Title: Silence

Author: ReincarnatedPoet

Written: 15 December 2008

Rating/Warnings: T Possible Spoilers

Summary: Both died, but what neither knows is that they went to the same place. 100 Word drabble

It was his knees that crashed into the ground, but it was his soul that passed through skin, jean, and earth. He never did tell Dean he remembered every minute on the rack. Every chunk of flesh cleaved from bone.

Dean held him, finally realizing the truth. He was back, returned from hell-fire, saved by some invisible force. He wouldn't tell Sam—he couldn't. Couldn't put that on Sammy's head. No, his blood, tears and cries would be his alone.

And so neither brother tells what lies behind closed eyes. Neither brother heals, but they'd sooner return than share it.