Title: Pictures
Author: ezgal
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Summary: Drabble.

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Dad's journal lay open to a photo of him in Da Nang. What was different about that war, Dean wondered, that he could smile for the photographer, but never for his sons? Once, in a Round Rock, Texas motel: John Wayne on late-night tv; Dean nodding off and Sam already asleep. Dad nursing a Budweiser, Colt .45 in his lap. His deep voice in the quiet had startled Dean awake. He didn't even turn to look at Dean, only said, "We left them behind. I'll never leave you." He'd thought, at the time, that Dad had been talking to him.

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