Every fertile inch (3/6)

[whit_merule]

Previous chapter.

Week 3.

6 kalends Septembris (August 27).

Six days after the events of An Acorn Button. This one accidentally got a bit plotty. For those who haven’t read the main story: Castiel’s parents died during the angelic civil war, and his oldest brother (Gabriel) staged his own death, fled, posed as human and set himself up as an

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in the mind ever burning

[auroramama]

They love each other so much. What they each love is the other, so much: the specific mind and body and soul and gestalt. Very very specific, even this early. And each of them has stepped up quite a little ways to get here. Only the brave deserve the fair, and it's a good thing each of them is both.

I could read all day about every first time they have.

I'm sorry about Dean's impending loss of Sam, both the temporary physical one and the emotional separation of approaching adulthood. I was relieved to get to see Dean realizing that Castiel will understand that twice over. And that he now has someone else to turn to when the problem is Sam, or Sam-adjacent. (I wonder what's going on when he considers Gabriel? Aside from a sincere desire to stop considering Gabriel as soon as possible?) It's always tough when someone turns that expression onto someone else, no matter the reason.

[whit_merule]

Yes, sometimes Dean is a little bit slow to work out 'oh hey, my woes are not unique, SOMETIMES OTHER PEOPLE HAVE WOES TOO and they might even be ANALOGOUS'. Which does actually make sense in this verse, because he's so very conscious of having to carry the entire Weight of Sam alone, because he had this feeling when they were growing up that if he complained or even asked for help someone would try to take Sam away For His Own Good. Because people kept talking about how 'oh, poor boy[s, not that he heard the s], little children need a mother/parents'. And then increasingly, as they got past that stage and into being teenagers and young adults, that would have given way to a sense of Being Different, which would continue the isolation with different overtones. Even if Castiel wasn't Castiel it's probably easier for Dean to let him in past those walls than someone from the town, who would have been there all along

[whit_merule]

Yes! Honeymoon phase, when he gets to be clingy just as he really needs somebody to cling to and be all overprotective about! It isn't technically a rebound because he wasn't having sex with Sam! Win!

But yes, that particular issue is going to take Dean a while. :)