister "death was about to kill me but he left at the last second". Ok mister "my fatal heart injury was cured miraculously".
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Ok Death’s big intro in supernatural remains one of my fave scenes—the music, the aesthetic, the actor, it’s all genius
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