Masterlist: Fic - Hallelujah
Title: Hallelujah
Dean/Castiel
Word Count: 21,600
Written for apocabigbang
Act I | Act II | Act III
Fanart:
Banner & dividers by wandersfound
Fanmix:
There's a Blaze of Light in Every Word by wandersfound
Author's notes: I developed this idea with the help of uselessplayback . I wanted to write about the aftermath of the apocalypse--and not just the victory and celebration (of which there is precious little in this fic) but also explore the question of what Dean and Sam and Castiel would end up doing with their suddenly increased life-expectancy. I anticipated a quiet melancholy directionlessness on Dean's part, but what ended up coming out was much bleaker and darker than that.
The word hallelujah occurring in Psalms is a Hebrew request for a congregation to join in praise. It can be translated as "Praise Yah, you people", and is usually worded in English contexts as "Praise ye the Lord" or "Praise the Lord". This is not a direct translation, as Yah represents the first two letters of YHWH, the Hebrew personal name for God, and not the title "lord". To give fuller meaning in this context, Hallelujah could rightly be translated "Praise His Holy Name," (signified by Jah). For most Christians, "Hallelujah" is considered a joyful word of praise to God, rather than an injunction to praise him. --Wikipedia
Art referenced in the story:
- Guernica by Pablo Picasso
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian department Highlights
- Blue and white bowl with "Happiness" written at the bottom.
- Black and white bowl with "Planning before work protects you from regret; prosperity and peace" written along the rim.
- Blue mihrab inscribed with: "Said [the Prophet] on him be blessing and peace: . . . witness that there is no God save Allah and that Muhammad is his Apostle and the Blessed Imam, and in legal almsgiving, and in the pilgrimage, and in the fast of Ramadan, and he said, on him be blessing and peace." & "The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, 'The Mosque is the dwelling place of the pious.'"
- Blue and gold manscript page.
Thanks to: My betas: zelda_zee and kadiel_krieger, and my alpha reader extraonions. And to uselessplayback who put up with my incessant crying and mewling about this story, and who encouraged me even when the story made absolutely no sense.