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FILLED: "Machinations" -- Royalty AU, bottom!Dean [1/2]

[anonymous]

It grates, of course. It grates that it's obvious to the barons that keep on attempting to legitimate his birth through the privy council but it is most assuredly not obvious to his father. His father that refuses to affix his signature and royal seal each time the document is set before him.

Of course, if John had it his way, Sam (never, ever given the noble Samuel; instead, always the common Sam) would be dead in a ditch somewhere or perhaps even exposed at birth. Sam has never been quite sure how a man so keen on his dead wife and so dead-set against any and all magic managed to get a child (a boy no less!) on a common hedgewitch.

He's always assumed that John didn't know he was bedding down with a witch, and he's likewise assumed that the witch dropped him off at the keep's main gate as a giant "fuck you" to John before she fled the country. The purges had been especially brutal the year of his birth. He knows the only reason John hadn't been able to lay Sam and his swaddling atop one of the pyres is because of Dean.

Dean has always (irrationally and illogically) given his heart to the most asinine of causes. It's the reason he will never make a good king, no matter how much John beats him -- or rather, beats Sam because Sam has the dubious honour of being the royal whipping boy. One of Sam's earliest memories was of the unicorn that Dead vainly tried to keep from the chopping block. Dean used to visit the kitchens and charm his way into carrots and lumps of sugar. And then he would dress Sam warmly and take his mittened hand in his and make his way to the paddock. Sam remembers the unicorn as a giant beast, tamed only by the virgin heart of his beloved brother. He has no doubt that the unicorn would have refused to eat from his own hand had not Dean been there.

Sam knows this makes him better fit to be king. Dean is too tender-hearted, too believing in the good of all people. He has himself as proof of it: whenever he's done something (magical, salacious, treasonous) Dean has refused to believe it and instead protects Sam from whatever authorities are after him that particular time. Even, when younger and not quite believing the good fortune of Dean's unconditional love, Sam would try to confess his guilt, Dean would press fingers to his lips and shush him, saying only that he had come into some marchpane and perhaps Sam would like a piece.

Sam also knows that all the barons (not just those on the privy council) agree with him, and want Sam on the throne after John. In their minds Dean, beautiful Dean, is expendable, and while Sam is willing to join in their schemes to a point (though Dean will never believe it, no matter how many loyal servants attempt to convince him of it), he's adamant that his brother will not be harmed.

He's already used the sum of his scant magical knowledge to put as many protective charms on his brother as he can. When he's king (and it won't be long now, John is coughing up more and more blood each day, unable to speak though still able to glare at Sam when Dean forces Sam to join him on his daily visit to the royal sickbed), he'll purchase copies of all those grimoires John burned, so he can cast better spells. He even thinks that initially he will pry the jewels from his father's crown to pay for a sorcerer or witch to cast wards on Dean, though he'd prefer to do the casting himself once he's able, not trusting anyone who is paid to do right by his brother.