Dec 28, 2025
supernatural s14e12 prophet and loss (w. brad buckner, eugenie ross-leming)
Sometimes when I was—when I was away… you know it wasn’t because I just ran out, right? Dad would—he would send me away when I really pissed him off. I think you knew that.
be still my beating breaking heart part 14 of ∞
#supernatural#spn 14x12#sam winchester#dean winchester#sam and dean#john winchester's a+ parenting#brad buckner#eugenie ross leming#samdeanheartsquish#spngifs#spn gifs#supernatural gifs#mygifs#the rest of the thing is that sam is saying please can't be doing things that sound like deathbed apologies#and there's something specifically to me about the way dean a) just kind of doesn't react to sam reassuring him that he did *everything*#b) and at the end where he just sort of vacantly “but i think you knew that” really does hammer home that deathbed vibe#like he needs to say what he *needs* to say right now#i know people have a lot of strong and often personal feelings about dean's role as sam's (often primary) caregiver#as ever it's just very sad for them both. but i appreciate when they address that it was that way#dean trying to clear the air of the .05% of the time he wasn't there for sam because he's a human#and the fact that most of the time he was taking care of kid sam he was just a child too!#not to mention the game is rigged because ultimately he had to also comply with john#but nothing less than being perfect is enough for his sammy#which gets me thinking about s8 sam's greatest sin confession being all the times he felt he let dean down. these two#could get into my feelings about how john was punishing them both by sending dean away#and it's not super clear what they mean exactly. i think canon we only know when he ended up at the boys home?#which was getting caught stealing when john was away on a hunt#but i think a lot of people have a lot of headcanons as to why john would send dean away!
