kate | If I were the Supernatural showrunner...

I started this at work, but I have so so so so many WIPs in SPN already and this would be massive (basically a rewrite of Season 9), so:

"No," Dean says, staring down at Sam's eerily still body. "I can't do it." He can't do this to Sam. Sam would rather die. He puts his head down in his hands. Can he really let Sam die? Can he?

The idea comes to him like a thunderbolt. He stands and meets Ezekiel's eyes to show him he's not messing around. "Take me instead."

Ezekiel looks back at him warily. "I can't heal him –"

"You said you were weak. Sam's even weaker. Take me as a vessel and use me to heal him and yourself."

"So not only would I possess you, I would use your soul to heal your brother and myself." Ezekiel looks at Dean uncomprehendingly, the way Cas used to all the time in the beginning. "Why would you do that?"

Dean shakes his head. "You don't get it," he says, looking down at Sam and knowing they have to hurry. "Maybe you just can't. But I would do anything for him. Anything. What happens to me isn't important."

Ezekiel nods slowly. "Will you, Dean Winchester, allow me to enter? Do you consent to be my vessel?"

Dean takes a deep breath. "Yes."

The world goes black.

ETA: A thought about the thing I was DYING for in the midseason cliffhanger episode - and didn't get.

So, the one thing that kept me going with Dean all season, despite just really hating so much of what's going on with him, was the EPIC fight he and Sam were going to have about Ezekiel.

I like Gadriel (and by that I simply mean I find him interesting), and I'll be interested to see where all that goes, definitely. But seriously, the thing they have been building up to since the beginning of the season was the reveal, and they basically completely shorted it. If one of my beta-ees had brought me that story I would have said: you can't do that. You cannot build up this expectation for eight chapters and then basically skip over the emotional resolution to get to more action. Which is exactly what they did. They tried to basically sell us Sam's punch to Dean's face as the whole of the conflict resolution - and then even THAT became a lie. So we got nothing. I am so, so, so bitterly disappointed.