I will never get over the fact that Sam Winchester, who was supposed to be the pawn, turned out to be the only reason humanity survived.
Sam was pushed around and used and manipulated his entire life. He never wanted to end up in the place that he did, but that’s where he ended up, and he chose to take control of his own destiny. Had all gone the way he planned, he’d have been a lawyer by then. Instead he was possessed by Lucifer, facing his younger half brother, possessed by Michael. And he found the strength to jump into the pit.
No one expected that from him. No one thought he could do it. No one even thought it was possible.
But Sam did it. He did the impossible.
He was the pawn that reached the opposite side of the board and became a queen. He made it against all odds and became the most powerful piece on the board. Because he could love and he could care and he had something worth fighting for. Because of that, he overcame the Devil himself.
The act itself was such an amazing one, that we often forget what happened after. What Sam knew was going to happen.
He knew that if his plan worked, he was going to hell and there was nothing he could do about it. He knew he was going to the worst part of hell with two angry archangels. He knew he wasn’t coming back.
He jumped into that pit without hesitating, without thinking twice about it. He was the one that suggested he do it, that came up with the plan, that told Dean he wasn’t coming back. He did it for everyone else in the world, because he felt that it was his responsibility, even though setting Lucifer free was no more his fault than it was Dean’s, and honestly it was probably less.
Sam Winchester deserves the whole world and everything it has to offer. Instead, all he gets is pain and misery and abuse.
