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    Interludes of familial dissent and disparity throughout Hannibal and Will's escalating courtship.

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    Castiel is rendered mute after being taught a painful lesson, but that enables Dean to learn a few lessons of his own while holding onto something important for him. Elsewhere, someone really loves to count...

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    24 Dec 2025

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    “Are you serious, Dean? Your djinn-dream started with you dying?” Sam asks incredulously from the passenger seat on the way back to the bunker.

    “Well, technically it started with us going on a hunt,” Dean points out. He licks his lips, jaw clenching. “I mean, there was Heaven, too, and that was pretty cool.”

    Sam stares at him. “Unbelievable,” he breathes, scrunching his face up in distaste. When Dean glares at him, he holds his hands up defensively and chuckles weakly. “Sorry, man, but that just sounds pretty lame.” He leans back and folds his arms. “It just…I dunno. Kinda sounds like something Chuck would cook up. Just you and me. No one else. I mean, really?” He scoffs, slumping.

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    In which some people come back, Cas learns to be human (the right way, this time), Dean Winchester finally realizes that good things do happen, and they all get their version of the post-credits, apple-pie life they deserved.

    AKA: Screw Chuck's narrative.

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    22 Dec 2025

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    Between the long, soulful eyefucking and what Sam alternately deems obliviousness and denial, his brother and their Angel have driven Sam right to the furthest stretches of his restraint, inching him ever closer to the moment he just says fuck it and gives them a solid shove simply to save himself the aggravation.

    If he has to watch the two of them wildly pendulate between sarcastic flirting and aggressive angsting in one another’s general direction even one. more. time. he’s gonna get whiplash.

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    17 Dec 2025

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    Brittle and battle-worn, Cas looks at him over coffee one morning and says, "I need to go," and Dean instantly knows that he's not coming back. 

    He's not really sure how he knows it, but he does. It settles into the pit of his stomach, curling hot and tight like something he instinctively wants to tear out with his bare hands. He takes a breath, and it gets stuck in his throat, hitching there. It hurts, hurts, hurts when he finally exhales. 

    "Yeah," Dean says, "of course you do," and he nods jerkily as he looks down at his phone. He doesn't say goodbye. He doesn't look up from the screen when Cas gets up and leaves the room. He doesn't finish his coffee, or move for a long time. 

    By nightfall, Cas is gone.

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    16 Dec 2025

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    Without a question, above anything else, there is nothing Castiel would not do for his family. He loves them, loves them more than he'd loved God, and that is entirely the reason heaven can no longer be his home. For every single one, he'd give his life; for every single one, he has.

    Things have gotten complicated; Castiel is just now seeing that.

    That's not Sams fault, or even Dean's; it's on him. He made the decisions that led him here, and for once, he won't allow himself to regret them.

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    Or the one in which Castiel has faith in all of them.

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