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[endoftheverse]

 

[A general automated voicemail plays.]
 

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[progeny]

My dad?

[but...lucifer isn't... oh.]

You know. And you're Sam.

Did you like them? I have another book for you. But I started reading it.

[endoftheverse]

I'm not the Sam you know, Jack.
I don't know what people've told you, but I'm not a good person. Okay?
I'm not good to be around.

[...

Ugh, dammit.

He adds after grappling with himself for a moment:]

I did like them.
The gifts.
They were nice, thank you.
What book are you reading?

[progeny]

You aren't the Sam that found me. But you're still Sam. And you're still a good person. You're not Lucifer.

[and he'll keep pointing that out for however long he needs to.]

It's called The Witches. All the other books I've read don't mention that witches are bald and have claws though. It's strange.

[...yes, he's reading roald dahl right now. don't judge him]

[endoftheverse]

[Is it just easier to sidestep that first message?

It absolutely is, and it's absolutely what he's doing now.]

The Witches, huh? Roald Dahl, I know the author.
That kind of stuff used to scare the crap out of me as a kid.

[... He was a boy who knew witches were real... So, you know. Books like that just fueled his anxiety, but god he sure read them anyway.]

[progeny]

[clearly the fact sam didn't respond to that means he believes it, right??]

Have you met witches like the ones he's written about before?

[endoftheverse]

Not exactly like them, no, but there's plenty out there that wouldn't mind turning kids into mice. Some of them make deals with demons in order to practice that kind of stuff, and others just have a predisposition towards it.

They all have reasons for getting into it... Pretty much all witches I've ran into are generally bad news, though. So Dahl got that right.

[... The less said about Ruby, the better.

The betrayal of the woman he'd loved still aches, even all these years later.]

[progeny]

Why would somebody make a deal with a demon? That seems dangerous. They can't be trusted.

[endoftheverse]

You should never trust a demon, no.

[He hesitates, unsure if he should... Well, it's for the sake of the kid. So he understands, completely, that Sam's being genuine here. That his words should be considered with complete earnestness.]

I did once.
It cost me a lot.
And that's on me for making the mistake, but it doesn't change how she used me for her own purposes. I wouldn't want that to happen to you.

[progeny]

Why? Was is before you were a hunter?

[guess who still hasn't been clued in on the winchester gospels backstories?]

[endoftheverse]

[A pause.]

No.
No, it was recent.
It's complicated. I thought she was different.
She felt different. But I was wrong.

Demons are demons, Jack. Be careful around them.

[progeny]

There was a demon called Asmodeus. I almost opened a Hell Gate for him. I'm not going to do that again.

Are they all like that?

[endoftheverse]

[............ jesus christ, what are you guys doing in the future-

No, he knows. He's done stupid shit, too. Demon manipulation is like the sky being blue.]

Pretty much, yeah.
They're human souls twisted up and made corrupt.
They don't really have a lot of 'good' traits.
They'd skin a friend for a ritual if that ritual'd give them chump change for a soda machine.

[progeny]

So they're always going to be bad, because of the way they're made?

Can they ever be good?

[endoftheverse]

I don't think so, no.
Not 'good'.
Once that kind of thing is inside you, I don't know
You just
It's something you can't scrub away.
There's an evil in it that isn't as simple as being born fresh.
Corruption, I guess you could say.

[Hard to say if he's talking about the demons anymore, honestly.

But hey — Sam's never been one for healthy views on himself.]

[progeny]

So that's why they get hunted? Because they're evil, and there isn't any way to change that?

[endoftheverse]

Yeah. Unfortunately.
They can't actually exist on the planet in a normal body without forcefully taking the body of a human.
That alone? It means we have to stop them.
It's an evil act, just for them to walk the earth.

[progeny]

What about other creatures? Other monsters? Are they bad too?

[endoftheverse]

Other creatures can be good or bad.
It's not about what they are, Jack. It's about what they do. How they use what they have. What they are.

If this is about your fear of being evil, or turning bad just because of who made you... you're more than capable of being a good person.

You still have a chance to be better than where you came from.

Where only a part of you came from.



You had a mom, right?
Did she have a lot of goodness in her?

[progeny]

I never met her properly. But she felt good. She loved me, and she protected me.

I killed her. And my father. They both died because of me.

[endoftheverse]

I feel like my mom died because of me, too.
But it doesn't mean I actually did anything.
I was just a little baby.

I'm betting what happened wasn't something in your control, either.

[progeny]

I don't understand. Mary died after Castiel. It was right before I was born.

[endoftheverse]

[... What. What x 2? What the hell.

Cas can't be dead, right? Sam speaks about him openly. Did he come back...?

But —

Wait.]

Ah... no.
I mean, not for me.
I don't know about

about your universe.

My mom died when I was six months old.
Killed by a demon in my room.

[progeny]

[...oh]

You were a baby though. And it was a demon. So that isn't your fault.

[endoftheverse]

The demon was there for me.
She was just in the wrong place. The wrong time.
Someone just born, they can't be blamed for that kind of thing.
You understand?

[progeny]

Someone just born, who has no control over what's happening around them, can't be blamed.

I understand that.