Fic Rec: the inexhaustible silence of houses -- Supernatural (Dean/Castiel)
I've read TONS of fan fiction in my day. A lot of AMAZING fics, but up until this point there were only two stories that broke my brain with their dark, utterly heartbreaking brilliance, Beautiful by purrslink and My Manic and I by matryoshkha. Both of these are A-Team (2010).
No lie, both of them shattered the FUUUU outta me but damned if I haven't read them over a dozen times a piece.
I DEF added another one on the "Break Stiney and watch her sob" rotation tonight for sure.
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the inexhaustible silence of houses by Askance is gorgeous and sad and just absolute perfection.
Summary: Almost two years after the world doesn't end, Castiel falls from grace-and loses his voice in the process. It is the impetus for confession and change; before long, he is settling into a loving relationship with Dean, the Winchesters are tired, and hunting for a place to land has taken precedence to hunting anything else. Dean and Castiel fall in love with the strange little house on the end of Swallowtail Drive, and for a little while life is as it should be-sweet, affectionate, and beginning afresh.
But more and more Castiel sees and hears things in the house that beg the question of whether or not a place itself can be alive. The walls and rooms seem to shift and grow and breathe, and one night, Dean comes home from a hunt changed in a way that Castiel cannot explain. In the months that follow, their domestic bliss takes turns for the dark and sour, and the confusion of their circumstances will ultimately test everything Castiel knows about the man he loves, and everything he believes to be true.
Go read this story now!! Hell, if you haven't read the other two make it a whole night of crying your eyes out and being in awe of every minute of it.
No lie, both of them shattered the FUUUU outta me but damned if I haven't read them over a dozen times a piece.
I DEF added another one on the "Break Stiney and watch her sob" rotation tonight for sure.
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the inexhaustible silence of houses by Askance is gorgeous and sad and just absolute perfection.
Summary: Almost two years after the world doesn't end, Castiel falls from grace-and loses his voice in the process. It is the impetus for confession and change; before long, he is settling into a loving relationship with Dean, the Winchesters are tired, and hunting for a place to land has taken precedence to hunting anything else. Dean and Castiel fall in love with the strange little house on the end of Swallowtail Drive, and for a little while life is as it should be-sweet, affectionate, and beginning afresh.
But more and more Castiel sees and hears things in the house that beg the question of whether or not a place itself can be alive. The walls and rooms seem to shift and grow and breathe, and one night, Dean comes home from a hunt changed in a way that Castiel cannot explain. In the months that follow, their domestic bliss takes turns for the dark and sour, and the confusion of their circumstances will ultimately test everything Castiel knows about the man he loves, and everything he believes to be true.
Go read this story now!! Hell, if you haven't read the other two make it a whole night of crying your eyes out and being in awe of every minute of it.