"All right?" He's not 'chosen', he never was - he's just Sam, Sam who argues with his big brother and talks back to a dad who hunts a demon with yellow eyes. And angels aren't real, they can't be, angels would be watching them and keeping them safe but Mom died in a horrible way that Dad never talks about, and what kind of God or angels would allow something like that?

He's not about to cry, not with Dean's voice in his head telling him he could waste this thing - but he knows he can't. He doesn't know what it is, and it won't stop saying things that aren't true with this horrible, perfect conviction.

"What do you mean 'all right'?"