The Bird that Feels the Light
Title : The Bird that Feels the Light, written for the deancasbigbang
Author: ratherastory
Artist: daggomus_prime
Beta: pkwench
Fandom/Genre: SPN
Pairing(s): No pairings. Gen fic. Castiel, Dean, mentions of Sam.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 37,726
Warnings: General spoilers through Season 5. Show-levels of violence, angst, swearing. Human!Cas (do I even need to warn for that?).
Art Post: [Art Master Post]
Summary: AU from 5.18 (or thereabouts). Castiel awakens in the middle of a smoking crater, stranded and very much human. According to the people who have discovered him, it’s six months to the day after Michael and Lucifer faced off on the field of battle outside of Detroit, and Castiel isn’t the only one to have returned. When, at his insistence, they take him to this other person, he finds a child -a little boy- and realizes that, contrary to all his expectations, he has been reunited with Dean Winchester.
The world has changed in their absence, and not for the better. Sam is gone, whether dead or simply missing is uncertain. Castiel is given the name of a man in Idaho who may have answers for him. He is faced with the task of travelling cross-country with Dean, who is dependent on him now in ways he never was before, in order to discover the truth. But along the way, as he and Dean learn to know and trust each other once more, Castiel begins to realize that the answers he thought he wanted might not be the ones he needs.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
Author's notes and detailed thanks are all available at my LJ.
Author: ratherastory
Artist: daggomus_prime
Beta: pkwench
Fandom/Genre: SPN
Pairing(s): No pairings. Gen fic. Castiel, Dean, mentions of Sam.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 37,726
Warnings: General spoilers through Season 5. Show-levels of violence, angst, swearing. Human!Cas (do I even need to warn for that?).
Art Post: [Art Master Post]
Summary: AU from 5.18 (or thereabouts). Castiel awakens in the middle of a smoking crater, stranded and very much human. According to the people who have discovered him, it’s six months to the day after Michael and Lucifer faced off on the field of battle outside of Detroit, and Castiel isn’t the only one to have returned. When, at his insistence, they take him to this other person, he finds a child -a little boy- and realizes that, contrary to all his expectations, he has been reunited with Dean Winchester.
The world has changed in their absence, and not for the better. Sam is gone, whether dead or simply missing is uncertain. Castiel is given the name of a man in Idaho who may have answers for him. He is faced with the task of travelling cross-country with Dean, who is dependent on him now in ways he never was before, in order to discover the truth. But along the way, as he and Dean learn to know and trust each other once more, Castiel begins to realize that the answers he thought he wanted might not be the ones he needs.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
Author's notes and detailed thanks are all available at my LJ.