Pray Your Gods [Gen, PG-13]

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Title: Pray Your Gods
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gen [Dean, Sam]
Spoilers: 1.12 Faith, and season one in general.
Disclaimers: Not mine.
Notes: Sweet Charity fic for amystar. Title by way of Toad the Wet Sprocket, beta by way of the lovely mgbutterfly.
Summary: Sometimes, on endless stretches of road, he measures the years in lives he’s saved and lives he hasn’t. Layla Rourke is a life he hasn’t saved.

It sinks to the pit of his stomach like a rock or a boulder, takes shape like a sculpture, carved into a likeness that scrapes at his inner walls, leaves him battered and bloody inside a shell of sun-warmed, unbroken skin.