Lost at Sea
Creeno

Took up a ficlet challenge at LiveJournal and this one got written.

«sea»

Cassie will wake in the middle of the night to find Dean gone. First, she checks the kid's rooms to find them asleep. She looks for him everywhere, exhausts herself.

When she finally goes back to her room, she'll go to sleep, worried, and wake in the morning to find Dean making pancakes.

She doesn't say a word, that first time.

But after the second, third time, she finally follows him out to the beach. She watches from a distance as Dean wanders into the sea, looking alone.

After that, she lets him honor his dead friend and doesn't ask.

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