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† 013 † husbands & sons

[Where has Mary been you might wonder? She's mostly been staying in John's room. For reasons that I'm sure anyone could guess. She checks on Dean, and more recently she's heard rumor that her other son is here as well once more. Mary's looking to bring the rumor from that status and get him to be a bit more social]

So I know Dean and John haven't given me more than an hour or so on my own in this place, but I thought at the very least I'd be able to find my other son the moment he got wind that his mother was here. Anyone seen him? Tall, tends to take on too much for his own good? Bit too much like his father in that respect I guess, answers to the name of Sam?

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[goes back and forth on this one for a while. true it's his mom, but he's never met his mom, so this makes things kind of weird. but eventually he bites the bullet and responds.]

Uhh -- hi. Mom.

[laughs]

Well you sound tall, here I was just going off of what I'd heard from your father and Dean.

No, I'm uh -- I'm pretty tall. Taller than Dean, actually.

So do I get to see you? I mean last time you were here and I only talked to you a few times. You missed Dean and your father getting drunk on New Years you know.

[chuckle.] Yeah, well -- that sounds like them.

And -- I'd like to. See you, I mean.

Well which way is this gonna work then, should I come upstairs? Your father is out... [thinks & laughs] well for once he's not at my heels so I'm taking that as a sign that he finally believes I'm not going to vanish on him. But I can come to you, we can meet somewhere?

No, no -- I can come to you. I'd like to see Dad, too, eventually.

Well John's usually around, but I think I finally was able to shoo him away for a bit. I'm actually at John's now, which might fare better for you if you want to run into him. You know where it is?

I think Ruby said he was on the fourteenth floor?

[No one's told her about Ruby so she's gonna needle him on this]

Yeah, 1418 [a pause] you'll have to tell me about Ruby too, see all sort of things I don't know.

[....Whoops.]

Sure, yeah. I'll be down in a little bit.

Then I'll see you soon Sam.

[gets up and takes the elevator down to the fourteenth floor, making his way to the door in question. he hesitates for a minute, rocking back and forth on his heels lightly, before knocking on the door.]

[who knows what Mary does in her spare time, probably sigh and shake her head at things John says or does and reads some odd book that she picked up from the library, but the knock on the door brings a smile to her face and she goes to answer it with that same smile affixed to her features. Opening the door she's face to face with Sam and she can't help but tear up a bit between smiling and going to hug him]

[Sam stares for a good long minute -- she looks just like she does in the pictures -- and when she hugs him he returns it, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and sinking in to enjoy it.]

[It's an odd feeling to know that you're seeing your son for the first time, and all the implications that has can be more than just overwhelming they can be downright damning to the choices that you made. She knows what she did, the path she took, the deal she made put them all in danger, and now she's faced with how very real it all is... outside of this place]

I'm so sorry...

[Sam doesn't know about her deal quite yet, but he assumes that it just has to do with the fact that she left them so soon. he's too busy reveling in the fact that he's hugging his *mom*, and answers as best he can.]

It wasn't your fault.

[she'll let it pass for the moment because somewhere down the line she's got another person to tell the truth to, but for right now she's got her family. It's hers and she doesn't want anyone to take it away from her. Pulling from the hug she takes a breath wiping at the tears on her cheeks and smiling]

Here, come inside, and tell me about yourself, about what you've done all this time, [knowing Mom smirk] about this Ruby girl.

[coughs slightly at the mention of Ruby, before nodding slowly.]

Sure, yeah. [pause for a minute as he realizes they have twenty-five years to catch up on.] God, where I should I start?

[she laughs moving to settle on the couch giving him room to sit beside her]

Wherever you want, as close to the end or beginning as you like. It's all new to me anyway. You've got a captive audience here Sam.

nods with a small smile, before sitting down, talking about growing up, school, him and Dean -- he brushed on the edges of hunting but didn't delve into it too much -- he hated it as a kid.]

I went to Stanford after high school. I got a full ride. [clearly proud of that, probably one of his biggest achievements.]

[she listens, unsure how to feel about the way they were raised, knowing that it was her fault... that things could've been different, they could've been the way she wanted them to be if she-- there was no way around it though. Lose John, or lose her...]

I'm so proud of you Sam. [and she meant it too, because she was. They'd been talking for a while and she figured that now might've been the better time for her to explain once more]

Before... I said I was sorry, and I am sorry I wasn't there for you, but it is my fault that I-- that I wasn't there for you. It's my fault that you grew up hunters. I never wanted that life for you... I never wanted you to be raised into it the way I was.

[is completely blindsided.]

You -- you were a hunter?

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[she nods sort of smirking a bit]

John was a mechanic, that's his family business. Kept him out of it, actually preferred it. My father, Samuel... [a knowing glance] was a hunter. I grew up into it and wanted out. God I wanted out so bad I would've done anything to just have a real family, without those nights wondering if he'd come home from a hunt.

[nods slowly, eyes on his hands. he wanted that too, always had. for a while he'd had it, until the demon popped back into their lives again and took that all away again.]

I think I know the feeling.

[her hand clasps lightly over his for a moment]

John told me about the night I died, and it's not anything I didn't realize once I saw him, but... [yeah it's harder to tell him. Harder for her to explain that she's the reason because it's him]

Ten years before I died... I made a deal. John says it's the way our family is, which I'm not sure is a good thing to be honest. The demon, the one that took me... took your father. Took my family first, but took John from me when I was shy of twenty. Right in front of me, and gave me a choice.

[digests this for a minute, small huff of breath that could have been a laugh as he remembers Dean's deal, and the deals he tried to make to get his brother back.]

Winchester family trait. Always doing what we have to do to save someone else.

[then he thinks about the demon, and his demon blood and he frowns slightly, his jaw starting to clench slightly.]

The deal -- what did you make it for?

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I got John's life back... with the promise he'd return in ten years... [a pause] the odds that I'd have a child, that I'd have anything to show for it... I didn't know. No one was supposed to get hurt, but after ten years... I thought maybe it'd been a bad dream.

[takes what he knows about some of the other kids, and leans forward, running a hand over his face lightly. it's not like he could fault her for doing what she did -- he knows what that desperation feels like. but knowing that his mom made the choice, and that it wasn't random -- that was a whole other tack.]

-- Do you know what happened? What he did to me?

Edited 2009-01-05 01:40 (UTC)

[Mary tightens her grip on Sam's hand a bit]

Not exactly... I was so young, and it happened so fast. I didn't want to waste time asking for anything else other than John's life back. Just that in ten years he'd come to collect, and as long as he wasn't disturbed... as long as he was left alone no one would get hurt.

[his mom died because she was being a good mom. Sam wanted to laugh, but he wouldn't. instead, he just sat there, trying to decide if he should tell her what exactly it was Azazel did to him, considering he knew all the gory details.

So he's just quiet, hands folded in front of his lips and weighing the pros and cons.]

[Mary takes the silence for a moment before exhaling]

It's going to be fine Sam. We're together here, and even if it's just for a little while, I'm glad I got the chance to see you all grown up.

Yeah.

[exhales, nods, lets it pass for what it was. she doesn't have to know. it wasn't her fault.]

Yeah, and I -- [looks over with a small smile.] -- I'm just glad I got to see you.

[smiles]

Me too Sam, me too. [subject change? for awkward instead of angsty]

So who's this Ruby girl?

[awkward gaping, rubs the back of his neck lightly.]

She's a -- friend. From back home. She's, uh -- she's saved my ass a few times.

[motherly raise of the eyebrow there]

From what I've heard you and Dean got into quite a few scrapes, it's good you have people that care enough to do that. Most hunters I knew weren't very cooperative with each other.

[his best innocent face, which is worlds better than Dean's. mostly because Sam usually is.]

Yeah, well -- she's never been one to consider herself normal.

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