ohsam | Parting Ways

Title: Parting Ways
Author:

hopeintheashes
Rating: PG-13
Genre/pairing: Hurt/Comfort, Gen + some Sam/Jess
Characters: Sam, Dean, John, Jess, and a little bit of Pastor Jim
Word count: 2500
Summary: Written for the

spn_littlebro Team Bingo challenge, for the prompt "parting ways." This ended up covering a lot of ground, from pre-series through the pilot. Some parts overlap with Idumea, but you don't have to read one to understand the other.
Warnings: Highlight to read. (skip) Implied abuse.
Disclaimer: These boys? Definitely not mine.
A/N: So, uh. I signed up to write this in the middle of July, when October 15 seemed very far away indeed. Grad school got in the way, but I've made it in just under the original deadline! Thanks to

kat_of_rafters for her feedback. Any remaining weirdness is mine alone.

Also available on AO3.

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(Maybe California wasn’t any safer than Kansas or Maine or Minnesota, but it had to be better than having nowhere at all, just blood and pain and alcohol and determination and despair.)