E/O Challenge: write our boys with the ghosts of their loved ones

Disclaimer: Nope, not mine yet.

Spoilers: 5.10 Abandon All Hope

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

This one's for you, Swellison. Have a splendid birthday!
xxx

Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

– Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

Live On

She's sweeping the front step when he pulls up, hair tied back, shirt hugging her curves as she sweats in the sizzling summer heat.

When did she get so beautiful? Maybe it's always been there. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say.

Ellen steps out, smacking her daughter upside the head before handing over a tall glass and taking a seat.

He doesn't move, watching their easy camaraderie, until the scene dissolves back into a pile of rubble.

He isn't sure why he's come; there's nothing here but ghosts.

The Impala kicks up dust as he drives away.

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