the road so far

[venatical]

Who: Dean and Chuck
Where: The diner
When: Day 96
What: Chuck missed a few chapters, so Dean's going to fill him in.

Dean grabs something for them both to eat and finds them a table. They'd be at the bar if he didn't want to have this conversation three times over, and he's not sure what Ellen or Jo have heard yet. He's going to have to fill them in too, but maybe he can leave them in the cold for a while like Chuck until he finally has to give up believing in their blissful ignorance. With Becky around, he's probably going to find out that he's been missing at home anyway. He doesn't even know how Chuck died, though, so that's going to be... awkward.

Hopefully Chuck enjoys the sandwich because Dean made it himself, and it's damn good if he has anything to say about it.

Comments

[godsprophet]

Dean's always been blase about big, huge events. Chuck knows that. It is, after all, part of Dean's character. Not that Dean's a fictional character or anything but, you know what he means. Even when he met the Winchesters for the first time, they shook off mentions of their worst experiences like they were nothing.

That, and Chuck honestly has no idea what Purgatory would even be like. He can imagine, of course, but his imagination would never live up to the real thing. And so Chuck is perfectly fine leaving things as they are. Besides, he's not quite sure Dean would tell him, if he asked for more.

(Deciding not to tell Chuck about the angels falling, all things considered, is probably the best option. He would hate to give himself away when the person responsible for such an act isn't even present in Kore. )

"Oh. That's... a lot." He's sure Dean didn't explain every little thing, but even as far as major detail points go... there was a lot there. Clearly, several years had passed, and while Chuck knows exactly what all can happen in a year in the life of the Winchesters... that somehow as a lot more than what he thought there would be.

[venatical]

Dean has to agree, yeah. Jo said something similar. He's starting to wonder if he should write this stuff down, but no, he'd rather not have a written record of any of this -- heh. He hadn't been thinking of Sarah and what happened with Chuck's books, but that does bring us back around to that topic, however inadvertently. The moment is here; he could dump that on Chuck's lap and let him stew with it, but Chuck can't jump back in time and unwrite those books.

What happened to Sarah is something Dean can stash away, pull out if he ever wants to deliver Chuck a blow, but for right now he keeps it to himself.

"Yeah, you missed a few chapters, but those are the Cliffsnotes. I don't know, man. We stopped the apocalypse; I kinda thought that'd be... something. Seems like in the end it was just the least terrible option."

[godsprophet]

A few chapters? More like an entire series. Or, rater, a good two series. He's sure, if he had enough information, he could write an entire series on the leviathans and then, about the closing of the gates, however that pans out.

But Dean's two for two today, in the list of things he's opting not to tell Chuck. Because he would, he'd feel awful if he ever learned about what happened with Sarah, what his books did to her. But.. well, it's not like he really ever had another option. Kevin's prophet abilities might not include seeing and narrating the future, but Chuck's did.

But Chuck doesn't know about Sarah, or the consequences of writing those books and so he lets out a sigh, instead. "Yeah, I though... I mean, what could be worst than the Apocalypse, right?" A lot of things, apparently.