Someone to Watch Over Me - Chapter 2/? - Sam/Castiel, NC-17 (eventually)
Title - Someone to Watch Over Me - Chapter 2/?
Author - queerly_it_is
Pairing - Sam/Castiel
Rating - R-ish (this part, eventually NC-17)
Word Count - ~700 (this part)
Warnings - Religious themes/blasphemy, slight gore, innumerable spoilers for the whole show (this part and overall).
Disclaimer - I own nothing. Sadly.
Summary - Castiel has been assigned to watch over Dean Winchester from the time of his brith. He is expecting it to be challenging. He is not expecting the reaction he has to Dean's tainted brother, Samuel.
Authors Notes - Fill for an anon prompt on the Sassy comment fic meme (see previous journal entry). The muse kinda took the promt any ran off with it. There will be more, soon. There will also be art by the generous & talented lifelesslyndsey
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Prologue & Chapter 1
Part 2
When Dean is almost seven-years-old; his father teaches him to use a gun.
This time it is Pride that Castiel senses in John Winchester; and then in Dean as well; after he hits every target with perfect precision. Castiel is not surprised. Dean was, after all, created in the image of Michael; he was designed to be a warrior.
In 1989; Castiel sees John Winchester hand Dean a shotgun longer than the breadth of his outstretched arms. He tells Dean to keep his brother safe, and refers to him as a man though he most certainly is not, before leaving his eight-year-old eldest child to defend his youngest from things they could mount no defence against.
He sees Dean become more and more restless in the confined space, until he abruptly - but silently - leaves Samuel alone in the room; locking the door behind him. Castiel is relieved of the decision whether to follow Dean or stay with Samuel, when Dean stops in the reception area of the motel to play a game. It is no burden to stretch his presence that far between them.
That’s when Castiel senses the cold, hungry presence of the shtriga as it enters Samuel’s bedroom. Castiel experiences a brief thought that monsters continue to come for Samuel in his sleep, before the shtriga leans over him and begins to feed.
He reminds himself that Samuel Winchester is not his charge.
He cannot interfere.
Dean is oblivious to his brother’s peril, and even if he weren’t, he isn’t strong enough to kill the creature on his own.
Castiel knows his orders. He cannot intervene and save Samuel.
Instead, he flits his senses over the surface of the world, until he finds John Winchester. He brushes invisibly over the human’s mind; and leaves him with the inescapable impression that his children are in danger; an age-old instinct found in all humans that takes very little effort to awaken.
He waits with John until he turns his car around and speeds toward the motel, then returns there himself in an instant. Dean is no longer in the motel lobby. He is moving toward the room - toward Samuel - unaware of the creature lurking there.
John Winchester is still too far away.
He cannot interfere.
Dean notes the light the shtriga gives off as it feeds, and when he enters the room and realises what is happening, he loads the shotgun. The witch rears it’s head and hisses in rage. Dean freezes, fearful and much too young for a soldier’s instinct to truly keep his reactions in check.
Castiel feels a low, warning note of awareness from Heaven. Dean Winchester is in danger.
He still has no permission to intercede, not yet.
At that moment, John Winchester bursts into the room, ordering Dean to seek cover as he fires a weapon that does no more than startle the creature, without the correct wrought iron ammunition.
They rush to Samuel, and Castiel can feel the diminished pulse of life from the boy; not fatal, but weakened all the same. Realising his son is still alive, the seething touch of Wrath in John Winchester turns to Dean.
Dean confesses he left the room, and Castiel feels the twisting knot of shame, and the sense of failure to follow orders in the boy, as his father reprimands him. Disapproval from one’s Father must be a great pain, Castiel thinks.
They leave the area, and John Winchester places his children with a Holy man named Jim, before going back to hunt the shtriga. He won’t find it, the witch has already moved on. The burning heat of Wrath coming from him now is stronger than Castiel has felt it in many years; so much hate and vengeance and desperate fear pouring from the man that it almost drowns out the note of his soul.
Later that year, a man named Robert Singer; whose soul is filled with grief for his dead wife, and pain and pity for the Winchester children, as well as for John himself; spends a day attempting to get Dean to be a child like any other.
Castiel isn’t sure how successful he is.
Dean modifies his first shotgun less than two years later.
Chapters 3 & 4