SPN fic: Ideal in His Grief (9/9)

[furius]

Title: Ideal in His Grief (9/9)
Author: Furius
Rating: G to R
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: beginning of S4
Warnings: blood and blasphemy
Word count: 22500/22500
Summary: Castiel descends into Hell for Dean Winchester.
Author's Note: The story started out as a Valentine fic. I believe it still is.

Comments

[vasiliki]

who had come to find him in Hell and lived in a house and watched and stayed and suffered with him, the only bearable memory of Hell, perhaps even the only important one.

Oh, my babies! <3 They have History!

Or what it is far?

Do you mean "for"?

The air was dusty, the house rundown, but comforting, a sort of unreasonable nostalgia. He did not know why.

Did you finish here?! O_O With nothing resolved between them?! SEQUEL!!!

[furius]

Thanks for spotting the typo :)

Yes, it's finished, because then Dean took him to a brothel! XD I wouldn't say "nothing resolved" between them since canon's giving us of how they were becoming oddly close (or maybe that's just slashy interpretation speaking...) A sequel would mean I actually have to risk non-canonicity.

Though perhaps a proper epilogue probably wouldn't hurt...Hmm.

[vasiliki]

Thanks for spotting the typo :)

There are more! But this confused me for a moment there.

A sequel would mean I actually have to risk non-canonicity.

Great! That's what ff is for: not only to fill the gaps, but also rectify the faults of canon! ;)

Epilogue, at least. You damned canonicity already, with Grinning, Dean leaned forward. We need a repeat and different outcome than Castuel turning his head! :D
(OK, maybe these two will never kiss... but they can share a desperate hug, they can share the same bed, they can sit shoulder to shoulder looking at the night sky!)

[furius]

The terrible typos in my fanfics are unfortunate. I likely need a beta-reader but never got around to doing that so I end up editing bits even after posting....

This story was suppose to be 10 parts, I cut out an entire planned part that was supposedly between 9 and 10 because I can no longer stand the thought of Castiel/Dean together(part of the waning affection for fandom stage)! The epilogue will probably take a while...

I may have damned canonicity, but neither Dean nor Castiel remembers it at the moment :p

[ext_197277]

Heart wrenching.

I don't ship Castiel with anyone so I'm commenting here instead of at the epilogue.

Very well written, your prose could have come from any era of Judeo-Christian mythology.

[furius]

Thank you for reading and commenting!

I tried to evoke the sense of myth for Castiel so it's utterly wonderful to see that it worked :D Though the inspiration was Greek mythology, the ideas were all stolen off of Judeo-Christian writers...

[ext_197277]

Well a lot of medieval Christian mythology is based on Greek anyway, and the Greeks and the Hebrews were around at overlapping times and probably chatted it up around the campfire, so it all cycles back.

[cotymundi]

I found the first few chapters heavy-going, although intriguing, but kept going and I'm so glad I did. This whole story is so rich in detail and thought-provoking. I've read quite a few accounts of how Castiel rescued Dean from Hell, but this is the first one that really seems feasible to me. I loved the imps, by the way; it's hard to see them as evil when you have them excited and bouncing, discussing things between them like kids; they seem a bit like Pokemon (Ghastly?) Did you ever see the end story of Sapphire and Steel, when they were stuck in the cafe at the end of the Universe? The house in Hell seems very similar to me and the idea of trapping Castiel there, so there was a wonderful nostalgia about the story as well as originality. I thought it was very well-written and provides a very believable background to the story on the show.