The smell of gasoline never really left him.
It clung to old motel rooms, leather jackets, the inside of his duffel bag. It hid beneath the metallic scent of gun oil and fresh blood, waiting for quiet moments to remind him of a night he had spent years trying, and failing, to forget.
Matthew Moore never forgot.
People always said revenge consumed a person.
They were wrong.
Revenge kept him alive.
The knife in his hand spun once before disappearing back into its sheath against his forearm. Fluid. Automatic. Thousands upon thousands of repetitions until muscle memory had become instinct.
A demon lunged.
Matthew barely looked at it.
He stepped aside.
One slash.
One stab.
Black smoke burst from the body before vanishing into the darkness.
Silence.
The possessed man collapsed onto the cracked concrete floor.
Matthew knelt beside him, checking for a pulse before stepping away.
Alive.
Good.
He wasn't interested in killing innocent people.
Only monsters.
He wiped the demon-killing knife on his jeans before sliding it back into place.
Another hunt finished.
Another demon dead.
Another empty victory.
It never felt like enough.
It never would.
Three years earlier, Matt had been someone else.
Someone who laughed.
Someone who made stupid jokes with his little sister while she rolled her eyes.
Someone who believed monsters belonged in horror movies.
Then Jessica died.
Burned alive on a ceiling while her boyfriend screamed beneath her.
The official reports called it a gas leak.
Matthew called it bullshit.
Because gas leaks didn't pin people to ceilings.
Gas leaks didn't leave behind symbols burned into wood.
Gas leaks didn't disappear without evidence before the police even arrived.
Something had happened.
Something impossible.
And Sam Winchester...
Had vanished.
Matthew hadn't blamed him.
Not really.
If anything, Sam had looked just as broken as everyone else.
Maybe worse.
But one day he was there.
The next...
Gone.
Not here at the funeral.
No explanation.
Nothing.
Jessica had loved him.
Matthew knew that much.
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WILDFIRE. supernatural
FanfictionJessica Moore died on the ceiling of her apartment. The police called it an accident. Matthew Moore called it murder. After losing his little sister and watching Sam Winchester disappear without a trace, Matthew dedicates his life to uncovering the...
