HP/SPN: Touched by an Angel (Harry/Castiel)
Title: Touched by an Angel (XXIII)
Author: nilitara
Fandom: HP, SPN
Rating: PG
Charaters: Harry, Castiel
Summary: The Winchesters and Bobby can't find what event led to the spiritual manifestation in a house. Harry finds the answer.
For: crossovers100
Prompt: 055. Spirits.
Disclaimer: The characters are the property of their respective creator. I own nothing.
Touched by an Angel - Main entry
055. Spirits.
The Winchester brothers and Castiel were all reunited at Bobby’s with the man himself. They had taken on a new mission. Well, the Winchester had decided to take on this mission and they needed Bobby’s help for it. Castiel was there because he had decided he wanted to watch Dean more closely and was trying to help out as much as he could, never going in too deep though. He had learnt his lesson about this, yet he didn’t want anything to happen to his new protégé, knowing that a great destiny awaited him.
They were arguing, trying to decide what was happening and what to do. Well, the Winchester and Bobby were arguing about the situation, while Castiel remained outside the argument, knowing more about what was going on than them and that the ideas they were bouncing right now weren’t right. They weren’t going against something tangibles or even against a ghost, but it was part of the spirit world, just a manifestation of something happening, not to a person but in a place.
It wasn’t all that unusual, though somehow less frequent than the manifestation of angry spirits and beast that the Winchester usual dealt with. They had gone against echoes in the past, but not all that often and they hadn’t caught on the habit yet. It was more difficult to see, especially if they couldn’t find out what had happened. Castiel would feel what had come to pass when he went to see the place they researched and it had been overwhelming.
“So, Cas’,” Dean asked him. “What’s going on in that place? You looked like you had seen a ghost.”
Castiel sighed. Of course, Dean had noticed his trouble. It wasn’t as if he had gone to great length to conceal what he had been feeling at the time, mostly because he wasn’t exactly used to people noticing his change of mood anymore. It hadn’t really happened since Harry, but now he seemed to have to be careful about it once again.
“There is an echo, there,” he explained. “It’s the echo of something that has happened in the past, an event that must have been very emotional for it to manifest so forcefully. The nature of the supernatural occurrence there make me think of something tragic and most likely violent, very violent. Maybe a murder, or a rape. Something that most certainly ruined people lives and continue to do so even without anyone there. It’s like the house itself remember it. Maybe it manifest sometimes in the shape of a person but it isn’t the spirit of the person, who must have either gone on in the afterlife or is still alive. The house chooses to manifest the remnant of the experience in the form of a person to have more impact, to recreate the scene maybe. I’m sure that for so many people to die inside this house, they must be attracted to it, maybe by seeing what has really happened there and, by the time they realized it’s not actually happening for real, it’s too late for them to leave. It seems most likely because human beings are attracted by tragedy, by violence.”
It had been quite a long speech and all three hunters had been riveted to Castiel’s lips for a while now. They understood what he meant, even though it wasn’t exactly what they were used to deal with. They were more used to the manifestation of the people than the event but, yet, they could understand perfectly what was happening, there was just a little detail that didn’t work in the reasoning.
“But we have looked into the archives,” Sam said, frowning. “There is no mention of any form of tragedy or any event really. This house hasn’t seen anything either strange or bad happening. Actually, there is no mention of this house except for the construction. It’s almost as if the house has been constructed and then just forgotten.”
Yes, it made sense that nothing about the house was present in the archives. There was something there that had reminded Castiel of magic and not the kind of magic he was used to deal with since he had been with Dean. It was the sort of magic that he had witnessed while taking care of Harry. The magic from the wizarding world, that came from inside the people themselves and not after a deal with the demons. Since the magical world stayed apart from the muggle world, if something had happened they would never find it in these archives. Even if the house was in a muggle place, there was just too many way anything that had happened there may have been concealed. Castiel knew that maybe the neighbor themselves didn’t realize the house had been inhabited at some point. It was very possible
Now, how to explain this to the Winchester and Bobby? How could he tell them about this whole new world they had never heard about before? Something that may change the way they looked at everything?
He was going to open his mouth to start with his explanation when another voice resonated in the house, a voice he never thought he would get to hear again but that he could, even though it had changed a little, recognize everywhere.
“That would be because you weren’t looking in the right place. The archives of the wizarding world shows what has happened there,” the person said, throwing quite a few newspapers on the table, on which they could see moving pictures.
“Harry”.