Wait Until Darkness
wait until darkness
Supernatural
Sam and Dean
100 words
adult content: concepts
It fills the room like smoke, weighs the daylight down. Honey thick rays of sun are worn through, bitten at the edges. It climbs over boot tops, climbs knees, up spines. It drifts across the heavy bones of their faces.
Children are taught: there’s nothing in the dark that isn’t there in the day.
To know is to change. His fingers follow the shadow, and slide into his brother’s skin.
They become indistinct, they blur and bleed, move by memory. If you can’t see it, it can’t see you: a law everyone instinctively knows.
Hidden, they give each other strength.
