She'd nearly been okay. Enough to stand, anyway. Enough to let Dean wrap around her to help her up.

But at his question, fresh sobs start. "He was here and he left. He left and I couldn't stop it. I tried everything but maybe they were right. What's dead should stay dead.

Only he's not, not when I left him. I should have known it was just another trick. At least he was as he always was, when he went."