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Number Five is Alive by uschickens (R)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Length: ~ 4150
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uschickens
Author Website: The Kitsch N Sync (boyband fic) and Story Things Tag on LJ
Why this must be read: So, you might pass by this fic because of the title - unless, of course, you're as old as I am and you get the reference to the 80s movie Short Circuit. And if you passed it by, you'd be missing out on a lovely short story complete with typical self-sacrificing Winchesters, and an angel who refuses to let that happen one more time.
I don't want to give the whole thing away, but we get to see Castiel as human, and how that changes him and his relationship with the boys in fundamental ways until one day Cas realizes he's got to leave them. Of course, it's only then that Dean realizes what he's lost. Not an angst-fest, I swear, although there's a small gut-wrench or two. Much humour in this and a more-or-less happy ending.
The whole thing ended in a firey ball of nothing, a huge wave of blankness that knocked them down before knocking them out. However, right before everything whited out before they blacked out, right before Lilith hurled her last, endgame-bringing mojo at them, Sam threw himself in front of the final seal (which, by the way, was nothing like the Bergman movie, Dean would like to state for the record).
So – naturally – Dean threw himself in front of Sam.
If they'd had time to speak in that last, endless moment, Sam probably would have yelled at Dean for sacrificing himself again, for still not understanding that it was not his job to save Sam from himself, that it was time for the cycle of Winchesterian deaths (eat your heart out, Wagner) to end. Dean probably would have hollered back about pots and kettles and was Sam out of his fucking mind, both in being so willing to believe the worst of himself and in thinking that Dean would be fine, just peachy without him, hadn't he learned his lesson time around? And then Sam would have yelled some more, and so on and so ond, and would have been the last three years (or their entire lives) all over again.
However, there was no yelling, no endless cycle, no nothing for two reasons: one, because it all happened in the space of a few heartbeats, and two, because it was all rendered moot when Castiel threw itself between Dean and Lilith.
Castiel, who had been ordered with the rest of the Host to stand aside, to wait. To step in after the humans failed. To stop Lucifer, not Lilith. To save the wider creation. To watch.
As everything went white, before it all went mercifully black, Dean's last thought was, "…hey. That's not watching."
Read the story and feedback the author: Number Five is Alive
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Length: ~ 4150
Author on LJ:
uschickensAuthor Website: The Kitsch N Sync (boyband fic) and Story Things Tag on LJ
Why this must be read: So, you might pass by this fic because of the title - unless, of course, you're as old as I am and you get the reference to the 80s movie Short Circuit. And if you passed it by, you'd be missing out on a lovely short story complete with typical self-sacrificing Winchesters, and an angel who refuses to let that happen one more time.
I don't want to give the whole thing away, but we get to see Castiel as human, and how that changes him and his relationship with the boys in fundamental ways until one day Cas realizes he's got to leave them. Of course, it's only then that Dean realizes what he's lost. Not an angst-fest, I swear, although there's a small gut-wrench or two. Much humour in this and a more-or-less happy ending.
The whole thing ended in a firey ball of nothing, a huge wave of blankness that knocked them down before knocking them out. However, right before everything whited out before they blacked out, right before Lilith hurled her last, endgame-bringing mojo at them, Sam threw himself in front of the final seal (which, by the way, was nothing like the Bergman movie, Dean would like to state for the record).
So – naturally – Dean threw himself in front of Sam.
If they'd had time to speak in that last, endless moment, Sam probably would have yelled at Dean for sacrificing himself again, for still not understanding that it was not his job to save Sam from himself, that it was time for the cycle of Winchesterian deaths (eat your heart out, Wagner) to end. Dean probably would have hollered back about pots and kettles and was Sam out of his fucking mind, both in being so willing to believe the worst of himself and in thinking that Dean would be fine, just peachy without him, hadn't he learned his lesson time around? And then Sam would have yelled some more, and so on and so ond, and would have been the last three years (or their entire lives) all over again.
However, there was no yelling, no endless cycle, no nothing for two reasons: one, because it all happened in the space of a few heartbeats, and two, because it was all rendered moot when Castiel threw itself between Dean and Lilith.
Castiel, who had been ordered with the rest of the Host to stand aside, to wait. To step in after the humans failed. To stop Lucifer, not Lilith. To save the wider creation. To watch.
As everything went white, before it all went mercifully black, Dean's last thought was, "…hey. That's not watching."
Read the story and feedback the author: Number Five is Alive