#and instead you give us a half baked hallmark movie subplot

[ladylightning]

thinking about how much better season 8 would have been if sam’s year of domestic bliss was with sarah blake from s1. sam is spiraling after losing dean, cas, and kevin in one fail swoop and has a chance encounter with old flame sarah blake from a past case. she’s recently separated with a young son. their relationship mirrors deanlisa. sam does not have to hide who he is with sarah because she knows what he does, unlike amelia. sarah ultimately breaks it off to give things another go with her husband like in the original amelia storyline.

the rest of s8 is largely the same, but it makes 8x22 clip show more devastating. crowley is killing the people sam and dean had saved, including sarah. sam is devastated and is determined to finish the trials. the curing of crowley is so much more intense as crowley begs sam for forgiveness for killing sarah. sam is unable to complete the trials because he cannot forgive crowley and be truly purified by the trials.