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Title: The Heart of the Matter
Rating: G
Words: 100
Notes: Written for 100_ghosts. Prompt: yellow. Set during Faith.
He pretends he’s sleeping when Sam comes in the last time.
It hits him later, in the middle of the night: he wakes up gasping for air, fingers and toes tingling pins and needles, the machine beeping erratically, mirroring his failing heart.
He’s going to die alone. The realization burns bitter and sharp all the way down, his last hours prodded by the doctor’s cold hands, the creeping tendrils of death in the stench of antiseptic.
Coward, he tells himself as he shucks on Sam’s sweatshirt.
Coward, his heart weakly thrums as he finds his way back to his brother.
Rating: G
Words: 100
Notes: Written for 100_ghosts. Prompt: yellow. Set during Faith.
He pretends he’s sleeping when Sam comes in the last time.
It hits him later, in the middle of the night: he wakes up gasping for air, fingers and toes tingling pins and needles, the machine beeping erratically, mirroring his failing heart.
He’s going to die alone. The realization burns bitter and sharp all the way down, his last hours prodded by the doctor’s cold hands, the creeping tendrils of death in the stench of antiseptic.
Coward, he tells himself as he shucks on Sam’s sweatshirt.
Coward, his heart weakly thrums as he finds his way back to his brother.