What I Won't Ask of You

"The silence is worse than shouting—it crackles with anger, with hurt, and worst of all he knows that this is it. The end. The fighting's over; the shattering has passed and everything's in pieces now. They're in pieces." Dean's struggle on the night Sam leaves for Stanford. NO SLASH; much angst. Rated for mild language. Sort of a companion piece to "How It's Supposed to Go."