"Maybe a little shocked to realize that in this profound period of separation, they’ve figured out how to survive without each other. That’s part of it, a little bit growing up and realizing that they can’t be the only things to each other or they have too closed a world or too closed an emotional complex. [They’ll meet] new people, have new relationships, and are looking outward from this partnership that is both highly functional in terms of saving the world but also highly dysfunctional in terms of how you might relate to the world."

— Ben Edlund On where we’ll find Sam and Dean mentally next season (via vhanstiel)

7:54pm 15 Jul '12 / via vhanstiel / © The Huffington Post / 998

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