crack_van | Never Shined Through by Dot (PG-13)

Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Gen
Author on LJ:

dotfic
Author Website: Dot’s Fic Index
Why this must be read: The price the Winchesters pay is always too high and an angel is beginning to realize he might be more the problem than the solution.

There's a long pause before Sam nods. Castiel grips Sam's shoulder with one hand, Dean's with the other. They feel warm. Castiel spreads his wings.

Before the small cloud of dust and debris even settles outside the hospital, Sam, who seems shocked and out of breath but heedless of his own condition, is kneeling on the ground clutching Dean against him. Then he's shouting for help, and men and women in cotton aqua or pink cotton uniforms race towards them wheeling a gurney.

They lift Dean up, put him on the gurney, and carry him through the automatic doors, Sam following.

Castiel backs away from the bright lights; no one has noticed him. It would be an easy thing to spread his wings and be gone, but he finds he can't. For the first time they feel heavy, a burden.

The problem with emotions, Castiel decides, isn't that they invite doubt.

They swarm over him, a battalion, as his human body hits against something and his fingers reach, shaking, to find a metal fence. He drops to his knees on the grass, gripping the links. He can't shut out the image of Dean lying on the devil's trap, eyes shut, or the way Sam's face looked when he found a pulse. A sudden and unfamiliar vicious thrust of self-directed rage hits him. He's done a lot of watching, a lot of stand and wait.

You think this is righteous?

Never Shined Through