If the Yellow-Eyed Demon hadn't killed Jess, would Sam have gone on to become a lawyer, or would he have joined up with Dean again anyway?
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Would Sam have gone back to hunting if Jess hadn't died?
- Thread starter Bela Talbot
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If nothing else happened then I think he would have went on to become a lawyer. But I think something else would have come up to spur him on. It would play out differently with Jess being alive but I think he was destined to go back to it.
As much activity as we've seen in the show, I guess it's pretty likely that he would have come up against something eventually.
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Agreed. It may have taken a longer time, but Sam would have jumped on the hunting train eventually.
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I guess I'm on the "eventually he would have" bandwagon 
If Jess hadn't died he would have gone on with his life until there was another catalyst to change his direction. I think the Winchesters are a bit like Buffy in that way, they may think they want (and can handle) run of the mill, regular lives, but at the end of the day they will be drawn back into that world. Like, even if Faith had been completely normal, do we really think Buffy would have stepped back completely? Hardly. Winchesters are the same, it's in their blood, that do-goodness and lust for a spot of violence combined.
If Jess hadn't died he would have gone on with his life until there was another catalyst to change his direction. I think the Winchesters are a bit like Buffy in that way, they may think they want (and can handle) run of the mill, regular lives, but at the end of the day they will be drawn back into that world. Like, even if Faith had been completely normal, do we really think Buffy would have stepped back completely? Hardly. Winchesters are the same, it's in their blood, that do-goodness and lust for a spot of violence combined.
I don't think he would have gone back to hunting full time, at least, not at that point in time, when Dean dropped him off. But I also don't think he would have been able to ignore anything he stumbled across, because that's not who Sam is.
I think, maybe, if/when he found out the truth about Brady and Yellow Eyes' plan for him, that would have pushed him over the edge and he would have thrown himself into it until they solved everything. They didn't know about the plan for Sam until S2, didn't find out that there was a connection between Sam and Mary's death until a long time after Jess' death, so it would have taken something else to push Sam. He went with Dean because he needed to find out who killed Jess and why - without that motivation, Sam would have been happier where he was.
I think, maybe, if/when he found out the truth about Brady and Yellow Eyes' plan for him, that would have pushed him over the edge and he would have thrown himself into it until they solved everything. They didn't know about the plan for Sam until S2, didn't find out that there was a connection between Sam and Mary's death until a long time after Jess' death, so it would have taken something else to push Sam. He went with Dean because he needed to find out who killed Jess and why - without that motivation, Sam would have been happier where he was.