SPN fic: And we are here as on a darkling plain; Gen; PG

Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen
Word count: 1484
Spoilers for "Abandon All Hope" and warnings for the content of that episode

Summary: Three vignettes from Gabriel, Dean, and Ellen's perspectives

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold
"Dover Beach"

( And we are here as on a darkling plain )