fic: A Journey Without Milestones
Title: A Journey Without Milestones
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: S4
Summary: A heartbeat to measure it by.
Notes: A little drabble that I wrote ages ago that I planned to write into a fully-fledged fic, but didn't. I may still do in the future, sometime.
The first time Castiel sees Dean Winchester, he has already spent half a lifetime trudging through the pits and mirrors of hell, though he won't know how long that feels until he has a vessel, until he has a heartbeat to measure it by.
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He spends hours, days, trying to speak to Dean, feeling an intense frustration at his failure that only seems to last a flicker of a moment in comparison to the eternity he has already lived and the one he will live.
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Then Jimmy Novak says yes and Castiel has a vessel.
A heartbeat.
And every moment seems suddenly full to bursting point with time.
It is all he can do not to weep as he sees eternity stretching out in front of him.
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: S4
Summary: A heartbeat to measure it by.
Notes: A little drabble that I wrote ages ago that I planned to write into a fully-fledged fic, but didn't. I may still do in the future, sometime.
The first time Castiel sees Dean Winchester, he has already spent half a lifetime trudging through the pits and mirrors of hell, though he won't know how long that feels until he has a vessel, until he has a heartbeat to measure it by.
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He spends hours, days, trying to speak to Dean, feeling an intense frustration at his failure that only seems to last a flicker of a moment in comparison to the eternity he has already lived and the one he will live.
-
Then Jimmy Novak says yes and Castiel has a vessel.
A heartbeat.
And every moment seems suddenly full to bursting point with time.
It is all he can do not to weep as he sees eternity stretching out in front of him.