The reaction is so unexpected, that for a moment Zack just gapes. His wiry frame tenses too, ready at first to fight it out because he's not scared of any mortal, however angry. Although on some level, Zack is crestfallen that he's managed to make Dean Not Like Him.
But the human doesn't attack him and Zack doesn't lift a finger to do likewise. Dean is clearly furious and for once in his - incredibly - long life, Zack doesn't know how to handle it. He realises that this mortal is the very last being in existence that he wants to harm, or even just fight with. That alone is so new to him, Zack is confused and stunned. He shrinks back in his seat. It's an animalistic response, but it's all he has.
It's probably a good job that Dean does keep talking, and doesn’t stop for a while because it takes Zack that long to grasp what the human is actually attempting to communicate. Abe is wrong. He's maybe not wrong to be in charge, but he's wrong in the way he's doing it. Family isn't what Zack thinks it is. Is Dean right about that? It's confusing as all hells thrown in together, because Zack has never had any reason not to just go with the natural order, with the fact that Abe is bigger and stronger and it's the law of the wild, and ... and...
Is everything he ever thought he knew, not the truth?
Deep in his heart, Zack knows if he had a little brother, he'd never starve him, or throw him to the demons, or do some of the other unsavoury things that Abe has done. He's always thought it was because he was just himself, Zack. And different to Abe.
“I didn't question it,” he admits, downcast. “My existence is pain. Hell is pain. I never knew anything else. Besides even if I did, I...” He was about to protest he was powerless against Abe. But Zack knows he might have found some way to leave Antillioch. Leap from one dying world to the next until Abe had no idea how to find him. Though it is hard to hide from a hellgod forever. But he could have tried.
Maybe Abe would just let him go? If he knew his little brother really wanted to? Maybe.
“Please don't kill him,” Zack mumbles after a bit. “He's my brother. If it's wrong, I'll tell him. Then things'll be okay.”
He really is that naïve. He really does think that telling Abe he doesn't like to be treated that way, and that it's not what brothers do, will change anything. Zack hasn't got an inkling that Abe needs his powers; needs the dead souls that Zack brings to Antillioch. Or that there may be other reasons for keeping him ignorant.
It's in this light, that it seems Zack doesn't, has never, or never will, truly belong in a hell realm.
THE FEELS. Give me dem.
But the human doesn't attack him and Zack doesn't lift a finger to do likewise. Dean is clearly furious and for once in his - incredibly - long life, Zack doesn't know how to handle it. He realises that this mortal is the very last being in existence that he wants to harm, or even just fight with. That alone is so new to him, Zack is confused and stunned. He shrinks back in his seat. It's an animalistic response, but it's all he has.
It's probably a good job that Dean does keep talking, and doesn’t stop for a while because it takes Zack that long to grasp what the human is actually attempting to communicate. Abe is wrong. He's maybe not wrong to be in charge, but he's wrong in the way he's doing it. Family isn't what Zack thinks it is. Is Dean right about that? It's confusing as all hells thrown in together, because Zack has never had any reason not to just go with the natural order, with the fact that Abe is bigger and stronger and it's the law of the wild, and ... and...
Is everything he ever thought he knew, not the truth?
Deep in his heart, Zack knows if he had a little brother, he'd never starve him, or throw him to the demons, or do some of the other unsavoury things that Abe has done. He's always thought it was because he was just himself, Zack. And different to Abe.
“I didn't question it,” he admits, downcast. “My existence is pain. Hell is pain. I never knew anything else. Besides even if I did, I...” He was about to protest he was powerless against Abe. But Zack knows he might have found some way to leave Antillioch. Leap from one dying world to the next until Abe had no idea how to find him. Though it is hard to hide from a hellgod forever. But he could have tried.
Maybe Abe would just let him go? If he knew his little brother really wanted to? Maybe.
“Please don't kill him,” Zack mumbles after a bit. “He's my brother. If it's wrong, I'll tell him. Then things'll be okay.”
He really is that naïve. He really does think that telling Abe he doesn't like to be treated that way, and that it's not what brothers do, will change anything. Zack hasn't got an inkling that Abe needs his powers; needs the dead souls that Zack brings to Antillioch. Or that there may be other reasons for keeping him ignorant.
It's in this light, that it seems Zack doesn't, has never, or never will, truly belong in a hell realm.