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Ethics [Monday, April 2, 5th period]

"Today we talk about the ethics we encounter in relationships," Anakin began quietly. "Not just the easy questions like 'is it cheating if one of us is possessed?' but the ones that effect everyone--how much of the truth do you tell the person? What happens when one of you stops loving the other one? What happens when you reach an impasse on differences in religion or life goals? What do you do when circumstances beyond your control threaten to split you apart? What if there's too much old baggage to try again?"

He ran a hand through his hair, not looking at John or Molly ~~assuming they're in class today~~. "Take it from me. Sometimes love isn't enough to make it work." He looked around the classroom. "Today we talk about the messy parts of love. Pick one of my questions and answer it the best way you can."

He leaned against his desk. "I'll be over here ~~brooding~~ listening to the discussion."

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"Okay, Sammy? Hate to break it to you, but you are who you are. That's who you should be wanting them to fall in love with. Otherwise, you're just hating yourself."

"So you're saying I shouldn't strive to be more than I am right now? That I should just settle for being something I don't want to be? What the hell kind of advice is that?" Sam asked.

"No one's saying you should settle. But you're Samuel Winchester, son of John and Mary, my little brother, with all that entails. And yeah, that means having to deal with knowing demons and crap are real and all that. That's just part of who we are. You start trying to deny that, you deny pretty much everything," Dean told him. "And dude, I'm trying not to be offended by the implication here that we're not good enough or you."

"It's not that you're not good enough for me," Sam said. "And okay, you're right, I can never not know that demons and everything that goes with them are real. But that doesn't mean that I have to go around telling people that they're real for the sake of being truthful about myself."

"We're not talking walking up to random people on the street and going, 'Hi, my family hunts demons!' We're talking about a specific person that you love and, one would assume, want to spend your life with. Big difference."

"Okay, I have to assume that this hypothetical person exists in the future, since right now I have Dawn, who loves me despite the hunting thing, and therefore doesn't fit into this conversation at all," Sam said. "So, let's say I do end up falling in love with someone else, in the future. Odds are, I won't be hunting, so it's not like I'm going to be hiding that from her. If I decide that I want to spend the rest of my life with this woman, then I'll tell her the truth, maybe. But when the relationship's just starting out, the truth would probably be a sure fire way to drive her away."

"What do you mean you won't be hunting?" Dean asked with a frown.

Sam sighed softly. "Do you really think I'm going to graduate, go to college, and then go back to hunting?"

"Well... yeah. I mean you're a bookworm and want to go to college, but you're coming back, right?"

"Well...maybe? I don't know," Sam said honestly. "I mean, I don't like hunting, not the way you and Dad do. And the point of going to college is to learn how to have a real job..."

"Hunting is a real job," Dean insisted.

"I mean a regular job," Sam replied. "You know, one where you earn actual money and don't have to commit credit card fraud to get paid?"

"That doesn't make Hunting any less of a real job," Dean said. "And there's not much else that's important."

"Yes there is," Sam said indignantly. "There's lots of jobs out there that are important, and help people just as much as hunting does. And it's not like you and Dad won't have that covered."

"So you're just planning on leaving and not coming back?" Dean asked, sounding like a cross between angry and hurt.

"You make it sound so final, like if I go to college I'm never going to see you again."

~~No, just for four years.~~

"You tell me. Sounds like you can't wait to get away from everything Winchester."

"I can't wait to get away from everything hunting-related. There's a difference," Sam replied.

"But that's Dad. That's me. That's what we've been raised to do, Sammy."

"No, that's what we've been trained to do because Dad's obsessed. But we don't have to hunt just because it's what we've always done."

"No, we hunt because it's important," Dean argued. "Because it saves people's lives. And because it's what we do."

"Could you sound any more like Dad?" Sam asked rhetorically. sounding slightly annoyed. "We hunt because it's what we do? We hunt because it's what we have to do, because Dad's never given us another choice."

"No because the demon that killed Mom didn't give us another choice," Dean shot back. "What -- you want us to just forget about that?"

"No, I don't," Sam said, very seriously. "But there's a difference between finding the thing that killed Mom, and the general hunting that we do."

"Sounds to me like you don't want to do either," Dean challenged.

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