9 Works in SPN: Variations on Heaven
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It's been who knows how many weeks or months or years since Dean Winchester has gone to Heaven. Who the hell knows, even with the new boss, time is funky. So is the mojo that's making things appear and/or get added.
Who cares, though. Dean is tired of it. Of all of it.
He's showed up and yeah, maybe he'll see some people he wants to see, except he's not seein' everyone he wants to see. But that's not the point, he tells himself; it doesn't matter - the point is he's friggin tired of this and he wants OUT.
But he's always been pretty good at pushing things away, not to mention adept at lying to himself.
(Or Dean Winchester would not -and does not- accept dying and going to Heaven, so this is him making every attempt at busting out and getting back down to life on Earth.
He thought he was all right with going out like this, or at least always knew he would. But he isn't.)
***Separate from previous works in this series, but still intended to make things work better than the ending of the show did***
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- Part 21 of To Rise Above
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"Castiel, too?" Sam asked, sounding happy. “I really thought he was gone.”
Dean felt his pulse do a strange dance in his chest as ice seeped through his veins. He hadn't heard Sam bring up Cas for… a while. It was a subject that was not brought up – a silent contact between them. The few times Sam had broached the subject, Dean’s composure of playing it cool had crumbled, and the name became a source of pain in their life that was avoided at all costs. Sam must have forgotten. Dean struggled to sound casual.
"Yeah. Yeah, of course," Dean said. Like it was obvious. "Jack got him out and… Cas… helped rebuild heaven for everyone, whatever that means. You know. Angel stuff." The name felt like torture in his mouth, ripping new holes where old scars had formed.
“I cared about the whole world… because of you.”
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Dean comes to grips with Heaven, fighting intrusive thoughts and grief he's kept buried. Like Bobby said, it's a Heaven that Dean deserves. But as we all know, Dean deserves more than he got.
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After many, many years of living peacefully in Heaven, Dean gets turned upside down when a random hunter barges into his house while being chased by angels. Dean realizes that everything is not what it seams.
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Everything is fine. Castiel wakes up to a remade Heaven and a godly son, and it seems they all got their happy ending… except something isn’t right. Castiel keeps running into unexpected barriers that prevent him from seeing Dean, Jack might be a bit too young to handle being god, Sam and Eileen have long since split, and Castiel’s starting to wonder if Heaven is such a happy ending after all. He risks everything by confronting the problem head-on only to wind up stuck in a memory loop. His only hope to break free is a man who probably never wants to see him again.
Everything sucks. A newly powered-up Jack can’t pull Cas out of the Empty, so Dean is left to a restless haze of a life, trying to figure out what to do with himself next. When Cas appears in his dream, and with some prodding from Sam and Eileen, Dean decides to take matters into his own hands and find a way to bring his angel back. Dean just needs to figure out if he can give Cas a home worth coming back to.
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Sam wants his brother to find peace.
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When Castiel sacrificed himself to the empty, he didn’t do it expecting to be rescued.
He didn’t expect to wake up six months later in Heaven, looking up at Jack, surrounded by all of the angels who ever lived.
He didn’t expect the choice their new God would give him, give all the angels.
He didn’t expect to have to call Sam to pick him up, because Dean was too drunk to answer his phone.
As far as reunions go, Castiel certainly didn’t expect it to go like this.
Or, the last thing Dean remembers is downing a bottle of whiskey and having a nicer dream than normal about Cas only to find the angel he thought was dead asleep right next to him.
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Cas only knows how to love Dean Winchester from afar.
So when Dean enters Heaven, far too soon on his human timeline and tragically quickly on a celestial one, Cas does what he does best. He watches over him, catering to Dean's every need, staying out of sight.
In between those moments with Dean, though, he attends to his other duties. He heals Claire after a bad hunt. He negotiates for souls with Rowena. He drives Sam to Eileen's. But through it all, Dean never strays far from his mind, and it's turning into a big problem.
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Happy ending, my ass, Dean thought. He ended up in Heaven, but it wasn’t any better than his crappy life on Earth. Cas, who apparently was pulled out of the Empty and remade Heaven just for him, didn’t even greet him when he arrived.
But all roads, it seemed, led to Cas, and when they met again, they both had some things to say and wrongs to right.
And when they did, Dean found that maybe a truly happy ending was possible for him after all. -
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The end of the road so far. This starts after 15x18. Canon compliant up until the conversation with Bobby in 15x20.
This is the Heaven that they deserve.
If Jack is the new God, who is the new Death? What does Dean do besides drive while he waits for Sam?
(Don't worry, I'm fixing it)
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"The verse I read over and over again, the one last hope I had that maybe my disobedience wasn't entirely against God's plan, was First Corinthians 13."Dean is pretty familiar with both the Old and New Testament by this point. After everything, it would have been ludicrous not to have read the damn thing cover to cover for research. So he knows what Cas is saying and it makes every part of his body warm in a way that he doesn't know what to do with.
Love is patient. Love is kind.