Fic: Caught Up In Circles 5/5 (Supernatural; Dean/Cas/Lisa, PG-13)

[misachan]

Title: Caught Up In Circles
Author: misachan
Artist: chosenfire28
Fandom: Supernatural
Relationship(s)/Characters: Dean/Castiel/Lisa
Word Count: 1610
Rating: PG-13
Content Notes/Warnings: S6 AU; some sexual situations, a little voyeurism, rampant abuse of time travel

Summary: Five times Lisa Braeden met an angel of the Lord.

Comments

[bourdonjaune]

This went up a few days after I'd made my way through all of your angst, and I was getting really concerned around part 4. I'm so glad Castiel came back-and that it was consistent with the universe you already had.
That said, I did really love the open ending. "Castiel reappears and everyone lives happily ever after forever!" would have felt too much like a cop-out.

[misachan]

I missed this comment! Thank you so much - I'm not sure I could bear to give Lisa an unhappy ending.

[walking_random]

Could we please substitute this for the actual show story? Please...? *looks around for TPTB*

[misachan]

Aw, thank you! I love these two so much.:)

[kinkthatwinked]

Well, I like polyamory, I like MFM triads, and I like SPN, so it shouldn't surprise me that I liked this story. But it did, because I was never that attached to Lisa. Maybe because we never saw very much of her.

You fleshed the character out, made her feel like someone I knew. And I like how the "fleshing out" was figurative instead of literal -- the story was PG-13, and Lisa never even got undressed, yet it still read as hot. Probably because I got some D/C action

[misachan]

I really really loved Lisa, so I'm all for any excuse to get them all together and happy.:)

why/how the hell would Cas unknowingly piece together a soulless Sam? Really?!

I go back and forth on what canon Cas knew and when, honestly. (It's telling that his first response to the accusation that he did it on purpose is along the lines of, "Do you really think I'm capable of that?" rather than "No." Oh, Cas, you and your questionable decisions.) And I don't think he did it on purpose, but I do think he suspected it long before he confirmed it. The ugly truth is Sam hunting with the Campbells served the conspiracy pretty well and let him go as long as possible without having to face Dean. He probably told himself he could fix everything once they opened Purgatory - he justified plenty of horrible things all season, what's one more?

[kinkthatwinked]

I can't argue with your point here. Castiel was buried up to his neck in a moral 'gray area' that season. Making his own decisions for the first time ever, after a few eons of blindly following orders, how could he not make some huge missteps?

It's just the idea that if the angel hierarchy needs to assign someone to the task of invading Hades to rescue Dean's soul, for a mission as huge as restoring the vessel of the archangel Michael for the coming Apocalypse, wouldn't they send someone who knows how to do it? That's what I thought Cas was, someone who knows above all how to identify, find and rescue a soul at all costs, regardless of the obstacles. If he's that good, how could he screw up getting Sam?

But that's another reason why I loved how Cas did it in your fic. :)

[misachan]

Dean was just in the Pit though, not the Cage between with the two most powerful archangels in existence - that HAS to be little bit easier. And it still took a siege and forty years of hell time (although there was probably some angelic foot dragging going on, since Dean had to break the Seal before he could be rescued.) It took full season of the Seals breaking to spring Lucifer - Cas thinking he could steal Sam from the Cage BY HIMSELF strikes me as super overconfident in retrospect.

(Especially since Dean needed to be out of hell for the Lucifer v Michael fight to happen, who's to say the demons didn't make that quite as hard as it had to be?)