@huntmyth said: ❝ It isn’t actually the pain they’re inflicting that’s the most frightening part of it. It isn’t the fear of future pain. It’s the knowledge that even when the pain stops, even if they were to let you go, that they’ve changed you. That pain, that fear, that despair… has made you someone else, someone you barely recognize. ❞
“ Aye, the memories of a traumatic event can be haunting. ” So this is what it was like, sitting with Dean at three am, sharing a bottle of scotch. Never had Rowena imagined that the hunter would be so willing to open up about his past, and the ghosts that lingered within. “ But while it changes you, you should never let it become the thing that defines you. If anything, you should become a better man because and in spite of it. ”
