Walk Masterpost
Title: Walk
Author: safiyabat for the sastiel-bigbang
Artist: chasingparallax
Characters & Pairing(s): Sam/Castiel; Sam, Castiel, Claire, Dean
Rating: M
Word Count: 32,417
Warnings: show-level violence, depression.
Summary: When Sam gets a call from Jody saying that Claire has taken off, all he wants to do is help keep Claire out of trouble. If she absolutely has to hunt, she should do so safely and with the right information, right?
Castiel takes a dim view of proceedings, misunderstandings abound, and soon Sam finds himself hunting alone. Maybe all isn't lost, though. Maybe the presence of a bluntly spoken teenager is what Sam and Castiel need to break through the missteps and get to a point that's good for both of them.
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
AO3
Art Masterpost
A/N:
Special thanks to my fantastic beta, sweetsamofmine, and to my amazing artist chasingparallax!
When this story was written, we knew absolutely nothing about the Darkness. It wouldn't be the first time that something had been released into the SPN world and then quieted down, so I went with that. (i.e., I ignored the Darkness.) I guess that technically makes it AU, but if you want to assume that the Darkness is out there running around doing Darkness things that's OK too.
Also, Dean comes off as not terribly nice, despite the removal of the Mark of Cain. My reasoning is that the Mark - the position of being the lock that held back the Darkness - had an affect on the personalities of both Lucifer and Cain; it wasn't reasonable to assume that Dean would suddenly be sunshine and rainbows once it was removed. I could have spent time focusing on Dean's recovery, but then it wouldn't be a Sastiel story. The story doesn't spend much time with Dean, so don't let that scare you off; I just wanted to warn for it. I've been pleasantly surprised by the brotherly relationship as depicted in canon s11; as I mentioned before, this was written over the summer, well before we knew anything.