how many times do you think lucifer played the “one of you must die or both of you will” game with sam once he was tortured and broken enough to lose hold of reality?
how many times did sam try to kill himself so that the image of who he loved (dean jess jody ellen bobby jo cas dean dean dean) could live?
(every time.)
how many times did lucifer torture and slaughter them anyway and made sam watch?
So what’s it all add up to? It’s hard to say. But me, I’d say this was a test… for Sam and Dean. And I think they did all right. Up against, Good, Evil, angels, devils, Destiny, and God himself, they made their own choice. They chose family.And, well… isn’t that kinda the whole point?