Those words were all it took for her to get it. No, the fact that it was Dean and not Sam himself was what it took, but this made it real.

Sam was dead. Sam was dead and he hadn't said goodbye, or he had, and he'd written it down without giving her the opportunity to say a damn thing in return.

"I'm not... I'm not touchin' that. Not till we get him back. There has to be a way to get him back, and we'll do it. Tell me everything."