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Would he (Sam) have gone to hell, do you think?
I think he would have gone to heaven, where he'd be in angel boot camp being brain-washed to say Yes to Luci until the time came to send him back to his re-animated corpse (that is, if Dean, in deciding not to make a deal, also decided not to salt and burn his body, and then the angels would have to ask Anna where she got/will get her sweet threads...).
Sam wouldn't need a handprint if he didn't go to hell, and we have no indication he did. Why would he have?
Would they let you into heaven with demon blood? Maybe a purgatory of some kind, or at least a limbo.
I'm a bit hazy on the theology behind SPN. Clearly if you make a deal with a demon you end up in hell. But I don't know how much Biblical wriggle room you have on other things. Breaking the 10 commandments? If SPN is going the full-on Leviticus route, then hell's pretty full, but if they're taking a Unitarian approach then a) Sam probably wouldn't go to any hell [insert Unitarian debate on whether a hell could exist in the context of a loving deity or whether it's a special effects thing to increase dramatic tension] and b) neither would anyone else who hadn't specifically signed a contract saying that there was a hell and they would voluntarily go there in return for goods and/or services rendered. I'm thinking Kripke et al are not going the Unitarian route, but mixing linen and wool probably won't damn Sam either.
I think the writers are making up their theology as they go along, so.
I don't think Sam deserved to go to hell at all. But for fic purposes, the demon blood could be a way to keep him out of heaven and in a sort of waiting room until whichever angel could get the paperwork sorted to put him back on earth.
I like the idea that then Jake would have opened the devil's gate, and Bobby and Ellen and Dean would have fought him, and Dean would have killed him dead a million times over for killing Sam.
PS: The Casablanca AU features Henricksen. I can't wait to get home and read it. There's so not enough of him in fic. Why not?
Would they let you into heaven with demon blood?
They did, in the end.
I don't think I realized that Dean calls Hendricksen "Victor" in Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester. It seems so ... intimate.
They did, in the end.
Eh, that was an angel trick to force their hand. I don't think it's the same as dying without intervention.
But if God decides who goes to Heaven and who doesn't, why would he keep Sam out? As of AHBL, he hadn't chosen to drink demon blood.
Dean is the king of broyay intimacy. Bless him.
Oh, I meant the demon blood from babyhood.
I know--but God's been a good guy. Which is why I said "chosen." I can see him being damned for the sin of pride when he decided that the only way to save the world was to drink it, but having it dripped into his mouth as a baby? Kinda cruel barrier to the Elysian fields.